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People
Two professors
win prestigious ACE fellowships
Davenport receives UK Intellectual Achievement Medallion
Professor named Ky. poet laureate
Accomplished engineers inducted into UK Hall of Distinction
Trustees name four research professors
Group maps UK terrain for those with disabilities
People
Two professors
win prestigious ACE fellowships
Two UK professors have been
selected as members of the American Council on Education's Fellows Program
for the 2001-02 academic year. They are among 34 college faculty members
and administrators chosen nationwide for the upcoming year's program.
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Roy L. Moore, associate
dean for graduate studies and professor of journalism in the UK
College of Communication and Information Studies and acting director
of the UK School of Journalism and Telecommunications, and Claudia
Heath, associate dean in the College of Human Environmental Sciences
and professor of family studies, were selected for the program.
Under the program, Moore and Heath will spend an academic year on
the campus of another college or university working with the institutions'
presidents and other senior officers. They will participate in leadership
and management activities to enhance their knowledge of the challenges
and opportunities confronting higher education today and in the
future.
Moore and Heath will
be informed of their individual assignments in late spring or early
summer.
Now in its 37th year, the program is designed to "strengthen institutions
and leadership in American higher education by identifying and preparing
faculty and staff members for senior positions in college and university
administration." Of the 1,308 program participants to date, nearly
250 have gone on to serve as chief executive officers in higher
education, and more than 1,000 have served as vice presidents and
deans.
Dan Adkins
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Roy Moore
Claudia
Heath
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Davenport
receives UK Intellectual Achievement Medallion
Author, poet, critic and artist
Guy Davenport has received the UK Libraries 2001 Medallion for Intellectual
Achievement recognizing his broad contributions to American and world
literature.
The
medallion is awarded annually to recognize outstanding intellectual
achievements by individuals who have worked in Kentucky or are native
Kentuckians. The medallion encourages education and the free and creative
use of the mind by citizens of Kentucky.
A native of Anderson, S.C., Davenport did his undergraduate work at
Duke University. Awarded a Rhodes scholarship, he went to Merton College,
Oxford, Great Britain, where he wrote on Joyce's "Ulysses" before
completing his doctoral work at Harvard with a dissertation on Ezra
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Guy Davenport
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He joined the UK faculty in
1963. That same year he published a book on Harvard natural philosopher
Louis Agassiz, followed by several volumes of poetry, translations of
works from classical Greek authors and essays on modernist poets. In 1974,
Scribner's published his first collection of short stories titled "Tatlin!"
A second collection of short stories, "DaVinci's Bicycle," was published
in 1979.
"Ecologues" appeared in 1981 as well as a collection of 40 essays, "Geography
of the Imagination." Other publications include: "Thasos and Ohio," a
volume of poems, in 1986; "The Jules Verne Steam Balloon" a short story
collection in 1987; "A Table of Green Fields" in 1993; "The Cardiff Team"
in 1996 and "A Balance of Quinces," an edition of his paintings and drawings.
In 1997, he published "The Hunter Gracchus," a collection of essays on
literature and art; and in 1998, "Objects on a Table," an aesthetic meditation
on the representation of objects in literature and still-life painting.
Along with his published works, Davenport has received numerous awards
including the O. Henry Award for short stories, the 1981 Morton Douwen
Zabel Award for fiction from the American Academy and Institute of Arts
and Letters, translation awards from PEN and the Academy of American Poets,
the Leviton-Blumenthal Prize for poetry and the 1990 MacArthur Fellowship.
Davenport retired in 1990 as a UK Distinguished Alumni Professor of English.
Dan Adkins
Professor
named Ky. poet laureate
James Baker Hall, a UK English
professor, has been named the 2001-2002 Kentucky Poet Laureate by the
Kentucky Arts Council's selection committee. Hall was inducted on April
24 during the Kentucky Writers' Day celebration in Frankfort.
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A recipient of the prestigious
Wallace Stenger Fellowship from Stanford University, Hall is the
author of five volumes of poetry and two novels. His work has been
widely published, appearing in publications such as The New Yorker,
The Paris Review and The Kenyon Review.
"This is a wonderful honor for the University of Kentucky and for
Jim, " said Pam Sexton, chairperson of the Kentucky Poet Laureate
Committee.
Although not required, Hall will travel throughout the state giving
lectures and providing inspiration to other Kentucky writers. Hall,
a 1957 graduate of the University, has taught English at UK since
1973.
