UK has awarded Host Communications Inc. and Gray Television Inc. the university’s expanded athletic multimedia marketing rights. Host, UK's radio and television rights’ holder for most of the past three decades, and Lexington’s top-rated television station, WKYT-TV, will pay the university $80.5 million over the 10 years of the agreement, making it one of the most lucrative deals of its kind in NCAA history. Lexington-based Host Communications is a subsidiary of the Bull Run Corporation, while WKYT-TV is owned by Gray Television. Host has been UK’s rights’ holder since 1974, except for a six-year period from 1977 to 1983, and WKYT-TV has been the flagship television station for the UK Network during that same period. The current agreement between UK and Host, which includes radio and TV rights to Kentucky’s football and men’s basketball games and the football game program, is worth $17.65 million over five years and expires April 15, 2005. In addition to previous radio and TV rights, the new agreement adds women’s basketball and baseball radio and television broadcasts, corporate sponsorships, stadium and arena signage and the official athletic Web site. UK is currently generating $5.1 million annually on the inventory included in the new agreement. The agreement calls for Host/Gray to provide cash guarantees worth $79 million over the life of the contract, with an additional $1.5 million investment in new scoreboards for Memorial Coliseum and Cliff Hagan Stadium. The agreement features a focus on the Big Blue Network, the school’s re-branded statewide radio network. Every football, men’s basketball, women’s basketball, and baseball game will be offered to all affiliates on the Big Blue Network.
The UK College of Dentistry has been awarded a Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) grant totaling more than $10.9 million from the National Center for Research Resources, a division of the National Institutes of Health. Promising investigators will research how oral diseases affect other health problems including HIV, atherosclerosis, gestational diabetes, and viral/bacterial interactions in chronic disease. The COBRE grant will support 10 promising new researchers working with their first major grants as principal investigators in studies of their own design, with the aid of senior faculty mentors. The COBRE grant will enable the university to create a program of faculty development and recruitment that will advance UK’s standing as a research institution. Jeffrey L. Ebersole, associate dean for Research and Graduate Studies and director of the Center for Oral Health Research, will serve as COBRE program director for the UK College of Dentistry. This award is the second COBRE grant UK received in late September for a total exceeding $20 million.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has renewed for the fourth year a grant UK used to establish its Appalachian Mathematics and Science Partnership (AMSP) of nine colleges and universities and 51 school districts. The grant is aimed at improving math and science education in pre-kindergarten through 12th grade in Appalachian school districts in Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia. The renewal, totaling $5.7 million, brings the funding level to $13.7 million in a five-year program that has total NSF-committed funding of $22.5 million. With this latest commitment that began October 1, NSF funding of the project is expected to continue through September 2007. Participation by teachers and students in the NSF-funded program – the largest grant-supported project of its kind in the university’s history – has been truly phenomenal. During the summers of 2003 and 2004, the AMSP has engaged in over 30 mathematics and science teacher institutes intended to give 500 K-12 teachers enhanced teaching skills. An additional nine Partnership Enhancement Projects involving 18 partner school districts and higher education partners have been funded to meet specific needs of the school districts. Including students, teachers and others, AMSP programs have now reached some 3,100 persons.
UK President Lee T. Todd Jr. announced eight new safety initiatives in late September that the university will implement this academic year to improve the safety of women on campus. The programs resulted from findings of a victimization survey conducted at UK with 1,010 female graduate and undergraduate students. The study, conducted by the UK Center for Research on Violence Against Women, measured the prevalence of victimization among female students, their fear of crime, university response, and related items. Carol Jordan, director of the center, released the findings of the study. The new safety programs include creation of UK Women’s Place, a central point of contact for coordinating victim services, education and prevention programs, training, and other efforts related to improving the safety and well-being of UK’s women; a cell phone lending program called C.A.T.S. phones (Campus Area Telephone for Safety) that will make free wireless phones donated by Verizon Wireless available to students; and a state-of-the-art police training program conducted in partnership with the Kentucky State Police, the Lexington-Fayette Division of Police, UK Police Department, UK Athletics, the Center for Research on Violence Against Women, and Verizon Wireless. Todd also formed a Women’s Safety Advisory Group to evaluate implementation of the new programs and to make further recommendations to him regarding the safety of women and all members of the UK community.
