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GERALD JANECEK, professor in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures, College of Arts and Sciences, has received a one year National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship to complete a book on Moscow Conceptualism, an art and literature movement that occurred during the later years of the Soviet Union.

MICHAEL POCHOP, Anesthesiology, has been selected as UK Hospital’s resident of the month for January 2005.

TAUNYA PHILLIPS, executive director of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Programs, Office of Multicultural Affairs, recently accepted a $4,000 check from Marathon Oil’s Ashland Petroleum Refinery. The award is part of a program where Marathon supports minority students majoring in engineering at UK.

GINNY SPRANG, associate professor in the UK College of Social Work, and STEPHANIE BASS, UK College of Social Work doctoral student, presented “Predicting Child Maltreatment Severity Using Multidimensional Assessments,” at the 20th Annual International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies Conference in New Orleans, La.

At the recent annual conference of the Associations of Schools of Allied Health Professions, VINCE GALLICCHIO, associate dean for research and professor of clinical sciences, UK College of Health Sciences, and research professor in health sciences, UK College of Medicine, was re-elected to serve another two-year term as national president of Alpha Eta, the national honor society for the allied health professions. Gallicchio's term as president will run through 2006.

GINNY SPRANG, associate professor in the UK College of Social Work; JIM CLARK, associate dean in the UK College of Social Work; and OTTO KAAK and ALAN BRENZEL, both professors in the Department of Psychiatry, UK College of Medicine, co-authored “Developing and Tailoring Mental Health Technologies for Child Welfare: The Comprehensive Assessment and Treatment Services (CATS) Project,” recently published in the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry.

JEREMY POPKIN, professor of history in the UK College of Arts and Sciences, had an article, “The Historian-Autobiographers: Harvard in the Memoirs of its Own History Scholars,” appear in the December 2004 edition of Harvard Magazine. The article looks at representations of Harvard through autobiographies written by its historians, including Henry Adams, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., and H. Stuart Hughes, with whom Popkin worked at Harvard.

JOHN THELIN, professor in the Educational Policy Studies Department, UK College of Education, recently participated in a project to identify the world’s 10 most enduring institutions of the 20th and 21st centuries in the areas of arts and entertainment, business and commerce, government,nonprofit organization, and academia. The results were featured in the Dec. 19 edition of The New York Times.

Three professors in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, UK College of Arts and Sciences, have been elected as Fellows of the American Physical Society. They are JOSEPH BRILL, whose research interests include novel thermal, elastic and infrared probes of crystals with “low-dimensional” electronic properties; NICHOLAS MARTIN, whose research interests include electron and photon impact excitation and ionization of atoms; and JOSEPH STRALEY, whose expertise is in the area of critical phenomena.

A retirement reception for JOHN LOWRY, responsible official for select agents, Environmental Health and Safety, will be held in room 102 of the Mining and Mineral Resources Building, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Jan. 31. Hosted by Environmental Health and Safety, the event marks John’s retirement with more than 38 years of service to the university. Friends and co-workers are welcome to attend.

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