Common University science requirement to receive recitation in hopes of helping students

Professor John Anthony was just having "fun," when he and UK graduate student discover entire new area of organic materials research.

Professor Burt Davis to be principal investigator of three-year proposal.

“I didn’t want to rush into the next step after undergrad so I took some time off,” Payne said. “Then, I sort of came to the point where I wanted a plan for the rest of my life.”
Knowing that she wanted to continue to study chemistry but also wanting to foster her other life passions, Payne picked UK and started her graduate work in 2000.

Chemistry Graduate Student

Chemistry Ph.D. Student

Don’t be fooled by her last name. The most important color to chemistry graduate student, Lisa Blue, is definitely green.

One-on-one teaching assistance is hard to come by in math and science courses, where many students struggle to understand balancing equations, solving for variables, and applying formulas. To address the problem, Benny G. Johnson, Sr., and Dale Holder joined forces, merging chemistry, computer programming and teaching philosophy to create Quantum Tutors, the first artificial intelligence tutoring program for the sciences.