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University of Kentucky Department of Psychiatry outpatient and inpatient staff received a trophy for the highest number of participants for one group participating in the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill 5K Run/Walk held in October at the Kentucky Horse Park.

GLORIA ALLAIRE, lecturer of Italian in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures, College of Arts and Sciences, was invited to read a paper titled "The Narrative World of Andrea da Barberino" as part of a special two-day conference "Florence on the Eve of the Renaissance" held at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Oct. 22-23.

A paper by D. Allan Butterfield, The Alumni Professor of Biological and Physical Chemistry;
Director, Center of Membrane Sciences; and Faculty Associate, Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, appears in the October 2004 Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. In an NIH-funded study, Butterfield uncovered evidence supporting the claim that vitamin E may stem the progress of Alzheimer’s Disease. The study identified methionine in the human amyloid beta peptide as a key contributor to Alzheimer’s disease. Butterfield demonstrated that in the animal form of the peptide, the introduction of the antioxidant vitamin E slowed the destruction of brain cells as it appears to in the human form. These results provide new insights into the mechanisms of action of human amyloid beta peptide, which many researchers believe causes the damage seen in the brains of Alzheimer’s disease patients.

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GUY LEE MONTY CHAPPELL, professor of Animal Sciences in the UK College of Agriculture, died in October in his home. Chappell was responsible for the growth of the Kentucky 4-H Livestock Judging Contest and the 4-H Market Lamb Project, as well as the introduction of UK TOT’S Days which allows first-graders from Central Kentucky the opportunity to visit UK’s Coldstream Farm. He also introduced Sheep Profit Day, a long-standing tradition at UK. Chappell served as extension coordinator for many years and continued his dedication to the department in a post-retirement appointment serving youth programs, sheep producers and the growing goat industry across Kentucky. Chappell is survived by his wife, Hazel Williams Chappell, son Guy Lee Monty Chappell II, and daughter Amy Chappell (William) Hamlin.

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