1. UK Surgery Department Joins Nation’s Top 20 in NIH Funding
The Department of Surgery in the University of Kentucky College of Medicine ranks among the nation’s best, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In the recently released rankings for fiscal year 2002, the UK Surgery Department was listed as 16th among 74 public medical schools. The department was listed as 25th among the 125 public and private medical schools ranked by NIH.
2. College of Agriculture Opens New $21 Million Plant Sciences Building
Kentucky’s governor and a federal agriculture official joined UK Board of Trustees members, UK President Lee T. Todd Jr., and UK College of Agriculture Dean M. Scott Smith for the mid-May grand opening of the college’s new Plant Sciences Building. Joseph Jen, undersecretary for research, education and economics in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and Governor Paul E. Patton toured the $21 million, four-story building that houses research labs devoted to plant genetics and molecular biology, crop physiology, and plant pathology. The UK Advanced Genetics Technology Center, undergraduate research, plant growth and containment facilities, and a collection of historic Kentucky weeds also occupy the building.
3. UK Earns ‘Green Lights’ for Progress From State Higher Education Panel
In a report card issued last month reviewing all state universities, the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education said UK has made more progress toward higher-education reform goals than any other state university. UK received nine “green lights,” compared to the six green lights earned by the University of Louisville. Among the areas cited were: UK’s success in increasing enrollment of undergraduate, graduate and professional students; improving one-year retention rates of first-time freshmen and the number of college and technical college transfers; improving six-year graduation rates of bachelor’s degree students and five-year graduation rates of transfer students; and increasing total spending on research and development and spending from endowments and gifts in knowledge-based economy areas.
4. Children’s Miracle Network Telethon Benefits UK Children’s Hospital
The annual Children’s Miracle Network Celebration raised $1,231,635 to benefit the UK Children’s Hospital. The three-day fund-raising event was broadcast live in early June from Fayette Mall in Lexington on WKYT-TV in Lexington and WYMT-TV in Hazard, celebrating a year of giving. All money raised in Kentucky during the broadcast stays in Kentucky to benefit the UK Children’s Hospital. During the broadcast, the program featured and celebrated the triumphs of the UK Children’s Hospital’s young patients and the health issues they are facing. The annual program not only recognizes the children as champions, but also the many people who champion children, such as families, health professionals, individuals, volunteers and donors. To date, the total 16-year fund-raising effort for the UK Children’s Hospital is more than $9.5 million.
5. UK Study Finds Benefits of Hormones, ‘Good Cholesterol’
A team of UK researchers reports that estrogen and estradiol, a form of estrogen used in hormone replacement therapy, may combine with high density lipoproteins (HDL), or “good cholesterol,” to produce protection against heart disease. The protection may come through stimulation of the production of nitric oxide, which lowers blood pressure and acts as an anti-inflammatory agent. The study, led by Eric Smart, vice chair of research in the UK College of Medicine Department of Pediatrics, was published in this month’s Journal of Clinical Investigation.
6. Engineering Students Design Flight Method That May Help Explore Mars
A team of 50 students in the UK College of Engineering has designed a six-foot-by-six-foot glider that may help NASA scientists explore the mysteries of the planet Mars. “BIG BLUE” -- the acronym for Baseline Inflatable Glider Balloon Launched Unmanned Experiment -- was tested in Windsor, Colo., in early May and performed nearly perfectly. It was the first time anyone had ever launched an aircraft to any altitude, then inflated and hardened a set of wings so it could fly. An onboard computer deployed the wings at 55,000 feet. The craft reached its highest altitude at 89,603 feet as it journeyed about 105 miles east. A parachute opened, easing the glider down to a safe landing near Sterling, Colo., completing a 2 1/2-hour flight. The engineering feat could help scientists gather information on Mars and transmit the information back to Earth. Overseeing the students were computer science Professor James Lumpp and mechanical engineering Professor Suzanne Smith.
7. UK Researchers Take Lion’s Share of State Science Research FundUK researchers won the vast majority of the funding available from the Kentucky Science and Engineering Foundation in mid-May. The agency awarded a total of $1,315,962 to 22 UK researchers. In all, the foundation provided funding to 32 research projects statewide.
8. UK Art Museum Offers Art Appreciation ‘Camps’ for Youngsters
Lexington-area children are receiving special opportunities to increase their understanding and appreciation of art through a series of “camps” partnering the UK Art Museum and other Lexington museums. The youngsters begin their days at the UK Art Museum by reviewing specific themes, then spend afternoons at a second location where they participate in art-related activities, including origami, calligraphy, and costume designing. Among the participating museums is the Lexington Children’s Museum.
