Mary C. Bolin-Reece, UK Counseling and Testing Center, was promoted to senior site visitor by the International Association of Counseling Services, for which she also serves as an elected member of the Board of Accreditation. This fall, she also was named a master trainer for the Question-Persuade-Refer Institute, which provides gatekeeper instructor certifications nationally for suicide prevention on college campuses and in the community.
Yvonne Cappe, Journalism and Telecommunications, attended the Scripps Howard Academic Leadership Academy in June in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Her book "Broadcast Basics" was published by Marion Street Press in September.
Donald Case, Library and Information Science, was named in an article in the July 2006 ASIST as one of the top 25 LIS faculty members by number of citations.
Carey Cavanaugh, Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce, was invited by the Armenian Foreign Ministry to detail U.S. interests in the Caucasus at a November Wilton Park Conference in Yerevan, Armenia. In October, Cavanaugh participated in a Ditchley Park Foundation Conference on the South Caucasus in Oxford, England. In September, Cavanaugh presented a paper on developing a global multilateral naval strategy at the International Institute for Strategic Studies' Global Security Review in Geneva, Switzerland.
Julie Cerel, Social Work, will serve as a grant evaluation director for the state's three-year $400,000 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration grant for suicide prevention.
Al Cross, Journalism and Telecommunications, has been chosen by the Kentucky Council of Teachers of English/Language Arts as the 2006 National Council of Teachers of English/Support for the Learning and Teaching of English (NCTE/SLATE) Affiliate Intellectual Freedom Award winner. The NCTE/SLATE Intellectual Freedom Awards recognize individuals, groups, or institutions that have advanced the cause of intellectual freedom.
Lance DeLong, Physics and Astronomy, has been elected to Fellowship in the American Physical Society for his contributions to the understanding of magnetic properties and interactions in superconducting and strongly correlated metallic crystals and films. Election to Fellowship in the APS is limited to no more than one-half of one percent of the membership.
Dennis Egli, Plant and Soil Sciences, earned the Crop Science Research Award from the Crop Science Society of America. Criteria used to determine recipients of the award include originality of basic and applied research, creative reasoning, and impact of contributions.
Robert Farley, Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce, participated in a major war game simulation at the U.S. Navy War College in Newport, Rhode Island.
Robert Fehr, Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, received $207,389 from the Kentucky Office of Energy Policy for deployment of enhanced energy efficiency technologies for buildings. This is the first phase of a total grant worth $485,731. As part of this effort, UK plans to work with the Kentucky Community and Technical College System to provide information and training to Kentuckians that emphasizes the importance of making homes and businesses more energy efficient.