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The University of Kansas
Vol. 30, No. 18 July 17, 2006
www.oread.ku.edu
An official employee publication from the Office of University Relations
KU, hospital to combat obesity
University, Children’s
Mercy aim to serve
30,000 children in 5 years
U and Children’s Mercy
Hospitals and Clinics are
joining forces to counter
the growing obesity epidemic that
now afflicts 24.3 percent of all
Kansas children and 32 percent of
all Missouri children by developing
a
cutting-edge
obesity
research, treatment and community outreach center serving the
Midwest, with a special focus on
childhood and adolescent obesity.
Aiming to serve 30,000 children
in its first five years, the new
Center for Physical Activity,
Nutrition and Weight Management
will be one of the nation’s largest
public-private
partnerships
addressing obesity and one of the
few nationwide focusing on childhood obesity. Scientists will pursue
research that will be translated
into child and adult clinics, programs, training and community
education.
With key support from the Hall
K
Family Foundation and the
Greater Kansas City Community
Foundation, the center will represent an expansion of existing obesity programs at KU’s Lawrence
and Medical Center campuses and
Children’s Mercy. The center will
bolster the greater Kansas City
area as a national center for life sciences research and development.
“Childhood obesity is a
national and a local crisis.
Helping children establish
healthier eating and active physical habits early in life will have
a significant impact on the overall well-being of our community,
our state and our economy.”
Chancellor Robert
Hemenway
“Our two institutions have significant programs in this area that
will complement and build upon
each other to provide a unique new
research environment,” Randall L.
O’Donnell, president and CEO of
Children’s Mercy Hospitals and
Clinics said. “This new partnership
with KU will further enhance our
mission to be here for all children
who need medical care.”
The center will occupy the second story of the new Don
Chisholm Center at Children’s
Mercy, currently under renovation
at the northwest corner of 22nd
and Holmes and scheduled to
open within the next 18 months.
The 14,000-square-foot facility will
have offices, exercise rooms for
children and adults, a metabolic
kitchen, examination rooms, a wet
lab, specialized equipment for
measuring body composition and
metabolism, an outdoor physical
activity park and meeting rooms. It
will also include a whole-room
calorimeter, one of the few in the
United States, that measures the
energy a person’s body uses in
normal activities.
The center will be directed by
professor Joseph E. Donnelly,
director of the Center for Physical
Activity and Weight Management
at KU’s Life Span Institute in
See OBESITY, page 2
Doug Koch/University Relations
Joseph Donnelly, director of the Center for Physical Activity and Weight Management at
KU’s Life Span Institute, will direct the new Center for Physical Activity, Nutrition and
Weight Management, a partnership between KU and Children’s Mercy Hospitals and
Clinics.
Defender project scores victory
by earning woman new trial
Law school project helps secure second
chances at justice for underrepresented
hen Alma Monreal was granted a new trial
in the death of her newborn daughter, it
was a victory for the defendant and the KU
School of Law.
Monreal was granted a new trial in Ford County
Court thanks to the help of the Paul E. Wilson
Defender Project at KU. The project was started by
Paul Wilson in 1965 as a way to help prisoners who
might otherwise not have legal representation. And
while some like Monreal get second chances at justice, the KU law students get invaluable lessons.
Monreal’s case is a fine example of how the pro-
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Submitted/Design and Construction Management
The rendering above shows the new traffic booth, which will be located near the intersection of 14th St. and Jayhawk Blvd. Fraser Hall is shown in the background.
New traffic booth
plans announced
U officials have announced
a new traffic booth will be
constructed to take the
place of the temporary booth at
14th
Street
and
Jayhawk
Boulevard.
The cost of the booth has not
been determined, but it is scheduled to be completed in early fall. It
will be south of 14th Street and
Jayhawk Boulevard, east of
Danforth Chapel and north of
Fraser Hall.
The booth will feature a seam-
K
See BOOTHS, page 2
Danforth to open,
roofs progressing
ummer heat has slowed
repairs to campus roofs following the March 12
microburst, but that won’t keep
one historic KU building from
reopening next month.
Danforth Chapel, home to
countless weddings and events
over the years, is set to reopen
next month when its new roof is
S
See ROOFS, page 2
gram works. Inmates who have been convicted of a
crime and have had their convictions affirmed on
appeal write to the program. Students review the
cases to look for mistakes by counsel or evidence that
may not have been introduced at trial. Sometimes
they view good work; other times, they find stunningly deficient legal work.
“If we think there’s something there, we do a couple of things,” said Jean Phillips, director of the project. “We either file it pro se and request legal counsel,
or we sign it on and litigate it for (the defendants).”
The program, staffed by 15 to 20 students and three
attorneys, gives the aspiring practitioners of law a
chance to interview witnesses, attorneys and others
See LAW, page 2
Student health workers play role in
development of cervical cancer vaccine
Campus served as a test
site for GARDASIL
By Brandis Griffith
ealth care workers at KU’s
Student Health Services
knew that their years of
research had paid off when the
U.S.
Food
and
Drug
Administration
last
month
H
approved the vaccine against cervical cancer, GARDASIL.
Henry William Buck, a retired
gynecologist from Student Health
Services, led testing in 1999 when
KU’s Lawrence campus served as
one of 17 test sites for the vaccine
against Human Papillomavirus 16,
one of the high-risk cancer-causing
types of virus. Sixty students
served as subjects during the fouryear research project.
“It’s going to go down with polio
as a major advance and probably
lead the way toward vaccinations
for other cancers,” Buck said. “We
just don’t know yet which ones
those are.”
In the United States, there are
See CANCER, page 2
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Lawrence. Donnelly is a nationally recognized researcher in weight loss and maintenance who has received $10 million in
National Institutes of Health grants for his
research since 2000. Current projects
involve more than 15,000 area children in
strategies to combat obesity involving physical activity and environment, diet, pharmaceuticals and public policy.
Physicians directing Children’s Mercy’s
portions of the research and services at the
new center include Sarah Hampl, pediatrician and director of the hospital’s PHIT Kids
program; Merlin Butler, chief of genetics;
and Wayne Moore, chief of endocrinology.
All three physicians have faculty appointments at the University of Missouri-Kansas
City School of Medicine, have received multiple research grants and are involved with
clinical care and research at Children’s
Mercy related to pediatric and adolescent
obesity. Butler and Donnelly have collaborated on a number of projects and publications over the past seven years, particularly
related to researching Prader-Willi syn-
drome, the leading genetic cause of childhood obesity.
Funding for the Don Chisholm Center
renovation was provided through a $4 million gift from the Hall Family Foundation to
Children’s Mercy, which donated the space
for the new obesity center. KU has set an initial goal of raising $5 million to fund center
operations. The Greater Kansas City
Community Foundation has pledged $1 million over five years for the center toward
that goal. In addition, KU has committed
resources to hire four new faculty positions
for the center — two from the Lawrence
campus and two from the KU Medical
Center in Kansas City, Kan., to join the existing KU and Children’s Mercy staff who will
work at the center.
“The Center for Physical Activity,
Nutrition and Weight Management allows
two of Kansas City’s most renowned health
institutions to collaborate on one of our
nation’s most concerning trends — childhood obesity. We will be a national leader in
both research and clinical activity,” said Bill
Hall, president of the Hall Family
Foundation.
The Greater Kansas City Community
Foundation and its donors are supporting
the center because of its emphasis on a bistate combination of researchers and institutions, said Laura McKnight, foundation CEO
and president. Such collaborations were
called for in “Time to Get it Right,” a report
on the higher education system of Kansas
City commissioned by the foundation.
“The center has a bi-state strategy with
the collaboration of two of our region’s leading research institutions and is clearly an
example of how Kansas City can make that
strategy a reality to effectively and successfully compete in today’s global economy,”
McKnight said.