A National Science Foundation grant of nearly $2 million will enable UK to evaluate the science skills of more than 10,000 seventh and eighth grade Appalachian students during the next five years. The education research under the Appalachian Math Science Partnership in the UK College of Arts and Sciences will determine whether students who have studied under middle school teachers who participated in UK-developed distance learning training in the physical sciences perform better than students learning science from those same teachers prior to having conducted such training. The project is titled “Assessing How Distance Learning for Teachers Can Enable Inquiry Sciences in Rural Classrooms.” UK’s online teacher-training program, “Hands-On/Virtual (HOV) Physics,” is also a project that has been developed over the past three years under a grant program managed by co-principal investigators professors Joseph Straley and Sally Shafer in the Department of Physics. Teachers from the Appalachian areas of Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, Virginia and southeastern Ohio will participate in summer training about physical science content knowledge and inquiry-based teaching techniques.
The National Science Foundation has chosen UK to lead a $3 million project to facilitate improved computational research in chemistry. The UK Center for Computational Sciences, directed by John Connolly, will work on the Computational Chemistry Grid program with the University of Illinois, Louisiana State University, Ohio State University, and the University of Texas. The project will benefit the national chemistry research community by providing computer hardware and software to solve problems involving molecular interactions of complex materials such as biological proteins and pharmaceuticals. Among the supercomputers available on the grid is UK’s Hewlett-Packard Superdome, which is capable of more than a trillion calculations per second. The Center for Computational Sciences plans an upgrade to that machine that will more than double its capability. The program is funded under the NSF’s National Middleware Initiative, a program that encourages more efficient use of modern grid computing. The UK proposal was one of only 14 proposals funded out of 141 submitted.
The UK College of Medicine and Cardinal Hill Rehabilitation Hospital announced a step forward in brain and spinal cord injury research. A $2 million grant from Cardinal Hill to UK in 1999, along with $2 million in matching funds from the Kentucky Research Challenge Trust Fund, has made possible the appointment of three shared faculty positions in neurorehabilitation, including a chair and two professorships. UK professor Joe Springer, who holds a doctorate in psychobiology, accepted the Cardinal Hill Endowed Chair in Neurorehabilitation Research. Springer’s passion and expertise in translational research connects lab research to the patient bedside – advancing the study of spinal cord and traumatic brain injury. According to President Todd, “This is an historic partnership between two of Kentucky’s premier institutions. Generations of Kentuckians have benefited from trauma care at UK and rehabilitation at Cardinal Hill. Future generations will benefit from this collaborative effort to better understand and treat serious neurologic injuries.”
A mid-October summit at the Center for Rural Development in Somerset kicked off the Marty Driesler Lethal Cancer Project, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In February, U.S. Congressman Hal Rogers and President Todd. announced a unique health care initiative aimed at increasing the survival rates of people with deadly cancers throughout Kentucky’s 5th Congressional District. The UK Markey Cancer Center will partner with more than 200 physicians and health care providers in the district to establish a community outreach program of early detection, prevention and treatment for lung, pancreatic, liver and esophageal cancer. Kentucky has the fourth highest cancer mortality rate in the nation. It is estimated that more than 9,300 Kentuckians will die in 2004 from some sort of cancer. Eastern Kentucky leads the state in deaths when it comes to liver, lung, and pancreatic cancers.
A $4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy was recently awarded to Secat Inc., a Kentucky aluminum research and testing firm to improve energy efficiency in the aluminum industry. Secat, located at UK’s Coldstream Research Campus, is leading the study, which involves nine aluminum companies, two national research laboratories, and UK. Over a three-year period, these partners will develop processes to reduce the amount of energy needed to melt aluminum, thereby reducing energy costs and benefiting the environment by producing less waste. Kentucky has the highest concentration and diversity of aluminum industry in the world, with 142 facilities and more than $5 billion in shipments. Two cans in every six-pack sold in the United States are made from Kentucky aluminum.
