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for Children' gives gift of learning 'Books for Children' gives gift of learningThe University of Kentucky
Athletics Department and the College of Education Coalition of Student
Organizations have partnered to launch a new program, "Books for Children."
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the direction of faculty adviser Virginia Fairchild, the national
award-winning LCC SIFE team set up the store Oct. 25 and 26. Active on more than 700 college campuses in 48 states and 15 countries, SIFE is a non-profit organization that works in partnership with business and higher education to provide college students the opportunity to make a difference and to develop leadership, teamwork and communication skills through learning, practicing and teaching the principles of free enterprise. |
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Educators, community service
workers and government officials will learn more about child and family
research and how it can impact their work and the lives of thousands of
people at the first "Children and Families 2000: Bridging Research and
Practice" Dec. 1-2 at the University of Kentucky.
Speakers on Dec. 1 will be Richard M. Lerner, Bergstrom Chair in Applied
Developmental Science in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development
at Tufts University, and Stuart Aitken, professor of geography at San
Diego State University. Kim Townley, UK family studies professor and director
of the Governor's Office of Early Childhood Development, will speak on
the governor's initiative and Kentucky's early childhood plans at a Dec.
1 dinner.
Topics for discussions include "Kentucky's Families: Current Issues, Resources
and Policies," "Child Welfare Practice: Linking University and Community
Resources," "Cognitive, Social and Physical Development of Young Children"
and "Healthy Families." A roundtable session on applications of social
theory also will be held.
The conference is open to the public. For information or to register,
call 257-7750.
Selena Stevens
The University of Kentucky
School of Journalism and Telecommunications named Thomas L. "Tommy" Preston
the first recipient of UK's Lifetime Achievement Award for Public Relations
on Oct. 18. Preston is chief executive officer of Preston Global and founder
and immediate past chairman of The Preston Group Inc.
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The Lifetime Achievement
Award will be given annually to a native Kentuckian who has achieved
success in the field of public relations and spent a large part
of their career in the commonwealth. |
Tommy Preston |
In the mid-1980s, Preston developed
a model for public relations contingency planning and response against
terrorism and workplace violence. He formed Preston Global in 1996 to
focus on aggressively defiant crises facing corporations, institutions
and individuals.
A UK Fellow with a journalism degree from UK, Preston is the only Kentuckian
to be elected to the College of Fellows of the Public Relations Society
of America. He has received more than 100 state and national communication
awards from organizations including the International Film Festival, the
International Film and TV Festival of New York, the Gold Camera, the US
Industrial Film Festival, PRSA, IABC, the Kentucky Press Association and
National Editorial Association.
"Tommy Preston has shown meritorious leadership capabilities during his
long and distinguished career," said Jack Guthrie, president of the Journalism
Alumni Association. "Creating a firm that can claim top-notch crisis management
capabilities and be named one of the top-12 strategic counseling firms
in America by Inside PR is no small achievement."
Dan Adkins
The University of Kentucky
College of Education paid tribute to more than 65 teachers in the William
T. Young Library auditorium Nov. 4 during its third annual celebration
of the "Teachers Who Made a Difference" program.
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are here to celebrate the difference all teachers, from grade school
to graduate school, make in our lives," said Shirley Raines,
dean of the College of Education, in her opening remarks. The auditorium
was packed with teachers and professors seated with their families
and with the people who nominated them. The morning began with an informal reception in the library's gallery. The room filled to capacity a half-hour before the formal program was scheduled to begin. During the program, Dean Raines introduced the College of Education's student ambassadors who read excerpts from a few of the nominating letters. |
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Of the teachers nominated,
21 were current or former UK professors representing several of the University's
colleges. Posthumous tributes were made to professors Leland Smith, Frank
Ellers and Otto Koppius. The remaining 48 teachers were a diverse group
of active teachers and retirees from grade school through high school.