The obesity research center could have
significant public health effects in the region
that will compound over time, Donnelly said.
KU’s portion of the program will enroll 300
children and 500 adults in clinical settings in
3- to 6-month research programs by fall 2009
and more than 30,000 children in school and
home-based programs in Kansas and
Missouri by 2011.
Children’s Mercy currently treats one of
the nation’s largest populations of pediatric
LAW
MONSTERS IN THE MUSEUM
involved in cases. They also get
the chance to review real interrogations, police reports and experience the law at work in a way that
can’t be done in a classroom.
The project meets two of the law
school’s major goals, including the
school’s public service mission.
“We have the ability to correct
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less window that wraps around all
four sides of the structure and a 3foot wide door on the south that
provides access to the ADA-com-
some wrongs,” Phillips said.
It also teaches students to be
better lawyers by offering them a
chance to view others’ mistakes
and to make their own while they
can be caught, as opposed to making them while practicing law on
their own.
The project can’t take on all the
applications it receives every year.
Sometimes, as in Monreal’s case,
glaring errors by attorneys exist.
Other times, the work was solid.
Either way, students learn.
“The unique thing about the project is it gives students a chance to
go back and look at the record, to
see good and bad work. It just
gives them an opportunity to put
what they learn in motion,”
Phillips said.
pliant booth. Sliding windows on
each side will allow traffic control
officers to communicate with drivers on both sides. The east curb
and sidewalk will be moved slightly east to accommodate traffic and
turning radii on each side of the
structure.
The temporary booth replaced
one that was located at 13th Street
and Oread Avenue, which was
removed to make way for the
Docking Family Gateway.
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R. Steve Dick/University Relations
A film crew sets up lighting during the shooting of “Sea Monsters 3D” at the Museum
of Natural History and Biodiversity Research Center.A crew was recently shooting
footage for the giant-screen production on location at KU.
Office of External
Affairs reorganized
U has reorganized and
streamlined its Office of
External
Affairs,
Chancellor Robert Hemenway
announced.
The following organizational
changes were implemented July
15: The position of executive vice
chancellor for external affairs was
eliminated. Departments and personnel that reported to the executive vice chancellor are being distributed
among
existing
administrators.
Keith Yehle, director of government relations, is reporting directly to the chancellor.
Kathy Damron, KU’s liaison
with the Kansas Legislature, is
continuing to represent the university in Topeka.
K
Lynn Bretz
Keith Yehle
Lynn
Bretz,
director
of
University Relations, has assumed
a new position as director of university communications, which will
include responsibility for university relations, special events, marketing and Kansas Public Radio and
the Kansas Audio-Reader Network.
She will report directly to the chancellor and will continue as the university’s official spokesperson.
Q: John G. Haskell, a prolific architect, designed much of the early KU landscape.Two of his most well-known buildings,“old” Fraser Hall and “old” Snow
Hall, were demolished years ago, but all or part of two of his buildings still
stand.Which are they?
See page 7 for the answer.
• Information supplied by This Week In KU History, a project of the KU
Memorial Unions. Learn more at www.kuhistory.com.
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completed.
Mark Reiske, associate director of Design and
Construction Management, said eight campus
buildings are under contract for roof repair, meaning estimates have been completed and work can,
and in some cases, has begun. The Computer
Center, Lied Center and Marvin Studio’s roofs have
been completed. Others under contract include
Danforth, Robinson Center, Art and Design, and
Blake, Green, Murphy, Snow and Stauffer-Flint
Halls.
Bids are being made on others, including Fraser
Hall. Malott, Summerfield, Bailey and Dyche halls
will be bid soon, Reiske said.
The March 12 microburst damaged approximate-
CANCER
approximately 100,000 incidents of
cervical cancer a year. On average,
the disease kills 10 women a day.
Worldwide, it causes 240,000
deaths per year and is the second
most common cancer death for
women.
At the time, Buck was serving
on the American College Health
Association’s Task Force on HPV
when Merck solicited his help and
that of KU’s Student Health
Services.
By then, Buck had studied the
virus
for
11
years.
Buck said most of the test sites for
the vaccine were at colleges
because of the prevalence of HPV
among the college population. The
rate of abnormal pap smears in college health is about 10 percent, he
said, twice the rate for the total
female population.
diabetes patients and has recently been
selected as one of only two institutions in the
nation studying Prader-Willi Syndrome as
part of the NIH’s Rare Disease Clinical
Research Network. Research efforts in both
these areas will continue and expand as part
of the new collaborative research center,
along with the hospital’s multidisciplinary,
chronic care approach to caring for children
with other illnesses caused by their obesity.
Children’s Mercy also has been selected as
a member of the Youth Obesity Learning
Collaborative, a national network of health
systems recognized for their leadership in
childhood obesity efforts by the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
“The new research center will greatly
enhance our ability to work with KU in
expanding prevention, treatment and community education efforts to benefit all children in our region,” said Kevin Kelly, chairman of pediatrics at Children’s Mercy and
professor of pediatrics at the University of
Missouri-Kansas City.
ly 60 percent of the buildings on the Lawrence campus and caused an estimated $6 million in damage.
All damaged roofs have temporary repairs in place
to keep the interiors dry.
Work on the roofs has been slowed by material
deliveries and high temperatures. Reiske said temperatures around 90 degrees can cause roofs to become
soft, and crews can damage new roof surfaces by
working on them if the temperature is too high.
September through December are traditionally good
months for doing roof work in Kansas, he added.
The goal is to have roof work completed by the
end of the year.
“Before the kids get back we’ll have fixed or
started the eight roofs under contract, and will have
bid another six. Hopefully we’ll have everything
done before winter,” Reiske said.
“It’s estimated there are at least
1 million new cases a year of external genital warts in this country,”
he said. “And we certainly saw our
share and are still seeing our
share at Watkins (Health Center).”
Buck said that during the trial period, initial results did not return for
2 1/2 to 3 years. But when they
did, the researchers were surprised with what was found.
“You hope that it’s going to be
good,” said Kathy Guth, nurse
practitioner in women’s health at
Watkins Memorial Health Center.
“But when you come up to around
98 percent effective rate or higher,
that’s
outstanding.”
Guth served as the No. 2 investigator on the trial.
“When we started out doing the
study, we didn’t have any idea how
well this was going to work,” Buck
said. “I’m not sure that we’re all that
accustomed to finding things that
work as well as this, so it’s been a
real exciting thing to be involved in.”
Worldwide,
40,000
people
received the vaccine during the
trial period. GARDASIL is also
approved to vaccinate against cancers, pre-cancers and genital warts
caused by several types of HPV.
Buck said he anticipates the medical community welcoming the
new vaccine and thinks it should
be incorporated into most vaccination programs.
Where it’s needed the most, he
said, is in third-world countries.
“They’re basically the populations
that aren’t getting pap smears; you
could accomplish a lot of cervical
cancer control if you were getting
pap smears in those areas,” he said.
The GARDASIL vaccination is
delivered in three shots at a cost of
$120 each. Buck says that cost
does not include the provider’s fee.
GARDASIL was expected to be
available nationwide by the end of
June.
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FIGHTING JAYHAWKS
Researcher’s work sheds light
on evolution of ancient fish
Miao, Chinese colleagues
publish work in Nature
KU researcher teamed up
with his Chinese colleagues across the miles to
delve into the history of a rare fossil find.
The June 22
issue of Nature
magazine
featured an
article cowritten by
Desui
Miao, collection manager at KU’s
Biodiversity Research Center’s
Division
of
Vertebrate
Paleontology.
