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Art Museum celebrates 25 years
Faculty, staff offer insights for next UK president
Search firm selected
Record amount of construction under way at UK
Structure expansion adds 315 spaces
Herald-Leader offers faculty, staff reduced rates on subscriptions
Campaign for the University of Kentucky: Summary of Kickoff Events
Brock finishes cross-country trek
UK establishes Center for the Environment
Diverse researchers sought to use University's supercomputer
LCC begins exchange with China university
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Art Museum celebrates 25 years

Where else you can see a Northwest Coast totem pole, 18th century Japanese screens, beautiful Tiffany glass, Old Master religious paintings, bikers on Harleys, Venetian lace, George Washington, a well-known cow and milkmaid and hundreds of other works of art all in one place?

The University Art Museum, celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2001, is pulling out all the stops this academic year to mark the occasion. Old favorites, rarely displayed treasures and recently conserved works on view for the first time are among the highlights of this unprecedented exhibition of the museum's permanent collection, which includes more than 3,500 objects spanning 2,000 years of history. For both frequent and first-time visitors, the show will be surprising, delightful and memorable, said museum Director Harriet Fowler.

The Art Museum, formerly the University Art Gallery, is located in the Singletary Center for the Arts at the corner of Rose Street and Euclid Avenue and was established in 1976.

Donald Sands, a retired UK chemistry professor and administrator, was among UK faculty members who promoted the UK Art Museum during its formative years. Sands was responsible for the administration of the museum and many other academic offices when he served as UK's vice chancellor for academic affairs.

"It has certainly come a long way since those early days," said Sands, who had high praise for the work of the museum's former and current directors.

"Most cities the size of Lexington have excellent museums," Sands said, "and we're catching up fast. But those cities started developing their museums 100 years ago when Monets cost a lot less money."

In 1981, the museum attracted considerable attention with a special showing of the world-famous Armand Hammer collection of Old Master paintings and drew a record 100,000 visitors in an eight-week period. In the years since that landmark exhibition, the museum has hosted dozens of important loan shows, bringing to the campus a wide variety of art. The museum also has acquired works for its own collection - the star of this 25th anniversary year - and offers a wide variety of tours, special programs, guest lectures and arts-related events for University and community audiences alike. Appearances by nationally-acclaimed artists and scholars, live radio broadcasts by popular local media hosts, a demonstration of equine stadium jumping, an installation of a 100-foot long helium-filled sculpture by volunteer faculty, staff and students, community art contests ­ these are among the unusual programs that characterize the museum's activities.

The museum also is a true academic resource for the entire University campus. Tours for individual classes, an upper-level museum studies course, internships, experiential education opportunities and interdisciplinary courses (history, English, art, education, women's studies and music are among previous partners) give students and faculty a variety of ways to make the most of this campus jewel.

The Silver Celebration exhibition, which will be on view until Dec. 23, is the perfect opportunity to see what the collection has to offer. The anniversary program will begin at 2 p.m. Sept. 17 with a directors' discussion and reception featuring the museum's first two directors, Priscilla Colt and William Hennessey, and present director Harriet Fowler.

Additional events relating to the anniversary exhibition will be scheduled throughout the year. Museum officials plan to publish notecards of collection highlights, and a float pen illustrating its Julien Dupre painting.

Harriet Fowler

For more information about the UK Art Museum, visit www.uky.edu/ArtMuseum. Many works of art have been displayed at the UK Art Museum in its 25-year history. Among them have been: photographs on page 1, top left, "Crossing the Ohio River to Louisville" by Danny Lyon; top right, "Pond Lily Table Lamp" by Louis Comfort Tiffany; bottom, "Dr. Pozzi at Home," by John Singer Sargent, part of the Armand Hammer Old Master Collection displayed in 1981-82. On this page at left is "Motion Picture Times Square" by Yvonne Jacquette.

Faculty, staff offer insights for next UK president

As the presidential campaigns heat up nationally, UK faculty and staff are going a step further in choosing a new president of their own.

Approximately 200 faculty and staff turned out for three campus forums held by the Presidential Search Committee during August. The first two forums, held at White Hall Classroom Building and the Chandler Medical Center, drew about 60 participants each. The Lexington Community College forum attracted slightly more than 100 people. It was accompanied by an address by LCC President James Kerley.

