ANNUAL REPORT 2000
Department of Communication
Dr. Nancy Grant Harrington was named
Chairperson of the Department of Communication in 1999.
Dr. James L. Applegate was elected President of the
National Communication Association. He will assume his duties as
NCA President in November 2000.
Dr. Derek Lane was one of six professors selected in a
university-wide competition for a 2000 Alumni Great Teacher
Award by the UK Alumni Association, Omicron Delta Kappa and
Motor Board. He was selected from among 46 nominees.
Dr. Susan Morgan is co-investigator on a
$728,160 research grant from the Centers for Disease Control and
the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health. The
research project will evaluate and disseminate an agricultural
safety campaign in Kentucky, Virginia and South Carolina. She is
also the co-investigator on a grant of $32,841 from CDC/NIOSH to
conduct a post-intervention study of the effectiveness of a
three-year, two-county Kentucky agricultural safety campaign.
Dr. Rick Zimmerman and Dr. Nancy Grant
Harrington are co-investigators on a $101,850 research grant
from the National Institute of Nursing Research to investigate
adolescent communication about risky behavior.
Dr. Susan Morgan is a co-investigator on
a project that recently received $147,349 in funding from the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Department
of Transportation to conduct a work site intervention at United
Parcel Service to promote organ donation.
Dr. Lewis Donohew is principal
investigator on a $1,877,033 research grant from the National
Institute on Drug Abuse. Co-investigators are Dr. Nancy Grant
Harrington, Dr. Rick Zimmerman, Dr. Derek Lane
and Tom Kelly. They will investigate persuasive message
strategies for prevention campaigns within the context of
theories of information exposure and information processing.
Dr. Nancy Grant Harrington principal
evaluator on a $576,816 grant from the National Institute on
Drug Abuse to investigate the effectiveness of community-based
adolescent character education and problem behavior prevention
program.
Dr. Susan E. Morgan, is the
co-investigator on a project that recently received $147,349 in
funding from the Health and Human Services (HSS) and Department
of Transportation (DOT) to conduct a work site intervention at
United Parcel Service to promote organ donation.
Dr. Ramona R. Rush has been appointed as
a member of the Task Force on Journalism Leadership Institute in
Diversity of the Association for Education in Journalism and
Mass Communication for a two-year term beginning October 1999 by
the respective presidents of AEJMC and ASJMC. The major
responsibility of this committee is to increase the number of
women and faculty of color who serve as chairs, deans, endowed
chairs and hold professorships in journalism.
Dr. Doug Scutchfield and Dr. James L.
Applegate are heading up a $108,000 project to assess health
needs in the Green River Area Development District funding by
the Community Life Foundation there headed by John Hager
and other agencies in the Owensboro area. The project will
define health issues for the area and work with policy makers to
address those. They recently conducted focus groups with the
uninsured, underinsured, uninsured. This is a good example of
the Medical Center and Lexington Campus working to address
health needs of the entire state.
Dr. Ramona Rush is coordinating the
research effort of about 20 women scholars in the U.S. to
replicate, update, and extend the 30-year-old landmark study
which Rush headed to study the status and employment of women in
journalism education.
This fall, the Kentucky Communication Association named Dr. James
L. Applegate the Communicator of the Year for contributions
to the discipline and advancing communication about important
public issues. This was due in part to his work as incoming
President of the National Communication Association and in part
for his work as Senior Fellow at the Council on Higher Education
promoting a variety of higher education issues.
Dr. Douglas A. Boyd was appointed as the Acting Director
of the International Affairs Office for the 1999-2000 academic
year.
Dr. Rick Zimmerman is principal investigator and Dr. Lewis
Donohew is co-investigator on three NIH-funded projects:
- (1) "Sexual Risk-Taking, Alcohol, and
HIV Prevention in Youth" is a five-year, $1.9 million
project that will assess the effect of various theory-based
school and media-interventions of HIV-related behaviors of
high-risk adolescents.
- (2) "HIV Interventions for Young
Appalachian Risk-Takers" is a five-year $2.4 million
project funded by the National Institute of Mental health to
assess the effect of various theory-based school and media
interventions of HIV-related behaviors of rural Appalachian
teens.
