Advancing undergraduate research through the Chellgren Endowed Professorship: Robin Cooper

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 1, 2025) — Throughout his career, Robin Cooper, Ph.D., has always been guided by curiosity. As a comparative physiologist in the Department of Biology in the University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences, he has spent decades asking questions about how living systems work and encouraging students to ask their own.

The Chellgren Endowed Professorship gave Cooper the runway to amplify that spirit of inquiry, transforming his classroom and lab into even more powerful spaces where undergraduates could test ideas, take intellectual risks and share their discoveries on the national stage.

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