The final campus forum is scheduled for faculty, staff and administrators from 4:15 to 5:15 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 30, in the Worsham Theater in the Student Center.

The forums are designed to garner suggestions from faculty and staff about the personal and professional attributes the next UK president should have.

Wethington, who retires July 1, 2001, has served the University of Kentucky for over three decades.

Search committee members in attendance at the first campus forum, Aug. 8, were Jack Guthrie, alumni member of the Board of Trustees; Alan Kaplan, professor and chair of microbiology and immunology; JoEtta Wickliffe, Board of Trustees member; and Don Witt, University registrar.

Witt spoke of the success of the presidential search town meetings, which are under way across the state.

"It's amazing how insightful the people of Kentucky are," he said.

"There's always some gem (of an idea) that comes out at each meeting," Guthrie said.

Russ Williams, staff representative to the Board of Trustees, who is not a member of the search committee but who has attended town meetings, called the presidential search "the most important decision in the history of the University."

From the audience Aug. 8, professor Kaveh Tagavi, mechanical engineering, asked that minutes of the search committee meetings be posted on the committee's Web site.

Wickliffe said paper copies of the minutes are made available to anyone who asks for them. She said the committee would consider posting the minutes on the Web.

Scott Marksberry, controller's division, urged the search committee to hire a president who would be amenable to the creation of a staff senate.

Mary Sue Hoskins, Central Advising Service, said the new president should be attuned to the needs of undergraduate students. She also urged the committee to be open to internal candidates and not "blinded by the glitz of external candidates."

Carolyn Bratt, professor of law, former Board of Trustee member and former chair of the Faculty Senate, said the new president should be "rooted in the faculty." The new president also should deal with equity issues "to ensure everyone is judged according to what they can contribute," Bratt said. Comments at the LCC forum focused on a president dedicated to a vital future for the community college.

Comments from employees of UK's Chandler Medical Center centered on the need for a president with a research background.

The UK Women's Forum coordinated the campus forums.

George Lewis

Presidential candidates may be nominated at the Presidential Search Committee Web site located at www.uky.edu/PresidentialSearch/providefeedback.htm.

Search firm selected

The University of Kentucky presidential search committee selected A.T. Kearney Executive Search of Alexandria, Va., to assist in identifying, securing and advertising for candidates to assume the helm of UK in July 2001, after the retirement of President Charles T. Wethington Jr.

Heading the A.T. Kearney team is Jan D. Greenwood, vice president for education practice for A.T. Kearney Executive Search. Formerly a president at two public and private higher education institutions, Greenwood has conducted more than 150 searches for executives in education, health care and other fields.

Greenwood noted that among the primary skills to be sought in a university president are leadership, a proven track record, management and resource development. JoEtta Wickliffe, chair of the search committee, said a list of desired attributes for candidates will be prepared in September after the committee completes a series of forums held across Kentucky to obtain citizen input on the desirable qualities of UK's next president.

Greenwood said UK should attract many strong candidates, noting state incentives to encourage UK to achieve top-20 status among public universities.

Dan Adkins

Tim Collins
The mechanical engineering building under construction in the center of campus is one of 170 construction and remodeling projects scheduled for campus this year.

Record amount of construction under way at UK

While walking around campus recently, you may have gotten the notion that the University of Kentucky has adopted the crane -construction crane, that is -as its official bird.

Actually, the building boom indicated by those cranes does represent something official - an official record dollar amount of new campus construction and remodeling work. The work totals some $283 million for 170 projects that are under way or soon to be started, said Ken Clevidence, senior director, and Dall Clark, associate director of UK's Procurement and Construction Division.

About $225 million worth of the construction is represented by such major projects as the mechanical engineering building under construction in the center of campus, a plant sciences building near Cooper Drive and the James Hardymon Communications and Network Systems Building at the corner of Rose and Maxwell streets.

Major construction projects associated with the Albert B. Chandler Medical Center include the Women's Cancer Facility ($10 million), the Gill Heart Institute/Surgery Center ($22 million) and the Aging/Allied Health Building ($35.6 million) under construction at the convergence of Limestone and Rose streets.

