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DONALD C. HANEY of Richmond, retired director of the Kentucky Geological Survey at UK and Kentucky’s 11th State Geologist, recently received the John T. Galey Memorial Award from the Eastern Section of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, the highest award given by the AAPG Eastern Section, recognizing accomplishments of great benefit to society.

SALLY SHAFER, director of the Science Works program, Department of Physics and Astronomy, has been awarded the 2004 Distinguished Service Award from the Kentucky Science Teachers Association.

THOMAS C. ROBINSON, dean, UK College of Health Sciences, was recognized by the Kentucky Allied Health Consortium for 20 years of dedicated service. The Kentucky Association of Health Care Facilities presented Robinson the Chairman's Citation in recognition of extraordinary dedication and outstanding service to Kentucky's long-term care profession.

Six employees of the UK College of Agriculture recently received outstanding staff awards. ANN FREYTAG, senior laboratory technician in the Department of Agronomy, and MARCELLS RUCKER, research analyst in the Department of Agronomy, both won in the technician/paraprofessional/skilled crafts worker category. SANDY DUFF, administrative support associate for the Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service administration, and LILLIE THOMPSON, staff assistant for the Daviess County Cooperative Extension Service office, were recipients in the clerical/secretarial category. JAMES NEELY, auto mechanic III and vehicle dispatcher in Management Operations, received the service/maintenance award. DONNIE DAVIS, superintendent of the UK Research and Education Center in Princeton, received the executive/administrative/managerial/non-faculty professional award.

JAMES CAMPBELL, professor of music and director of percussion studies at the University of Kentucky, presented a workshop titled "The Snare Drum as an Expressive Instrument" at the Conservatoire Superieur de Paris-CNR during the Journées de la Percussion festival held in Paris, France, Nov. 18-21. Campbell also served on an international jury for the International Snare Drum Contest, which attracted more than 100 contestants from around the world. Campbell's appearance was sponsored in part by a grant from the K Research Foundation and the UK College of Fine Arts.

At the recent annual conference of the Associations of Schools of Allied Health Professions, VINCE GALLICCHIO, associate dean for research and professor of clinical sciences, UK College of Health Sciences, and research professor in health sciences, UK College of Medicine, was re-elected to serve another two-year term as national president of Alpha Eta, the national honor society for the allied health professions. Gallicchio's term as president will run through 2006.

An article written by GANG CAO, an associate professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, UK College of Arts and Sciences, is included in IoP Select, a special collection of journal articles chosen by the Institute of Physics for their novelty, significance and potential impact. The article, “Orbitally-driven behaviour: Mott transitions, quantum oscillations and colossal magnetoresistance in bilayered Ca3Ru2O7,” considers new measurements in a material indicative of a new type of electronic order and a novel mechanism for "collosal magnetoresistance"— extreme sensitivity of a sample's electrical resistance to magnetic field, which is useful for magnetic readouts such as in computers.

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