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6-foot-6-inch tall Hazard assumed the reigns of the Dean of Students
office Aug. 16, replacing the 6-foot-5-inch-tall David Stockham, who
retired after 10 years as dean. Having served as UK's associate dean of students since 1988, Hazard said he is eager for the challenges the new position will bring. As associate dean, he has worked closely with the residence life office and campus police, assisted the dean with budgetary matters and served as UK's top student disciplinary officer. |
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"The nature of the job is exciting. You don't know what to expect day
to day," he said. "A student crisis, a parent's worried phone call about
grades, a student who's in need. There's never a dull moment."
Stockham was pleased when his No. 2 and recommended man was selected as
his successor.
"He is an excellent choice for the students and the University," he said.
"This guy has made me look good for 10 years. He has broad support from
across campus, and I have an abiding respect for his honesty and fairness.
He's a good, good guy."
Hazard said taking the new position was made easy because of the staff
around him.
"I felt confident about taking the job because of the people around me,"
he said. "Because of them, I have never dreaded coming to work. Part of
happiness is about the people we surround ourselves with."
The people also have kept Hazard in the field of student services. Educated
in psychology at Tennessee Temple University in Chattanooga, Tenn., and
in counseling and guidance at the University of Montevallo in Montevallo,
Ala., Hazard first planned for a future in professional basketball. But
several knee injuries took him off the court, resulting in more focus
on academic pursuits. After earning his master's degree, he took a career
counseling position at the University of Arkansas at Monticello. There
he also served as an assistant basketball coach "until I found out what
I wanted to do." Then, following opportunities, he found himself at Northeast
Louisiana University in Monroe, where he served as assistant to the dean
of students and director of housing. Student services became a way of
life that stuck with him because it was a way he could make a difference.
"There's something rewarding about interaction with students," he said.
"Turning kids around and helping them succeed complements the academic
process. My only hope is to make a difference and make a positive contribution
toward making our students more successful."
As dean of students, Hazard will take on a more broad-based planning and
coordinating role. He will leave student discipline to the new associate
dean, whom he will select later this year. He plans to take a fresh look
at the dean's office from his new vantage point and reevaluate its structure.
"I want to look at the talents people have developed," he said, "and take
advantage of the talents we already have internally."
He also envisions new and different types of services for tomorrow's university
student.
"We will be called on to render services in ways we've never thought of,"
he said. "Smaller families are creating a different student with different
ideas of personal space. Students are working more hours, on and off campus.
Student needs are changing, and with computers and distance learning,
studying on and off campus, our methods must change as well. We have to
ask ourselves, what are students in the next 10 years going to call campus?
What will their needs be? We know their needs are not going to stay the
same. We must and will meet the challenges ahead."
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Former intramural director named top NFL official
Next time you cheer or jeer
the officials of the National Football League, you'll have a Kentucky
man to thank. Jim Daopoulos, a 1972 graduate and former director of intramurals
for the University of Kentucky, became a top NFL official July 1. As supervisor
of officials, Daopoulos is one of the league's top five officials who
oversee the hiring, training and assigning of football officials. He'll
also be responsible for reviewing and assisting the league with game rules
and policy.
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I officiated the Super Bowl two years ago, I thought I'd reached the
pinnacle as an official. That is the ultimate experience an official
can have," Daopoulos said. "Being the supervisor of officials is one
step higher." Daopoulos was approached by the league at the beginning of the year about becoming the official supervisor. He took nearly six months to accept the offer. The job would require a move to New York, but more importantly, would take him off the field after 11 years of NFL officiating. |
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"I was very happy and comfortable in my life," he said. "I thought I would
be on the field for 10 years more. I wasn't sure if I was ready to leave
the field."
In addition, Daopoulos was a successful representative for North American
Mortgage in Cincinnati. He and his wife, Linda, a school teacher, had
lived in Kentucky for more than 30 years and considered it home. He is
originally from Boston; she is from Louisville. But after a trip to New
York, she was ready to move.
"She just fell in love with New York," he said.
Daopoulos' career in officiating began during his years as an undergraduate
student at the University of Kentucky. Transferring to UK from junior
college where he played sports, Daopoulos began playing and officiating
UK intramural sports.
"I'd just gotten married, and we needed the money," he said. "Initially,
I officiated for intramurals to supplement our income."