The Hardymon Building will be dedicated Sept. 11, and the Career Planning and Placement Center already has moved into its new two-story facility on Rose Street. The building will be dedicated later this year as the James Stuckert Building in honor of the UK alumnus from Louisville who contributed money for its construction. Stuckert also chairs the steering committee for UK's soon-to-be-announced capital fund-raising campaign.

The remaining $58 million in construction or remodeling projects involves renovations of classroom, laboratories and housing and dining facilities.

One of the largest construction projects UK will have experienced in recent decades is a planned $65 million biomedical sciences research building that is in its earliest development stages. The site for the new building -$39 million of which will be paid for by the state of Kentucky -is yet to be determined.

The new research facility will attract tenants from many academic disciplines around the entire UK campus. It also will serve as a key element in the University's efforts to meet the legislative mandate to become a top-20 public research university by the year 2020.

Among the other major projects is a two-story, $15.2 million addition to the Seaton Center. This facility will include extensive exercise facilities including a cardiovascular exercise room with a glass facade facing the outdoor playing fields, four basketball courts, four racquetball courts and an elevated running track.

The Seaton Center facility will be supported in part by student activity fees. Faculty and staff also will pay a fee to use the new physical fitness facilities.

Clevidence said the Seaton Center addition will have about 90,000-square-feet of space and is being built by CB&S Construction of Somerset. A groundbreaking ceremony for the facility is set for 10 a.m. Sept. 1. HNTB of Kansas City, a firm that designed the new Marino Center at Northeastern University in Boston, designed the new fitness center addition.

Another project coming on line this month is the Lucille Caudill Little Fine Arts Center that is being remodeled in the Margaret I. King Library-South. This new facility will include computer laboratories and studios for the College of Fine Arts. Little, a UK graduate and well-known arts philanthropist, contributed $1 million toward the project.

An expansion of the parking structure on Rose Street will provide 315 new parking spaces. The existing parking structure also will be updated in this project set for completion by September 2001.

Ralph Derickson

Structure expansion adds 315 spaces

Parking structure No. 2, at Rose Street and Hilltop Avenue, will undergo renovation and expansion this year. The project is scheduled to begin in late August or September and is expected to take about one year.

"The existing structure is 32 years old and needs restoring," said Donald Thornton, director of Parking and Transportation Services for the University. "We also want to improve the general appearance of the area by constructing a plaza adjacent to the structure."

The renovation and expansion projects will take place concurrently and will block about 125 of the structure's 850 spaces. The renovation will include upgrading the elevator and stairwells. A designated bike lane and bicycle parking area also are included in the project. The 120,000-square-foot addition will add an elevator and a second entrance/exit and create 315 new spaces. The expansion will be on the side of the structure facing the William T. Young Library.

While the project is under way, Thornton suggested employees take advantage of other lots in the area, as well as yellow EG parking at Commonwealth Stadium. Medical Center shuttle buses transport those who park in the yellow EG lot to the front of the hospital.

The $11 million project is being paid for from parking revenues.

Other parking projects include the paving of the Press Avenue lot and the repaving of Commonwealth Stadium's blue lot used by students. In the Press Avenue lot, new pavement with lined spaces is expected to allow more employees to park in the lot, Thornton said. The previous gravel lot made it difficult to park at equal intervals and for pedestrians to walk through the lot.

"This is all a part of the University's continuing effort to improve parking for employees and add spaces where we can," Thornton said.

Selena Stevens

Herald-Leader offers faculty, staff reduced rates on subscriptions

The Lexington Herald-Leader is introducing two new discounts for faculty and staff of the University of Kentucky for the 2000-2001 academic year.

The specials are:

€ Faculty special: $15 per month of daily service for three, six or 12 months (20 percent discount).

€ Staff special: $14.50 per month for the first two months (16 percent discount over three months). The regular rate of $18.85 per month applies to the third month and thereafter.

Both discount offers must be paid in advance. Call Customer Service at 1-800-999-8881 or 253-1314 to receive this special discount. Please mention the UK faculty or staff discount.

