1.         University of Kentucky Wins Reaffirmation of SACS/COC Accreditation

            The University of Kentucky received reaffirmation of its accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACS/COC) in December.  The renewed accreditation is effective for the period 2002 to 2012.  Taken at the SACS/COC annual meeting, the action follows a two-year UK academic self-study and a site visit by a 26-member SACS accreditation team last spring.  The UK self-study was guided by John J. Piecoro Jr., Pharmacy, who then led the university’s successful response to 30 recommendations from the visiting team.  The recommendations involved such areas as regular review of the university’s mission, distance learning programs, advising and budget planning, documentation of faculty and teaching assistant qualifications, and a variety of other policies and practices.

2.         UK Ranks Among Top 15 for New National Merit Scholars

UK is among the top 15 public universities in the number of new freshman National Merit Scholars, newly released rankings show.  UK enrolled 53 National Merit Scholars last fall, more than all other universities in Kentucky combined.  UK ranks 35th in the nation among both public and private institutions.  Last year, UK ranked 21st among public institutions and 46th among public and private schools.  The National Merit Scholarship Program is widely viewed as the most prestigious national award bestowed upon graduating high school seniors.  Recipients are chosen for their academic records and extracurricular activities.

3.         Scientist Magazine Ranks UK Among Top 10 for Postdoctoral Scholars

            UK has been ranked among the top 10 institutions overall for postdoctoral scholars and fellows in a survey conducted by The Scientist.  In a Web-based survey of its postdoctoral readers, The Scientist, an international magazine that reports on and analyzes events and issues that impact the world of life scientists, asked about institutions’ levels of collaboration, commitment to teaching, interaction with principal investigators, training and counseling, and overall educational and research experience.  The survey placed UK tenth, alongside such universities and centers as Rutgers, University of Miami, Princeton, National Cancer Institute and University of California at Davis.

4.         College of Health Sciences Opens $33.5 Million Building

The UK College of Health Sciences Building officially opened on Feb. 21 during a ceremonial ribbon cutting and open house.  Located at the intersection of Rose and Limestone streets, the 210,000-square-foot building has a significant presence at UK and the Chandler Medical Center.  In March 1998, the Kentucky General Assembly earmarked $20 million in state funds to help build the new $33.5 million facility.  The remaining $13.5 million came from private gifts and donations.  The College of Health Sciences Building also houses UK Sanders-Brown Center on Aging offices, National Institutes of Health-funded research space, and administrative offices and classrooms to be used by other colleges within the UK Chandler Medical Center.

5.         UK Partners With LG&E Energy on $8 Million Coal-ash Recycling Project

UK and LG&E Energy Corporation are partnering on a recycling project to reduce landfill space needed to store ash from coal-burning power plants.  Researchers at the UK Center for Applied Energy Research will use $4 million in funds from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a facility at the LG&E plant in Ghent, Ky., to turn coal ash into a cement substitute.  Cement manufacturing is one of the highest generators of carbon dioxide of any industrial process.  Substituting ash for cement could lead to reductions of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.  LG&E provided $3 million of its own funds for the project, and UK $1 million.  The DOE funding, announced by U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning, is part of President Bush’s Clean Coal Power Initiative.

6.         Senate Majority Leader Dan Kelly Wins National Reading Recovery Award

            Kentucky state Sen. Dan Kelly of Springfield, Senate majority leader in the Kentucky General Assembly, was presented with the Reading Recovery Teacher Leader Award from the Reading Recovery Council of North America at a special ceremony at Maxwell Place in early January.  The national award recognized Kelly’s efforts to promote an innovative reading recovery program for Kentucky schools by his support of Senate Bill 186, which established the Collaborative Center for Literacy Development.  The center provides reading recovery education programs at all Kentucky universities and is headquartered at UK.

7.         Markey Cancer Center Study Finds Reduced Risk From Many Ovarian Cysts

A 15-year study by the UK Markey Cancer Center has determined that surgery may not be necessary for women with ovarian cysts as large as four inches in diameter.  The study by John R. van Nagell Jr., chief of Gynecologic Oncology, shows the risk of cancer developing due to simple ovarian cysts is low.  In the study, 15,106 women aged 50 and older received an annual transvaginal sonography.  Of the women screened, 2,761 had simple cysts.  Only 79 had surgery because their cyst did not go away or was causing pain.  Fifty-four had their ovaries removed during a hysterectomy or other surgical procedure.  None of the women had ovarian malignancies.  The women with cysts had follow-up sonographies every three to six months for an average of six years.  However, most cysts resolved spontaneously within three months.  Other Gynecologic Oncology faculty participating in the study included Susan C. Modesitt, Frederick R. Ueland, Paul D. DePriest and Edward J. Pavlik.  Richard J. Kryscio, Biostatistics Consulting Unit, also participated in the study.