The paper, “A lamprey from the
Cretaceous Jehol biota of China,”
details the discovery and signifi-
A
Submitted/Fritz Keel
Four KU ROTC graduates serving in Iraq recently posed for a picture with a Jayhawk
flag. Pictured, from left, are Capt. Marcus S.Welch, who did his ROTC training at KU,
currently in the 3rd Battalion, 6th Field Artillery; Edward "Fritz" Keel of Lawrence, a
1998 KU graduate in history and Alpha Battery commander; Rod Galindo of
Shawnee,a 1999 KU graduate and currently with the 130th Field Artillery Brigade from
Topeka; and Andy Mack of Lawrence, a 1999 KU graduate, current 67th Forward
Suppport Company (FSC) commander, 2ND BN, 20TH Field Artillery. Keel, who is the
son of William Keel, professor and chair of Germanic languages, is expected home this
month after a one year depolyment.
cance of two lamprey specimens
found in December 2005 in Inner
Mongolia, China.
Lampreys are eel-shaped fish
with long snouts and well-developed oral suckers. The
ancient jawless ver-
record is rather meager because
the creatures lacked mineralized
tissues, like bone or calcified cartilage, Miao said.
Miao said that
information
tebrate
group has lived on earth for at
least 300 million years. Today, they
live widespread across the northern hemisphere in freshwater and
coastal seas.
Miao and his colleagues said
the two tiny fossils, about eight
centimeters in length, offer more
information about the evolution of
the lamprey. Their existing fossil
tells them that the lamprey has changed little in the last
100 million years and bridges the
gap between modern-day lampreys and 300 million-year-old
specimens found in North
America, thus furthering the scientific community’s understanding.
Miao joined professors Meemann Chang and Jiangyong Zhang
at the Chinese Academy of
Sciences on the research.
Funding to help land multi-million dollar microscope
Instrument will support vaccine,
cancer, prostheses research
funding bill nearing final passage in
Congress contains a significant provision that will benefit KU: $1 million
for the purchase of a new transmission electron microscope on the Lawrence campus.
Rep. Dennis Moore, D-Kan., is responsible for the funding, which is part of the
Department of Defense Appropriations Act
for fiscal year 2007. The state-of-the-art
instrument will support research related to
A
vaccines, prostheses and cancer. It will
enable researchers to do microscopy at low
temperatures, examining so-called “soft”
samples, such as tissue and cells.
One use of the microscope is to study the
design of scaffolds upon which tissue can be
regenerated for the reconstruction of bones
or connective tissue. The technology is a
high priority for the Department of Defense
because of its potential to develop highly
sophisticated prostheses for injured veterans.
“With this funding,” said Moore, “the
University of Kansas will be able to achieve
new advances in biomedical research and
showcase how our service men and women
can benefit from sustained investments in
advanced medical and military health technologies.”
While the microscope has a military
research purpose, it isn’t limited to that,
according to George Wilson, associate vice
provost for research. “This piece of equipment is urgently needed at KU and spans
the entire university. It serves a very broad
base of people,” said Wilson. Other applica-
tions include research on nanotechnology,
alternative fuel cells, chemistry, geology
and drug delivery in pharmaceutical chemistry.
The instrument will replace a 15-year-old
electron microscope that has severe limitations. Total cost of the new microscope is
approximately $2 million. KU is seeking
additional funding and expects to install the
new microscope next spring. It will be part
of KU’s Microscopy and Analytical Imaging
Laboratory.
Journals edited at KU finding success among peers
Some picked university,
others started here
nyone in academe can
attest to the importance of
academic journals. KU
authors are published in prestigious journals regularly, but some
may be surprised at how many
journals are edited at the university.
A search of the University
Libraries’ database turned up
more than 150 publications that
are edited here. The following features just two of these journals that
have had recent success.
PALAIOS
Kansas has gained international
headlines recently about the State
Board of Education’s decision to
deemphasize the teaching of evo-
A
lution. Despite the evolution-intelligent design controversy, the international membership of the
Society for Sedimentary Geology
saw KU as the perfect place to
house its journal, PALAIOS.
Stephen Hasiotis, associate professor of geology, and Edith Taylor,
professor and senior curator in biological sciences, were chosen by
the membership to edit the journal. They began their duties in
April.
Founded in 1986, PALAIOS is a
bimonthly journal published by
the Society for Sedimentary
Geology dedicated to emphasizing
the impact of life on Earth history
as recorded in the paleontological
and sedimentological records. The
readership of PALAIOS includes
an international spectrum of scien-
Web works
tists interested in a broad range of
topics, including ancient climate,
environments, ecology and evolution. Contributions to the journal
emphasize using paleontology to
answer important questions about
geology and biology that further
our understanding of the history of
Earth systems and the evolution of
life.
One of the goals of the new coeditors is to expand the scope of
subjects published in PALAIOS to
include new research areas such
as geomicrobiology, paleobiogeochemistry and astrobiology.
The editorial office is housed in
the Paleontological Institute, home
of the internationally recognized
Treatise
on
Invertebrate
Paleontology, in the Department of
Geology, Lindley Hall.
Journal
of
Public
Administration Research and
Theor y
Sixteen years ago, George
Frederickson, Edwin O. Stene
Distinguished Professor of Public
Administration, thought there was
something missing from the journals that covered his area of expertise. So he started the Journal of
Public Administration Research
and Theory.
“It was founded right here in
this office,” Frederickson said
from his Blake Hall office. “There
was an unfilled niche in my area.”
Frederickson wanted to start a
journal that would apply social sciences to government affairs.
JPART, which is now published by
Oxford University Press, was the
result.
In the news
The niche market he mentioned
has taken notice, as has the entire
academic public administration
field. In 2003, the first year JPART
appeared in citation impact factor
rankings, it was listed at 14th. In
2004, it jumped to 7th. Last year,
when the rankings were released,
the journal was at No. 1.
Citation impact factor measures
the number of annual citations in
ISI Thompson Scientific indexed
journals.
The journal’s success has
spawned other activity in the field.
The Public Management Research
Association was formed after the
journal began publishing.
“It’s a professional group that
grew out of a journal. It’s usually
the
other
way
around,”
Frederickson said.
Book shelf
LIFELONG LEARNING: KU’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute pro-
INTENTIONAL OUTBREAK? Michael Yellow Bird, associate profes-
THE TRANSLATION OF PATHOLOGY:
vides intellectually engaging and enriching classes to diverse communities
sor of American studies, was cited in a recent Denver Post article about the
Pathology: A Color Atlas by Ivan Damjanov,
of lifelong learners, with a focus on those 50 and older. The institute, a
oral histories of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nations.The University of
professor of pathology at the medical center,
part of KU Continuing Education, has created a Web site to provide
Colorado formed an investigative panel to look into claims of professor
and James Linder was recently translated into
details to those seek-
Ward Churchill that whites deliberately introduced a smallpox epidemic
Japanese and published in Tokyo, Japan. It was
ing information about
that nearly wiped the three tribes out in 1837. Yellow Bird, who grew up on
also trans-
programs and events.
the Three Tribes Reservations, told the committee that older people in the
lated
Offerings include non-
tribe generally think smallpox was introduced by whites, the article says.
Chinese
credit short courses,
and
pub-
and
and toxicology, was quoted in a recent USA Today article about concerns of
lished
workshops in areas
possible harm caused by a plant estrogen found in soy products or soy baby
Elsevier
such as the liberal
formula. There is a shortage of human data, but Rozman said animal data
(Singapore)
arts, the humanities,
provide some answers.
Pte,
online
www.kuce.org/lifelonglearning
FORMULA CONCERNS: Karl Rozman, professor of pharmacology
into
classes
the sciences, design
“The animal data are clear, in so far that when you administer these
and the arts, with
kinds of compounds orally, there is generally not much problem,” Rozman
abundant community
was quoted as saying. Only when plant estrogens are injected, leading to
and regional content.
high blood levels, are adverse effects seen in research animals, he said.
by
Ltd,
Singapore.