Research by UK College of Arts and Sciences associate professor of psychology Mark Fillmore shows that men and women react differently to drinking alcohol. Fillmore, whose findings were published in the October 2004 edition of Addiction, the professional journal of the Society for the Study of Addiction, said his research shows that men have less impulse control after drinking and that women tend to have an opposite reaction. Fillmore’s research was conducted under his $750,000, four-year grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism in the National Institutes of Health. He and Jessica Weafer, an undergraduate student who co-authored the report, tested 12 male and 12 female social drinkers whose average age was about 22.
UK Hospital has activated a computerized provider order entry (CPOE) system that allows physicians to direct patient care electronically from the patient’s bedside. Currently, the CPOE system, created by Eclipsys Corporation®, has been deployed on UK’s Labor and Delivery, Obstetrics and Gynecology units, eighth floor Surgical Unit, Neurosurgery Intensive Care Unit, and 22 ancillary service departments. CPOE allows physicians the ability to electronically enter patient orders and view patient care results. Traditionally, clerks spend approximately two hours daily entering physician orders. With CPOE, the physician enters new orders which are sent immediately to other caregivers. This creates legible orders which speeds delivery of medications and improves turnaround times for test results. With immediate, real-time access, the physician is alerted to information critical to the patient, such as possible drug allergies and drug interactions.
UK and Cinergy Corp. sponsored a mid-October conference on the future of coal, highlighting the major environmental, economic and technology issues associated with its use. Coal 2020 - Burning Questions at the Marriott Griffin Gate Resort in Lexington, featured Kentucky Governor Ernie Fletcher, Kentucky Public Service Commission Chairman Mark David Goss, Cambridge Energy Research Associates Chairman Daniel Yergin, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Assistant Administrator Jeffrey Holmstead, and scientific researchers and executives of the major coal producers in the region. The conference was hosted by President Todd and Cinergy Chairman, President and CEO James E. Rogers and was sponsored in part by Eastman Chemical Company.
The National of Institutes of Health presented a $3.7 million grant to UK to complete the neuroscience research space on the fourth floor of the Biomedical/Biological Sciences Research Building. Both the third and fourth floors will house about 40 faculty and 80 staff, postdoctoral and graduate students working on Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, traumatic brain and spinal cord injury and other neurological diseases. The $73 million, 210,000-square-foot building, which will also house genomics and proteomics research, will open in early 2005. NIH funds approximately $45 million in neuroscience projects at UK, according to Wendy Baldwin, UK executive vice president for research.
An interdisciplinary arts and cultural tour of New York City and an on-site examination of Australian public health issues are among the innovative offerings of the University of Kentucky’s first Winter Intersession. On- and off-campus, traditional and Internet classes, as well as travel learning courses are available in the Winter Intersession beginning Dec. 20, 2004, and ending Jan. 11, 2005. According to Provost Mike Nietzel, “UK joins other colleges and universities – including our benchmark schools – in offering these compact sessions. The Intersession is designed to assist students in balancing academic loads, progressing toward graduation, and experiencing enrichment courses and educational travel. It ties closely to UK’s new Graduation Agreement. Information on Winter Intersession courses and faculty is available at www.uky.edu/UExt/winter. Enrollment is open to UK students and the community.
An explosives-detection dog and a motorcycle detail are the latest in the UK Police Department’s additions to address safety and security on campus. The UK Police Department recently became only the second university in the country to receive an explosives-detection dog from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. UKPD received the dog and training for its handler, Officer Robert Turner, at no cost to the department. Turner and the16-month-old black Labrador named Becka attended an intensive 10-week training program at the United States Customs and ATF canine training facility in Front Royal, Va. UKPD also added two motorcycles to its vehicle fleet. Lt. Bill Webb and Officer Bob Pearl attended a two-week police motorcycle operator training class offered by the Northwestern University Center for Public Safety in Des Moines, Iowa, in August.