Staff report

Campaign for the University of Kentucky: Summary of Kickoff Events

All staff, faculty and students will want to mark Sept. 14-16 on their calendars to join the celebration as the Campaign for the University of Kentucky is officially announced. Events scheduled include:

Thursday, Sept. 14
€ President's Picnic for students, faculty and staff, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Botanical Gardens and Student Center patio
€ Jazz Concert by the Ladies of Note featuring Lainie Kazan, Melba Moore and Nnenna Freelo, 8 p.m., Singletary Center for the Arts. Tickets are available at the Student Center Ticket Office for $25 for the general public and $10 for UK students with valid ID. Contact the ticket office at 257-8427.

Friday, Sept. 15
€ Campaign Kickoff Luncheon, 11:30 a.m., Administration Building lawn. UK President Charles T. Wethington Jr. and members of the campaign national steering committee will formally announce the Campaign for the University of Kentucky and unveil the official goal, which is the largest fund-raising goal in the history of the commonwealth.
€ Academic Showcases, 1:30-5 p.m. Visit and participate in nearly 100 events hosted by colleges and programs at UK to highlight the academic and research excellence prevalent at the University.
€ Campaign Gala and Fellows Dinner, 7 p.m., Rupp Arena. An invitation dinner celebrating a successful campaign kickoff and welcoming the new UK Fellows Society members.

Saturday, Sept. 16
€ Academic Showcases continue, 9 a.m.- noon. Some of the colleges and programs continue their academic showcases. Check schedules.
€ UK vs. Indiana, 6 p.m., Commonwealth Stadium. A halftime show will feature the campaign and its theme, "A Call To Greatness." For ticket information, call 257-CATS or 1-800-928-CATS.

Sunday, Sept. 17
€ UK Art Museum Director's Forum, 2 p.m., Singletary Center for the Arts. A celebration of the 25th anniversary of the UK Art Museum.
€ UK Symphony Orchestra Concert, 3 p.m., Singletary Center for the Arts. Hear the sounds of the UK Symphony Orchestra and learn firsthand the level of musical excellence that abounds at UK. No admission charge.

Richard Rodriguez
UK President Charles T. Wethington Jr. congratulated family studies professor Greg Brock for completing his bike ride across the southern United States. The ride ended in Savannah, Ga., July 2.

Brock finishes cross-country trek

University of Kentucky family studies professor Greg Brock brought his unusual summer vacation to an end July 2 when he dipped the tire of his recumbent bike in Atlantic Ocean waters off Tybee Island, S.C. The ritual marked the end of his 3,000-mile bicycle trip across America, from Santa Monica, Calif., to Savannah, Ga.

"I felt very self-satisfied," Brock said. "There were moments on the road when I felt as free as I could be in the 21st century. There was nothing to do but get down the road. Very infrequently do we get a chance to be as independent as I was then. Those are the moments I will treasure."

Biking across the United States had been a lifelong dream for Brock. However, his year-round teaching requirements had prevented any attempt at the trek. The refinement of online courses at the University of Kentucky and the presence of strong cross-country Internet networks gave Brock a chance to fulfill his dream. With the help of University and other sponsors, Brock spent nine months planning, dubbed his trek "UK Across America" and began June 1 from the Santa Monica Pier in California. He expected to be on the road between 60 to 90 days. In reality, he finished his trip in only 32 days, including a rest day and several low-mileage "rolling rest" days.

"That first day, I was nervous and excited, but scared too. I could hardly believe I was facing 3,000 miles on a bicycle," Brock said. "I had heard horror stories about California drivers, but they turned out to be the most mellow of the motorists I encountered. It was fun passing through towns I'd heard about on Johnny Carson's "Tonight Show," like Coucamunga and Covena, and I rode on part of the old Route 66."
Brock's first days were so full of nervousness that he held tightly to the return portion of the airline ticket that had brought him to Santa Monica. He slowly forgot about the ticket, though, as the scenery captivated him. His family professional side was excited by the people he met.

"The trip gave me an awareness of how complex Americans have become. We are different, and much the same. Mass culture and media have created an awful lot of sameness across the U.S. in housing, dress, cars and habits. But differences were apparent in food, language and pace of life." Biking during the day, Brock rode almost 100 miles each day.

