May 3, 1999 
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"There's a difference between
making art and making 'stuff.' As an artist, you push hard to
find a core of truth," said Bibbs, associate professor of
sculpture and printmaking in the College of Fine Arts. Bibbs' efforts to identify "a core of truth" has led his work to be included in private and corporate collections in New York, Atlanta, Chicago and, most recently, Indianapolis. Last month, Bibbs' latest project, "Glory," was mounted in the Miller Center in Indianapolis. The work, commissioned by Joe Miller, was placed in a building that previously had been a 100-year-old Baptist church across the street from the Indiana University Medical Center. |
Six University of Kentucky employees received Chancellor's
Staff awards at the 1999 Lexington Campus Recognition Ceremony
and Staff Meeting in the Student Center Grand Ballroom April
27.
The winners, who each received $600 prizes, are:
- Pat Tackett, administrative assistant
in the agronomy department;
- Ina Estepp, staff associate in the College of Arts and
Sciences;
- Bonita Lykins, director of student services at the extended
campus program in Paducah;
- Robin E. Gibbs, auxiliary services manager in food services;
- Colleen C. Steele, research analyst in the agronomy department,
and
- James T. McCann, custodial worker in the Livestock Disease
Diagnostic Center operated by the veterinary science department.
Award winners were selected by a committee appointed
by Lexington Campus Chancellor Elisabeth Zinser, who presented
checks and certificates of appreciation to the winners.
Entertainment at the event included jazz music
performed by John Best and Nathan Cole, students in the School
of Music. Mike Nichols, former director of the UK Counseling
and Testing Center and public speaker, was the event's keynote
speaker.
- Ralph
Derickson
When Sung Hee Kim first became acquainted with Linda Worley
and the University of Kentucky Teaching and Learning Center,
it was something of a revelation.
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Linda Worley |
"It really opened my eyes -
teaching is something I can learn," said Kim, a social psychologist
who has been on the UK faculty since 1995. That wasn't the impression she had as a graduate student at the University of Illinois. She was more or less given a textbook and told to teach. Fortunately, that approach is changing both for teaching assistants and professors. For the past four-and-a-half years, Worley has been one of UK's chief proponents of that change as director of the Teaching and Learning Center, a position she will be leaving at the end of this academic year. |
Become "job smart" and continue to develop leadership
qualities, Professor Charles Byers told 23 new members of the
Staff and Crown Chapter of the Mortar Board Senior Honor Society.
Byers, of agricultural education, was keynote
speaker at the students' induction Sunday, April 18, in a ceremony
at the William T. Young Library.
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applying knowledge to the world that awaits the graduates once
they leave college, Byers said. He said possessing leadership qualities doesn't necessarily mean being CEO of a large company. Rather, a leader cares for people, listens as a friend and is a good neighbor, he said. Byers told the students they had already begun to write their epitaph and will continue to write it. Two faculty members also were welcomed to the honor society Sandra Miller, home economics education, and Hong Yan, biological sciences. Mortar Board is a national honor society that recognizes college seniors for their achievements in scholarship, leadership and service. - George Lewis |
Sandra Miller Hong Yan |
Publications
- Stephen Clements, Department
of Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation, "Kentucky's
Teachers: Charting a Course for KERA's Second Decade," published
by the Kentucky Long-Term Policy Research Center.
- University of Kentucky College of Medicine Department of Physiology
faculty Daniel R. Richardson, David C. Randall and Dexter F.
Speck have written two medical textbooks published recently by
Fence Creek Publishing. "Integrated Medical Sciences: Cardiopulmonary
System," a text for medical physiology courses, was published
in 1998. "Quick Look Medicine: Cardiopulmonary System,"
part of a series designed to help medical students study for
Step I of the National Boards Exams, was published in 1999.
Housing
- For rent: 1BR duplex on Transylvania
Park. $425/month. Available Aug. 1. Call 268-8809.
- For sale: 837 Celia Lane, 2BR, 1-1/2 BA, den, large dining
room, kitchen, utility room, deck, large fenced yard, central
air/heat. $105,000. Call Pat at 266-6674.
- Furnished home for rent: Professor on sabbatical July/August-July
2000: Two-story colonial style house in a safe, friendly neighborhood,
15-minute drive from the University. Amenities include: living
room with fireplace, 3 BR, 2-1/2 BA, den, large kitchen, large
deck, fully furnished, spacious backyard with playhouse, good
school district. Couples, singles or small family. No pets, non-smokers.
