Dick Ulack is now a retiree of the University of Kentucky's Geography program. Having retired at the end of Fall 2006, Dr. Ulack now resides in sunny Ft. Myers, Florida where you might find him fishing year round. Although he is now officially retired, Dr. Ulack still plans to continue research and teaching in the broad area of development, with emphasis on tourism development in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific.

While on faculty at the University of Kentucky, he taught such courses as World Regional Geography, Geography of Southeast Asia, and Tourism and Recreation Geography. More recently, he taught a Geographic Research course, required of our undergraduate majors. In recent years completed efforts include editorship of the Atlas of Kentucky, a cooperative project with geography faculty from the University of Kentucky and from other institutions across the Commonwealth and the book, Southeast Asia: Diversity and Development, that he and Tom Leinbach co-edited for Prentice Hall.