- (3) "Risk-Taking, Arousal, Marijuana,
and Sexual Decision-Making" is a three-year $270,000
project funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse to
study the effects of individual differences, sexual arousal
decision-making.
Dr. Rick Zimmerman is principal
investigator on projects funded by the Commonwealth of Kentucky
Department of Health Services totaling $68,500 to evaluate the
effectiveness of HIV prevention programs in Kentucky.
Journalism and Telecommunications
The Student American Advertising Federation
competition team finished in fourth-place at the Regional AAF
Competition. No other school in our region can boast of
finishing in the top four for six consecutive years. Since 1994
the team has been first once, second twice, third once and
fourth twice. Only four points separated the top four teams this
year.
The Kernel Staff came away from the National College
Newspaper, Business and Advertising Managers conference with
several awards. The Kernel won first place for best
special section and third place for special rate card. In
addition, Kernel advertising representative and
Integrated Strategic Communication (ISC) senior Erin
Cunningham won a contest sponsored by the Newspaper
Association of America.
Six new members were inducted into the Kentucky Journalism Hall
of Fame. The Hall of Fame was established in 1980. All inductees
are natives of Kentucky or have spent a substantial part of
their careers in the state. They included:
- (1) The late John Michael "Mike"
Barry, editor of the Kentucky Irish American, a
weekly newspaper published in Louisville from 1898 to 1968.
He was editor from 1950 until its closure.
- (2) Oscar L. Combs, founder of the Cats'
Pause, a tabloid dedicated to coverage of UK Sports. He
is a native of Jeff in Perry County.
- (3) John Lewis "Jim" Hampton,
former editor of The Miami Herald, which won two
Pulitzer Prizes under his leadership. A graduate of UK, he
was editor-in-chief of the Kentucky Kernel and was
named outstanding journalism graduate of 1959. He was named
to UK's Hall of Distinguished Alumni in 1975.
- (4) Timothy L. Kelly, publisher of the
Lexington Herald-Leader. A native of Ashland,
Kentucky. He was executive editor of the Herald-Leader
from 1989 to 1991, editor from 1991 to 1996, and became
publisher in 1996.
- (5) Mary Jeffries, longtime
award-winning newscaster for WHAS radio in Louisville. She
has received two Peabody Awards, two National Associated
Press Awards, two Headliner Awards, two Scripps Howard
Awards, two national awards from the Radio-Television News
Directors Association and two Gabriel Awards.
- (6) The late Ted Poston, possibly the
first African-American to cross the color lines into the
newsroom of a metropolitan "white" newspaper. Born
in 1906, in Hopkinsville, Poston moved to New York in 1928
and worked for several black newspapers. The New York School
of Journalism cited his coverage of the 1948
"Scottsboro Boys" trial as one of the Top 100 best
works in American Journalism. He retired in 1972 and died in
1974.
The Kentucky Kernel received the most
prestigious national award for college newspapers, the
Pacemaker. The Kernel, named a Pacemaker finalist for the
past two years, joined the ranks of such benchmark schools as
Indiana University, the University of Virginia and Duke. In
addition to winning the Pacemaker, Kernel designer Chris
Rosenthal was awarded second place for front-page design and
best info graphics, two categories of a design contest. The Kernel
staff also received a first-place award for Overall Design in
the student Society of New Design Contest
W. James Host, a 1961 Telecommunications graduate, was
named to the University of Kentucky Hall of Distinguished
Alumni.
David B. Dick, Former Associate Professor and Director of
the School of Journalism from 1987 to 1993, was named to the
University of Kentucky Hall of Distinguished Alumni.
The UK School of Journalism and Telecommunications celebrated
its 85th anniversary. Enoch Grehan became the school's
first journalism director in 1914. The Journalism Department
opened with 52 students and was housed in the basement of the
Administration Building. It now has more than 700 students
enrolled in the school, which includes Journalism,
Telecommunications, and Integrated Strategic Communication.
Alumni of the School include four Pulitzer Prize winners and
well-known journalists.
Dr. Thomas Lindlof, a Telecommunications professor was
selected editor of the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic
Media for the next term. The journal is one of the two most
prestigious in the area of telecommunications and one of the
top five journals for communications research in general.
