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professor wins early career award Engineering professor wins early career awardSteve Rankin, University of
Kentucky assistant professor of chemical and materials engineering, received
a U.S. Department of Energy Defense Programs Early Career Scientist and
Engineer Award in an October White House ceremony.
A native of Pittsburgh, Penn.,
Rankin received a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Carnegie
Melon University in 1993 and a doctorate in chemical engineering from
the University of Minnesota in 1998. He joined the UK faculty in August.
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| The UK center will conduct research designed to reduce cancer incidence and mortality in central Appalachia through prevention and early detection efforts. Researchers will concentrate on cervical, colorectal and lung cancers and focus their efforts in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. One of 24 prevention research centers funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the UK center is the only one focusing on cancer. In addition to the Kentucky Prevention Research Center, the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Control Program consists of the Kentucky Cancer Registry, the Cancer Information Service of the Mid-South, the Kentucky Cancer Program and the Appalachia Cancer Network. |
Cheri Tolle |
Tolle has been with the Markey
Cancer Control Program for 12 years. She has spent most of that time with
the Cancer Information Service, working as an information specialist,
partnership program manager and assistant project director.
Tolle has undergraduate degrees in psychology and health education and
a master's degree in education, all from Eastern Kentucky University.
Maureen McArthur
Donations sought for Joy
Cart.
Jarrett Mynear, an 11-year-old cancer patient from Nicholasville who established
Jarrett's Joy Cart for patients in the University of Kentucky Children's
Hospital, was featured for his achievements on the Oprah Winfrey Show
recently.
The program airs locally on WKYT-TV, Ch. 27, the local CBS affiliate.
Battling cancer for the last nine years, Jarrett's goal is to make the
difficult times for UK's young patients a little better. This special
program relies on donations of toys or money from businesses and individuals
to stock the cart. The value of the toys is kept under $10, so every child
will have an equal gift to keep.
For more information on how to donate toys or money, call Jarrett Mynear
or his mother, Jennifer Mynear, at 223-5879 or UK Children's Hospital
Fund Development at 257-1121.
UK Chandler Medical Center
Public Relations
To honor the many contributions
of a former UK professor to carbon science, education and an interdisciplinary
approach to education, the Frank J. Derbyshire Research Professorship
Endowment Award was established at the University of Kentucky this year.
The first recipient of the endowment is Craig Grimes of the Department
of Electrical Engineering.
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$5,000 award is granted for up to a five-year period to a faculty
member who is a tenured, full professor and has made outstanding contributions
to research and graduate education. Grimes received a doctorate from the University of Texas in 1990. After working in the private sector, he accepted a position in the Department of Electrical Engineering at UK in September 1994. His research interests include chemical sensors based on magnetic thin films, high performance magnetic films for use in magnetic recording and electrically small antennas. |
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"He is an exceptionally talented
researcher, and the department is proud to have him as an esteemed faculty
member," electrical engineering department Chairperson Vilay Singh said
of Grimes. "He is the kind of person who can guide UK into becoming a
leading university during this century."
Since his arrival at UK, Grimes has published 64 refereed journal papers,
had eight patents filed through UKRF and been primary investigator of
or co-PI on some 20 grants worth $17 million.
Frank Derbyshire, director of the UK Center for Applied Energy Research,
died Aug. 17, 1999, while on a trip to England.
Marybeth McAlister
A research team led by Craig
Jordan, assistant professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and
UK Markey Cancer Center, has discovered that a protein, called CD123,
is on the surface of leukemia stem cells. The results of the research
were published in the October issue of the journal Leukemia.
Each year, about 30,000 people are diagnosed with acute leukemia in the
United States. More than half of those cases are in people older than
60. About 22,000 people die from leukemia each year in the United States.
Medical advances have greatly increased survival rates in young people,
but cure rates drop sharply as age increases.
Leukemia can be a difficult disease to treat. Chemotherapy often is effective
at destroying leukemia cells that are circulating in the body. However,
it may not be able to destroy the leukemia stem cells in the bone marrow.
These stem cells then produce more leukemia cells, leading to a relapse
of the disease.
Because the CD123 protein is not found on normal stem cells, this research
opens up the possibility of designing drugs using an antibody to CD123,
which would attack only the leukemia stem cells and leave the normal stem
cells untouched. Jordan and his team are working with researchers at Duke
University to link the antibody to CD123 with a short-lived radioisotope.