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Calendar
July 17 - Aug. 20
18 Tuesday
Workshop. Conducting Unclassified Staff
Searches. 9:30 a.m. 103B Carruth-O’Leary
Hall. Free. Sponsored by Human
Resources and Equal Opportunity. Call
864-3686.
Play. Kansas Mystery Theatre:And Then
There Were None by Agatha Christie.
Directed by John Gronbeck-Tedesco. 7:30
p.m. Crafton-Preyer Theatre, Murphy Hall.
$12-$10. Sponsored by University
Theatre. Call 864-3982.
KU ticket offices
Lied Center of Kansas
(785) 864-ARTS (2787)
Murphy Hall
(785) 864-3982
SUA, Kansas Union
(785) 864-3477
19 Wednesday
Workshop. PeopleAdmin Training. 8:30
a.m. 31 Carruth-O’Leary Hall. Free.
Sponsored by Human Resources and
Equal Opportunity. Call 864-3686.
Workshop. Customer Service. 9 a.m.
204 Joseph R. Pearson Hall. Free.
Concert. IIYM Gala Student Recital. 7
p.m. Lied Center. Free. Sponsored by
School of Fine Arts. Call 864-9742.
Play. Kansas Mystery Theatre:
Something’s Afoot. Directed by John
Staniunas. 7:30 p.m. Crafton-Preyer
Theatre, Murphy Hall. $15-$10. Sponsored
by University Theatre. Call 864-3982.
20 Thursday
Film. Page To Screen:A summer book
discussion and film series. Moderated by
M.J. McClendon, Department of English. 6
p.m. Spencer Museum of Art. Free. Call
864-4710.
21 Friday
Staniunas. 7:30 p.m. Crafton-Preyer
Theatre, Murphy Hall. $15-$10. Sponsored
by University Theatre. Call 864-3982.
Film. Movie on the Hill: Ice Age 2. 9 p.m.
Memorial Campanile. Free. Sponsored by
Student Union Activities. Call 864-SHOW.
23 Sunday
Staniunas. 5 p.m. Crafton-Preyer Theatre,
Murphy Hall. $15-$10. Sponsored by
University Theatre. Call 864-3982.
Film. Page To Screen:A summer book
discussion and film series. Moderated by
Tim Thurman, Department of English. 6
p.m. Spencer Museum of Art. Free. Call
864-4710.
28 Friday
24 Monday
Workshop. New Staff Orientation. 8 a.m.
22 Saturday
26 Wednesday
Public Event. White glove tour of
archives. 10:30 a.m. Dole Institute of
Politics. Free. Call 864-1420.
Concert. IIYM Gala Student Recital. 7
p.m. Lied Center. Free. Sponsored by
School of Fine Arts. Call 864-9742.
27 Thursday
Academic date. Last day of summer
classes.
Workshop. Conducting SearchesUpdates. 9:30 a.m. 103B Carruth-O’Leary
Hall. Free. Sponsored by Human
Resources and Equal Opportunity. Call
864-3686.
29 Saturday
Public Event. Xtreme Kool-Aid Kapture
the Flag. 1:30 p.m. Robinson Center. Free.
Sponsored by Student Union Activities.
Call 864- SHOW.
Workshop. STEP (Day 1 of 7). 9 a.m.
Call 864-4710.
● “Photography Between the Wars.”
North Balcony Gallery.Through July 30.
● “Summer in Central Court.” Central
Court.Through Aug. 6.
Exhibits
Art and Design Gallery
302 Art and Design Building. Closed for
summer. Call 864-4401.
Booth Family Hall of Athletics
1651 Naismith Drive. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat. Call 864-3445.
Dole Institute of Politics
2350 Petefish Drive. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.Sat., noon-5 p.m. Sun. Call 864-4900.
● “Cabinets of Curiosity: Musing About
Collections.” North Balcony Gallery.
Through Sept. 24.
Spencer Research Library
1450 Poplar Lane. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri.
Closed Sat. and Sun. Call 864-4334.
The North Gallery offers a selection from
KU's great rare book collections and a
view of the Memorial Campanile, looking
north from the crest of Mount Oread.
Watson and Anschutz libraries
Watson: 1425 Jayhawk Blvd.
Anschutz: 1301 Hoch Auditoria Drive,
south of Budig Hall.
Exhibits, a soaring stained-glass American
flag, a World Trade Center memorial and a
memory wall honoring World War II veterans from Kansas.
8 a.m.-midnight Mon.-Thu., 8 a.m.-8 p.m.
Fri., 10 a.m.-8p.m. Sat. and 10a.m.-midnight
Sun. For other library hours, call 8648900.
Natural History Museum
1345 Jayhawk Blvd. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat.,
noon-5 p.m. Sun. Call 864-4450.
Wilcox Classical Museum
103 Lippincott Hall. 1-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri. and
by appointment. Call 864-3153.
● Explore Evolution
Spencer Museum of Art
1301 Mississippi St. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.Tue.Wed., 10 a.m.-9 p.m.Thu., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Fri.-Sat., noon-5 p.m. Sun. Closed Mondays.
Antiquities such as vases, coins, small
sculptures, lamps and architectural terra
cottas and of full-size replicas of wellknown works of Greek and Roman sculpture.
Employees of the month honored
Karron Schwarz
University support staff
Hal Kopsa
Unclassified employee
Started at KU:1964.
Current title: Administrative
professional.
What that
means:
Schwarz
works
with
budget administration:
Managing
records, monitoring funds, Karron Schwarz
processing payments, producing
monthly budget reports for the
vice provost for Student Success
and for the 19 Student Success
departments, their 750 employees
and 1,200 student employees.
Notable: “Karron is the kind of
employee who makes KU the efficient, well-run, and enjoyable place
it is,” said Marlesa Roney, vice
provost for Student Success.
Started at KU: 1980.
Current
title:
Storeroom
supervisor for
FO materials
management.
What that
means: Kopsa
makes
sure
that the craftsmen in all of
the
shops,
from carpen- Hal Kopsa
ters and electricians to painters and plumbers,
have the parts and supplies they
need to complete their tasks.
Notable: In addition to the routine maintenance and work
requests, Kopsa has to plan ahead
for the large construction projects
assigned to FO, some of which
could deplete supplies without
proper advanced planning.
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News in brief
Armstrong presenting at
Kemper Museum
Elissa Armstrong, assistant professor of ceramics, will present her
first solo museum exhibition,
“Elissa Armstrong: Objects of
Innocence and Experience,” July 7
through Oct. 1 at the Kemper
Museum of Contemporary Art in
Kansas City, Mo.
For more information on the
exhibition, visit kemperart.org or
call (816) 753-5784.
KU to oversee dental health
program
The United Methodist Health
Ministry Fund has announced new
grants of more than $266,000 for
health-related projects in Kansas.
With a grant of $5,500, two
methods of providing education
for improved oral health will be
evaluated at the Haskell Health
Center in Lawrence. Under the
direction of KU pediatric psychology professor Michael Roberts, the
study will be conducted by Joanna
Mashunkashey, a graduate student with the Clinical Child
Psychology Program. The study
will compare the effectiveness of
interactive computer games with
more intentional parental involvement in teaching and encouraging
Native American children to brush
and floss their teeth.
Nursing awards program
taking nominations
The Nursing: The Heart of
Healthcare awards program has
kicked off its 16th year of recognizing outstanding registered
nurses in Kansas and metropolitan
Kansas City for their dedication to
patient care, their communities
and the nursing profession. This
prestigious awards program is
coordinated by the KU School of
Nursing as a public service.
Nominations for awards will be
accepted until Aug. 1.
To obtain a nomination form,
contact the Nursing: The Heart of
Healthcare Hotline at (800) 3080890. For more information about
the program, contact Kari Ziblut at
(913)
588-1616
or
[email protected].