"The time passed quickly. I was focused on the road and absorbed in the moment. I had to watch for road hazards, reserve motels, plan the next day, monitor my water and food use, look out for cars and answer the phone. At night, I had to do bike repairs, wash out clothing, tend to my class, write trip journals, eat and sleep."

A memorable segment of the trip came at the Mississippi River, where Brock found the only bridge allowing bike crossing was closed. Intent on making the entire trip under his own physical power, Brock squeezed under the bridge's locked gate and jogged its one-and-a-half mile expanse. A guard spotted him near the halfway point, calling after him and warning that he risked arrest.

"I'd overcome so many challenges on the trip," Brock said. "To not overcome this one would have been a big disappointment."

In the end, the guard let Brock walk away.

Brock ended his trip in Savannah's Forsythe Park and was greeted by a crowd, including UK alumni and President Charles T. Wethington Jr. and Wethington's wife.

"It was a goal of the trek to push along the discussion about distance learning in higher education," he said. "It's incredibly important in higher education that professors rethink their roles and experiment with styles of teaching, learning and service that go beyond the status quo."

Brock, who is an avid jogger, made it back to Lexington in time to bike in the city's annual Independence Day parade and compete in the 10K run. The run's top finisher in his age bracket for the past few years, Brock came in second this year.

"I guess I must have left my legs on the trek," he said with a smile.

Selena Stevens

UK establishes Center for the Environment

A recent gift to the University of Kentucky will allow the creation of the Tracy Farmer Center for the Environment. The center will focus on ecological challenges in Kentucky and surrounding areas.

Initially, the environmental facility will be housed in an existing building on the UK campus. Plans are to build a $3 million building that would house the center's director, core faculty, support staff, research labs, and conference rooms. A national search for a director of the center will begin this fall, with the expectation of completing the search by July 1, 2001.

The center will support itself from endowment funds and by income generated from a variety of sources, including extramural research and investments by private business and industry.

With the establishment of the new environmental program, the University of Kentucky joins ranks with the likes of Brown and Cornell universities as having established centers for the betterment and preservation of the environment.

"Mr. Farmer's gift, as well as his foresight, will enable the University to be a national leader in providing answers to some of the environmental challenges facing future generations," said UK President Charles T. Wethington Jr. "The program will provide a focus for interdisciplinary research and education and will serve as a vehicle for developing and implementing new approaches and technologies to environmental problems and issues."

Farmer said he and his wife, Carol, have an acute interest in the environment and how it affects society.

"I visualize the center as being about the future," he said. "What we do today regarding the environment is the legacy we leave for our children."

He said the center will explore ways that economic development and environmental concerns can co-exist.

Farmer has long been a leader in Kentucky business and civic activities. He and Carol live in Midway where they own Shadowlawn Farm, a thoroughbred horse farm. He is owner of one of the state's largest new car dealerships. He heads Farmer Enterprises, a commercial real estate, development and building management company, founded in 1970.

Farmer has owned and operated restaurants and restaurant franchises, including TGI Friday's, KFC and Captain's Quarters in Louisville. Farmer served as chairman of the Kentucky Democratic Party in 1981 and was secretary of the state Public Protection and Regulation Cabinet under Gov. John Y. Brown Jr.

He is a director of First National Bank of Falmouth and was principal owner of Cynthiana's National Bank of Kentucky from 1965 to 1994. He was chairman of the Begley Co., formerly a Richmond, Ky.-based drugstore chain.

Farmer is president of Lexington-Frankfort Scenic Corridor, Inc., a citizen-based non-profit organization that focuses on preserving rural landscape in areas west of Lexington.

George Lewis

Diverse researchers sought to use University's supercomputer

In his office in McVey Hall, Michael Sheetz envisions a convergence of unlike minds.

"We guide faculty in writing programs to tell the computer how to handle information. We don't write the programs for them, but we assist them," Sheetz said.

Himself a former physics and biochemistry faculty member at Transylvania University, a problem-based learning facilitator at UK's College of Medicine and a part-time instructor in economics at UK's Gatton College of Business and Economics, Sheetz knows how to speak the language of scholars while applying it to computers. A UK graduate in physics who earned a master's at Cornell University and another master's at UK, along with a UK Ph.D., Sheetz has worked with many researchers to help hone their queries.