9. Two Medical Center Leaders Chosen for Robert Wood Johnson Fellowships
Vipul N. Mankad, chair of the Department of Pediatrics, UK College of Medicine, and Karen Stefaniak, associate hospital director and chief nursing officer at UK Hospital, have been selected for Robert Wood Johnson Foundation fellowships. Mankad will step down in September as chair of the Department of Pediatrics to participate in the prestigious Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowship Program in Washington, D.C. During the next year, he will assist federal government policy makers in developing legislative proposals, arranging hearings, briefing congressmen and senators for committee sessions and floor debates, and participating with staff in House and Senate conferences. In this role, Mankad has the opportunity to contribute to solutions for major health problems confronting the United States and the world. Stefaniak was chosen for the foundation’s Executive Nurse Program for nurses in senior executive roles in health service. She will attend conferences across the country on the future of nurses in leadership positions and will work in Lexington on a hospital project that will study the viability of academic nursing contributions to the clinical enterprise.
10. UK General Clinical Research Center Wins Renewed NIH Funding
The UK General Clinical Research Center received renewed funding of $1,737,105 from the National Institutes of Health for its 19th year. The funding will be used for a unique combined medical and dental clinical research program designed to foster collaborative interest and expertise in clinical research in medical and dental faculty and students. Mentoring is a key aspect of this program, pairing students with senior medical and dental faculty members to guide them through research projects from development to implementation.
11. School of Journalism and Telecommunications Wins Reaccreditation
UK’s School of Journalism and Telecommunications in the College of Communications and Information Studies has been reaccredited for another six years by the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications. The unanimous stamp of approval resulted from a year-long self-study that reviewed the school’s compliance with standards on faculty, instruction, scholarship and public service. A visiting team of journalism experts said “a student-centered culture pervades the school.”
12. ASTeCC Company Uses ‘Magnetic Levitation’ to Blend Pharmaceuticals
A company launched in UK’s Advanced Science and Technology Commercialization Center has begun marketing its system for sterile-environment production of pharmaceutical and biotechnology products. LevTech Inc., founded by former UK physics Professor Alex Terentiev, uses “magnetic levitation” to spin an agitator that is not physically attached to the machinery that spins it during the mixing process. The system uses superconductors cooled to nearly minus 200 degrees Fahrenheit to establish a stable magnetic field, which then spins the agitating device inside a hermetically sealed polyethylene pouch containing the liquids to be mixed. The system offers a means of production that avoids the contamination that frequently fouls batches of pharmaceutical and biotechnology products.
13. UK Student Newspaper Wins Fifth Place in National Competition
The Kentucky Kernel tied for fifth place nationally in the William Randolph Hearst Journalism Awards Program, the “Pulitzer Prize” of collegiate writing competitions. The top five winning collegiate programs, selected from 105 colleges and universities with accredited journalism schools, were Northwestern University, Penn State University, the University of Nebraska, the University of North Carolina, and tied for fifth place, UK and the University of Iowa.
14. UK Graduate Students, UK Grad Receive Fulbright Grants for Study Abroad
UK graduate students Eric Silver and Theo Randall, and UK graduate James “Jay” Varellas III will study overseas during the 2003-04 academic year after receiving government-funded Fulbright Fellowships. Silver, seeking his master’s degree in anthropology, will do fieldwork in Kenya for his dissertation on understanding ethnic conflict and cooperation. Randall, also seeking his master's degree in anthropology, is performing a medical anthropology project in The Gambia. Varellas will seek a master’s degree in the United Kingdom at either the University of Cambridge Department of Social Anthropology or the University of Sussex Department of International Relations and Politics. The Fulbright Fellowship Program covers travel and living expenses for the academic year and tuition at overseas universities.
15. UK Study Shows New Picture of Brain Aging and Cognitive Impairment
Research matching the activity of 146 genes with brain aging and impaired learning and memory has produced a new picture of brain aging and cognitive impairment. The study by Philip W. Landfield, chair of the Department of Molecular and Biomedical Pharmacology, UK College of Medicine, uses gene microarray technology to compare gene activity with actual behavioral and cognitive performance over time. The study indicates that changes in gene activity appear to begin in mid-life and suggests that changes in gene activity in the early adult brain may set off cellular or biological changes that could affect how the brain works later in life. Landfield’s study appeared in the May 2003 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience.