In a lecture at UK that was part of Lexington’s 2004 ideaFestival, Harvard University psychology professor Steven Pinker argued that human beings’ minds are not “blank slates” but reflect darker aspects of human nature. Pinker said the experience of the 20th century provides evidence challenging French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s view that human beings are “noble savages” at birth and that the influences of society generate evil and selfish traits in them. Pinker noted that during the last 100 years, isolated tribes in South America, Africa and other areas – peoples who fit Rousseau’s vision of those unshaped by corrupting Western influences of government and commerce – recorded much higher percentages of their male populations killed in tribal warfare, compared to the percentages of American and European men lost in two world wars. Pinker’s lecture was one of nearly two dozen events featured in the ideaFestival, an event co-sponsored by UK, the Kentucky Science and Technology Corp., Georgetown College, and several area businesses.
Nobel Prize laureate and Lexington native William Nunn Lipscomb Jr., who earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from UK in 1941 and won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1976 for his work with the element boron, delivered the 2004 College of Arts and Sciences Blazer Lecture during Arts and Sciences Week in mid-October. Lipscomb, who received his doctorate in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology in 1946, taught chemistry at Harvard University from 1959 to 1971 and was chairman of the chemistry department there from 1962 to 1965. His work received practical application in Japan as doctors used irradiated boron in the experimental treatment of brain tumors. The Blazer Lecture Series in the Humanities was endowed 53 years ago by Paul G. Blazer Sr., founder of Ashland Oil, Inc., and his wife, Georgia Blazer, who was the first woman to serve on the UK Board of Trustees.
Harvard University international affairs professor Samuel P. Huntington will deliver the 2004 Dr. Vince Davis Memorial Lecture at 1 p.m. Oct. 28, in the University of Kentucky Student Center Theatre. The event is sponsored by the UK Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce. Huntington’s topic will be the American national identity, a timely subject as the 2004 presidential election approaches. Huntington is the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor and chair of the Harvard Academy of International and Area Studies. His principal interests are national security, strategy and civil military relations; democratization and political and economic development of less developed countries; cultural factors in world politics; and American national identity. The Dr. Vince Davis Memorial Lecture is named in honor of the late director of the Patterson School.
Betsy Plank, the first woman president of the Public Relations Society of America, will deliver the 2004 Bowling Executive-in-Residence lecture at 6 p.m. Thursday, October 28, in the auditorium of the William T. Young Library. A reception in Plank’s honor will be held at 4:30 p.m. in the library’s gallery. Plank, a graduate of the University of Alabama, also received the first two PRSA top professional awards ever presented, the Gold Anvil as the nation’s outstanding professional and the Lund Award for exemplary civic community service. Plank was the first female to head a company department at Ameritech (formerly Illinois Bell), directing external affairs for 17 years.
Barry Eichengreen, an expert on the history, economics and politics of international finance and the George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, will speak at 2:30 p.m. Oct. 29, in the UK William T. Young Library auditorium. His talk, titled “Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods,” is sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences and is open to the public.
The UK College of Health Sciences inducted three graduates into its Hall of Fame in October in acknowledgement of their professional success and contributions to the health sciences, profound positive influence on the college, and display of the highest degree of character and integrity. This year’s inductees were Barbara Sanders, an accomplished chair and associate dean in physical therapy at Texas State University; Harriett Smith, a retired medical technologist and microbiologist who graduated with honors from UK in 1940; and Robin Strode, a distinguished speech-language pathologist.
A former UK Wildcat basketball player, a former scientist with the Atomic Energy Commission, and the former president of the Shell Chemical Company were inducted into the UK College of Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame in October. The inductees were Larry Conley, a former Wildcat basketball player who graduated from UK in 1966 with a Bachelor of Arts in political science and is now a broadcaster with ESPN Sports; Glenn Price, who graduated in 1946 with a Bachelor of Science in physics and later earned a doctorate in physics, served as a scientist with the Brookhaven National Laboratory from 1952 to 1985 and the Atomic Energy Commission from 1987 to 1989; and Michael Grasley, who earned a master’s degree in chemistry from UK in 1961 and retired as president and chief executive officer of Shell Chemical.