Proofreading of phone
directory later this month
Offices and departments that
sent telephone directory updates
to University Relations may send a
representative to the Wesley
Building to proofread the changes
July 31 through Aug. 4. No
appointment is necessary.
Only the administrative (white)
pages will be available for proofreading. To update information in
the
blue-bordered
personnel
pages, contact Human Resources.
Questions should be directed to
Lauren Beatty, 864-8856 or
[email protected].
School of Nursing adds new
master’s program
The KU School of Nursing has
added a new program, the Clinical
Nurse Leader Program, to its master of science degree offerings.
A clinical nurse leader is a master’s-prepared nurse who functions
as a clinician and provides individualized, evidence-based, high
effective care to patients and families on an identified care unit (hospital unit, public health track,
school or occupational setting).
Galle elected Board of
Regents chair
The Kansas Board of Regents
has elected Nelson Galle of
Manhattan as chair of the board
and Christine Downey-Schmidt of
Inman as vice chair.
Galle was appointed to the
board by Gov. Kathleen Sebelius in
2003 and currently is chair of the
board’s fiscal affairs and audit
committee. He retired from a
career in agribusiness, primarily
with the Hesston Corp., a manufacturer of farm machinery.
Downey-Schmidt was appointed
to the board by Sebelius in 2005
and is a member of the board’s academic affairs committee. Galle
and Downey-Schmidt will serve
one-year leadership terms.
Annual teaching summit set
for Aug. 15
KU will hold its annual teaching
summit on Aug. 15 in Budig and
Wescoe halls. The theme of this
year’s conference is “Teaching and
Learning in a Changing World.”
The first general session will be
at 8:30 a.m. in 130 Budig. Special
keynote speaker will be David
Jonassen, distinguished professor
of education at the University of
Missouri.
For a complete list of sessions,
check the center’s Web site at
www.ku.edu/~cte and look under
“Special Announcements.”
To register for the summit, contact the center at 864-4199 or
[email protected]. For more information, contact Judy Eddy at 864-4100
or [email protected].
Tagline no longer required
on advertisements
In 2005, legislation was passed
requiring KU to put a tagline such
as “Paid for by KU” on advertisements paid for with state funds.
The legislation expired June 30
and was not re-enacted. Any advertisement ordered for publication
on or after July 1 does not need to
have the “Paid for by KU” tagline.
Direct
payment
questions
should be directed to CASPUR
contacts. For questions regarding
content for job announcements,
contact Human Resources and
Equal Opportunity at 864-3686.
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Calendar
30 Sunday
9 Wednesday
Public Event. Family Day. Summertime
at the Spencer. 1 p.m. Spencer Museum of
Art. Free. Call 864-4710.
Workshop. Intro. to Supervision (Day 1
of 2). 9 a.m. 204 Joseph R. Pearson Hall.
Free. Sponsored by Human Resources
and Equal Opportunity. Call 864-4648.
3 Thursday
Workshop. STEP (Day 2 of 7). 9 a.m. 204
Joseph R. Pearson Hall. Free. Sponsored
by Human Resources and Equal
Opportunity. Call 864-4648.
4 Friday
Workshop. Conducting SearchesUpdates. 10:30 a.m. 250 Strong Hall. Free.
Submit Calendar items....
two weeks before Oread publication
date by campus mail or e-mail to
Lauren Beatty, University Relations.
[email protected]
10 Thursday
Conference. About Teaching:The New
GTA Conference. 8 a.m. Budig Hall. Free.
Sponsored by Center for Teaching
Excellence. Call 864-4199.
11 Friday
Workshop. Intro. to Supervision (Day 2
of 2). 9 a.m. 204 Joseph R. Pearson Hall.
Free. Sponsored by Human Resources
and Equal Opportunity. Call 864-4648.
Workshop. Conducting Faculty Searches.
9:30 a.m. 250 Strong Hall. Free. Sponsored
by Human Resources and Equal
Opportunity. Call 864-3686.
13 Sunday
Public Event. Poster Sale. 9 a.m. 4th
Floor, Kansas Union. Sponsored by
Public Event. Unionfest Fiesta. 8 p.m.
Kansas Union. Free. Sponsored by Student
Union Activities. Call 864-SHOW.
p.m.Wescoe Beach. Free. Sponsored by
16 Wednesday
Workshop. Basic Facilitation (Day 1 of
2). 9 a.m. 204 Joseph R. Pearson Hall. Free.
Public Event. Convocation. 8 p.m. Lied
Center. Sponsored by Office of the
Chancellor. Call 864-3131.
14 Monday
Workshop. New Staff Orientation. 8
a.m. 204 Joseph R. Pearson Hall. Free.
15 Tuesday
Conference. Teaching and Learning in a
Changing World. KU Summit 2006. 8:30
a.m. 130 Budig Hall. Free. Sponsored by
Center for Teaching Excellence. Call 8644199.
Public Event. Beach ‘N’ Boulevard. 7
17 Thursday
Academic date. First day of classes.
Public Event. Tea Time. 3 p.m. Fourth
Floor, Kansas Union. Free. Sponsored by
Film. Hawk Week Film: Shaun of the
Dead. 7 p.m. Spencer Museum of Art auditorium. Free. Call 864-0254.
18 Friday
Concert. Tunes at Noon. Noon. Plaza,
Kansas Union. Free. Sponsored by Student
Union Activities. Call 864-SHOW.
Social Event. Lied Center Family Arts
Festival. 6 p.m. Lied Center. Free. Call 8642787.
Concert. The Wailin’ Jennys. 7 p.m. Lied
Center. Free. Call 864-2787.
Film. Movie on the Hill: Mission:
Impossible III. 9 p.m. Memorial Campanile.
Free. Sponsored by Student Union
Activities. Call 864-SHOW.
Public Event. Cosmic Bowling. 10 p.m.
Jaybowl, Kansas Union. Free. Sponsored
by Student Union Activities. Call 864SHOW.
19 Saturday
Public Event. Cosmic Bowling. 10 p.m.
Jaybowl, Kansas Union. Free. Sponsored
by Student Union Activities. Call 864SHOW.
Hall Center’s Humanities Lecture Series lineup set
NPR commentator, historian,
philosopher, KU prof to speak
ational Public Radio commentator
Andrei Codrescu will kick off the
2006-07 Humanities Lecture Series
at KU in August, the Hall Center for the
Humanities has announced.
The series also will feature Somalian
author Nuruddin Farah, evolutionary biologist and author Richard Dawkins, social and
cultural historian Nancy Cott, philosopher
and author Kwame Anthony Appiah and KU
professor of Slavic languages and literatures
Maria Carlson.
The series is partially supported by the
National Endowment for the Humanities
and is free and open to the public. Each lecture begins at 7:30 p.m. All except Cott will
participate in a public colloquium on the
morning following their lecture. The dates
and locations of each lecture are:
■ Andrei Codrescu, Aug. 28,
Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union:
Codrescu, the MacCurdy Distinguished
Professor of English at Louisiana State
University, is a poet,
novelist, essayist and
screenwriter in addition
to his work for NPR’s
“All
Things
Considered.” Codrescu
was born in Sibiu,
Romania, came to the
United States in 1966
and became a U.S. citi- Andrei Codrescu
zen in 1981.
His most recent book, New Orleans, Mon
Amour (2006) is a collection of short essays
concerning the city that Codrescu has called
N
home for a number of years. His other
recent books include the novel Wakefield
(2004) and a collection of poetry, It Was
Today (2003). He is also editor of Exquisite
Corpse, an online literary journal at
www.corpse.org.
■ Nuruddin Farah, Sept. 12,
Woodruff: Farah is considered one of the
world’s great authors and is winner of the
1998
Neustadt
International Prize for
Literature. Farah’s fiction often deals with
women’s
liberation
issues in Africa and particularly his native
Somalia.