16. College of Fine Arts Presents 11th Annual ‘Grand Night for Singing’
Music lovers received an impressive sampling of the singing talent of students in UK’s College of Fine Arts at the 11th edition of “It’s a Grand Night for Singing” in mid-June. Everett McCorvey, Grand Night artistic director, selected compositions from a wide array of Broadway shows including “The King and I,” ”Phantom of the Opera,” “Man of La Mancha,” “West Side Story,” “Cabaret,” “Chorus Line,” “The Music Man,” “My Fair Lady,” and the current Broadway hits “Gypsy” and “Hairspray.” The show was conducted by Roger Baldwin.
17. Architecture Students Look to the Past to Help Build UK’s Future
Students in the UK School of Architecture in the College of Design are building on the past to help UK plan for the future. Using the campus as a classroom, the students of architecture Professor Gregory Luhan are integrating standards of the Library of Congress and the Historic American Buildings Survey to survey, document and photograph buildings and landscapes and create computer visualizations of their findings. The system could prove useful both as a student-recruitment tool – by offering online virtual tours of campus and classrooms and in helping various university departments in scheduling classrooms and planning building renovations.
18. UK Golfer Competes in 2003 U.S. Open Championship
UK sophomore John Holmes continued his outstanding play of late, qualifying for the 103rd U.S. Open Championship. The 2003 Open, one of professional golf’s four major tournaments of the year, was played at the Olympia Fields Country Club near Chicago in mid-June.
19. UK Hospitals, UK Police Offer Havens for Abandoned Infants
The UK Hospital, UK Children’s Hospital, and UK Police are three of the designated “safe places” in Lexington where parents who fear they cannot care for their infants may leave newborns anonymously and without fear of prosecution. The designations come under the state’s Thomas J. Burch Safe Infants Act, passed by the state Legislature to protect infants born to desperate parents. Under the law, a parent will not be criminally prosecuted for abandoning a baby less than 72 hours old if the infant is taken to a safe place and has not been physically abused or neglected. Since the act’s implementation, three babies have been abandoned at a “safe place” in Kentucky.
20. UK Staff Members Participate in Appreciation Day
Nearly 5,000 UK staff employees enjoyed free food, T-shirts and entertainment at the 11th annual UK Staff Appreciation Day festivities May 16 in Memorial Coliseum. More than 50 UK departments and vendors had booths with information and a variety of free gifts for employees as well. Staff Appreciation Day is financially supported by the university’s administration through UK Women’s Forum, organizer of the event. More than 70 volunteers were involved.
21. Employee Benefits Are Extended to Many .75 FTE Workers
Acting on a recommendation by the UK Work-Life Task Force, President Todd has approved granting full-time benefits to regular university employees, except for employees of UK Hospital, with a full-time equivalency (FTE) of .75 or greater. Benefits now available to eligible employees include participation in the university’s 403(b) retirement plan, a health credit (university contribution to the health plan), basic life insurance coverage, optional supplemental life insurance coverage, optional accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) coverage, employee education program eligibility, and long-term disability coverage.
22. Kentucky Geological Survey Publishes ‘Citizen’s Guide’
The Kentucky Geological Survey has published “Geologic Maps and Geological Issues in Kentucky: A Citizen’s Guide.” The 27-page publication provides information on available maps and includes sections on earthquake faults, flooding, radon gas, sinkholes, coal deposits, and limestone. The booklet is available for $5 from the KGS Public Information Center.
23. UK Appalachian Center Celebrates 25th YearThe UK Appalachian Center hosted a screening of a new Appalshop film in late April as part of a program commemorating the center’s 25th anniversary. The film was based on Wendell Berry’s nationally published essay “Thoughts in the Presence of Fear,” in which he challenges the national politics of globalization and highlights the economic uncertainty caused by globalization. The event also featured musical entertainment.
24. Nearly 1,500 Attend UK Foreign Language Conference
Some 1,500 people, including high school students and their parents, attended the 56th annual Foreign Language Conference at UK in late April. Participants participated in sessions where German, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Japanese and Luso Brazilian (Portuguese) were spoken. Sessions also were held on teaching languages and Judaic Studies.
25. Scholars Discuss Environmental Issues Affecting Japan, America
An international conference of Japanese and American scholars and environmental activists discussed grassroots environmental movements in Japan and the United States in late April. Topics included working to protect Kentucky’s waters and forests, promoting sustainable economic development in central Appalachia, opposing disposal of chemical weapons at the Bluegrass Army Depot in Richmond, and participating in environmental protection in Hawaii. The conference was sponsored by the UK College of Arts and Sciences; its Environmental Studies Program, Japan Studies Program, and Department of Geography; the UK Asia Center; and the Office of the Vice President for Research.