Several were from the Lexington area and some attended the event from
across the state. Margaret Jackson, an 87-year-old retired teacher, drove
in from Booneville, accompanied by her entire family. She reminisced about
her days teaching in one-room school houses in Owsley County.
Another memorable moment during the recognition was the touching nomination
of a music teacher from Winchester by her 9-year-old student.
All teachers nominated for the "Teachers Who Made a Difference" program
are recognized in this program. No affiliation with the University of
Kentucky is required.
Planning is under way for the 2001 "Teachers Who Made a Difference" program.
Nominations from students are already coming in.
Josh Shepherd
Keeneland Art Fair celebrates
WUKY's anniversary
The first-ever Keeneland Art Fair will be held from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Dec. 2 and noon until 6 p.m. Dec. 3 at Keene Barn Entertainment Center
at Keeneland.
The event will feature 115 juried craftspersons, food and live entertainment.
Bill Samuel Jr., president of Maker's Mark, will be at the WUKY booth
from 1 until 3 p.m. Dec. 2 signing his book, "My Autobiography." Admission
is free. For more information, call 257-3221.
The fair is part of WUKY's 60th anniversary celebration and is sponsored
by the station, Keeneland, WKYT-TV and Lexington Parks and Recreation.
Computer competency course offered for free to employees
The Information Systems and Human Resource Development Computer Competency
Certificate Series is the first Computer Competency Certificate to be
issued by UK and is meant to give faculty and staff a thorough overview
of computers and basic applications.
The series consists of more than 23 hours of instructor-led training in
"Understanding Your PC," "Managing Your PC," "Customizing Your PC," "Introduction
to NETg," "Introduction to the Internet," "MS Office QuickStart," "MS
Word QuickStart," "MS Excel QuickStart," "MS PowerPoint QuickStart" and
an "E-mail QuickStart."
All classes are available at no charge to UK/LCC faculty and staff and
are presented in the IS Training Room, 72 McVey Hall.
A prerequisite for this training, Meet the Personal Computer, offered
by Operation Educate may be needed to bring participants up to the necessary
level for the certificate classes.
For more information, visit www.uky.edu/IS/Training.
Tuck and Patti Œjazz up'
UK
The Frankfort Arts Foundation and WUKY will present the unique jazz stylings
of Tuck and Patti at 8 p.m. Dec. 8 in Kentucky State University's Bradford
Hall.
The concert is part of WUKY's 60th anniversary celebration. Tickets are
$20 for adults and $5 for students and children. For tickets and information,
call the UK Singletary Center at 257-4929. Tickets also will be available
at the door on the evening of the concert.
Jacob named preceptor of year by national pharmacy group
Art Jacob, pharmacist and owner of the Art Jacob Prescription Shoppe in
Louisville and a volunteer faculty member at the University of Kentucky
College of Pharmacy, was named the 2000 National Community Pharmacists
Association Preceptor of the Year.
The honor was presented to Jacob, a 1958 UK College of Pharmacy graduate,
during the NCPA's 102nd annual convention held Oct. 14-18 in San Antonio.
The National Preceptor of the Year Award honors pharmacists who have made
significant contributions to the education of pharmacy students by devoting
their time and talents as a preceptor.
Jacob, who specializes in compounding medications and is one of the few
pharmacists in Kentucky still engaged in this practice, has been a preceptor
for the past 24 years and has mentored more than 200 students.
Plant studied for use in treating methamphetamine abuse
A plant commonly found growing along Kentucky rural roads or in pastures
and meadows is being studied by researchers at the University of Kentucky
as the key component in a novel drug therapy for methamphetamine abuse.
Crooks and Linda Dwoskin, professors in the College of Pharmacy, and Michael
Bardo, professor of psychology, have received more than $1.1 million in
funding from the National Institutes of Health to support the study of
the lobelia plant in blocking the effects of methamphetamine. The researchers
are developing analogs that alter the response of the brain to methamphetamine
that may make it less addictive to abusers of the substance.
