ANNUAL REPORT 2002
Department of Communication
UK Student Receives Top Paper Award at SSCA
Cindy Ledford, a Department of
Communication student was awarded a prize of $100 and a plaque
for the top student paper (out of the 82 student papers) at the Southern
Speech Communication Association Undergraduate Honors Conference
held in Winston-Salem, North Carolina on April 4-7. This is the
first time an UK student has won the top paper award. It was
also the first time that the finalists were identified. Of the
12 finalists, UK had four. Three student papers were selected in
the top 12-finalist list: Anupa Arya, Kevin
Kurzendoefer and Kelley Shields. Three student papers
were selected for presentation: Stephanie Caldwell, Brian
Crum, and Allison Thompson.
UK Teaching Assistant an Expert on Al-Jazeera
Adel Iskandar, an UK teaching assistant
and Ph.D. student in the Department of Communication appeared on
Politically Incorrect for his book, Al-Jazeera: How the Free
Arab News Network Scooped the World and Changed the Middle East.
The book was published in May. The book explains the impact of
Middle Eastern news media on the current world situation. The
book was also featured on C-Span's BookTV.
Rush Retires after 33 Years of Teaching
Dr. Ramona Rush retired in May 2002,
after 33 years of teaching, research, service, and
administration in higher education. She was the first dean of
the new UK College of Communications in 1977.
Rush and Oukrop Receive Funding to Update Study
Dr. Ramona Rush and Dr. Carol E.
Oukrop, Kansas State University, organized and coordinated
the Dr. Donna Allen Memorial Symposium at the Freedom Forum
headquarters in Washington, D.C. immediately prior to the annual
meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass
Communication. More than 50 research participants and guests
attended the Symposium. Twenty-five participants in the SMTYEWTK
"(Still . . . More Than You Ever Wanted to Know) About
Women in Journalism and Mass Communications" Research Group
presented preliminary results of their research sponsored by
Freedom Forum and Knight Foundation grants totaling $160,000.
The final research project, which is an update and expanded
project based on the initial study in the field by Rush and
Oukrop 30 years ago, will be completed by December 2002.
Researchers Win $2.2 Million to Study Ways to Deter Risky
Sexual Behavior
Dr. Phil Palmgreen and Dr. Rick
Zimmerman, co-investigators have received a $2,282,747 grant
from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to study ways
to craft advertising campaigns designed to deter risky sexual
behavior. Palmgreen already has established a national
reputation for successfully crafting advertisements that reduce
drug abuse among certain high-risk groups.
Zimmerman Receives NIMH Grant
Dr. Rick Zimmerman. NIMH (National
Institute of Mental Health) Grant, "Sexual Risk Taking, HIV
Prevention and Peer Intervention in Ethiopia, " total costs
$126,000. Aaron P. Karnell (Graduate Student) was
appointed Project Manager on the research project. The Principal
Investigator is Dr. Sonja Feist-Price, and the
Co-Principal Investigator is Dr. Rick Zimmerman. Karnell
and his wife Katy will move to Pietermaritzburg, South Africa,
to carry out the project from October 2001 to July 2002.
Palmgreen Serves on Expert Panel for Office of National Drug
Control Policy
Dr. Phil Palmgreen recently completed
three years as a member of the Behavior Change Expert Panel,
Office of National Drug Control Policy. This panel of ten
social and behavioral scientists oversees the implementation of
ONDCP's $2 billion, five-year National Youth Anti-Drug Media
Campaign. Dr. Palmgreen continues as Principal Investigator
the National Institute on Drug Abuse's $3 million
"Effective Media Strategies for Drug Abuse Prevention"
program. He is a Co-Principal Investigator with Dr. Rick
Zimmerman, Principal Investigator, on the National Institute of
Mental Health's $2 million "Targeting Mass Media Campaigns
for Risky Sexual Behaviors" project. Dr. Palmgreen
currently has eight articles and book chapters in press.
Endowed Professorship Honors Long-time UK Debate Coach Dr.
Gifford Blyton
Recently, an endowed professorship was
established in the Department of Communication in honor of Dr.
Gifford Blyton. Dr. Blyton taught speech and communications
from 1948 to 1975 and coached the university's debate team for
21 years. This gift was made possible through the efforts of
several of his former students. Stanley Craig, a 1996 graduate
of UK, took the lead in this effort. Money from the endowment
will be used to support oral communication, forensics, education
and research. Presently the endowment totals almost $395,000
including an equal match from the state through the Research
Challenge Trust Fund III. This is the largest endowment CCIS has
ever received.