26. UK Buys Campus License for McAfee Anti-virus Software
Beginning July 1, UK administrators, faculty, staff and students will be able to use anti-virus software by McAfee Security on computers used for university business and related matters. UK Information Systems negotiated a campus license for the software, considered to rank among the leading programs in combating computer infections by viruses conveyed through the Internet.
27. Lexington Fayette Urban County Council Conducts Meeting on Campus
On May 17, the Lexington Fayette Urban County Council conducted a regular meeting in the UK Student Center Theatre. President Todd, who welcomed the council to campus, has made closer ties to and greater cooperation with the city one of the hallmarks of his administration.
28. Six New Members Are Elected to UK Women’s ForumThe UK Women’s Forum Board has six new members following a campuswide election. The newly elected members for 2003 – 2004 are Mary C. Bolin-Reece, director of the UK Counseling and Testing Center; Tiua R. Chilton, sergeant with UK Police; Cecile McKinney, evening and weekend college coordinator with University Extension; Sean Scott, associate director of admissions at Lexington Community College; Vanessa P. Wickliffe, assistant professor, merchandising, apparel and textiles in the College of Human Environmental Sciences; and Nicole L. Worthy, training assistant with the Kentucky Transportation Center in the College of Engineering. A seventh new member, Jennifer Bowman, an administrative support associate with the Office of Sponsored Projects Administration, will serve out the term of a board member who left the university.
29. Keeneland Welcomes UK Employees During ‘UK Employee Day’
UK employees were able to enjoy a free day at the races at the first UK Employees Day at Keeneland on Sunday, April 13. Keeneland extended free admission to fans with UK employee IDs. During the day, a group of UK employees helped present the winner’s trophy to Beach Plum after the Eaglestone Purse.
30. UK Hospital Recognizes Nurses for Outstanding Service
UK Hospital officials presented the Magnet Recognition Award to nurses in the Cath Lab Holding/Recovery Unit. The award recognizes team members, as a unit, for nursing excellence in creating an environment for professional practice through role modeling, coaching, teaching and advocacy. Magnet award recipients are chosen by peer nomination and selection. Also recognized for individual accomplishments were Phyllis Horn, UK Hospital, who received the Diana Weaver Leadership/Management Award for exhibiting dynamic leadership skills, and Lori Vaughn, UK Hospital, receiving the M.J. Dickson Quality Nursing Care Award for her commitment to professional nursing over the previous year.
31. Student Awards and Achievements
Lyndsey Angus, Kinesiology, was named to the 2003 Verizon Academic All-America second team by the College Sports Information Directors of America. She is a student-athlete on UK’s softball team.
Tierra Freeman, Educational and Counseling Psychology doctoral student, and professors Lynley Anderman, Educational and Counseling Psychology, and Jane Jensen, Educational Policy, presented a paper titled “Professor Caring and Social Acceptance as Predictors of College Freshmen's Sense of University Belonging” at the 2003 annual conference of the American Educational Research Association. Freeman also received a student research award from the Special Interest Group in Motivation at the 2003 annual conference of the American Educational Research Association.
Davide Giradelli, Communication graduate student, had two papers, “The Image(s) of Americans Among Italian Adolescents: An Explorative Study With the Q Methodology” and “Everyone’s Italian,” accepted at the 2003 International Communication Association Conference in San Diego.
Emily Hagedorn, Journalism and Telecommunications sophomore, placed second in features and eighth in in-depth reporting and 11th in spot news at the William Randolph Hearst Journalism Awards Program, one of the most prestigious nationwide contests in college journalism. She received a $1,500 cash prize and the School received a matching grant. She was a finalist in a national writing competition and traveled to San Francisco this month to compete in the William Randolph Hearst Foundation National Writing Championship.
Brandy Johnson, Integrated Strategic Communication, received the UK College of Communications and Information Studies’ Maurice A. Clay Award, given annually to one outstanding senior in each year’s graduating class.
Pattie McGinn, Exercise Science doctoral student, made a poster presentation at the Gait and Clinical Movement Analysis Society Eighth Annual Meeting in Wilmington, Del., in May.
Tina Michel, Social Work, is the first recipient from the northern Kentucky Master of Social Work off-campus program to receive the Ohio Clinical Social Work Society's Judith R. Holmes Excellence in Training Award. This award recognizes excellence in direct social work field placements.