Jordan also is investigating linking the antibody to a chemical toxin.
Maureen McArthur
Steven Offenbacher, director
of the Center for Oral and Systemic Diseases at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Dentistry, was the featured speaker
for the University of Kentucky College of Dentistry's annual Vincent A.
Barr Visiting Professorship. The event was held Nov. 1 in the UK Hospital
Auditorium.
Offenbacher, a pioneer in the emerging field of periodontal medicine,
addressed faculty, students and alumni on the topic "Oral Infection and
Systemic Disease." He focused on the molecular pathogenesis of periodontal
diseases, the relationship of periodontal infections to systemic disease
and the molecular mechanisms of bone regeneration.
The professorship was established by Elizabeth "Betty" Barr, a 1974 graduate
of the UK College of Dentistry and a pediatric dentist in Denver, in honor
of her father, Vincent A. Barr. The elder Barr practiced dentistry in
Frankfort for more than 50 years and has been a supporter of the UK College
of Dentistry since it started in 1962. Barr also helped establish a dental
clinic at the Abbey of Gethsemani near Bardstown, where he continues to
travel to treat the monks who reside there.
Kristi Lopez
Reseach and funding
- Alan Daugherty, general internal medicine, $351,250, "AngII Promotes
Proinflammatory Process in Atherogenesis."
- David Gater, physical medicine/rehabilitation, $128,323, "GCRC
CAP."
- Jennifer Grisham-Brown, family studies, $154,685, "Kentucky Services
for Children who are Deaf-Blind."
- Steven A. Haist, internal medicine, $334,800, "Pre-doctoral Training
in Primary Care."
- David Harmon, animal sciences, $160,000, "Nutritional Regulation
of Pancreatic Alpha-Amylase in Ruminants."
- Ted Hasselbring, special education and rehabilitation counseling,
$700,000, "UK Assistive Technology Research Institute."
- Kurt Hauser, anatomy and neurobiology, $253,720, "Opiates: Neuronal
and Glial Vulnerability to HIV."
- Bradley Keller, pediatrics, $394,897, "RFA Screening Technology
for Mouse Embryo CV Phenotype HL-99-010."
- Deborah G. Kwolek, general internal medicine, $464,688, "Multidisciplinary
Instructional Models for Women's Health Education."
- Tk Logan, Center on Drug and Alcohol Research, "Alcohol, Violence
and Health Services in Rural Women."
- Mark Lovell, internal medicine, $181,208, "Disruption of Zinc
Homeostatis in Alzheimer's Disease."
- Karen Main, Center for Rural Health, $798,387, "Community Access
Program."
- Katherine McCormick, special education and rehabilitation counseling,
$199,891, "An Investigation of the Characteristics and Attributes of Effective
Primary Programs."
- Robert McKnight, preventive medicine, $865,814, "Centers for
Agricultural Disease and Injury Research, Education and Prevention."
- Thomas Mueller, agronomy, $126,520, "Precision Agriculture: Explaining
Spatial Variability in Grain Yield."
- B. Pass, entomology, $117,278, "Cooperative Agricultural Pest
Survey."
- Steven Post, pharmacology, $206,229, "Scavenger Receptor and
G Protein Function in Macrophages."
- Elizabeth Rompf, Social Work, $259,945, "Field Education."
- Keith Rouch, mechanical engineering, $127,500, "Simulation for
Advanced Product Development and Manufacturing."
- Beth Rous, Interdisciplinary Human Development Institute, $180,000,
"Inclusion of Preschool Children With and Without Disabilities in State
Standards Based Accountability Systems."
- Steven Shedlofsky, internal medicine, $253,400, "Alcohol-Induced
Cytochromes P450 and HCV Oxidative Injury."
- Stephen Wyatt, Kentucky Community Cancer Program, $193,053, "Pilot
Projects to Overcome the Digital Divide;" $140,000, "Breast Cancer Task
Force."
- Changqing Xun, internal medicine, $129,542, "Non-Myeloablative
Histonicompatible Stem Cell Transplant."
Housing
- Furnished house for rent: Jan-July 2001 (Sabbatical leave), 3BR,
2BA, garage, south side, quiet. $700(negotiable) + util; Call 272-6971
or moker@pop.uky.edu.
- REDUCED price of home for sale on 1/2 acre lot in Lansdowne.