Faculty in engineering, medicine, pharmacy, physics, astrophysics, oceanography, agronomy, biochemistry and mathematics are taking advantage of the supercomputer to advance their work.

As a member of the National Computational Science Alliance, UK permits researchers at other universities also to use the machine. John Connolly, director of UK's Center for Computational Science, estimates that 200 users access the supercomputer at any given time. About half are from UK.

"The University of Louisville uses UK's computer. We're also providing access to Kentucky's regional universities," Sheetz said.

As more people become aware of computing, there is increasing interest in exploring the possibilities for using the machine by researchers in disciplines that are more interpretive than the science fields. Sheetz noted that English professor Kevin Kiernan's computer work with Beowulf has prompted interest among other professors in the arts side of the College of Arts and Sciences.

Researchers can request up to 750 hours on the computer. Those who expect to need more than that face a more complicated application process.

Sheetz said he encourages every faculty member to consider using the supercomputer -if only to give students the experience.

"The students have access to the computer through the researchers they work with who use it," Sheetz said.

The past few years indicates what the future holds: computers of ever-increasing power that require less and less space. In fact, researchers, including UK chemist John Anthony, already foresee "nanocomputers," microscopic processors that would direct the operations of a broad variety of machinery and equipment.

That has major implications -not only for universities, but in business and industry, Sheetz suggested.

"We're definitely on the verge of a new industrial revolution," Sheetz said.

Dan Adkins

LCC begins exchange with China university

This fall, Lexington Community College will become the first community college in Kentucky operating an exchange program with a Chinese university.

LCC President Jim Kerley and faculty member David Wachtel traveled to Changsha University in the Hunan Province of China in April to sign the formal student/faculty exchange agreement. LCC student Vanessa Shepherd is scheduled to travel to China this fall, and three Chinese professors are expected at LCC this month.

The idea of an exchange program began in 1995 when two Lexington Community College faculty members, David Wachtel and Don Hardwick, traveled to Changsha, Hunan Province, to teach English at Changsha Education College. Several informal exchanges took place between the two institutions after that initial visit. Wachtel and Hardwick returned to China to teach during the summer of 1996, and LCC hosted Changsha professor Deng "Peter" Yueping during the fall 1998 semester. Wachtel returned to Changsha in 1999 to teach and research how English is taught in Chinese high schools. While there, Wachtel continued to pursue the possibilities of a formal agreement.

"This is only the beginning of international opportunities here at Lexington Community College," Wachtel said.

LCC has organized an action team to advise the president on international issues and broaden the scope of exchange and other possibilities worldwide. LCC's international student population has doubled since last year representing more than 32 countries.

Vernal Kennedy

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Women Mean Business Conference to be held Sept. 13
The eighth annual Women Mean Business Conference will be held Wednesday, Sept. 13, at the Radisson Plaza Hotel in Lexington. The conference will feature speakers on money management, the opportunities presented by the Internet and e-commerce, and building networking skills.

Among the presenters are Marcia Rosen, author of "The Women's Business Therapist: Eliminate the Mindblocks and Roadblocks to Success;" and Mary Hunt, author of several books on money management including "The Financially Confident Woman" and editor of Cheapskate Monthly magazine.

The registration fee is $99. For more information, call 257-7666 or 1-888-475-7232.

Vice President Blanton honored by business association
The National Association of College and University Business Officers has selected a UK administrator for its highest honor. Jack C. Blanton, vice chancellor for administration of the Lexington Campus, was one of two administrators in the nation named as recipients of the organization's Distinguished Business Officer Award at its annual meeting in Chicago in July. The award recognizes individuals who, during the course of their careers, have made outstanding contributions to business and financial management in higher education. Blanton has been an administrator at UK since 1975.

Human Environmental Sciences gets family studies doctorate
The College of Human Environmental Sciences has added a doctoral program in family studies to its degree offerings.

The new family studies doctoral program, approved by the UK Board of Trustees in May, is the only one of its kind in Kentucky's public higher education system.

The program will focus on research and public policy issues related to families.

Board accepts $9 million in gifts
The University of Kentucky Board of Trustees accepted $9.45 million in gifts from five donors, including a $7 million gift from a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., venture capitalist, during its June meeting. All of the gifts, contingent on matches by the state's Research Challenge Trust Fund, will establish or enhance endowments.