The avocation led to a vocation. He earned a bachelor's degree in physical
education in 1970 and his master's degree in recreation administration
in 1972. From 1972 to 1977, he served as director of intramurals for UK,
leaving to become an official with the Southeastern Conference. He officiated
with the SEC for 10 years, and the Ohio Valley Conference for seven years.
Then he was called up to the NFL.
"Early on, I'd set the goal of officiating in the NFL," he said. "But
I never thought I would get there."
Over the years, Daopoulos has remained active with UK, as an instructor
of sports officiating and as the namesake of a new award given annually
by UK Intramurals ‹ the Jim Daopoulos Outstanding Intramural Official
Award. He said he will miss teaching at the University, but looks forward
to teaching opportunities with new officials and new rules. Making the
public aware of the official's job and the game rules also will be an
interesting challenge, he said.
Bill Pieratt, director of campus recreation, said seeing Daopoulos make
it to the top of the officiating ladder was a joy for all who have worked
with him, on and off the field.
"This is a tremendous accomplishment for Jim, and it is very well deserved,"
Pieratt said. "Jim is very well respected in all that he does."
Pieratt said Daopoulos' achievement can serve as inspiration to others
in the campus recreation community student and staff.
"Jim really takes officiating seriously and really loves it," he said.
"If our students have that kind of drive, they can do the same. His accomplishments
speaks well of our programs and the experience you can get in them."
With just almost two months under his belt, Daopoulos said he's already
glad he took the new job. For him, it's a dream he never dared to dream
come true.
But Daopoulos said he will never forget his officiating beginnings in
the heart of Wildcat country. Just after moving to New York, he discovered
how far and wide UK fans are spread. While on an elevator on the way to
work out, he met a young boy with his father. Noticing Daopoulos' UK shirt,
the boy asked if he was from Kentucky and if he liked the UK Wildcats.
"Oh yes," he said. "I'm always going to be a true blue Kentucky fan."
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Schwemm honored by alliance
University of Kentucky law professor Robert G. Schwemm received the top
annual award given by the National Fair Housing Alliance in June. Schwemm,
the Ashland Professor of Law at UK and former acting dean of the College
of Law, received the award at the NFHA annual conference in Washington,
D.C.
In addition to his three decades of work in fair housing law, Schwemm
was particularly praised for his support for the scores of local fair
housing organizations throughout the country that make up NFHA.
Groundbreaking to be held
A groundbreaking ceremony for the new Seaton Center addition will be help
at 10 a.m. Sept. 1 at the center.
The two-story, $15.2 million addition will include a cardiovascular exercise
room, four basketball courts, four racquetball courts and an elevated
running track.
Prof named first arbitration scholar
Thomas J. Stipanowich, who is the William L. Matthews Professor of Law
in the University of Kentucky College of Law, was recently named the first
Hoellering Scholar in Residence of the American Arbitration Association.
Stipanowich will spend a semester at the New York City headquarters of
the association, a non-profit organization that is the world's leading
private provider of dispute resolution services.
UK percussion named world champs
The University of Kentucky Indoor Percussion Ensemble was named the University
Class World Champions at the WGI Indoor Percussion Championships held
in Dayton, Ohio, April 15.
Over 120 high school, collegiate and independent percussion ensembles
competed in this international event with participants coming from as
far away as Nagoya, Japan. Percussion teaching assistant Eric Wille designed
the musical program. Jim Campbell, School of Music, serves as adviser
to the group.
Awards
- Alan DeYoung, educational policy studies and evaluation, was
selected for a Fulbright Scholar Award in Kyrgyzstan during the 2000-2001
academic year.
- Robin Ersing, Social Work, recently attended the 12th National
Symposium on Doctoral Research in Social Work where her dissertation,
"Residential Mobility as an Adjustment to Perceptions of Neighborhood
Crime: The Influence of Resources and Opportunity Among Residents in Central
Cities" was selected as one of the top-10 dissertations in social work
in the United States.
- Celia Hayhoe, family studies, received the American Association
of Family and Consumer Sciences New Achievers Award for people who have
been the field of family and consumer sciences for less than eight years.
The award was given at the group's national conference in June in Chicago.
- Robin Ersing, Social Work, attended the Summer 2000 institute
of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research where
she will study Hierarchical Linear Modeling and Spatial Data Analysis.