LCC holds first scholarship dinner
Lexington Community College recently held its first annual scholarship
dinner to honor all of the college's 2000-01 scholarship recipients.
The 16 honorees and their guests in attendance at the event were treated
to dinner and presentations by a recipient, a donor and a faculty member.
LCC President Jim Kerley presided over the evening's festivities.
The University of Kentucky
Women's Studies Program and the UK African-American Studies and Research
Program hosted an open house at their new location in Breckinridge Hall
from noon to 5 p.m. Oct. 23.
The two College of Arts and Sciences programs moved from their previous
locations in UK's Patterson Office Tower during the summer. The new locale
gives each program more faculty office space, more room for research and
teaching assistants, resource rooms and a conference room.
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Above left: Betty Pasley, Women's
Studies, visits with Christine Levitt, College of Arts and Sciences administration;
and Ramona Rush, Women's Studies affiliated faculty, College of Communications,
during the open house. Above right: Joan Callahan, right, director of
Women's Studies, gives a tour of the new locale to open house guests.
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Above left: The new locale allowed the programs to add a resource room
for students and faculty. Above right: Gerald Smith, right, director of
the African-American Studies and Research Program shows Doris Wilkinson,
professor of sociology and a program affiliate, around the new offices.
Students at Lexington's Julia
R. Ewan Elementary School are learning healthy habits this school year
while studying science, math, technology and reading.
The University of Kentucky College of Nursing and the Good Samaritan Foundation
teamed up to create the "ABC's of Comprehensive Health Education," a K-12
curriculum guide. It will be used to integrate health education into core
classes at Julia R. Ewan Elementary School this year.
"This program gives children the skills they need to have good health
while developing and using skills such as critical thinking, teamwork,
math, science, technology and various others," said Bettye Cheves, registered
nurse and instructor with the UK College of Nursing. "We've developed
a way to teach practical living skills, the behaviors and skills the children
need to grow into healthy adults while not taking away time children need
to devote to other areas such as math and science."
ABC's is a resource to be used to teach growth and development, family
life and health, mental and emotional health, personal health and hygiene,
substance use prevention, nutrition, healthy choices, injury prevention
and others.
Classroom teachers from kindergarten to fifth grade have collaborated
with College of Nursing nurses to create a group of lessons focused on
personal health and hygiene.
The Good Samaritan Foundation funds the center, which provides fellowships
and internships at 10 established agencies and school health education
programs in Lexington and the surrounding area.
Tammy J. Gay
Tim Collins
Maj. Kenneth Abery of the Lexington Salvation Army presents the "Bellringer
Award" to UK law student Kevin Brown, former president of the UK
College of Law Student Bar Association. Brown led 27 UK law students and
faculty in a successful fund-raising effort for the Salvation Army during
the 1999 holiday season. To Brown's right is UK law professor Bill Fortune,
who was the faculty sponsor for the effort. The UK law students and faculty
members encouraged 3,815 persons to drop $4,388.54 in the red kettles
during last year's campaign. The law school plans to participate in the
2000 Salvation Army holiday effort.
The University of Kentucky
Journalism Alumni Association is seeking nominations for its annual induction
of outstanding journalists into the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame.
The hall of fame recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions
to journalism. Selection is made from persons, living or deceased, who
are Kentucky natives or who have spent a substantial part of their journalism
careers in Kentucky.
Since the hall of fame was established in 1980, 113 journalists have been
inducted. Plaques honoring the honorees hang in UK's Grehan Building,
which houses the School of Journalism and Telecommunications.
The deadline for nominations for the upcoming hall is Jan. 3, 2001.
Further information may be obtained by writing the School of Journalism
and Telecommunications, 107 Grehan Building, University of Kentucky, Lexington,
Ky. 40506-0042, or by calling 257-1730.
Dan Adkins
For five decades, John Jacob
Niles strummed the strings of dulcimers he made and tickled piano keys,
carrying the folk music of rural America around the world. He composed
hundreds of songs, recorded 15 albums, wrote three books and found the
time to carve furniture for his family home.