8.         UK Partners for Cancer Clinics in Georgetown and Mount Sterling

Just weeks after opening a new outpatient cancer treatment center in Georgetown, UK Chandler Medical Center has partnered with Mary Chiles Hospital in Mount Sterling to open another clinic.  Ground was broken last week for Gateway Radiation Medicine Treatment Center, which will serve patients in Montgomery and surrounding patients.  In mid-December, UK Chandler Medical Center and Georgetown Community Hospital opened the outpatient cancer treatment center for patients in Scott and surrounding counties.  These centers feature a linear accelerator, a simulator, a mold room, exam rooms and offices.  The accelerator, housed in a cement vault with walls up to eight feet thick, treats tumors with an external beam of radiation.  UK has collaborated with other community hospitals in Berea, Maysville and Morehead to open cancer treatment centers closer to patients' homes.

9.         Markey Cancer Center Shares Grant for Statewide Consortium for Action

The UK Markey Cancer Center will share a five-year, $1.5 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to the Kentucky Cancer Program (KCP).  Under the grant to KCP, which is jointly administered by the Markey Cancer Center and the University of Louisville Brown Cancer Center, the KPC will establish a statewide consortium to carry out the state’s cancer action plan and coordinate existing cancer resources.  Twenty health organizations will be involved, including the American College of Surgeons, Cancer Information Service, the Kentucky Cancer Registry, and the Kentucky Medical Association.

10.       UK Women’s Choir Performs at Carnegie Hall in New York

The UK Women's Choir performed Feb. 12 at Carnegie Hall in New York City as part of the activities of the American Choral Directors National Convention. Lori Hetzel, associate director of choral activities, conducts the 110-member choir.  The choir's performances at Carnegie Hall and at Riverside Church included a chant by medieval composer Hildegard of Bingen, a new piece commissioned for the UK Women's Choir and oboe professor Nancy Clauter by contemporary composer Paul Basler, a Mendelssohn part song, two Venezuelan folk songs featuring percussion and professor of voice Noemi Lugo, and a rousing gospel finale arranged for the choir by New York composer Roger Holland.  The performance resulted from an audition tape submitted by the choir this past summer.  This was the first appearance by the UK Women's Choir at Carnegie Hall and the first time a UK choir has been invited to attend the American Choral Directors National Convention.

11.       University Health Service Achieves Three-year National Accreditation

University Health Service (UHS) at UK has achieved a three-year accreditation by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC).  UHS passed a series of rigorous and nationally recognized standards set by AAAHC for providing quality health care.  More than 1,300 ambulatory health care organizations across the U.S. are accredited by AAAHC.  The accreditation process involves an extensive, on-site, peer-based survey of facilities and services.

12.       UK, Lexington Community College Students Can Register Online

After a successful trial run in December, a new online registration system permitted UK and Lexington Community College students to register for spring semester classes, add and drop classes, and sign up on closed-class wait lists in early January.  UK’s WebUK system now permits students to go online to view and print class schedules, view and print grades, view and print unofficial transcripts, view and update their addresses, view financial status, and perform other functions.

13.       Study Finds Rise in On-the-Job Homicides in Kentucky

According to a UK study, the number of occupational homicides in Kentucky increased from eight in 2001 to 12 for the first 10 months of 2002.  The study, “Large Increase in the Number of Occupational Homicides,” was conducted by the Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center (KIPRC) and published in the October 2002 Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation newsletter.  KIPRC is a partnership between UK and the Kentucky Department for Public Health.  Terry Bunn, project manager of the program and author of the report, also examined the relationships between the victim and the perpetrator for each of the deaths.  Workplace violent acts count among the three leading causes of worker deaths in the U.S.  In the late 1990s, there was a downward trend in the number of work-related homicides.  That trend may now be reversing.

