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The University of Louisville held its 2023 Entrepreneurship and Innovation Awards on April 18 at the Student Activities Center.

UofL celebrates big ideas and invention at Innovation and Entrepreneurship Awards Six major awards...

More than 70 faculty and staff were recognized for their work to bring big ideas to life at the University of Louisville’s 2023 Innovation...
2023 Goldwater Scholars Madeline Martinez and Klemmer Nicodemus

Two juniors win 2023 Goldwater Scholarships

Two University of Louisville juniors have won 2023 Barry Goldwater Scholarships. Madeline Martinez and Klemmer Nicodemus bring to 12 the total number of UofL students...
Klemmer Nicodemus

UofL engineering student wins state’s only Truman Scholarship

University of Louisville junior Klemmer Nicodemus has won Kentucky’s only Harry S. Truman Scholarship for 2023. The award, valued at $30,000, is given to just...
Heart slices in the physiological biomimetic culture system

UofL technology that could speed medical innovation finds commercial partner

A University of Louisville research-born invention that could spur new medicines by extending the usable life of heart tissue from one day to 12...
Speed School alumni and Blue Origin employees Nick Greco, Gregg Blincoe and Matt Cosgrove welcome Speed School supporter Clinton Kelly back to Earth after his flight aboard New Shepard.

Speed School and rocket team supporter Clint Kelly goes into space

Clint Kelly, a longtime supporter of the J.B. Speed School of Engineering, became one of the oldest people ever to go to space when he...
Alora Mazarakis, Speed School alumna and NASA engineer

NASA engineer on Artemis Mission is Speed School alumna

When Alora Mazarakis was a young girl, she didn’t play with Barbie dolls. Instead, she played with airplane toys and Pilot Mickey Mouse and Flight Attendant...
UofL PhD student Tomas Felipe Llano-Rios has developed an app to help coffee growers in his native Colombia

PhD student develops app to help coffee growers in his native Colombia

Colombia native Tomas Felipe Llano-Rios is, perhaps not surprisingly considering his birthplace, a coffee connoisseur. The University of Louisville PhD student in computer science...
UofL offers living communities where students with similar interests can reside. Twenty-six communities are offered this year.

UofL campus housing options include communities for students with similar majors, interests

Of the 4,000 University of Louisville students living in campus housing this year, 20% reside in one of the 26 small communities that bring...
Jessica Miller, a UofL graduate student researcher, works on methods and cultures that could extend the shelf life of tissue for cardiotoxicity testing of new drug candidates. (UofL Photo)

UofL research extending usable life of heart tissue could help speed medical innovation

University of Louisville research could help spur new medicines by extending the usable life of test heart tissue from one day to 12. The...
The robot Tiago is introduced to students at UofL’s Louisville Automation and Robotics Research Institute, known as LARRI. LARRI and two other facilities at UofL will use new federal funding to procure additional robotic technology and introduce that technology to students, trainees and workers.

UofL receives $750,000 in federal funding to enhance advanced manufacturing workforce

The University of Louisville has received $750,000 to launch the Robotics and Additive Manufacturing Pathways to SUCCESS (RAMPS) program aimed at preparing workers for...