$795 monthly, plus utilities. Call 257-1697 or 273-4137.
- For sale: House in Polk County, Fla. 3 BR, 2BA, 2 screened-in
porches, separate garage, 1 acre in private development with
golf course and lake. $95,000. Call 257-3178 or 278-0520.
- For sale: Four building lots, 1/2 acre each, in Florida housing
development, $10,000-12,000 each. Call 257-3178 or 278-0520.
Awards
- Paul Brooks, physical medicine
and rehabilitation, was awarded the 1999 YMCA Black Adult Achiever
Award April 17.
- William Lubawy, interim dean of UK College of Pharmacy, has
been selected by his alma mater, The Ohio State University College
of Pharmacy, to receive the Jack L. Beal Postgraduate Alumni
Award. The award is the highest honor bestowed by the college
and alumni society. He will receive the award May 7 at the OSU
Fawcett Center in Columbus.
Deaths
- Benjamin A. Bibbs, retired
building supervisor in the Department of Undergraduate Housing,
died April 3.
- Joseph L. Boston, retired research and funding engineer in
the Department of Physical Plant, died April 17.
- Louise M. Craig, retired home demonstration agent in the Department
of Agricultural Extension at Somerset Community College, died
March 2.
-Mary Belle Hall, retired supervisor in Medical Records, died
April 18.
- Marjorie F. Phillips, retired chief clerk in the Department
of Admissions-Registrar, died April 2.
- Maude V. Terhune, retired secretary in the electrical engineering
department, died April 3.
Research and other funding
- Robert
Baker, ophthalmology, $211,714, "Eyelid Kinematics in Health
and Disease."
- Elizabeth Dickey, chemical and materials engineering, $555,000,
"Initiative No. 2."
- Grace Jones, biological sciences, $254,311, "Structural
and Functional Ligand Binding Features of USP."
- Mark Meier, chemistry, $180,000, "Reactivity, Electronic
Structure and Spectroscopy of Fullerenes."
- Kenneth Olsen, Interdisciplinary Human Development, $100,469,
"Alternate Assessment in New Hampshire."
- Todd Porter, pharmacology and toxicology, $298,948, "Strategies
to Enhance Recombinant P450 Monooxygenase Systems in Bacteria."
- Graham Rowles, Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, $152,033, "Research
Training in Gerontology."
- William Seales, computer science, $499,924, "A Digital
Atheneum: New Techniques for Accessing, Searching and Editing
Humanities Collections."
- Stephen Szilvassy, internal medicine, $273,668, "Engraftment
Studies of Expanded Hematopoietic Stem Cells."
Presentations
- Randall Kolka, forestry,
presented "Influence of Restoration and Succession on Bottomland
Hardwood Hydrology" April 13 at the Wetland Restoration
Symposium in Clemson, S.C.
- Thomas Burke, pharmacy, was an invited speaker at ALZA Pharmaceuticals
Inc. in Mountain View, Calif., March 19, where he presented "Potential
Advantages of Liposomal Formulations of Camptothecin Anticancer
Drugs."
- George Digenis, pharmacy, was an invited speaker for the ninth
International Symposium on Recent Advances in Drug Delivery Systems
Feb. 21-23 in Salt Lake City. Digenis also traveled to Okayama
City, Japan, in March as invited speaker to present "The
Role of Counterions in the Stability of N-methylpyridinium Prodrugs"
at the 14th annual meeting of the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences
and Technology. He also presented "Recent Advances in the
Scintigraphic Evaluation of Novel Drug Delivery Systems"
at Otsuka Labs in Tokushima, Japan, and "Studies on Solubilization
and Bioavailability Enhancement Through Formulation and Chemical
Approaches" at ONO Pharmaceutical Co. in Osaka, Japan.
- Linda Dwoskin, pharmacy, is scheduled to give a poster presentation,
"Mitochondrial Toxins Inhibit Dopamine Uptake into Rat Striatal
Synaptosomes," at the Experimental Biology Meeting and Pharmacology
Meeting '99 in Washington, D.C.
- Tom Hayden, mathematics, will present "Nearest 'Doubly
Stochastic' Matrix to a Real Matrix with Some First and Second
Moment" May 12 at the Siam Conference on Oprimization in
Atlanta.