Education honored by report
U.S. News and World Report has named the elementary education graduate program at the College of Education as among the best in the nation in its 2001 rankings of graduate school programs recently released.

The elementary education graduate program was ranked 22nd among the nation's 187 graduate education programs. The program tied with several universities including the University of California-Berkeley, University of Arizona and the University of Kansas.

Build computer skills online
NETg, an industry leader in technology-based instruction and IT training, offers more than 400 courses at no charge to all UK employees.

Offerings include all Microsoft Office 97 and Office 2000 applications, Web browsers, HTML, JAVA, Windows 95/98, Windows NT and Servers and more. For more information, call Desktop Training Services at 257-2900, ext. 255 or visit www.uky.edu/IS/Training.

Museum honored for brochure
The University of Kentucky Art Museum received the second place award in the supplementary materials category of the American Association of Museums' Publications Design Competition for 2000.

The award was for the brochure titled "Modern Fiction and Art: Prints by Contemporary Authors." The brochure was one of 1,237 entries submitted to the competition.

Mini-Medical School marks its sixth year, begins Sept. 12
The sixth annual Mini-Medical School, a community service provided by the UK College of Medicine, will be offered beginning Sept. 12.

The eight-week program gives members of the public an opportunity to sample the curriculum for first-year medical students. Since its inception, approximately 1,200 people have "graduated" from the program.

Defense class offered to women
The UK Police Department is offering RAD -Rape Aggression Defense - a women's self-defense program, to all UK employees and students. The course helps women learn ways to avoid threats and techniques for staying calm and defending against violent attacks. For information on the course, call 257-1616.

Memorial dedicated to crash victims
A new monument at the UK Hospital will honor the four UK Air Medical Service crew members who were killed a year ago in a helicopter crash in Eastern Kentucky.

The crew - pilots Ernest L. Jones, 49, of Oakwood Village, Ohio, and Don Greene, 46, of Somerset; flight nurse Sheila Zellers, 43, of Elizabethtown; and paramedic Brian Harden, 31, of Richmond - was killed when its helicopter crashed into a mountainside.

The planned monument is a bronze casting, depicting the four. Until its completion, a replica is available for viewing in the hospital's seventh floor helipad.

UAS subscriptions on sale
The 2000-2001 University Artist Series will open Oct. 15 with the Emerson String Quartet. Other scheduled performances are: the Brass Band of Battle Creek, Dec. 8; the American Boychoir, Jan. 27, 2001; the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Feb. 17, 2001; and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, March 22, 2001.

Subscriptions for the season are on sale for $100 for five concerts. For more information, call the Singletary Center for the Arts ticket office at 257-4929 or visit www.uky.edu/SCFA.

Administrative changes made
Several changes have taken place in the University's administration over the summer.

George DeBin, vice president for fiscal affairs, has returned to the University from a leave, which began in the spring, and has assumed his former position.

Ben Carr, who had served as vice president for administration and fiscal affairs in DeBin's absence, also returned to his former position as vice president for administration.

Ed Carter, vice president for management and budget, announced his retirement effective Dec. 31. Upon his retirement, his duties will be assigned to the vice president for administration. Carter will serve a one-year, post-retirement appointment as director of business development to ensure a smooth transition of the University's business functions.

LCC teams with Midway College to offer management degree
Lexington Community College has joined in a partnership with Midway College to offer Midway's organizational management bachelor degree at LCC.

To further their respective missions, Lexington Community College and Midway College will collaborate to offer the OM degree. Lower division courses will be offered by LCC, and upper division courses by Midway. All courses will be on the LCC campus.

Campus safety improvement made with UK Life Safety funding
In late May, an emergency warning siren was installed behind the Chandler Medical Center Storage Facility on Motor Pool Drive.

The siren will be operated as part of Lexington's emergency warning network. The siren will help alert the public of serious weather or other emergency conditions. The system has an effective radius of more than one-half mile and can reach the Arboretum, softball/soccer complex, Commonwealth Stadium, intramural playing fields, Boone Tennis Center, the football practice facility and Cliff Hagan Stadium.

Aug. 28, 2000

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