Palmgreen Testifies Before Congressional Subcommittee
On June 18, 2002 Dr. Philip Palmgreen
testified before the US Congress'. He testified before the
Congressional Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy
& Human Resources on the effectiveness of anti-drug media
campaigns. He will be presenting results of his NIDA-funded
research. His research evaluated the effectiveness of targeted
televised public service announcement campaigns in reducing
marijuana use among high-sensation-seeking adolescents. Other
national experts testifying included Jim Burke,
Partnership for Drug Free America and Paul Zimmerman,
Market Research for Procter & Gamble and Susan K. Patrick,
Governor's Prevention Partnership, Hartford, Connecticut.
Journalism and Telecommunications
Journalism Student Wins $10,000 Scholarship
Tracy Kershaw, an UK Senior from Hazard,
KY. has been awarded $10,000 from the Scripps Howard
Foundation's Top Ten Scholarship program. Nine other college
students from around the nation won the award. She was the only
student from Kentucky. The winners were selected based on
academic achievement and a demonstrated interest in a career in
journalism. They are also required to submit an essay. Kershaw
is editor of the Kentucky Kernel.
UK Receives Grants to Research Challenges to Rural
Journalism
UK received grants from Sigma Delta Chi
(Society of Professional Journalists for $25,000) and the Appalachian
Regional Commission ($30,000) to support research on the
challenges to the rural press in covering policy issues of
importance to rural communities. The UK research will focus on
how the local press is covering socio-economic issues in 206
counties in central Appalachia-east Kentucky, West Virginia,
southwest Virginia, and western North Carolina. The data will be
used to support UK's application to a major foundation for
financing the startup of the Institute of Rural Journalism
and Community Issues. Ron Eller is Principal
Investigator and Roy Moore is Co-Principal Investigator.
The proposed Institute will be located in the Wendell H. Ford
Research Center and Public Policy Archives at UK, Terry L.
Birdwhistell, Director.
Labunski Books Making News
Dr. Richard Labunski was a guest twice on
Bill Goodman's radio program. He discussed Shays-Meehan and
campaign finance reform and later public financing of
gubernatorial campaigns in Kentucky and the state budget. His
book, The Second Constitutional Convention, discusses how to
make elections more competitive and fair. This book was also
featured on BookTV. His latest book, The Educated
Student: Getting the Most Out of Your College Years, will be
published in July 2002. The book is for students and parents and
is about how to succeed academically in college. He has begun
work on his fifth book on James Madison and the Bill of Rights.
He was recently awarded a Mellon Research Fellowship from the Virginia
Historical Society to support research for the book. He will
complete the fellowship this summer.
Second Annual Bowling Lecture Features Top PR Professional
The second annual James C. Bowling
Executive-in-Residence Lecture Series was held November 1-2.
The (executive-in-residence) guest lecturer was Fraser P.
Seitel. Mr. Seitel was named by PR Week as one of the
"100 Most Distinguished Public Relations Professionals of
the 20th Century." He is the author of PR: The Practice
of Public Relations, which is in its eighth edition and is
used by more than 200 colleges and universities. Amanda White,
a senior ISC major received the James C. Bowling Scholarship.
Second Annual UK Lifetime Achievement in PR Presented
The UK 2001 Lifetime Achievement Award in
Public Relations from the UK School of Journalism and
Telecommunications Alumni Association was presented to Dan
Lacy, vice-president of corporate affairs at Ashland Inc.
Lindloff Publishes First Issue of Journal and Article
Dr. Tom Lindloff has an article entitled
"Interpretative Community: An Approach to Media and
Religion" forthcoming in the Journal of Media and
Religion. Lindloff is currently editor of the Journal of
Broadcasting and Electronic Media. The first issue (Winter
2001) of The Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media,
edited by Dr. Tom Lindlof has been published.
Student Kershaw Places Fourth Nationally for Hearst Award
Tracy Kershaw, a junior from Hazard, Ky.,
placed fourth nationally in what is considered the Pulitzer
Prize of college journalism. Kershaw's prize-winning story, a
profile of Kentucky Author and UK writer-in-residence Bobbie Ann
Mason, was honored in the 42nd annual William Randolph Hearst
Foundation's Journalism Awards Program. Kershaw will receive a
matching gift of $750. Kershaw will intern this summer at the
Tampa Tribune.
Journalism Hall of Fame Inducts New Members
The Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame 2002
Induction Ceremony was held on April 2. Inductees are: Jo Ann
Albers, Director of the School of Journalism and
Broadcasting at Western Kentucky University; John Carroll,
editor of the Herald-Leader from 1979 to 1991 and currently
executive vice president of the Los Angeles Times; Dinc Phuc
Le, award winning chief photographer for Louisville's
WLKY-TV, now retired; Virginia Fox, Executive Director
and Chief Executive Officer of Kentucky Educational Television; John
Hager, former editor and publishes of the
Owensboro-Messenger Inquirer and Brian Rubelin, news
director of WHAS-AM radio station for 21 years.
Angelo Henderson Speaks at Creason Lecture
The speaker for the 25th Anniversary of the Joe
Creason Lecture was Angelo Henderson. He is currently
a special project reporter for the Detroit News. He received the
Pulitzer Prize for distinguished feature writing in 1999.