His
most
famous novel, Maps
(1986), along with Gifts Nuruddin Farah
(1993)
and
Secrets
(1998) comprise his acclaimed “Blood in the
Sun” trilogy. Knots, his new novel, is
informed by Farah’s own recent efforts to
reclaim his family’s property in Mogadishu,
and his experiences trying to negotiate
peace among the city’s warlords. His lecture
is supported by the Sosland Foundation of
Kansas City.
■ Richard Dawkins, Oct. 16, Lied
Center: Dawkins is an ethologist — someone who studies animal behavior — and evolutionary theorist. A University of Oxford
graduate, he is the first to hold the Charles
Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding
of Science at Oxford. He did his doctorate
under the Nobel prize-winning ethologist
Niko Tinbergen. Dawkins’s first book, The
Selfish Gene (1976; 1989) became an international bestseller and The Blind Watchmaker
(1986) won the Royal Society of Literature
Award and the Los
Angeles Times Prize.
His other bestsellers
include River Out of
Eden
(1995),
Unweaving the Rainbow
(1998) and A Devil’s
Chaplain (2003). His
most recent book is The
Ancestor’s
Tale:
A Richard Dawkins
Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (2004).
A new book, The God Delusion, will be
released later this year.
■ Nancy Cott, Nov. 2, Woodruff: Cott
is the Jonathan Trumbull Professor of
American History at Harvard University and
Pforzheimer Foundation director of the
Schlesinger Library on the History of
Women in America. Her work covers 19th
and 20th century social and cultural history,
focusing particularly on gender issues.
Cott’s interests also include social movements, citizenship, political culture and legal
institutions. Her books include The Bonds of
Womanhood: “Woman’s
Sphere”
in
New
England,
1780-1835
(1977;
1997),
The
Grounding of Modern
Feminism (1987) and
Public Vows: A History of
Marriage
and
the
Nation (2000). Cott’s
lecture is made possible Nancy Cott
in
part
by
the
Organization of American Historians
Distinguished Lectureship Program.
■ Kwame Anthony Appiah, March 1,
Kansas Union Ballroom: Appiah is the
Laurance
S.
Rockefeller
University
Professor of Philosophy at Princeton
University, where he
also holds an appointment at the University
Center for Human
Values. He has written
extensively on the philosophy of mind and
language, African and
African-American intellectual history and polit- Kwame Anthony Appiah
ical philosophy. The
author of three novels, his most recent
books include The Ethics of Identity, published in 2005, and Cosmopolitanism: Ethics
in a World of Strangers, published in 2006.
This lecture is supported by Frances and
Floyd Horowitz.
■ Maria Carlson, April 10, Woodruff:
Carlson is professor and associate chair of
Slavic languages and literatures at KU. She
teaches Russian culture and intellectual history, 18th and 20th century Russian literature and Russian symbolism. Her publications include a book on
Russian theosophy, No
Religion Higher than
Truth (1993). She holds
a courtesy appointment
in the history department and is the 2005
recipient
of
the
American Association
of Teachers of Slavic Maria Carlson
and Eastern European
Languages Award for Excellence in PostSecondary Teaching. Her lecture, supported by the Friends of the Hall Center, will
consider Russia’s search for identity after
the fall of the Soviet empire.
Taylor named to National Science Board KU representatives tapped for
Bush names professor to
influential policy entity
resident Bush has chosen a
KU professor to not only help
guide one of the country’s
most prestigious science organizations but also to lend scientific
advice to Congress and the president.
Thomas Taylor, Roy A. Roberts
Distinguished
Professor
of
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,
has been nominated to the
National Science Board of the
National Science Foundation. The
P
appointment is considered one of
the most influential in science policy and research in the United
States.
“I’m honored to be selected to
help govern science policy,” Taylor
said. “As we move forward, we’re
living in a world that is increasingly dictated by science and technology.”
Taylor noted that the president’s
new
American
Competitiveness Initiative means
substantial increases in federal
investments in science and technology research. Therefore, he
said, it is an
exciting time
to be on the
board.
Taylor has
taught at KU
for 11 years.
His research
involves the
study and evo- Thomas Taylor
lution of fossil plants.
The National Science Board is
made up of 24 members appointed
by the president and confirmed by
the Senate. Members’ terms last
six years.
Governor’s Council on Fitness
s
part
of
her
HealthyKansas initiative,
Gov. Kathleen Sebelius has
formed the Governor’s Council on
Fitness. George Brett and Lynette
Woodard will serve as honorary
co-chairs of the council.
The mission of the council is to
encourage increased physical
activity, healthy diets and tobacco
use prevention by sharing information with Kansans and partnering
with businesses, schools and individuals to promote healthy and
A
active lifestyles.
“We’ve put together an excellent group of role models to lead
the council and to encourage
Kansans to make healthy changes
in their lives. We can lower our
health costs and improve our quality of life by taking a few simple
steps together,” Sebelius said.
Web enhanced
For the list of representatives, visit www.oread.ku.edu.
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Scott Walter, assistant dean of
libraries
for
Information
and
Instructional Services, delivered the
keynote address at the 34th Annual
Library
Orientation
Exchange
Conference on May 5 in College
Park, Md. His
talk
was
titled
“Teacher/Librarian 2.0: Updating your
instruction for the Net generation
(and beyond).”
Security analysts Dave Hull and
Jason Tinsley presented “Intrusion
Detection System Deployment on
KU’s
Campus”
at
the
Kansas
Research and Education Network
Spring Representatives’ Conference
on March 27 in Manhattan.
Becky
Schulte,
university
archivist and bibliographer of the
Wilcox Collection of Contemporary
Political Movements, was invited to
present “Archiving the Right: The
Wilcox Collection at the University
of Kansas” at the International GLBT
Archives, Libraries, Museums and
Special Collections Conference on
May 19 in Minneapolis.The event was
the first international conference to
discuss gay, lesbian, bisexual and
transgender archives.
Gail Schaplowsky and Mike
Wright, project managers for the
Program and Service Management
Office, presented “Developing a Risk
Management Workshop” on May 24
at
the
Conference
on
Higher
Faculty feted for outstanding teaching
S
everal schools at KU have recently presented awards to faculty for teaching and
general excellence.
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
honored outstanding faculty with several teaching awards.
The Steeples Service to Kansans Award is
given to faculty who provide significant service
to the people of Kansas. The amount of the
award is $1,000. In addition, each recipient
received a $1,000 base adjustment to their
salary and was honored at the master’s degree
hooding ceremony.
Recipients were William Keel, professor and
chair, Germanic languages and literatures, and
Bill Tuttle, professor of American studies.
The Career Achievement Teaching Award is
presented to a retired faculty member who has
made a significant contribution to the teaching
of students at either the undergraduate or graduate level and who has distinguished her or
himself through excellence in teaching. The
amount of the award is $1,000. This year’s recipient was Norm Slade, professor and senior
curator, Natural History Museum and
Biodiversity Research Center.
The Jessie Marie Senor Cramer and Ann
Cramer Root French and Italian and Spanish
and Portuguese Faculty Awards are presented
annually in the French and Italian and Spanish
and Portuguese departments to recognize meritorious teaching and/or research. The professorships are $5,000 per year for three years.
Paul Scott, assistant professor of French,
received the Cramer professorship in French
and Italian; Allan Pasco, professor of French,
received the Cramer award in French and
Italian; Jorge Perez, assistant professor of
Spanish, received the Cramer professorship in
Spanish and Portuguese; and Vicky Unruh,
professor of Spanish, received the Cramer
award
in
Spanish
and
Portuguese.
