Rehabilitation Counseling Program ranks 6th internationally
Results of a study published in the fall 2005 edition of the Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin ranks the UK Department of Rehabilitation Counseling 6th out of 901 international institutions in research productivity. Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin is considered the flagship journal in the field. This is the only national ranking of Rehab. Counseling programs based on an objective measure – the quantity of published research professors make annually in the six core field journals.

Kappa Delta Pi Returns to the College of Education
The Kappa Delta Pi International Honor Society in Education, a national organization dedicated to scholarship and excellence in education, will be reinstalled on UK's campus this coming December. The College of Education originally installed a chapter in May 1924 under the leadership of Betty Taylor. The organization left UK in 1996. Eligibility for membership in this prestigious organization is reserved for undergraduate students of at least a sophomore standing and a 3.5 cumulative GPA. Graduate students should have completed 15 hours of coursework towards the master’s degree and have a cumulative 3.75 GPA.

College of Education hosts a visit from international professors
The UK Department of Curriculum and Instruction hosted ten international professors for a four-day visit to the University of Kentucky campus last October. The professors were participants in a 10-week seminar sponsored by the Center for Research in Values and Philosophy at the Catholic University of America (CUA) in Washington, D.C. Elinor Brown, assistant professor in the College of Education, arranged the event. Professors visited UK classes, shared in a research presentation, and participated in roundtable discussions on subjects involving the impact of globalization on culture. The professors represented universities from 10 countries across Western and Eastern Europe, Russia, East Asia and Africa.

UK graduate students have strong showing at Midwest research conference
The UK College of Education had the most students presenting research at the Midwestern Educational Research Association’s (MWERA) annual conference in Columbus, Ohio last October. Eleven graduate students presented in 12 different research projects on various subjects. These subjects included Student Cheating, Educator Supply and Demand, A review of research concerning the quality of Math instruction, and factors that impact the integration of technology into the science classroom.

FACULTY:

Tom Guskey, Department of Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation, was recently awarded the 2005 Thiel College Distinguished Alumnus Award. This award, given annually to a graduate who has made a truly outstanding contribution to his or her chosen field, is the highest award bestowed by the Thiel College Board of Trustees and Alumni Association. A 1972 graduate of Thiel College, Dr. Guskey received the award during a special ceremony in October on the Thiel College campus in Greenville, Pennsylvania. At that time he was also inducted into the Thiel College Athletic Hall of Fame.

STUDENTS:

Vitesh “Victor” Enaker, of Mt. Sterling, is the recipient of a Commonwealth Incentive Award scholarship for his graduate studies at the University of Kentucky. Enaker, a 1996 graduate of Montgomery County High School, is a doctoral student in the UK Department of Kinesiology and Health Promotion. He received his undergraduate degree at Transylvania University in exercise science and his master’s in kinesiology and health promotion at UK. The Commonwealth Incentive Award provides in-state tuition for up to nine credit hours plus cost-of-education support of $25 per credit hour to a maximum of $225 for fees and cost-of-education expenses.

Laura Moore-Lamminen (counseling psychology) and Tiffany Martinez (school psychology) presented their paper, Evaluating Continuous Improvement Infrastructures: A multi-state, multi-agency approach, at the joint conference of the American Evaluation Association and Canadian Evaluation Association in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In addition, the Kentucky Psychological Association's (KPA) Ethics Committee named Moore-Lamminen a student representative. The appointment is for one year.

Janet Zydney, a post-doctoral fellow, received a grant from the Department of Education, Office of Special Programs. It is a 2-year grant for a total of $400,000 which will fund the research and development of a software program to help children that have learning difficulties in mathematics.

ALUMNI:

Walter Gilliam, Ph.D,'97 recently became director of the Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy at Yale University. Gilliam has been a member of Yale's faculty since he completed his doctorate in the UK Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology.

David Layman, Ph.D., ’01, Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology, also celebrated his first publication on which he was first author. His article, Exploring the Impact of Traumatic Brain Injury on the Older Couple was published in the journal Brain Injury for its October 2005 edition. Layman is affiliated with the Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in Queens, New York.

Lori Montross, Ph.D.,’03, Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology, recently celebrated the publication of her first major research paper on which she was first author entitled Tri-ethnic variations of co-morbid substance and alcohol use disorders in schizophrenia. It was published in the November edition of Schizophrenia Research. Montross is an assistant professor at the University of California San Diego, Department of Psychiatry, Division of Geriatric Psychiatry.

Xephor Press recently published a collection of Bruce Rector’s (B.A.,’88, J.D.’90) writings entitled Monday Morning Messages: Teaching, Inspiring, and Motivating to Lead. Rector, a Lexington attorney, has been writing and e-mailing these messages to readers around the globe for eight years. Fifty-two of the best of his writings were compiled for this publication.

Mark Sellers, Bachelors of General Studies, ’90, was named the 2005-06 At-Risk Educator of the Year by the International Association for Truancy and Dropout Prevention, Inc. (IATDP) during their annual conference in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. It is the highest honor the IATDP bestows upon its members. Sellers is the principal of Martin Luther King, Jr. Academy for Excellence in Lexington. Last year, under Seller’s leadership, MLK Academy was selected as the Nation’s Outstanding Alternative School and is considered one of the models for alternative education institutions to follow. In four years, he is credited with bringing the graduation rate of the school from 2 to 192 students.

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