Andy Ottney, Emily Ho, Skip Burke, Kaci Prunty and Niki Parsons, Integrated Strategic Communications, won first place at the American Advertising Federation (AAF) Fifth District Student Advertising Competition in Cincinnati this spring. They attended the AAF National Student Advertising Competition at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, Calif., in early June.
Mary Phillips, Accounting doctoral student, received a $5,000 fellowship from the Educational Foundation for Women in Accounting. She was one of three recipients nationally.
Michelle Ray, Integrated Strategic Communication, received the Lexington Rotary Club scholarship award for outstanding achievement in her university career. She received a check for $600 in recognition of her achievement.
Sandra Schomaker, Integrated Strategic Communication, has won a $2,500 American Advertising Federation Scholarship.
Erica Smith, Social Work, received the Student of the Year Award from the Ohio Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers, Region VI.
Laura Tzanetos, Center for Applied Energy Research, has received the $30,000 Bert Combs Scholarship to attend the UK College of Law.
Andrea Uhde, Journalism and Telecommunications, placed fourth in the personality profile category at the William Randolph Hearst Journalism Awards Program, one of the most prestigious nationwide contests in college journalism.
Sarah Witten, Education, earned 2003 All-America honors in women’s tennis singles last month.
32. Faculty and Staff Awards and Achievements
Lynley Anderman, Educational and Counseling Psychology, and Hannah Hughes, Educational and Counseling Psychology doctoral student, presented a paper, titled “The Role of School Belonging in Students' Adoption of Classroom Goal Orientations,” at the 2003 annual conference of the American Educational Research Association.
Tom Barnes, Forestry, received the Poundstone Award for Volunteer of the Year from the Kentucky Chapter of the Nature Conservancy.
Luke Boatright, Animal Sciences, received the 2003 American Oil Chemists Society’s Archer Daniels Midland/Protein and Co-Products Division Award in chemistry/nutrition.
Darrh Bullock, Animal Sciences, received the 2003 Extension Award from the Southern Section of the American Society of Animal Science.
Frank Butler, Medical Center Operations, has been appointed Blue Grass regional trustee for 2003-04 by the Kentucky Hospital Association.
Jimmie Calvert, Agronomy, and Hugo Hempel and Chuck Combes, UK Chandler Medical Center Information Services, received 2003 Nestor Awards, presented to UK staff members who contribute cost-saving ideas.
Joseph Chappell, Agronomy, received a grant of $385,000 from Firmenich Co. to research metabolic engineering of isoprenoid metabolism in plants.
Ralph Crystal, Special Education and Rehabilitation Counseling, gave a seminar on “The Current Status of Rehabilitation in the United States” to the faculty of the Institute of Health Sciences at City University, London, in the United Kingdom, in May.
Alan DeYoung, Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation Department, has been awarded the 2003 John J. and Nancy Lee Roberts Fellowship of the International Research & Exchanges Board to fund his research project “Central Asian Schools in Transition: Case Studies in the Kyrgyz Republic.”
Lynette Dirk, Horticulture, received a grant of $200,000 from the National Science Foundation for research on chloroplast-localized N-terminal protein processing by peptide deformytase.
Marianne Smith Edge, UK Board of Trustees, has been elected president of the American Dietetic Association.
Robin Ersing and Melanie Otis, Social Work, co-authored a book chapter, “An Asset-based Approach to Promoting Community Well-being in a Rural Kentucky County: Obstacles and Opportunities,” in Rural Social Work: Building and Sustaining Community Assets.
Olga Fadeyeva, a visiting scholar from Siberia, Russia, took second place for an article she wrote for the American Councils for International Education. Fadeyeva spent a year as a scholar with the Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation Department. Her article, titled “My American Experience,” was based on observations of our culture, contrasted with life in her home country.
Joseph L. Fink III, Corporate Relations and Economic Outreach, received the annual Alumni Award from the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, Pa.
Ron Fleming, Agricultural Economics, hosted waste management and resource allocation meetings of the Southern Natural Resources Economic Committee on the UK campus in mid-May.
Robert Gillette, Economics, was named Outstanding Professor of the Year by the Interfraternity Council this spring.
Thomas Guskey, Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation, presented a paper, titled “An Analysis of Lists of the Characteristics of Effective Professional Development,” at the 2003 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association in Chicago. A summary of the paper was also reported in the May 9 edition of Times Education Supplement.