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James
Baker Hall
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Kelley
Bozeman
Accomplished
engineers inducted into UK Hall of Distinction
In an example of the wide-ranging
effects UK engineering graduates have on society, inductees into this
year's UK College of Engineering Hall of Distinction include a former
Disney World designer, the highest-ranking civil engineer in the U.S.
Air Force and experts in jet propulsion, nuclear bombs and oil exploration.
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The Hall of Distinction
recognizes and honors UK alumni who have demonstrated distinguished
engineering accomplishments, outstanding character and commitment
to community service, said Tom Lester, dean, College of Engineering.
This year's inductees, all native Kentuckians, include:
-- James R. Boyd, who spent his formative years in Lexington and
who graduated from UK in 1969 with a bachelor's degree in electrical
engineering. Boyd's professional career has taken him from high-ranking
positions with Westinghouse Electric Co., to senior vice president
for oil exploration with Ashland Oil Co., to his current position
as senior vice president and group operating officer for Ashland
Exploration, Ashland Services, Arch Mineral Corp., and APAC, where
he is responsible for the nation's largest asphalt and concrete
paving company.
-- James B. Day, who was born at Kings Creek and who received a bachelor's
degree in mechanical engineering from UK in 1961. Through his employment
at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Day became one of the nation's
leading experts on jet propulsion. His engineering and managerial
leadership resulted in unprecedented jet engine advances that more
than doubled power output per unit weight. These advances are said
to have positioned the United States for world preeminence in military
and civilian aviation.
-- Maj. Gen. Earnest O. Robbins II, who was born in Maysville, participated
in UK Air Force ROTC and received a bachelor's degree in civil engineering
from UK in 1969. Called to active duty shortly after graduation,
he has had an illustrious military career by anyone's standards,
serving in various civil-engineer positions at home and abroad.
He is currently assigned to the Pentagon as the Air Force's highest-ranking
civil engineer. His numerous responsibilities include policy, planning,
development, construction and maintenance of all Air Force bases
and installations.
-- William R. Sims, a Lexington, native who received his bachelor's
degree in civil engineering from UK in 1958. A former member of
the UK Air Force ROTC, and subsequently an Air Force officer, he
at one time headed the largest community and environmental planning
effort ever undertaken by the federal government. He retired from
the military in 1986. His civilian employment has included being
principal project manager responsible for technical and administrative
direction of architecture and construction for the Walt Disney Corp.,
including the Wonders of Life Pavilion at EPCOT.
-- James L. Wyatt, born in Williamsburg, was a photoreconnaissance
pilot with the US Army Air Corps during World War II prior to earning
his bachelor's degree in metallurgical engineering from UK in 1947.
After receiving his doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, he became one of the innovators of an electrochemical
technique that led to potential fuel sources for nuclear bombs.
Commercially, he developed a photosensitive product used in labels
and photographs. In 1970, Wyatt founded a company that grew into
a significant manufacturing venture before his retirement in 1990.
The induction ceremony was held April 20.
George Lewis
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James Boyd
James Day
Earnest
Robbins II
William Sims
James Wyatt
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Trustees
name four research professors
Program enhances, encourages
scholarly research productivity.
The UK Board of Trustees named four professors as 2001-2002 University
Research Professors at its April 3 meeting. The professors will receive
$35,000 to support their full-time research or research-supported activities.
The new University Research Professors are Chi-Sing Mang, mathematics;
Robert Perry, microbiology and immunology; John R. Thelin, educational
policy studies and evaluation, and Thomas Widiger, psychology.
The one-year research professorships program was initiated by the University
Senate in 1976 and is supported by the UK Research Foundation. The purpose
of the professorships is to enhance and encourage scholarly research productivity,
provide an opportunity for concentrated research effort for selected faculty
members, recognize outstanding research achievement by members of the
faculty, emphasize research function and publicize the University's research
accomplishments.
Ralph Derickson
Group
maps UK terrain for those with disabilities
Members of Kentucky Advance
rolled out the groundwork for a new campus accessibility map on April
28. The advocacy group that promotes opportunities for persons with disabilities
plans to create a complete accessibility map of the UK campus for students,
faculty, staff and visitors who need to locate accessible routes and entrances
across campus.
The project draws upon expertise from multiple sectors, including the
Interdisciplinary Human Development Institute, the Kentucky Geological
Survey, Kentucky AgrAbility, the Physical Plant Division, Parking and
Transportation, the Disability Resource Center, Architecture and the UK
Chandler Medical Center.
"We see this project as an opportunity to provide an important campus
resource," said Kathy Sheppard-Jones, chairperson of Kentucky Advance.