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In just a few weeks,
the John Jacob Niles Center for American Music will be fully operational
at UK's Lucille Caudill Little Fine Arts Library and Learning Center
(formerly the Margaret I. King North Library), offering UK students,
faculty, staff and visitors the chance to see the tools Niles used
and the results of his labors. "It's a three-dimensional kind of display," said Little Library Director Gail Kennedy. Ron Pen, director of the center, expressed satisfaction with the collaboration between the College of Fine Arts, where he is an associate professor, and UK Libraries. The success of the joint effort to create the center is reflected in the quality of the facility, he said. |
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"The acoustics in here are
live now, and even better when there are people in here for a performance
or lecture," Pen said as he gave a visitor a tour.
The center also includes a study room where several chairs, a table and
four doors are kept. The items bear carvings by Niles of flowers, tobacco
plants and other objects.
"This is where we'll have symposia and other programs about the broad
array of American music," Pen said.
The center also houses several thousand volumes of folk music, including
5,000 American hymnals, part of the Wilcox Collection, Pen said.
"We also have a copy of the ŒBay Song Book,' which was the very first
book published in America. It was a collection of hymns sung by the Massachusetts
Bay colonists. The copy we have is not a first edition, though, " he said.
Pen said the center was made possible by gifts from the family of John
Jacob Niles, who died in 1980 at the age of 87.
"We also have two portraits of Niles. One of them will be hung right outside
here," he said.
Dan Adkins
UK community invited to
hear June Mumme speak Dec. 5.
A holiday luncheon featuring guest speaker June Mumme will be held at
11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 5, in the UK Student Center Small
Ballroom.
The event is sponsored by the UK Women's Forum and is open to everyone
in the UK community.
"We want to invite all UK faculty, staff and students," Women's Forum
Chairperson Jeanie Caldwell said. "We are very pleased to have June Mumme
as our speaker and look forward to her inspirational message."
Mumme, a breast cancer survivor and wife of UK football coach Hal Mumme,
devotes much of her time to cancer education and fund-raising events.
She also is the author of the book "Play the Next Play" which was released
in 1998. It gives an inside look at Mumme's family and her battle with
cancer. Her luncheon speech will include her role in her husband's career
and her bout with cancer.
Reservations are required for the holiday luncheon, which costs $9 per
person. The menu includes meat or vegetable lasagna, salad, rolls, pecan
pie or carrot cake and a drink.
Reservations are due by Nov. 28. They can be made by sending a check or
money order to UK Women's Forum, Judy Stivers Duncan, Research and Graduate
Studies, 106 Kincaid Hall, 0057. A reservation form can be obtained by
visiting the UK Women's Forum Web site at www.uky.edu/ OtherOrgs/UKWoman.
Brown bag lunchers are welcome and do not need to make reservations, said
Women's Forum Program chairperson and organizer of the luncheon Cristie
Hall-Hayes.
"We want everyone to come and enjoy the speaker and the fellowship," she
said. "Women's Forum would like to make the luncheon an annual event."
Anyone wanting more information may visit the Web site or call Cristie
Hall-Hayes at 257-4872, ext. 4002.
Kathy Johnson
The University of Kentucky
Body Bequeathal Program allows individuals the opportunity to donate their
bodies for the advancement of medical science. The program is administered
by the University of Kentucky College of Medicine Department of Anatomy
and Neurobiology.
The mission of the UK Body Bequeathal Program is to supply anatomical
materials for all teaching and research programs at UK as well as other
teaching programs throughout the northern and eastern portions of Kentucky.
The faculty, staff and students of the UK colleges of Medicine, Dentistry
and Allied Health Professions expressed their appreciation to the donors
and their families at the annual Graveside Service Nov. 16 and 17 at the
UK Burial Grounds at the Lexington Cemetery. This year's services recognized
51 donors.