- Nancy Jones, theater, directed an evening of one-act plays by
women at New York Performance Works the weekend of May 13; directed Shakespeare's
"A Midsummer Night's Dream" at the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab
in New York City in June; participated in the "International Directors
Symposium," sponsored by LaMaMa Theater held in Umbria, Italy, for two
weeks in July; sat on a panel on directing Moliere at the Association
for Theater in Higher Education national conference Aug. 2-5.
Research and other funding
- Bradley Anderson, clinical pharmaceutical science, $155,020, "Controlling
Oxidation in Formulation;" $155,020, "Controlling Oxidation in Formulations."
- Michael Andrykowski, behavioral science, $152,351, "Screening
for Ovarian Cancer: Psychobehavioral Outcomes." € David Atwood, chemistry,
$411,593, "Molecular Routes to Nanoparticulate Metal Chalcogenides."
- Leonidas Bachas, chemistry, $105,000, "Molecular Routes to Nanoparticulate
Metal Chalcogenides."
- Linda Chen, nutrition and food science, $132,000, "USDA
National Need Graduate Fellowship Grant."
- Fuhua Cheng, computer science, $110,023, "Constrained Design,
Streamline Modeling, Automatic Fairing and Automatic Joining Techniques
for NURB Surfaces."
- Joseph Crabtree, Kentucky Transportation Center, $150,000, "Intelligent
Transportation System Architecture/Strategic Plan."
- Elizabeth Dickey, chemical and materials engineering, $105,000,
"Molecular Routes to Nanoparticulate Metal Chalcogenides."
- Patricia Dyk, rural sociology, $153,795, "Best Practices Approach
to Parental Involvement."
- Jacqueline Farmer, Interdisciplinary Human Development Institute,
$152,137, "Statewide Alternate Portfolio."
- Gary Ferland, physics and astronomy, $311,968, "Numerical Simulations
of Non-Equilibrium Plasmas."
- Matt Gabel, political science, $80,000, "The Politics of Supernational
Legal Integration."
- Greg Gerhardt, anatomy and neurobiology, $116,533, "Nitric Oxide
and Cholinergic Mechanisms in Schizophrenia."
- Doug Gibler, political science, $22,000, "Collaborative Research
on Updating the Militarized Dispute Data Set."
- Jennifer Grisham-Brown, special education and rehabilitation
counseling," $192,332, "Kentucky Services for Children with Deaf-Blindness
Project."
- Louis Hersh, biochemistry, $267,973, "Choline Acetyltransferase."
- Tommy Hopkins, Kentucky Transportation Center, $122,000, "Examination
of Economical Methods for Repairing Highway Landslides."
- Jeffrey Keller, Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, $100,000,
"Proteasome Inhibition in Alzheimer's Disease."
- Janet Kurzynske, $269,708, "University of Kentucky Food
Stamp Nutrition Education Plan."
- Donald Linebaugh, Program for Archeological Research, $200,000,
"A Proposal to Perform Archeological Data Recovery at Site 15LI105."
- Tk Logan, Center for Drug and Alcohol Abuse, $112,036, "Drug Court
Outcome Evaluation."
- Karen Main,
Center for Rural Health, $1,900,000, "Kentucky HomePlace."
- Chi-Sing Man, mathematics, $155,987, "Textures in Strip-Cast Aluminum
Alloys."
- Robert Mentzer, surgery, $290,000, "Adenosine and Pyruvate Protection
During Heart Surgery."
- Ganpathy Murthy, physics and astronomy, $168,000, "New Approach
to the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect."
- Lindell Ormsbee, Kentucky Water Resources Institute, $357,076,
"Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment of the PRIDE Water Quality Projects."
- Bintao Pan, neurosurgery, $230,375, "Mechanism of Ras in Tumor Progression."
- Johne Parker, mechanical engineering, $210,000, "CAREER:
A Robust, Low-Cost Vision System for Assessing Surface Appearance."
- Timothy Phillips, agronomy, $198,764, "Forage for Advancing Livestock
Production."
- Jonathan Satin, physiology, $278,750, "Modulation of T-type Calcium
Channels."
- Jeffery Talbert, Martin School of Public Policy, $185,000, "Evaluation
of Medicaid Managed Care."
- Kathryn Thrailkill, pediatrics, $145,000, "Metabolic Services."
- Paul Toussaint, Kentucky Transportation Center, $107,500,
"Unforeseen Investigations;" $286,250, "General Administration;" $3,349,600,
"Transportation Research and Development Program KCTRP No. 01-21."
