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UK College of Public Health doctoral student REGINA R. WASHINGTON was awarded the 2005 National Rural Health Association/John Snow, Inc. Student Achievement Award, which honors outstanding graduate students. She is the founder and current president of the UK Student NRHA Chapter.

The architectural design of the UK Center for Rural Health Bailey-Stumbo Building was honored during the recent Kentuckiana Masonry Institute’s annual architectural awards luncheon. Omni Architects of Lexington won a Brick Award of Merit on April 15 for its design of the 57,000-square-foot Hazard facility.

UK HealthCare Marketing recently received two merit awards from the National Healthcare Marketing Report. An advertisement for minimally invasive surgery received recognition in the single newspaper ad category, and the nurse recruitment campaign was likewise recognized in the professional recruitment advertising category. Project staff were: LEE ANN BERLIN, LEE CUNDIFF, BRUCE FRANK, JIM ROSENDALE, HEATHER RUSSELL, JACQUIE SALEand MARY WALKER.

BRANDON NUTTALL , of the Energy and Minerals Section of the Kentucky Geological Survey at UK, has been selected for the 2005 George V. Cohee Public Service Award from the Eastern Section of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. The award recognizes distinguished service and achievement in public affairs. Nuttall was nominated for developing, maintaining and making available to the public Kentucky oil and gas records.

DAVE HARRIS, of the Kentucky Geological Survey’s Energy and Minerals Section, will receive the 2005 Honorary Membership Award from the Eastern Section of the AAPG, recognizing distinguished service and devotion to the service and profession of geology. Harris served as lead investigator on the development of a new map of an Eastern Kentucky oil- and natural gas-producing geologic formation known as the Big Lime.

UK School of Architecture alumnus DAN HISEL has been selected as one of six participants in The Architectural League of New York’s “Young Architects Forum: Situating.” As a winning participant in the program, Hisel’s work will be on exhibition through July 6 at New York City’s Urban Center Galleries.

UK College of Engineering assistant professors J. TODD HASTINGS and SEN-CHING CHEUNG received the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award from Oak Ridge Associated Universities for the 2005-2006 academic year. The $5,000 grants to both Hastings and Cheung will be matched by UK.

ANITA M. SUPERSON , associate professor of philosophy, has received a $30,000 postdoctoral leave fellowship to complete a book on moral skepticism.

GWENDOLINE AYUNINJAM , a native of Cameroon and a UK doctoral student in the College of Education’s Department of Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation (EPSE), has been named UK’s first Holmes Scholar.

L. TODD JUSTICE , Cardiology, was chosen as the Resident of the Month for June 2005.

During a recent research trip, ROSS SCAIFE, associate professor of classics in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures, was noted in the April 25 edition of the New York Sun. Scaife journeyed to the papyrology laboratory at Oxford University to investigate an entirely new method, inspired partially in collaboration with the UK Medical Center, to read ancient papyrus documents that have remained unread since discovery because they are too delicate to be unrolled without severe damage.

ANA RUEDA , professor of Spanish literature in the Department of Hispanic Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, has been elected president of the Ibero-American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, an affiliate of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

JOEL LEE , UK professor of health services management, has been appointed by the director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology to the 2005 Board of Examiners for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. The award is the highest level of national recognition for performance excellence that an organization in the United States can receive.

UK management professor TERRY CHILDERS, the Gatton Endowed Chair in Electronic Marketing and the director of the Von Allmen Electronic Commerce Center, headquartered within the UK Gatton College of Business and Economics, was recently 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.

HEIDI MILIA ANDERSON , professor and assistant dean for education innovation at the UK College of Pharmacy, was elected as a Fellow of the American Pharmacists Association during the APhA 2005 annual meeting held in Orlando, Fla.

DAVID PULEO , acting director of the Graduate Center for Biomedical Engineering, has been appointed to serve in the Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering Study Section of the NIH.

BETH E. BARNES , director of the University of Kentucky School of Journalism and Telecommunications, has been elected to the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications.

CAROL PITTS DIEDRICHS , dean of UK Libraries ,was elected to a position on the SOLINET Board of Directors. SOLINET is a non-profit membership organization serving more than 2,600 libraries of all types and sizes in 10 southeastern states and the Caribbean.

DAVID PULEO , acting director of the Graduate Center for Biomedical Engineering, has been appointed to serve in the Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering Study Section of the NIH.

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