The UK Art Museum will hold its inaugural Arts and Leisure Auction from 6:30 to 10 p.m. Friday, November 19, at the Marriott Griffin Gate Resort in Lexington. Proceeds from the auction will help further the museum’s mission in the community and help promote an understanding and appreciation of art for the people of Kentucky. The evening’s theme, A Night in Casablanca, will recreate the magic of the classic movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, complete with music and decor inspired by the cinema’s golden era, the 1940s. Lexington radio personality Sue Wylie will be the mistress of ceremonies for the evening. Silent and live auctions, by auctioneer Steve Lewis, will feature art and leisure items and experiences. Along with many fine works of art, some of the items to be auctioned include four tickets to the 2005 Indianapolis 500, complete with a behind-the-scenes garage tour by the Ganassi Race Team; minority ownership in a race horse, courtesy of Bongo Stables; UK men’s basketball tickets; and passes to a Toby Keith concert. The evening will feature a reception and formal dinner. Tickets are $100 per person. To purchase tickets, call 257-6218.
The North Central Kentucky Health Education Training Center, funded through a UK federal initiative, received the 2004 Award of Excellence at the recent National Area Health Education Center (AHEC) Organization meeting in Baltimore, Md. The award was presented to the NCHETC in recognition of the “Promotoras” program, a program that trains Hispanic volunteers to assist community members in improving the health status and access of health care for Central Kentucky’s Hispanic population. Since its beginning, the program has graduated 101 trained Promotoras. Through federal funding, the classes are offered free of charge.
The Kentucky State Office of Rural Health, based at UK Center for Rural Health in Hazard, has received more than $713,000 to implement a planning process focused on strategies for expanding health insurance to the state’s neediest residents. The one-year State Planning Grant from the federal Health Resources and Services Administration is a collaborative effort with UK, the Kentucky Long-Term Policy Research Center in Frankfort, and the University of Louisville. It is aimed at exploring public and private means for reducing the number of Kentuckians without health coverage. Currently, that total is approximately 548,000 residents, or 13.6 percent of the population, according to a 2003 U.S. Census Bureau population survey. The issue is particularly problematic in rural Kentucky, with the highest uninsured rate found in Clay County, where 20.7 percent of residents have no health insurance.
Joining other top-echelon universities, the University of Kentucky has been awarded a grant to fund a Sloan Industry Center focusing on research into challenges confronting the aluminum industry. The UK Sloan Center for a Sustainable Aluminum Industry, to be housed in the UK Gatton College of Business and Economics, will enhance the university’s long-standing ties to the industry, which already include the UK College of Engineering’s Center for Aluminum Technology, and Secat Inc., a university-industry partnership devoted to advances in aluminum technology. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation provided $300,000 to establish the center. In addition, the center is supported by $150,000 from the state and $360,000 from the aluminum industry. Providing work for almost 18,000 Kentuckians, the industry is the state’s fifth largest employer. President Todd noted the new center joins 23 other Sloan Centers for Industry housed at 15 universities across the country, including MIT, Harvard University, Carnegie Mellon University, and the Georgia Institute of Technology.
“Making Your Mark,” a symposium featuring successful journalism careers, was the subject for the Third Annual Richard G. Wilson Journalism Alumni Symposium held in early October. Judy Clabes, former publisher of The Kentucky Post who is president of the Scripps Howard Foundation, moderated a panel discussion with Nancy Green, vice president of circulation for Lee Enterprises and publisher of the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier; Julie Satterly, editor of the Oldham Era newspaper in LaGrange, Ky.; Valerie Wright, associate editor of Texas Monthly; and Virginia Edwards, president of the Editorial Projects in Education Inc. and editor of Education Week.
In celebration of National Work-Life Month, the UK Office of Work-Life held a “Life is a Balancing Act!” seminar and a Work-Life Information Fair in October. The seminar, presented by Linda Siebert Rapoport, director of the Office of Work-Life, focused on three work-life balancing goals: identify top life goals; build work, self and home relationships; and commit and follow through to results. The Office of Work-Life was created in July when Siebert Rapoport joined the university as director of the office. The Work-Life Task Force worked to create the office as part of the university’s strategic plan.
In response to student demand, the William T. Young Library has been re-opened on a 24-hour schedule during most weekdays. The library is now open continuously from noon Sundays to 10 p.m. Fridays, and from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturdays.