The diverse group is working across campus to measure doors, sidewalks
and more.
"We want to ensure compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act
guidelines as closely as possible," said Barney Fleming of IHDI.
Kentucky Advance plans to have the map available for incoming students
this fall.
Kim Cumbie
People
Appointments
-- Peggy Allen, Beth Healander, Jan Hicks, Nkongolo Kalala, Minoo Kobraei,
Leon Lane, Kimberly Ross-Brown, Rick Smoot and Norm Strobel are
the most recent group of Lexington Community College faculty and staff
members to become Diversity Change Ambassadors through the Mandala Movement.
-- James Campbell, music and director of percussion studies, has
recently been elected as president of the Percussive Arts Society, a not-for-profit
service organization promoting percussion education, research, performance,
and appreciation throughout the world.
-- Bernard Fleming, Interdisciplinary Human Development Institute
preservice training director, was appointed faculty associate at the UK
Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center.
-- Sharon Franklin, animal sciences, was named vice president of
the American Dairy Science Association Midwest branch during the joint
Midwest section annual meeting of the American Society of Animal Science
and the American Dairy Science Association March 19-21 in Des Moines.
-- LCC faculty Don Hardwick and Dave Magee recently attended
the annual conference of the Kentucky Business Society, where they were
elected president-elect and treasurer, respectively.
-- Beth Rous, IHDI community education director, has been selected
to serve on the Community Early Childhood Council for the Bluegrass area.
Activities
-- Ethel Bright, Mid-South Regional Resource Center, assisted the
Delaware Partnership Council and Delaware Early Childhood personnel in
development of their state improvement plan.
Research and Funding
-- David Allen, Kentucky Transportation Center, $105,000, "Field
Investigation, Pavement Designs and Life Cycle Cost Analyses, I-64 Jefferson
County."
-- Warren Anderson, Kentucky Geological Survey, $364,382, "Generating
1/100,000 Scale Geological Maps from Digital 1/24,000 Geological Quadrangle
Maps."
-- Jeannine Blackwell, German studies, has received a Herzog August
Bibliothek Stipend from the State of Saxony, Germany, to research hymns
written by German women since the Reformation.
-- Alan Daugherty, internal medicine, $108,332, "Effects of ZD 4522."
-- Ronnie Harrison, Interdisciplinary Human Development Institute,
$148,694, "ILSSA-DC."
-- David Hunsucker, Kentucky Transportation Center, $110,123, "Transponder
Administration in Support of Commercial Vehicle Electronic Screening."
-- Robert McCool, Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center,
$175,000, "A Case-Control Evaluation of an Intervention Strategy to Increase
Booster Seat Usage."
-- Patrick McNamara, pharmaceutical sciences. $273,244, "Transport
Gene Expression and Drug Accumulation in Milk."
-- Jeffrey Moscow, pediatrics, $112,904, "Transport Gene Expression
and Drug Accumulation in Milk."
-- Peter Oeltgen, pathology, $155,193, "Opioid-like Hibernation
Factors Provide Myocardial and Cerebral Ischemia Protection."
-- Thomas Tucker, Markey Cancer Center, $638,678, "Surveillance,
Epidemiology and End Results Expansion Program."
-- George Wagner, agronomy-soils research, $390,166, "Reducing the
Cadmium Content of Tobacco Lamina by Sequestering Cadmium in Roots."
Awards
-- James Kuder,
vice chancellor for Student Affairs, was presented with the Lifetime Achievement
Award by the College Personnel Association of Kentucky during a recent
Louisville meeting.
-- C. Michael Nelson, special education and rehabilitation counseling,
received the 2001 Outstanding Leadership Award from the Council for Children
with Behavioral Disorders April 19 at the International Conference of
the Council for Exceptional Children in Kansas City, Mo.
Housing
-- House for sale: Spacious and gracious townhouse, walk to UK and
downtown, three bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths, $199,000. Call Donna at
422-2080, voicemail 294-2281.
-- House for sale by owner: 2268 Camberling Dr. in Hartland subdivision.
Two story, four bedroom, two-and-a-half baths, 2340 square feet. Cul-de-sac,
backs to Hartland park! Three and a half years old, well maintained. Two-car
attached garage, central air/heating. Formal living room and dining room,
family room. Two-story entrance, large hardwood area. Moving out of state.
Must sell! Asking $195,900. Call Quinn 257-7511 (day) or 971-1049 (evening
and weekend).