14.       ‘Design on the Edge’ Brings Innovative Architects to Campus

The 2003 Design on the Edge symposium brought four of the nation’s premier architects and designers in the areas of hospitality and entertainment to the UK campus to discuss their innovative works.  The panelists were Deborah Berke, an associate professor of architecture at Yale University who was chosen by Interior Design Magazine as its 2002 Hall of Fame recipient; Michael Bierut, partner in Pentagram Design of New York and an award-winning graphic designer;  Duncan Paterson, an architect and designer who has created projects for Universal, Disney, Sony Entertainment, and Dreamworks; and Adam Tihany, an architect whose across-the-board designs link architecture, interiors, graphics, furniture and tableware.

15.       UK Opens New State-of-the-art Johnson Student Recreation Center

The new Bernard M. Johnson Student Recreation Center officially opened to the UK community on Jan. 15.  The center provides UK students with a modern recreation and workout facility covering 87,000 square feet on two levels adjacent to the Seaton Center.  The center was developed as a valuable tool to students: central to the educational mission of the university and promoting active, healthy lifestyle choices. It is viewed as a way to recruit and retain students and employees, develop leadership and employment opportunities for students, and promote wellness and fitness as a way of life.  Constructed entirely with funds from student fees at a cost of $15.3 million, the Johnson Center houses two aerobics studios; a multi-purpose gymnasium with four basketball courts; an elevated, four-lane jogging track and stretching area; a climbing wall; four racquetball courts; and two levels of fitness/weight training.

16.       ‘Girls in Science’ Program Targets Eastern Kentucky Girls for Nurturing

UK is recruiting teachers and middle-school girls for its expanded “Girls in Science” program that encourages girls in Eastern Kentucky to consider careers in science, technology, engineering and math.  The program, funded by the National Science Foundation, features mentoring, a week-long summer camp at UK for two consecutive years and five Saturday academies during school years at participants’ local community colleges. Girls from Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Floyd, Harlan, Jackson, Johnson, Knott, Knox, Laurel, Lee, Leslie, Letcher, Magoffin, Martin, Owsley, Perry, Pike, Rockcastle, Whitley and Wolfe counties are being recruited.

17.       Actress Lynda Carter Helps Markey Cancer Center Raise Pain Awareness

Actress Lynda Carter assisted the UK Markey Cancer Center with a consumer awareness program at the Lexington unveiling of the national tour of the “Many Faces of Pain” photo exhibit that pays tribute to the 50 million Americans who live with persistent pain.  The program and exhibit, sponsored by the center’s Symptom Management and Palliative Care program in collaboration with Partners Against Pain®, emphasizes the importance of appropriate pain management.  While in Lexington, Carter also visited patients at the UK Markey Cancer Center.

18.       Kentucky Geological Survey Releases State Data on pH Levels in Groundwater

A study by the Kentucky Geological Survey summarizes statewide data for pH values in groundwater. Regional patterns of groundwater quality affect many citizens and municipalities that rely on wells and springs for drinking water.  The new data will help planners anticipate conditions they will encounter when new groundwater supplies are developed.

19.       UK Stroke Researchers Explore Vampire Bat Saliva as ‘Clot-buster’

A new anti-stroke drug synthesized to resemble a “clot-busting” protein found in vampire bat saliva is under investigation by UK stroke researchers led by Creed Pettigrew, Neurology and director of the UK Stroke Program.  Most strokes are caused by a blockage of an artery supplying blood to one region within the brain. Once the artery is blocked, brain cells that receive oxygen and nutrients carried in fresh blood will die unless the artery can be re-opened to restore blood flow.  In nature, vampire bats feed by drinking the blood of sleeping prey.  A protein that is present in bat saliva keeps the blood from clotting so the bat can feed.  The investigational drug resembles this protein and dissolves blood clots that form in brain arteries.  UK is one of only 12 sites in the United States to study this potential new treatment for strokes.

20.       Army Depot Speaker Discusses Security of Chemical Weapons at Richmond

At a time of concern over escalating tension with Iraq and threats of terrorist activity, the public affairs officer at the Blue Grass Army Depot in Richmond spoke at UK about activities at the depot and plans for chemical weapons stored there.  David Easter’s talk was at a meeting of the Bluegrass Chapter of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

21.       UK Advances HIV Treatment by Identifying Cause of Side Effect

UK researchers are one step closer in the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).  A team led by Eric Smart, Physiology, has been studying highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART), a combination of drugs used to treat HIV.  HAART has dramatically improved the health of a large number of HIV-infected patients but some patients have experienced harmful side effects, causing concern for its use in long-term treatment for HIV.  Smart and his team, including researchers in the Department of Physiology and the Division of Infectious Diseases, as well as the Graduate Center for Nutritional Sciences, have shown that HIV protease inhibitors directly promote atherosclerosis in mice.  These findings were published in February’s issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation.