He earned his BA in journalism from UK in 1985.
UK Student Accepted at Poynter Institute
Senior broadcast journalism student, Dwayn
Chambers, has been invited to the prestigious Poynter
Institute's "Class of 2002: Spring Break for College
Journalists," to be held February 28-March 2, 2002.
Only 25 are accepted each year to this all-expenses paid
program. This is the third straight year that the Poynter
Institute has invited an UK student.
Student Places Seventeenth at National Hearst Awards
Jonathan Feldman, a broadcast journalism
senior tied for seventeenth place in the Hearst Journalism
Award competition. Feldman competed nationally in the Hearst
Radio Broadcast News Competition in the features category
with a five-part mini series on college binge drinking. Feldman
competed against over 30 audio entries nationwide to earn his
title. The William Randolf Hearst Foundation funds the
competition.
Wilson Named Interim Director of School of Journalism and
Telecommunications
Richard Wilson, a retired Louisville Courier-Journal
reporter and news bureau chief, has been named interim director
of the School of Journalism and Telecommunications. He will
succeed Leland "Buck" Ryan, the current
director, July 1. Ryan, director for more than seven years, will
remain a faculty member at the school and director of both the First
Amendment Center and the Media Center for the Future.
Wilson, 64, retired from The Courier-Journal
in 1999 after nearly 32 years as a reporter in Louisville,
Frankfort and Lexington. Chief of the newspaper's Blue Grass
Bureau from 1985 to 1999, he was noted for his extensive and
award-winning coverage of Kentucky higher education. Since his
retirement, Wilson has been an adjunct professor of journalism
at Kentucky State.
Wilson, a member of the Kentucky Journalism
Hall of Fame, will head the journalism school until June 30,
2003. A nationwide search for a permanent director will begin
later this spring.
Wilson is a 1966 graduate of the UK journalism
school where he has also been an adjunct instructor and member
of its Alumni Association Board. From 1965 to 1967, Wilson was
faculty adviser to The Kentucky Kernel, the independent
student-operated newspaper at UK. He has also been a reporter
for the Lexington Herald-Leader and Frankfort State
Journal.
Citizen Kentucky
Leland "Buck" Ryan is
spearheaded a "Citizen Kentucky" project funded
by the Kettering Foundation to create civic conversations
on the Lexington Mayoral Race. He also conducted a public
discussion with four-dozen leaders of journalism and public life
met to debate the interconnections of politics, journalism,
education and home life. They discussed how each of these has
changed in recent years and for the future. The forum, "Citizen
Kentucky: Democracy and the Media" was aired on KET.
The forum is part of the fourth annual First Amendment
Celebration. The Program also received a Telly Award.
Altman Publishes Chapter in Book on New Approach to Teaching
Advertising
Associate Professor Dennis Altman was one
of twelve top ad instructors that collaborated on Advertising
& The Business of Brands. The book has been described as
the "first new approach to teaching advertising in fifty
years." The book is subtitled Careers and Concepts in
Marketing and Advertising. Altman wrote Chapter 9, Communication
and the Creative Process.
Dow Jones Minority Workshop
The School of Journalism and Telecommunications
hosted the 26th Annual Journalism Workshop for High School
Minorities in June. The Dow Jones Newspaper Fund, the
Herald-Leader and the Courier-Journalcontribute
time and resources to eliminate barriers for the minority
students to attend. High school students from the corners of the
Commonwealth came to live on campus for an intensive 11-day
workshop where they worked with professionals and faculty to
publish a 12-page student paper. More than 240 students have
attended the UK journalism workshop.
School of Library and Information Science
SLIS Receives IMLS Grant
The U.S. Institute of Museum and Library
Services (IMLS) has awarded a 2001 National Leadership Grant
in Education and Training to the School of Library and
Information Science in the amount of $329,427. The proposal,
collaboration between SLIS and the Jefferson County Kentucky
Schools was designed to be a model approach to alleviating the
demands for qualified school media personnel to fill library
media vacancies in the Jefferson County School District. Six
certified teachers employed by Jefferson County Schools will job
share in three media centers while completing the MSLS Program
and school media certification at the University of Kentucky
School of Library and Information Science. The project will
filter university research through real world experience for
stronger programs in both P-12 and higher education.
SLA Student Chapter Received National Awards
The Special Libraries student group won
two SARC (Student Academic Relations Committee) awards
this year. They won first place for Creative Use of
Electronic Resources and third place for Outstanding
Leadership. The awards were announced at the recent SARC
meeting in Los Angeles.
Graduate Program in Communication
Moore Named ACE Fellow
Dr. Roy L. Moore, Associate Dean for
Graduate Studies was named an ACE (American Council on
Education Fellowship) Fellow in 2001 and has spent the
last year studying the administration at the University of
Georgia.
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