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On Feb. 2, a group of nine UK faculty and graduate students judged the science fair at Booker T. Washington Montessori Magnet Elementary School.  Approximately 50 fourth-grade projects were judged, with 10 selected to advance to the Fayette County Fair. Judges included: BILL LUBAWY, associate dean for academic affairs, College of Pharmacy; MARCIA FINUCANE, biological safety officer, Environmental Health and Safety; NADA PORTER, associate professor, Department of Molecular and Biomedical Pharmacology; MARCOS OLIVEIRA, assistant professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy; SARA POLICE, graduate student, Graduate Center for Nutritional Sciences; JIGNA PATEL, graduate student, Pharmaceutical Sciences; RUTH WOOTON-KEES, graduate student, Graduate Center for Toxicology; KRISTIN BERTHIAUME, graduate student, Department of Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences; and TODD D. PORTER , associate professor,Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy.
TIM EVANS , clinical staff pharmacist in the Chandler Medical Center and a Major in the U.S. Army Reserve, was one of 11 Army Reserve Officers who were selected by the U.S. Army Reserve Personnel Command  to participate in the Army War College Reserve Component National Security Issues Seminar.

The Society of Critical Care Medicine has inducted JIMMI HATTON, associate professor in the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy, as a Fellow in the American College of Critical Care Medicine (ACCM). The ACCM is part of the Society of Critical Care Medicine with the mission of fostering the highest goals of multiprofessional critical care medicine.
M. SALIK JAHANIA , CT Surgery, has been selected as the resident of the month for March 2005.

BRUCE BERGER , professor and head of the Department of Pharmacy Care Systems at Auburn University, presented the annual Rho Chi Lecture, sponsored by the Alpha Xi chapter of the Rho Chi Society, Feb. 24 at the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy. Berger’s lecture was titled, “Self-Deception,” and he also presented “Ethical Obligations in Providing Pharmaceutical Care” during the annual Rho Chi initiation banquet.

 

ROBERT OLSON , professor of Middle East politics and history, College of Arts and Sciences, had had his book “ Turkey-Iran Relations, 1979-2004: Revolution, Ideology, War, Coups and Geopolitics (2004)” translated and published in Turkish. This is Olson's second book to be translated into Turkish. His book “The Sheikh Said Rebellion and the Emergence of Kurdish Nationalism: 1880-1925” was translated into Turkish in 1992. This is the fourth book of Olson's to be translated into a foreign language. In addition to the Turkish translations, he also has had two books translated into Arabic, two into Persian, and one into Kurdish. Olson's books have sold about 20,000 copies in these four languages.

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