6.         Two College of Arts and Sciences Professors Win Guggenheim Fellowships
Peter Little, Anthropology, and Lisa Zunshine, English, have both been named as recipients of 2007 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowships. The prestigious awards are given to fewer than 200 researchers throughout North America each year. They supply writers, scientists, authors, and artists with funding to pursue their studies with no restrictions imposed by the Guggenheim Foundation. The Guggenheim Foundation has made awards since 1925. Both of UK's 2007 Guggenheim fellows are based in the College of Arts and Sciences.
7.         Gaines Center for Humanities Chooses 12 New Scholars
The UK Gaines Center for the Humanities has selected 12 undergraduates as new scholars for the university's Gaines Fellowship Program for the 2007-08 and 2008-09 academic years. Gaines Fellowships are given in recognition of students' outstanding academic performance, demonstrated ability to conduct independent research, interest in public issues, and desire to enhance understanding of the human condition through the humanities. Fellowships are awarded for tenure in the junior and senior years, or for the last two years of a five-year program; students in all disciplines and with any intended profession are given equal consideration. The new Gaines Scholars are Catherine Bozio, a major in biology/pre-med; Bri Buchanan, a major in psychology; Clint Davis, a major in piano performance; Stacey Doran, a major in biology and chemistry; Wesley Holbrook, a major in history; Tanesha House, a major in psychology and sociology; Corinne Keel, a major in political science; Linsen Li, a major in history and journalism; Caroline Quinio, a major in architecture; William Santen, a major in fine arts and art studio; Travis Watters, a major in civil engineering; and Sarah Willenbrink, a major in Russian studies and German. Gaines Fellowships carry a stipend of $2,000 in the junior year and $3,000 in the senior year. All Gaines fellows take a specially designed, four-credit-hour per semester seminar in the humanities both semesters of their junior year. Each of these students will complete a major independent study project in the senior year, earning them between 6 and 15 credit hours.
8.         College of Pharmacy Breaks Ground for State's Largest Academic Building
UK officials broke ground in mid-April for a new, 280,000-square-foot building that will house classrooms, laboratories, offices and other facilities for the nationally ranked College of Pharmacy. The building, which will permit the college to double the number of students in its programs, will be finished in time for the start of classes in the fall of 2010. It will be built adjacent to the Biological and Basic Sciences Research Building.
9.         KGS Core Library Instrumental in New $15 Million "Heavy Oil" Project
Examination of samples stored at the Kentucky Geological Survey Well Sample and Core Library helped the MegaWest Energy Company decide to acquire rights to develop "heavy oil" (also known as tar sands) reserves in western Kentucky. An