- George Wagner, agronomy, $176,000, "Metabolic Engineering
to Study the Regulation/Plasticity of and to Modify Diterpene Metal."
- Richard Warner, biosystems and agricultural engineering, $143,161,
"Subsurface Leaching Potential of Animal Waste Holding Ponds."
- Phyllis Wise, physiology, $320,702, "The Molecular and Cellular
Basis of Brain Aging."
- Peter Wong, primary care, $130,000, "Regional Pediatrics."
Publications
- Donald Case, Communications and Information Studies, "Stalking,
Monitoring and Profiling: A Typology and Case Studies of Harmful Uses
of Caller ID," New Media and Society.
- Lewis Donohew, Nancy Grant Harrington and Philip Palmgreen, Communications
and Information Studies, "Sensation Seeking in Anti-Drug Campaign and
Message Design," "Public Communication Campaigns."
- Robert Yokel, Pharmacy, with A.M. Fredenburg, P.W. Durbin, J. Xu,
M.K. Rayens and K.N. Raymond, "The Hexadentate Hydroxypyridinonate TREN-(Me-3,2-HOPO)
is a More Orally Active Iron Chelator than its Bidentate Analogue," Journal
of Pharmaceutical Science.
Retirements
- Forrest E. Hahn Jr., an information technical manager for the UK
Computing Center, retired in July after 38 years of service. He was the
first person hired by the University to computerize administrative applications.
Appointments
- Mary J. Davis, Law, has been elected to membership in the American
Law Institute.
- Kay Hoffman, Social Work, has been appointed the 2000-2003 vice
president of the Council of Social Work Education.
- Wilma Thomas-Peebles, Social Work, became president of the
Kentucky chapter of the National Association of Social Workers in July.
- Julia Porter, Appalachian Center, has been appointed a member of
the board of EKWIL, Eastern Kentucky Women in Leadership.
- Don Thornton, director of Parking and Transportation Services,
has been appointed to the board of advisers of the International Parking
Institute, headquartered in Fredricksburg, Va.
Presentations
- Jonathan Allison, English, gave an invited lecture on
W.B.Yeats in the Rheney lecture series, Vanderbilt University, April 7.
He also gave a lecture July 31 at the Yeats International Summer School,
Sligo, Ireland. He is associate director of the school.
- Andrew Sih, biological sciences and Center for Ecology, Evolution
and Behavior, presented invited talks on "Frontiers in the Study of Prey
Responses to Predators" at the University of Illinois/Chicago April 4
and at Lund University in Sweden April 27.
- Yuming Zhang, Center for Robotics and Manufacturing Systems, presented
"Keyhole Double-Sided Arc Welding Process" June 5 at the International
Symposium on Materials Science and Technology meeting in Harbin, China.
Deaths
- William O. Adams, retired agricultural department farm manager,
died May 6.
- Kurt R. Anschel, retired professor of agricultural economics, died
June 11.
- Kenneth Boggs, retired engineering department technician, died Dec.
10, 1999.
- Herbert O. Bowen, retired director of patient accounts, died June
8.
- Rajender K. Chawla, internal medicine, died July 6.
- Vivian C. Currens, retired engineering department senior technician,
died May 23.
- Keller J. Dunn, retired admissions department associate
dean, died May 2.
- John Henry Ewing Jr., retired Green County Extension Office area
extension director, died May 5.
- Beryl I. Eyles, retired clerk in the Extension office, died July
7.
- Frankie Yates Gayton, retired Student Center cafeteria grill worker,
died May 15.
- JoAnn Morris Gordon, Center for English lecturer, died July
7.
- Ina L. Napier, retired nursing department nurse assistant, died
May 16.
- Mamie Radford, service department custodial worker, died April 27.
- Edith E. Robinson, service department utility worker, died April
21.
- Marjorie Sininger, fiscal affairs, died April 30.
- Gail Telech, employee relations department employee relations specialist,
died May 30.
- Paul A. Thornton, retired professor in the clinical science
department, died June 16.
- Woodrow W. Thurman, retired civil engineering department lab technician,
died May 13.
- Thomas E. Toadvine, Medical Center maintenance and operations department
heating and cooling operator, died April 16.
- Donald Steve Winburn, grounds department grounds supervisor, died
May 3.
- Barbara A. Wright, long-term disability, staff assistant in the
medicine department, died Aug. 4.