22.       King Library Exhibit Focuses on Irish Literature from Swift to Joyce

An exhibit highlighting books, autographed manuscripts and signed letters from the time of satirist Jonathan Swift to novelist James Joyce has opened in UK Libraries’ Special Collections unit in the Margaret I. King Library.  The exhibit, “Irish Literature, 1699-1944,” draws from the extensive holdings of UK’s Peal Collection.  The exhibit opened in mid-February with a lecture by Helen Vendler, the Harvard University Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor.

23.       University Press of Kentucky Reissues Book, Wins Award

University Press of Kentucky has received the Basil W. Duke Award for reissuing the long-out-of-print “Johnny Green of the Orphan Brigade: The Journal of a Confederate Soldier.”  Edited in its original form by A. D. Kirwan, UK’s seventh president, the reissue contains new illustrations and a foreword by Lexington attorney Kent Masterson Brown, founding editor of Civil War magazine and founder of the Perryville Battlefield Preservation Association. First released in 1955, the book chronicles the battlefield experiences of John W. Green (1841-1920), an enlisted man with Kentucky’s famed Confederate Orphan Brigade throughout the Civil War.  Green fought at Shiloh, Vicksburg, Chickamauga, Atlanta, and many other crucial battles.  The Basil W. Duke Award is given by the Military Order of Stars and Bars, an organization dedicated to the preservation of Confederate history.

24.       UK Student Recruitment Publications Garner National Recognition

Several UK admission and recruitment publications received national recognition at the 18th Annual Admissions Advertising Awards sponsored by Admissions Marketing Report, the national newspaper of admissions marketing.  UK’s Schedule of Classes book received a Merit Award and the school’s University Bulletin received the highest honor, the Gold Award for colleges and universities with an enrollment over 20,000. UK’s complete recruitment package – which includes the Schedule of Classes and Bulletin – also received a Merit Award.  Jacquie Hager, associate registrar, and Matt Patterson, publications manager in the Office of Admissions and Registrar, coordinated and implemented the publications’ content, format and designs.

25.       UK CARES, Other Units Launch Week of Eating Disorders Awareness

UK CARES (Counseling, Awareness, Resources and Educational Services), along with University Health Service and University Counseling and Testing Center are hosting a week of events aimed at increasing awareness of potentially life-threatening eating disorders.  Signs of eating disorders include preoccupation with food and weight, conversations about “feeling fat” when weight is normal or below normal, low self-esteem, knowledge about the number of calories and fat content in foods, and obsessive exercising.  Five to 10 million women and girls and one million men and boys suffer from eating disorders in the U.S.  The week of events includes presentations and lectures. 

26.       Physician Assistant Students Receive White Coats at Ceremony

The UK College of Health Sciences physician assistant (PA) studies program celebrated the beginning of training for the newest class of students during its annual convocation and white coat ceremony in January.  In addition to receiving their white coats, the new class of 39 students took the physician assistant oath.  The PA program, the only program of its kind in Kentucky, converted to a master’s level program in February 2001 after more than two decades as a bachelor’s program.  This year’s new class of students includes graduates of 13 Kentucky colleges and universities.

27.       Education Graduate Students Assist Henry Clay High International Exhibit

Graduate students from the master’s with initial certification (MIC) program in the UK College of Education assisted international students from Henry Clay High School with “The International Flavor of Henry Clay,” an exhibit that opened at the Kentucky Theatre earlier this month.  The exhibition, which includes photographs and a PowerPoint presentation, celebrates the variety of cultures that make up the high school’s student body.  The exhibit shows the students in their native countries, including Iran, Bosnia, the Republic of the Congo, Ghana, India, Pakistan, and Mexico, as well as working and interacting with their mentors from the College of Education.

28.       Student Awards and Achievements

Suzie Allard, Library and Information Science, received Student Chapter Member-of-the-Year Award from the Southern Ohio chapter of the American Society of Information Science and Technology.