One J. Michael Young Academic Adviser Award
is given in each of the three divisions of the
College: Social sciences, humanities and natural sciences. Recipients of the awards are honored at the College distinction/highest distinction ceremony and are presented with a $500
award as well as an additional $500 added to
their base salary.
Joey Sprague, professor of sociology, earned
the social sciences award; Chris Haufler, professor and director, Division of Biological
Sciences, took home the award for natural sciences; and Bernard “Bud” Hirsch, associate
professor of English, won the award for humanities.
Two professors received awards for outstanding teaching achievements in the
Department of Mathematics.
The Mathematics Graduate Students
Association presented the G. Baley Price
Award for Excellence in Teaching to Robert
Brown, professor of mathematics.
Bill Paschke, professor of mathematics,
received the $5,000 Max Wells Teaching Award
in recognition of outstanding or exemplary
teaching.
School of Engineering
Students selected two faculty members for
awards recognizing teaching and advising
skills.
Marylee Z. Southard, associate professor of
chemical and petroleum engineering, received
the $4,000 Gould Award for Teaching.
Kyle V. Camarda, associate professor of
chemical and petroleum engineering, received
the $4,000 Gould Award for Outstanding
Advising.
Michael Detamore and Cory Berkland, both
assistant professors of chemical and petroleum
engineering, each received a $4,000 Miller
Professional Development Award for Research.
They were selected by a faculty committee.
Man Kong, associate professor of electrical
engineering and computer science, received
the John E. Sharp and Winifred E. Sharp
Teaching Professorship. The award provides
$5,000 for three years for personal use and
access to $5,000 each of the three years for
instructional development.
School of Architecture and Urban
Design
Paola Sanguinetti, associate professor of
architecture, received the Jack and Nancy
Bradley Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Zuzanna Karczewska and Anne Patterson,
Submitted/Paula Naughtin
School of Education award winners pictured from left
are, Sherrie Saathoff, university support staff Employee of
the Year; Lynda Schoonmaker, School of Education
University Support Staff Achievement Award; Ed Meyen,
Faculty Achievement Award for Service; and Rich
Simpson, Faculty Achievement Award for Research.
lecturers in architecture, received Jack and
Nancy Bradley Students’ Recognition awards.
The Bradley Teaching Awards were established in 1991 to recognize distinguished teaching by members of the faculty of the School of
Architecture and Urban Design.
School of Education
Faculty research, service and teaching
awards were presented by Dean Rick Ginsberg
during the School of Education annual banquet
May 13 at the Alvamar Country Club.
Rich Simpson, professor of special education, received the Faculty Achievement Award
for Research.
Ed Meyen, professor of special education,
received the Faculty Achievement Award for
Service. Meyen was nominated for his service
for the past year and for his career-long contributions to the Department of Special
Education, the School of Education, KU, the
state of Kansas and beyond.
Kelli Thomas, assistant professor of teaching
and leadership, received the Faculty
Achievement Award for Teaching. She was
nominated by students.
Mike Neal, assistant dean of education, was
the recipient of the 2006 School of Education
Achievement Award.
The award is given for outstanding contributions to the school.
Education Computing in Kansas in
Manhattan.
Fran Devlin, digital reference
coordinator for University Libraries,
and Nancy Burich, distance educational coordinator for University
Libraries, presented
“Getting
their
Beyond
paper,
Institutional
Cultures: When Rivals Collaborate,”
on April 27 as part of a panel discussion at the Off-Campus Library
Services
Conference
held
in
Savannah, Ga. The paper was published in the Off-Campus Library
Services Conference proceedings.
Jeffery Bullington, data services
and government information librarian, presented “The Open Access
Movement and Data” on May 25 at
the 32nd Annual Conference of the
International Association for Social
Science Information and Technology:
Data in a Networked World of
Knowledge in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Gerald Lubensky, professor of
painting, will present an exhibit,“Jerry
KU Dining Services updates products, looks
The Market to reopen
with more space, options
isitors to The Market in the
Kansas Union this summer
have found the area covered
in plastic while a significant renovation takes place. By the beginning of the fall semester, visitors
will find new looks, new dining
options, a few old favorites in new
locations and less congestion.
Nona Golledge, director of KU
Dining Services, said The Market
is making the changes to better
serve the needs of customers as
well as reduce bottlenecks at peak
hours.
“We feel it’s going to expand the
space,” Golledge said of the
remodeling. “We’re also giving it
more of an interactive, engage-thecustomer type of feel.”
The area will not only look different, but several different offerings will be in place. Additions
include:
■ Boulevard Grill, featuring
V
Online dining
www.kudining.com has been redesigned. It offers residential dining
menus, hours of operation, daily specials, construction updates and will
soon add interactive maps of dining locations and location-specific photography. Plans are in the works for dedicated pages/menus for each retail
location including contact information for each unit manager and a “Food
for Thought” dining blog about new features and specials.
made-to-order hamburgers and
chicken sandwiches. Boulevard
Grill will replace Burger King.
■ Fresco! Cuisine will spotlight
a chef-run “display cooking” pasta
bar, allowing customers to view
their dish prepared.
■ Quesarito, specializing in
Chipotle®-style burritos and quesadillas, will take the place of
Pepperstix.
■ Garden Gourmet, featuring
made-to-order hot/cold salads,
soups and grilled panini sandwiches, will take over the current Pulse
Coffee Bar/Freshëns Smoothie
Company area.
■ The Corner Bakery will feature on-site fresh baked cookies,
an assortment of pastries from
Miss Molly’s Muffins and donuts
from Lawrence bakery Joe’s
Donuts.
A few current Market inhabitants will be relocated, including
Pulse
Coffee
Bar/Freshëns
Smoothie Company, which will be
relocated to the fourth floor,
across from Commerce Bank.
Brellas Sandwich Crafters, AFC
Sushi and Pizza Hut will all remain
in their current locations and are
offering limited operations as construction takes place.
Lawrence favorite Milton’s will
expand from its first floor coffe bar
to take the place of Westside Deli
and Market on the third level. New
services will include sit-down
breakfast and lunch options.
The dining area around The
Market will be slightly altered as
well. The wall behind the cash registers will be removed, along with
the booth seating to allow more
space for cash registers to serve
customers during peak hours.
The Kansas Union is not the
only spot on campus that will offer
new dining options. The Studio at
Hashinger Hall will open this fall
when the residence hall opens its
doors and will offer several new
dining opportunities.
Golledge also stressed that
though Wescoe Hall is in the midst
of expansion, the Underground
will remain open.
New Unclassified Senate officers announced
Lubensky-Pinturas,” July 6-18 at the
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo of la
Puebla de Cazilla in Seville, Spain. He
will show 15 large paintings from his
collection, all created in the last
decade.
See CREDITS, Page 7
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he Unclassified Senate has
announced the names of
several officers for the 200607 year.
Jason O’Connor, assistant director of the Freshman-Sophomore
Advising Center, will be president.
He follows Mark Nesbitt-Daly,
T
associate director of the Honors
Program, who will continue as past
president of the organization.
Unclassified staff elected to
office at the June 22 meeting are:
■ Danny Kaiser, president-elect
■ Angie Claussen, secretary
■ Angie Loving, treasurer
■ Thelma Simons, public relations committee chair
■ Rick Whitmore, ad hoc/elections committee chair
■ John Augusto, professional
development chair
■ Paul Farran, governance and
representation committee chair
Kathy Sheldon volunteered to
be the Unclassified Senate representative at meetings of the
University Support Staff Senate.
All began their terms in office
July 1. To learn more about
Unclassified
Senate,
visit
www.unclassifiedsenate.ku.edu.