John Harris, Administration and Supervision, presented a report, titled "The Disproportionate Placement of African American Students in Special Education,” to staff members of the U.S. Congress House of Representative and 200 public school superintendents in late April as part of the National Policy Institute in Washington, D.C.
Dewayne Ingram, Horticulture, received a $689,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for Phase IV of the UK College of Agriculture’s New Crop Opportunities Initiative.
Linda Kiesel, Agricultural Communications, received the Lifetime Achievement in Publishing Award from the national Agricultural Communicators in Education.
Ronald Langley, Survey Research Center, served as chair of a joint meeting of the Academic Survey Research Organization directors and the National Network of State Polls at the annual conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research. He also chaired a session titled “Surveying Diverse Populations” at the International Field Directors and Technologies Conference in Nashville.
Carl Leukefeld, Behavioral Science and Center for Drug and Alcohol Research, has been selected as the recipient of the Knee/Wittman Lifetime Achievement Award for 2003 from the National Association of Social Workers Foundation. The Knee/Wittman Awards recognize individuals who are models of excellence and have made significant contributions in the field of health and mental health. The Lifetime Achievement Award, in particular, is presented to a professional social worker who has made exemplary contributions in health and mental health practice.
Dave Maehr, Forestry, recently was appointed co-chair of the new Ocelot Recovery Team of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The ocelot is an endangered species.
Bobbie Ann Mason, writer-in-residence in English, received a Kentucky Literary Award for excellence for her recent book, Elvis Presley, published in 2002 by Viking Books. She also received a $1,000 cash prize from the Southern Kentucky Festival of Books for best nonfiction writing.
Leigh Maynard, Agricultural Economics, presented the paper “Policy Interactions and Conflicts With U.S. Milk Hedging Effectiveness” to the Southern Natural Resources Economic Committee at its March meeting in Alabama.
Craig S. Miller, Oral Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology and Molecular Genetics, has been elected president of the American Academy of Oral Medicine.
Donna Murphy, Lexington Community College, has received the 2003 Carolyn Beam Award, presented annually to the outstanding LCC faculty member.
Gretchen Norling, Communication, received a $145,000 grant from the National Cancer Institute for her project “Cancer Caregiving and the Stress Process.”
Melanie Otis, Social Work, was co-author on the article, “The Effect of Childhood Maltreatment on Adult Criminality: A Tobit Regression Analysis,” recently published in Child Maltreatment: Journal of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children.
Timothy Phillips, Agronomy, received a Medallion Award from the American Forage Grassland Council at its recent national meeting in Louisiana.
Christopher Schardl, Plant Pathology, received a grant of $627,000 from the Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service to conduct research in advanced genetic technologies. He is also scheduled to be inducted as a Fellow of the American Phytopathological Society in August.
Jerry Skees, Agricultural Economics, was named Research Fellow to the newly-established Rural Development Research Consortium (RDRC) at the University of California – Berkeley. As a Fellow he is a priority candidate for collaboration on RDRC research programs.
Eric Smart, Pediatrics, has been awarded an Irvine H. Page Young Investigator Research Award from the American Heart Association.
Will Snell, Agricultural Economics, presented an update on the national tobacco quota buyout negotiations at the Tobacco Merchants Association May meeting in New Jersey.
Dan Stone, Accounting, had his article, “Researching the Revolution: Prospects and Possibilities for the Journal of Information Systems,” published in the spring issue of Journal of Information Systems.
Marcella Szymanski, Forestry, and Jeff Stringer, Forestry, received an award for Excellence in Educational Video Programming from the Southern Region Extension Forest Resource Specialists Association for the educational program “What Is Forestry?”
Michael Tearney, Business and Economics, co-authored a paper, titled “Mandatory CEO Retirements, Discretionary Accurals, and Corporate Governance Mechanisms,” with Austin Reitenga, Accounting, that appeared in the spring issue of The Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance. Tearney also was a guest lecturer at five Indonesian universities this spring. He spoke on the topic of corporate governance.
John R. Thelin, Educational Policy Studies, is author of “Historical Overview of American Higher Education,” published in Susan Kornives, Dudley Woodard and Associates’ Student Services: A Handbook for the Profession. This book is the standard work for graduate programs in higher education and student affairs at universities across the nation.
Vernon Wiehe, Social Work, had an article, “Empathy and Narcissism in a Sample of Child Abuse Perpetrators and a Comparison Sample of Foster Parents,” published this month in the Journal of Child Abuse & Neglect.
Updated 6/23/03 by Chuck Ham