The UK Journalism Alumni Association is accepting nominations for 2005 inductees into the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame. To be eligible, nominated journalists must either be Kentucky natives or must have spent a significant portion of their careers working in newspaper or broadcast journalism in Kentucky. Since its inception in 1981, some 135 persons have been inducted into the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame. Plaques honoring the members are on exhibit in the Enoch Grehan Journalism Building on the UK campus. A nomination form is available on the UK School of Journalism and Telecommunications Web site at jat.uky.edu.
The UK College of Agriculture Alumni Association and the UK Cooperative Extension Service is offering top quality leadership development opportunities, including the recent “Living Leadership” live global satellite event. Sixteen downlink sites across the state, including the one in Lexington, carried the satellite conference that featured top experts in the field of leadership development, including John Maxwell, Mikhail Gorbachev, Jim Collins, Peter Drucker, Ken Blanchard, Donald Trump, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Russell Simmons, and others.
The UK Women’s Forum has scheduled a series of brown bag luncheons on campus safety, self-defense, and violence against women. The first series in September and October included sessions titled “Don’t Be a Victim!,” and discussions about violence against women are scheduled for November. Presentations are being held in the UK Student Center and the Chandler Medical Center to increase the availability of information. In the “Don’t Be a Victim!” sessions UK Police Lt. Tiua Chilton and Crime Prevention Officer Alan Saylor provided advice on how to avoid becoming a crime victim and ways to protect yourself. Carol Jordan, director of the UK Center for Research on Violence Against Women, will make presentations in November on the findings of a recent survey at UK about violence against women and how the university is addressing the issue. The brown bag lunch sessions are free and open to students, faculty and staff.
A new program to help rural journalists gave special recognition to a couple of journalism heroes earlier this month in Whitesburg. The inaugural Tom and Pat Gish Award was presented to the Gishes, publishers of the Mountain Eagle in Whitesburg since 1958, in recognition of their courage and tenacity as rural journalists by the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues based in UK’s School of Journalism and Telecommunications. The institute was created to help rural journalists set the public agenda in their communities and grasp regional issues that have local impact. The program has already begun to recognize good rural journalism in The Rural Blog, published on the Web at www.rural journalism.org.
Raul Gangotena, Ecuador’s ambassador to the United States, spoke at UK on Latin American issues early this month. His topic was “Political, Social and Economic Trends in Latin America, with Special Emphasis on Ecuador.” Gangotena has been the Ecuadorian ambassador since 2003. Prior to that, he was executive director of the Quito, Ecuador, Chamber of Commerce from 2001 to 2003. He also was chairman of the Universidad de Las Americas in Quita from 1998 to 2000. His visit was sponsored by Kentucky Ecuador Partners, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary.
The Kentucky Women Writers Conference at UK received the 2004 Sallie Bingham Award from the Kentucky Foundation for Women. Louisville native and author Sallie Bingham established the foundation in 1985. Through two grant programs, the foundation awards $200,000 annually to feminist artists and social-change organizations that have done the most to promote feminist arts in Kentucky. Rebecca Howell, director of the Kentucky Women Writers Conference and a faculty member of the UK Department of English, accepted the award on behalf of the conference and its advisory board.
James M. Lindsay, vice president and director of studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, discussed “Globalization and the Bush Foreign Policy” in an early October speech sponsored by the UK Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce. Lindsay holds the Maurice R. Greenberg Chair at the council, a scholarly center based in Washington, D.C., that focuses on foreign policy issues. He is a leading authority on domestic influences on American foreign policy with expertise on Congress, the news media, and public opinion.
The UK Art Museum has received a $130,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, an independent federal grant-making agency dedicated to creating and sustaining a nation of learners by helping libraries and museums serve their communities, to organize a painting exhibition titled “Barbizon to Brittany: Landscapes of France in Bluegrass Collections.” The exhibit will be on display in the Art Musem in the Singletary Center for the Arts in the fall of 2006. A catalogue will be published to accompany the exhibit. Special educator resources will be made available to K-12 teachers and students and family activities will be planned around the exhibit.