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Jack W. Culvahouse, 76, died
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E. Jean M. Hill
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“Georectification of the Historic
Aerial
Photographs
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in
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Kansas Collection and bibliographer
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Kansas City Area Archivists during its
annual meeting June 3 at Emporia
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recognize her development of the
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offered by the Museum Studies
Program. Williams also presented
“Planning for the Future: The Society
of American Archivist’s Strategic
Midwest Archives Conference in
Bloomington, Ill.
Bruce S. Lieberman, associate
professor of geology, presented a
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address,
“Biogeographic
Patterns and Evolutionary Process
During the Cambrian Radiation,” at a
symposium
of
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International
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Changes to basketball ticket plan approved
he University Council has
approved several changes to
the SenEx Basketball Plan.
Approximately 1,600 of the faculty
and staff allotment of 1,810 seats
will now be available as season
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Andy Tompkins, associate professor of curriculum and teaching,
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Writing Center, co-presented Oct. 25
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A: One of Haskell's most inexpensive buildings, Bailey Hall, still stands.
The façade of the 1887 power plant
Haskell designed was incorporated
into
the
Hall
Center
for
the
Humanities.
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Prof. named distinguished chair
Phil McKnight, professor of
teaching and leadership, received
the 2006-07 Gene A. Budig
Teaching
Professorship
in
Education at the 15th Annual
School of Education Convocation
on May 20 at the Lied Center.
Jerry Chaffin, professor of special education, received the 200607 Gene A. Budig Teaching
Professorship in Special Education
at the same ceremony.
Budig, KU’s chancellor from
1981 to 1994, established an
endowed fund through KU
Endowment to create the professorship in education and special
education. The recipients deliver a
formal lecture and represent the
faculty at this year’s convocation.
McAllister hired by
legislature as attorney
The Kansas Legislature has
hired Stephen McAllister, professor of law, as its attorney. One of
his primary tasks will be to convince the Kansas State Supreme
Court to allow him to argue the
legislature’s position in the school
finance case.
“This is one of the best lawyers
in the state,” House Speaker Doug
Mays, R-Topeka, was quoted saying in an Associated Press story
about McAllister.
Lichtenberg named one of
‘100 distinguished alumni’
Circle visiting lecturer in
School of Fine Arts
KU’s School of Fine Arts is welcoming David Circle, president of
MENC: The National Association
for Music Education, to campus as
a visiting lecturer in the
Department of Music and Dance.
While at KU, Circle will work with
undergraduates who are preparing
to be music educators. Each
semester he will teach a course for
preservice educators and will
supervise student teachers.
In addition to his current role
with the MENC, Circle was past
president of the Southwestern
Division of MENC and the Kansas
Music Educators Association. He
was inducted into the KMEA Hall
of Fame in 2002.
Campus Q&A
Years at current job: Eight.
Job duties: I think my most important duty is to effectively represent the
teaching, research and service mission
of the department to the university and
public communities. Communication is
so central to all aspects of human society
that the department serves a crucial
function in educating students and providing scholarly information about how
communication works for the public.
Several faculty members in the
department have been honored
recently. What are some of the
awards? First, in the last year the
department was honored by the Center
for Teaching Excellence with the departmental teaching award. We also received
the award that the College gives each
year to a department based on excellence in advising. Second, faculty members have won major awards. Six current
COMS faculty have won the Kemper
James W. Lichtenberg, associate dean of the School of
Education, was named as one of
the 100 distinguished alumni from
the College of Education and
Human Development at the
University of Minnesota.
He is the associate dean for
graduate programs and research
in the School of Education and a
professor in the Department of
Psychology and Research in
Education. He is an American
Psychological Association fellow.
Drisko formally invested
with professorship
A
faculty
member
who
launched
the
Program
in
Integrative Medicine at the KU
Medical Center in 1998 was formally invested with a professorship named for her mentor in complementary
and
alternative
medicine.
Jeanne Drisko was named the
Clemmer named new
director of marching band
The KU Marching Band will
welcome its new leader in August
when David W. Clemmer becomes
Robert C. Rowland
Professor and chair, communication studies
award, as well as three who left for
administrative positions elsewhere.
Recently, COMS faculty members have
won other major awards including two
Silver Anniversary awards, the Louise
Byrd Graduate Educator Award, the
Bernard Fink award, several faculty
admitted to the Women’s Hall of Fame,
and several Hope award finalists. Third,
faculty have won national and regional
teaching awards within our discipline.
Two faculty members recently have
been honored as the Outstanding Young
Teacher by the Central States
Communication
Association.
Wil
Linkugel received a lifetime teaching
award from our national organization; he
also received a similar award from the
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Scott Harris received the top coaching
award this year at the National Debate
Tournament and I received the outstanding teaching award given by our national
organization
last
November.
What do
you
like
most
about your
profession? I love
challenging
undergradR. Steve Dick/University Relations
uates
to Robert Rowland is a professor
develop the and chair of communication
studies.
critical
thinking skills they need to process all
forms of communication. With graduate
students, I like helping them develop
their own scholarly research programs.
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Diana Carlin, dean of the
Graduate School and International
Programs,
Barbara
Ballard,
Kansas state representative and
associate director for the Dole
Institute of Politics, spent a week
in Germany and France this month
exploring higher education systems during a German-sponsored
program for 22 U.S. and Canadian
Monica Lemmons has accepted
the newly created position of
events coordinator in the School of
Business. Lemmons joined the university in 1998 as the office specialist for the Institute for Public
Policy and Business Research. She
has worked in administrative positions for more than 15 years. The
last seven years have been with
the KU Center for International
Business Education and Research,
most recently as the project coordinator.
director
of
athletic bands,
succeeding
James
Hudson.
Clemmer is
the associate
director
of
bands, director of athletic David Clemmer
bands and assistant professor of
music at Sam Houston State
University in Huntsville, Texas.
“He is an outstanding musician,
an excellent teacher and an exceptional leader,” said Larry Mallett,
chair of the Department of Music
and Dance.
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McKnight, Chafin earn Budig
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university
and
government
research agency administrators.
Carlin was nominated by the
Council of Graduate Schools to
participate. Ballard was nominated
by State Sen. Chris Steineger.
eorge
Bittlingmayer,
Wagnon
Distinguished
Professor of Finance in the
School of Business, has been
named
the
Harold Otto
Distinguished
Chair
in
Austrian
Economics.
The position is
funded by a
gift of $75,000
from Sherlock George Bittlingmayer
Hibbs
in
honor of his cousin, Harold Otto.
Bittlingmayer has been at KU
since 2000, when he filled the
Wagnon professorship. He is a
founding director of the university’s Center for Research in
Entrepreneurial Activities. He has
been an adjunct scholar at the
Ludwig von Mises School of
Economics since 1998.
Bittlingmayer’s research has
focused on the effects of governmental policies and political uncertainty on financial markets and
economic activity. His research
has appeared in leading finance
and economics journals, and he
has written for the Wall Street
Journal, Barron’s and other popular outlets.
Hugh D. Riordan Professor in
Orthomolecular Medicine.
Rooney joins comptroller’s
office in new role
Jeanne Rooney has joined the
comptroller’s office as assistant
vice provost/associate comptroller.
Rooney will assist in the day to
day operations of the comptroller’s
office, and will work with senior
comptroller staff on financial
analysis,
business
process
improvement and the financial system reimplementation.
Rooney will assist Vice Provost
for Administration and Finance
Lindy Eakin on special projects
and policy development.
Rooney was previously an assistant vice provost for research and
chief financial officer for the KU
Center for Research.
Koesten joins Graduate
School as assistant dean
Joy Koesten has joined the
Graduate School staff as assistant
dean, replacing Michael Mosser.
Koesten is responsible for professional development, recruitment
and assessment.
Before taking the position, she
was a research assistant professor
in the Department of Family
Medicine at the
KU
Medical
Center and a
faculty member
in
the
Department of
Communication
at
Washburn
University
in
Joy Koesten
Topeka.

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