Presentations
-- Desmond Brown and Sunny Ham, nutrition and food science,
will present "Perceived Impacts of Proposed Land-based Casino Gaming on
Community Quality of Kentucky Residents" in July at the CHRIE Conference
in Toronto, Canada.
-- James Campbell, music and director of percussion studies, will
serve as a guest speaker for PAS Euro April 23-25 in Sofia, Bulgaria.
PAS Euro is a European convention of percussionists that is sponsored
by the Percussive Arts Society. Campbell also will present a series of
percussion workshops in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan, from May 14 to 19 and
in Ottawa, Canada, from May 24 to 26.
-- Kathy Chapman and Sammie Lambert, Mid-South Regional Resource
Center, conducted District of Columbia Public Schools school-wide training
on the topic of changes in IDEA Œ97. Chapman also attended a statewide
conference on the achievement gap to gain insight in emerging issues in
North Carolina March 23-29.
-- Robert Chirwa, computer information systems at Lexington Community
College, presented "Role of Information Technologies in Widening the Economic
Gap Between Western and African Economies" at the International Academy
of African Business and Development Conference held recently in Washington,
D.C.
-- Nelson Fields, theatre, presented a conference session at the
United States Institute for Theatre Technology conference in Long Beach,
Calif., in March. His session on "Teaching Collaboration" was sponsored
by the Education Commission's Creative Teaching Project.
-- Bernard Fleming, Interdisciplinary Human Development Institute
preservice training director, presented "Design, Development and Evaluation
of a Multimedia Program About Assistive Technology Using a 3D Environment
and Device Simulations," at the California State University at Northridge
Assistive Technology Conference on March 23. Fleming also presented four
workshops at the Southern Gerontological Society Meeting held April 4-7
in Lexington.
-- Andrew Grogan-Kaylor, Social Work, presented "Using GIS
and Other Local Information in Planning Child Welfare Services" at
the National Child Welfare Data Conference of the Child Welfare League
of America April 2 in Washington, DC
-- Sunny Ham, nutrition and food science, will present "Trend in
the Expenditure Patterns on Food Away From Home in the United States,"
in July at the CHRIE Conference, Toronto, Canada.
-- Beth Harrison and Jeanna Mullins, Kentucky Transition
Collaborative Project, led the Kentucky Interagency Transition Council
for Persons with Disabilities meeting held April 20. The KITC is comprised
of representatives from 21 different state agencies, who meet on a quarterly
basis to collaborate in the design, delivery and improvement of statewide
transition services for young adults with disabilities from school to
post-school environments.
-- Nkongolo Kalala, Lexington Community College, recently attended
the International Academy of African Business and Development Conference
in Washington, DC, where he presented his paper titled "The African
Dilemma: The Rejection or the Recognition of Ethnic Diversity." Kalala
then traveled to Austin, Texas, and presented his paper "The Effect
of Consumer's Health Awareness on Consumption of Meats and Fish in Major
Cities in Japan" at the Southern Regional Science Association Conference.
-- Jeanna Mullins, Kentucky Transition Collaborative Project, presented
on the state improvement grant paraeducator activities at the annual Council
of Administrators in Special Education meeting on March 1.
-- Beth Rous, IHDI community education director, participated in
presentations at the Kentucky School for the Blind for families regarding
transition from early intervention into preschool. She also participated
in the State Transition Summit held in March.
-- Claire Schmelzer and Sunny Ham, nutrition and food science,
with Pamela McMahon of the University of Florida, will present "Distance
Education Techniques for Educators" in July at the annual CHRIE Conference,
Toronto, Canada.
-- Kathy Sheppard-Jones, Belonging in the Community project director,
presented initial results of the 2000 Consumer Satisfaction Survey to
the Kentucky Department of Vocational Rehabilitation Statewide Advisory
Council.
Publications
-- An essay on Kentucky writer Elizabeth Madox Roberts by Lexington Community
College faculty George Brosi has been accepted for publication
in the "History of Southern Women Writers," edited by Carolyn Perry and
Mary Louise Weeks, forthcoming from the Louisiana State University Press.
-- Ken Culp III, 4-H/Youth Development, Agriculture, co-authored
with Michael Nolan, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, "Trends Impacting
Volunteer Administrators in the Next 10 Years" published in The Journal
of Volunteer Administration. Vol. 19, No. 1, pages 10-19.
-- Sunny Ham, nutrition and food science, "Heavy Spenders, Medium
Spenders and Light Spenders of Japanese Outbound Pleasure Travelers,"
was accepted in March for publication in the Journal of Hospitality and
Leisure Marketing.
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