Recent University of Kentucky graduates Lucas Gastineau and Asa O’Neal have been awarded U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships.
UK was selected as one of a small number of university partners for a new international service fellowship launched by the Rockefeller Foundation and administered by the Institute for International Education (IIE).
Neuroscience major Blake Byer and agricultural and medical biotechnology major Sophia Zhou were awarded prestigious Goldwater Scholarships for excellence in undergraduate research.
Emily Sallee, assistant director of the Office of Nationally Competitive Awards, has been appointed to the Gilman Scholarship Advisor Ambassador Program.
Mechanical engineering and physics senior Asa O'Neal was named a 2024 Astronaut Scholar. He was honored in August at the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation's Innovators Symposium and Gala in Houston, Texas.
