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RONALD D. ELLER ,history, and SUSAN LARSON, Hispanic Studies, received NEH Summer Stipends Awards to devote two uninterrupted months to research and writing. Eller received the award for “ The Politics of Poverty and Development: Appalachia and the Great Society, 1945-2000,” and Larson received the award for “The Politics of Place in Post-Cambio Madrid, 1982-2000.”

JOSEPH L. FINK III , pharmacy, has received the 2005 Phi Lambda Sigma-Procter & Gamble National Leadership Award.

UK Chandler Medical Center Employee of the Month is SARAH CURRY, CMA, Kentucky Clinic North, and the Resident of the Month is Dr. SHARON WERTHAMMER, Neurology. Core Values winners are Sense of Urgency, JUDY COMBS, Surgical Pathology; Teamwork, KELLY PICTOR, Surgical Pathology; Accountability, CHARLOTTE SCHARF, Nursing, 6th floor; Innovation, JOSHUA FRIED, MCIS; and Respect, KAREN GRAHAM, Sodexho.

ANGEL RUBIO , principal investigator for the federally funded Appalachian Cervical Cancer Outreach Demonstration Project at UK Markey Cancer Center, has been appointed to a three-year term on the Governing Board of the Intercultural Cancer Council.

TERRY CHILDERS , management professor, the Gatton Endowed Chair in Electronic Marketing and director of the Von Allmen Electronic Commerce Center, was elected as a Fellow of the Society for Consumer Psychology. He was named the 2005 recipient of the honor based on his contributions to the field of consumer psychology.

During the coming academic year, history professor JEREMY POPKIN will serve three special appointments at other institutions. During the fall semester, he will be the Charles H. Watts II Visiting Professor at Brown University, teaching courses in the history of print culture and the French Revolution. In spring 2006, he will be a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N. J., and the following summer he will direct a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar on the French and Haitian revolutions at the Newberry Library in Chicago.

ANA RUEDA , Hispanic Studies, has been elected president of the Ibero-American Society for 18th Century Studies, an affiliate of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

JEREMY POPKIN , history professor and a 2003-04 University Research Professor, is the author of “ History, Historians, and Autobiography,” published recently by the University of Chicago Press.

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