Renovation is nearly complete for the Media Center for the
Future. The center is devoted to media research to be used by
students and scholars alike. Its research facilities provide
new knowledge on how to communicate messages most effectively
and will enhance our position as a national leader in health
communication, while providing educational opportunities to
alumni and professionals. It will house an audience-testing
area complete with galvanic response technology, audio, video
editing suites and upgraded and enhanced writing labs. The
third and final phase will concentrate on using the Center's
facilities for conferences and public service activities.
School of Library and Information Science
Fall entering student Edward Elsner has
been awarded a Multi-Year Fellowship for $15,000 plus tuition.
He has also been awarded a Daniel R. Reedy Quality Achievement
Award in the amount of $3,000. Both are renewable for a second
year.
Ling-Yuh W. (Miko) Pattie ('68) has been chosen to
receive the Alumni Association's Outstanding Alumnus Award for
2000. The award will be presented at the April 28 banquet. She
will also give the Karen Cobb Memorial Lecture at the banquet.
Since January of last year she has been the Director of the
Kentucky Commonwealth Virtual Library. In her Cobb Lecture she
will discuss the Commonwealth Virtual Library. Her career at UK
included a position as head of Cataloging and then a promotion
to Assistant Director for Technical Services.
The Special Libraries Association Scholarship is granted only
for graduate study in Librarianship leading to a master's degree
at a recognized school of library and information science. Up to
three $6,000 SLA scholarships are available and awarded
nationally each year. Susan Marshall has been awarded the
SLA $6,000 Scholarship for 2000-01. She is the second student in
the SLIS to receive this prestigious award in the past three
years.
SLIS was awarded a grant from the OCLC Online Computer Library
Center, Dublin, Ohio, through its Library and Information
Science Research Grant Program to conduct a research project on
developing a controlled vocabulary for the Dublin Core Metadata
record. The project entitled "An LCSH-Based Controlled
Vocabulary for the Dublin Core Metadata Record: A Feasibility
Study" will study the possibility of devising an indexing
vocabulary for subject data in the Dublin Core metadata record
used to describe and index Internet Resources.
Dr. Lois Mai Chan, Professor, School of Library and
Information Science, an international authority on subject
analysis and access will conduct the research. This is the
fourth grant from OCLC received by Dr. Chan to support her
research. The grant was for $9,850.
SLIS has been awarded the prestigious IMLS Leadership Grant from
the federal Institute of Museum and Library Science, at the
amount of $215,400. It will be used to conduct a research
project on improving information seeking in interdisciplinary
research areas. The investigation will be led by Dr. Ling
Hwey Jeng, Associate Professor of the School of Library and
Information Science, with collaboration of Dr. Hong Young Yan,
Associate Professor of the School of Biological Sciences and Dr.
Gerry Benoit, Assistant Professor of the School of
Library and Information Science.
Graduate Program in Communication
Ph.D. Student Shawn Long was selected as
only one of three teaching assistants for Lexington Campus 2000
Outstanding Teaching awards for Teaching Assistants.
Four students received University fellowships for next year. Michael
Farrell, the Kentucky Opportunity Fellowship ($15,000); Suzie
Allard, the Presidential Fellowship ($10,000); Pamela
Slone, Graduate School Academic Year Fellowship ($4,500) and
Clinton Baldwin, Allocated Fellowship ($3,500).
The graduate program is currently ranked in the top 12 programs
nationally in the area of health communication.
Roy L. Moore, Associate Dean for Graduate Studies in the
College of Communications & Information Studies has received
a $6,000 grant from the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism
Foundation. The grant was awarded to Dr. Moore and the School of
Journalism and Telecommunications to conduct a National survey
of law media instructors and to develop a model media law and
ethics curriculum.
The National Communications Association (NCA) has selected the
communication doctoral program to receive a $20,000 two-year
Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) grant. The program will prepare
doctoral students as specialists in international and
intercultural communication and research through participation
in an exchange program with "Partner" universities in
other countries and through a series of seminar courses, coupled
with a research project. Only four universities received these
grants. Others included IU, University of New Mexico and Howard
University.
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