Chase Allen, Rehabilitation Counseling graduate student, and Barbara Slevin, Educational and Counseling Psychology doctoral candidate, each presented research at the American Epilepsy Society meeting in Seattle.

Maria Brann, Communication, had a book chapter “Reframing Communication During Gynecological Exams: A Feminist Virtue Ethics Care Perspective” with M. Mattson and will be published in Gender in Applied Communication Concept.

Brandon Taylor Johnson, Communications and Information Studies, has been named one of the 25 most promising minority students in the nation by the American Advertising Federation.

Kitty McClanahan, Library and Information Science, received the John Kayles Membership Award at the Annual Meeting of Southern Ohio chapter of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.

Eric Moyen and Jason Edwards, Education doctoral students, contributed articles and materials to the six-volume Encyclopedia of Education, 2nd Edition.

Gina Owens, Educational and Counseling Psychology doctoral student, and Bill Stilwell, Educational and Counseling Psychology professor, published “Recording Practicum Hours: Help for Psychology Graduate Students Seeking Internships” in The Behavior Therapist.

Elizabeth A. Towles, Educational and Counseling Psychology doctoral candidate, along with colleagues at the Interdisciplinary Human Development Institute, recently published “Alternate Assessment Scores and Life Outcomes for Students with Significant Disabilities: Are They Related?” and “Portfolios in Large-Scale Alternate Assessment Systems: Frameworks for Reliability” with Brent Garrett in the periodical Assessment for Effective Intervention. 

29.       Faculty Awards and Achievements

Debra Aaron, Animal Sciences, was elected 2002-2003 president of the Southern Section of the American Society of Animal Science.

Richard Angelo, Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation, has been appointed to a four-year term on the editorial board of Educational Theory.  Published at the University of Illinois, this quarterly journal is the official organ of the John Dewey Society and the Philosophy of Education Society.

Wendy Baldwin, Research, was elected to the Committee on Nominations of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of Science.

Margaret Bausch, Tom Guskey, Ted Hasselbring, Bonnie Johnson, Edward “Skip” Kifer, and John R. Thelin, Education, contributed articles and materials to the six-volume Encyclopedia of Education, 2nd Edition.

Tricia Browne-Ferrigno, Education, received a three-year, $475,874 grant from the U.S.  Department of Education for the study “School Leadership Development Program: Kentucky’s Collaborative Model for Developing School Leaders for Rural High-Need Schools.”  Co-investigators are Keith Gurley and Bonnie C. Johnson, Education.

Wai Hsien Cheah, Communications and Information Studies, published his article “Social-environmental Marketing: A New Approach, a New Name, and a New Life for Green Marketing” in Interdisciplinary Environmental Review.

Henry Cole, Educational Psychology, and Joan Mazur, Curriculum and Instruction, presented three papers in late January to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health in Cincinnati.  The papers were “Narrative Approaches to Health Behavior Research,” “The Kentucky ROPS Project - A Community Trials Tractor Safety Intervention” and “Integration of Community-Relevant Public Health Materials into Required Public School Curricula.”

Ken Culp, 4-H/Youth Development Specialist, was elected vice president of the International Association of Leadership Educators for 2002-2003.

Carl Dillon, Agricultural Economics, Michael Montross, Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, John Grove, Agronomy, Thomas Mueller, Agronomy, and Timothy Stombaugh, Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, received U.S. Department of Agriculture grants totaling more than $550,000 for research on precision agriculture involving development and assessment of integrated practices for Kentucky producers.

Sharon Franklin, Animal Science, was elected 2002-2003 president of the Midwest Section of the American Dairy Science Association.

Larry Grabau, Agronomy, received the Agronomic Resident Education Award from the American Society of Agronomy. 

Thomas Guskey, Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation, recently published several articles:  “New Challenges for Staff Developers Under No Child Left Behind” in The Networker; “Professional Development and Teacher Change” in Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice; “Using Classroom Assessments to Improve Student Learning” in Educational Leadership; and “Grading Practices in Schools” in the Encyclopedia of Education (2nd ed.).  He also co-developed the Grading and Reporting Student Learning Professional Development Inquiry Kit, a self-contained training program published and distributed by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.

Jimmy Henning and Lloyd Murdock, Agronomy, were elected Fellows of the American Society of Agronomy.

