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India, to study the state’s endangered manuscripts, The fact-   __   ‘ , I \ ‘ M Y" ec
finding team, which included three UK experts, visited on be-     l l
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Knight, director ofthe UK Appalachian Center; Mary Moli-  » ,j’Tl‘>*T        
naro, director of UK Libraries Preservation and Digital Pro-     _j_·   li §
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Chefs Earn Bronze Chellgren Center Names
In Iron Chef Contest Endowed Professors
A team of UK chefs won a bronze medal in an American Culi- UK professors ]onathan Golding and Bill Rayens have been
nary Federation-sanctioned competition during the 14th Annual named Chellgren Endowed Professors, in affiliation with the
Chef Culinary Conference recently hosted at the University of Chellgren Center for Undergraduate Excellence, These professor-
Massachusetts-Amherst, The UK Dining Services team consisted ships are tenable for three-year, nonrenewable terms, during which
of, left to right, Chef Mark Henson of Blazer Hall, Chef Mike the Chellgren Professors will work on projects that are intended
Betts of Commons Market, Chef Saint ]errod Eiggs of Catering to promote excellence in teaching and learning at UK,
and Executive Chef Scott Kohn, ]onathan Golding, professor in the Department of Psychology,
All ofthe 15 participating university teams were required to pre- is a specialist in memory processes (most notably intentional for-
pare a three-course menu   it     5 NE;   _ ii; ·¤._§ getting) and in psychology and law (most notably jury decision-
(an appetizer, entree   t       i   making), Bill Rayens, professor in the Department of Statistics,
and dessert), UK’s team V       _ · focuses his research on the development and deployment of
won with a menu that ~ ( te ` ,   H “structure seekin ” multivariate paradi ms,
included the appetizer —     `   V ._l e    _,   _  g g
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