4 BR, 2 1/2BA, office for professional w/bk shelves 1st fl , LR & DR,
family room w/fireplace, country kitchen, lg. sunroom w/cathedral ceiling,
3/4 basement rec room, 2-car garage, landscaped with perennials. $305,000.
825 Cahaba Rd. 278-2748 for appointment.
- House for rent: January until August 15, 2001. Two-story house
located on horse and cattle farm in Fayette County. Furnished, two-bedroom
house, second-floor study, two baths, large kitchen, working fireplace,
porch. Acres of pasture to walk through. $550 per month plus heat and
utilities.Call 299-0977.
Activities
- Richard S. Levine, Architecture, co-director of the Center for
Sustainable Cities, recently returned from a sabbatical year spent in
London, where he was engaged in teaching and research. Among his recent
publications, co-authored with the co-director of the Center Ernest J.
Yanarella, political science, and Heidi Dumreicher, Oikodrom, Vienna,
are: "The Space of Flows, the Rules of Play, and Sustainable Urban Design:
The Sustainability Game as a Tool of Critical Pedagogy in Higher Education,"
International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, Vol. 1, No.
1, 2000; "Generating Models of Urban Sustainability: Vienna's Westbahnhof
Sustainable Hilltown," chapter in "Achieving Sustainable Urban Form,"
London: Routledge, 2000; "Sustainable City Implantations for European
Cities: The Vienna Westbahnhof Experience," REBUILD, The European City
Conference, Barcelona, Spain, October 1999; "The Sustainable City of the
21st Century: Westbahnhof, Vienna Theory and Practice," UIA Congress,
Beijing, China, June 1999; "Ein Urbanes Nachhaltigkeits Projekt," Oikodrom,
Vienna, 1999; "The Discipline of Sustainable City-Regions," Teaching in
Architecture 2000 Conference, Oxford University, Oxford, England, spring
2000; "The Appropriate Scale for 'Low Energy:' Theory and Practice at
the Westbahnhof," Passive and Low Energy Architecture Conference, Cambridge
University, Cambridge, spring 2000.
Deaths
- Maude E. Harpe, retired printing specialist II in the agricultural
public information department, died Oct. 6.
- Clasine van Winter, retired mathematics professor, died Oct.
16.
- Mary "Mimi" E. Neal, Undergraduate Admission business manager,
died Oct. 24.
Appointments
- Lexington Community College Financial Aid Director Michael Barlow
has been appointed to the Nominations Committee of the Kentucky Association
of Student Financial Aid Administrators. Within KASFAA, Barlow serves
on the executive board as historian, and as a member of the Diversity
Committee.
- Bill Bintz, Education, "See Reading Differently with Text Sets
and Reading Invitations in the Classroom," spring/summer issue of the
Tennessee Reading Teacher.
- Sara Delano Moore and Bill Bintz, Education, "From Bunches and
Bunches of Bunnies to Binary: Using Literature to Improve Thinking about
Multiplication and Exponents," fall 2000 issue of The Kentucky Journal
for Teachers of Mathematics.
- Jesus Garcia, Education, "Creating America," a middle school
U.S. history textbook up for adoption in Kentucky. Garcia was a senior
consultant on the textbook, published by McDougal Littell.
- Tom Guskey, Education, "The Wrongheadedness of the 'Best Dentist'
Analogy," October issue of The School Administrator.
- Runan Pendergrast, LCC's assistant director of financial aid,
serves on the KASFAA executive board and is the chairman of the association's
Diversity Committee.
- Elizabeth Spalding, Angene Wilson and Rosetta Sandidge,
all of Education, "Piecing a Quilt: Redesigning Secondary Teacher Education
in the Context of Statewide Educational Reform," fall issue of Teacher
Education Quarterly.
- John Thelin, Education, "Campus and Commerce, California to Kentucky"
in the July/August issue of the Kentucky Journal; "A Legacy of Lethargy?
Curricular Change in Historical Perspective," summer issue of Peer Review.
Awards
- Lexington Community College Student Affairs Department representatives
Shelbie Hugle, Kristi Boyatt-Lancianese and Karen Mayo recently
received the "Best Presentation 2000" award at the 77th annual meeting
of the Kentucky Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers.
Their presentation, "From Bore-intation to Explorientation," demonstrated
a new freshman orientation program that featured balloons, information
tables and sessions on diversity, parent programs, financial aid and student
activities and services.