Thomas P. Howard, Accounting, is editor of Issues in Accounting Education (2001-2004).

David Hulse, Accounting, is associate editor of the Journal of the American Taxation Association.

Craig Jordan, Medicine, received a five-year, $500,000 Career Development Program Award from the Leukemia-Lymphoma Society in support of his laboratory research in cancer.

Bonnie C. Johnson, Administration and Supervision, presented “Full Service Schools, Coordinated Social Services and School Reform” at the annual meeting of The International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement in Sydney, Australia, in early January. She is also a contributor to three published articles: “School Public Relations and the Principalship: An Interview With Denny R. Vincent” in Journal of School Public Relations; “The Reality And Myth Of The Superintendent Shortage: Implications For Research And Educational Policy” with Lars Bjork, Administration and Supervision, in The Journal of School Leadership; and in The Encyclopedia of Education (Vol. 2).

Willis Johnson, Curriculum and Instruction, presented “Kentucky’s Approach to Standards-Based Mathematics Education” at the International Conference on Children’s Mathematical Development and Standards-Based Assessment sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Taipei Municipal Teachers College, in Taipei, Taiwan.

Kristine Jolivette, Special Education and Rehabilitation Counseling, along with colleagues, recently published, “Naturally Occurring Opportunities for Preschool Children With and At-Risk for Disabilities to Make Choices in Education and Treatment of Children” and a second article with C. Michael Nelson, Special Education and Rehabilitation Counseling, and Christine A. Christle, Special Education and Rehabilitation Counseling doctoral student, “Addressing the Needs of At-Risk and Adjudicated Youth Through Positive Behavior Support: Effective Prevention Practices in Education and Treatment of Children.”

Larry Jones, Agricultural Economics, received a $380,000 from Philip Morris USA to conduct a seventh class of the Agricultural Leadership Program in 2003.

Linda McDaniel, Accounting, is president-elect of the auditing section of the American Accounting Association and is on the editorial board of Auditing, A Journal of Theory and Practice.

David Mohney, dean of Design, lectured on “The Transformative Power of Architecture” at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville.

Terry Malone, Physical Therapy, received the 2002 Hogeschool van Utrecht Award from the International Federation of Sports Physiotherapists.

Robert Ramsay, Accounting, is on the editorial board of the Accounting Review and Auditing, A Journal of Theory and Practice, as well as the program director for the mid-year meeting of the Auditing Section of the American Accounting Association.

Robert Rapp, Pharmacy and Surgery, received the 2002 Paul F. Parker Award during the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists midyear clinical meeting in Atlanta.

Frank Romanelli, Pharmacy, has been named the Bluegrass Pharmacy Association’s 2002 Pharmacist of the Year. 

David Royse, Social Work, released the fourth edition of his research text Research Methods in Social Work (Brooks/Cole, Pacific Grove, Calif.) in January.

Jerry Skees, Agricultural Economics, had his article “A Role for Capital Markets in Natural Disasters: A Piece of the Food Security Puzzle” selected for inclusion in the two-volume set “The Economics of Natural Hazards,” which will form part of the series, “The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics.”

Scott Smith, dean of Agriculture, was recently elected a Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America for his research, teaching and leadership.

Dan Stone, Accounting, is the editor of Journal of Information Systems (2002- 2005) and has been added to the editorial boards of Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research, Behavioral Research in Accounting, International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, Issues in Accounting Education, and Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting.

John R. Thelin, Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation, is the author of “Higher Education's Best Made Plans: A Historical Perspective” in The Review of Higher Education.

Eugenia Toma, Martin School of Public Policy and Administration, became president-elect of the Southern Economic Association in November.

Cyndi Vines, Accounting, is the program director for the 2003 mid-year meeting of the American Taxation Association.

Mark Williams, Horticulture, received a $132,720 grant from the Kentucky Science and Technology Council for database design and usability testing for advanced digital information systems in horticulture.  Williams is collaborating with Athenic Systems and Bernheim Forest in developing a computer-based, user-friendly system that will deliver on-site information to visitors at Bernheim’s arboretum.

Guichun Zong, Curriculum and Instruction, recently published, “Can Computer Mediated Communication Help to Prepare Global Teachers?  An Analysis of Pre-Service Social Studies Teachers’ Experiences” in Theory and Research in Social Education.