- Hsuing-Hsin Tai, pharmacy, traveled to Cambridge, Mass., April
1-2 as an invited speaker at the Symposium on Novel Drug Discovery
and Development. He presented "Cyclooxygenase-2 and its
Gene-Novel Targets of Anti-inflammatory Drugs" at the symposium,
which was sponsored by the Monte Jade Science and Technology
Association.
- Anwar Hussain, pharmacy, traveled to Japan April 14 to present
"Nasal Absorption of Proteins and Peptides" at Kitasato
University. On April 21, he traveled to Seoul, Korea, where he
was invited to lecture at The Pharmaceutical Society of Korea.
The title of his presentation was "Nasal Absorption of Proteins
and Peptides."
Hussain will visit the People's Republic of China to lecture
and visit schools of pharmacy and hospitals in Shanghai and Beijing
before leaving for the United States May 5.
- Myron Jacobson, pharmacy, was an invited speaker at ICOS Corp.
March 30-April 1, where he presented "Poly (ADP-ribose)
Glycohydrolase as a Possible Therapeutic Target for Modulation
of DNA Damage Signaling."
- Thomas R. Leinbach, Department of Geography and acting director
of the Office of International Affairs, presented the 1999 Douglas
Fleming Lecture in Transportation Geography sponsored by the
University of Washington, at the annual Association of American
Geographers meeting in Honolulu March 24. The title of the lecture
was "Mobility in a Development Context: Changing Perspectives,
New Interpretations and the Real Issues."
- Robert Lodder, pharmacy, chaired the Hirschfeld Award Symposium
at the Pittsburgh Conference annual meeting March 5-12. He also
presented "Near-IR Spectral Imaging Beyond the Diffraction
Limit," "Detection of Vulnerable Atherosclerotic Plaques
in Humans Using Fiber-Optics by 2-D Near-Infrared Correlation
Spectrometry" and "Imaging Aerosol Deposition by W-D
Tunable Near-IR Laser Spectrometry."
Lodder was an invited speaker at Harvard University April 6-7,
where he presented "Identification of Vulnerable Atherosclerotic
Plaque Using 2-D Near-IR Spectrometry and Fiber-Optic Probes."
- Marcella Szymanski, forestry, will present "Agroforestry:
A Venue for Linking Indigenous Knowledge and Resource Management
Planning for Community Development" June 12-16 at the sixth
North American Agroforestry Conference in Hot Spring, Ark. She
also will present "Use of Participatory Rural Appraisal
to Link Indigenous Knowledge and Land Use with the Winnebage
Tribe of Nebraska: Experiences and Lessons Learned" Aug.
25-27 at a meeting of PRA: Deepening Our Understanding and Practice
in Ottawa, Canada.
- Thomas C. Tucker, acting director for cancer control at the
Markey Cancer Center, will present "The Relationship Between
Central and Hospital Cancer Registries" at the National
Cancer Registrars Association May 26 in Dallas.
- Robert Yokel, pharmacy, was an invited speaker Feb. 22-24 at
the Birchall Centre for Inorganic Chemistry and Materials Science
at Keele University. His presentation was titled "The Distribution
of Aluminum into and out of the Brain."
Appointments
- Mary Marchant, agricultural
economics, was elected president of the Southern Agricultural
Economics Association, which consists of 600 individual members.
She was initiated at the Southern Agricultural Economics Association
meeting Jan.31-Feb. 3 in Memphis, Tenn., where she presented
her presidential address titled "Hopes and Fears: The New
Trade Agreement and Southern Agriculture."
- Paul Taylor, dean of student affairs at Lexington Community
College, has been appointed vice president for enrollment management,
admissions and financial aid by the American Association of Collegiate
Registrars and Admission Officers for the 1999-2002 term. AACRAO
is a nonprofit, voluntary, professional association of higher
education administrators that represents more than 2,400 institutions
and agencies in the United States and 39 other countries. Taylor
has been a member of AACRAO for 22 years and has served on numerous
committees.
- Dan Holt, Lexington Community College instructor, has been
appointed Cub Scout Day Camp director and to the instructional
staff as a scout master fundamental instructor for the Bluegrass
Council of the Boy Scouts.
- Andrew Seybert, mechanical engineering, has been named a fellow
of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
