By Lindsey Piercy, Alicia Gregory, and Ben Corwin
It’s the signature on a bourbon barrel — it's the ancient footprints in Mammoth Cave.
Heritage science is all around us and has deep roots in the Commonwealth.
Kentucky’s story begins in prehistoric times, when mammoths roamed the Ohio River Valley at Big Bone Lick.
Now, thanks to a $14 million infrastructure grant from the National Science Foundation, the University of Kentucky is poised to tell that story in new, groundbreaking ways through the lens of heritage science.
“We are at a turning point,” Brent Seales, UK Alumni Professor in the Department of Computer Science, said. “Science and technology