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TIM STOMBAUGH, assistant extension professor in the UK Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering Department, College of Agriculture, has earned a Blue Ribbon Award from the American Society of Agricultural Engineers. Stombaugh was honored for his entry in the ASAE’s Educational Aids Competition for his publication titled “Elements of Precision Agriculture: Lightbar Guidance Aids.”

MICHAEL E. ROGERS, 2003 doctoral student in the Entomology Department, College of Arts and Sciences, recently received the John Henry Cornstock Award, the Entomological Society of America’s most prestigious national student award. Doctoral students from the UK Entomology Department have won the award in three of the past four years.

The University of Kentucky College of Health Sciences is holding a convocation address given by Dean TOM ROBINSON at 3:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 1, in 127 Charles T. Wethington Jr. Building. This year's topic is "Kentucky: Leadership in Health Sciences Education.”

JAMES CAMPBELL, professor of music and director of percussion, College of Fine Arts, presented a workshop at the Sweden Days of Percussion in Stockholm, Sweden, Oct. 2-3. Campbell was also a featured performer during an evening concert held at the Swedish Artists and Musicians’ Interest Organization that featured percussion performers from Europe, Brazil and the United States.

MELANIE OTIS, assistant professor in the College of Social Work, presented “The State of Unions: Same-Sex Marriage and the Fuzzy Line Between Church and State” at the University of South Carolina Social Policy Conference held in Charleston, SC. She also presented “The Right to Marry: Lesbian and Gay Activists Framing of the Newest Battle for LGBT Rights” at the Society for the Study of Social Problems annual meeting in San Francisco, Calif.

JENNIFER SWANBERG, assistant professor in the College of Social Work, presented “Rocking to Heaven: Using Visual Images to Influence Public Policy” at the International Visual Sociology Association meeting in San Francisco, Calif.

KAY HOFFMAN, dean of the College of Social Work, was keynote speaker at the Korea Association of Social Workers and the Korea National Council of Social Welfare International Forum in Seoul, South Korea. Here presentation was titled, “Evidence Based Practice: Its Promise and Its Challenges.” Hoffman also attended the board meeting for the International Association of Schools of Social Work and was one of four representatives from the United States to the World Congress on Social both in Adelaide, Australia.

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