Spring 2021 Kentucky Alumni Magazine

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ASIA SEIDT NAMED 2020 NCAA WOMAN OF THE YEAR

By Robin Roenker Asia Seidt ’20 ED graduated as UK’s most decorated swimmer — male or female — while maintaining a 4.0 GPA, volunteering at the Hope Center and mentoring through Big Brothers Big Sisters of America.

INTRODUCING OUR 2021 GREAT TEACHER AWARD RECIPIENTS!

By Linda Perry We celebrate 60 years of honoring our greatest UK teachers and invite you to learn about some of the hardest working and most inspirational teachers that help UK students thrive.

$6M GIFT PAVES PATH FOR FEMALE ENGINEERS FROM EASTERN KENTUCKY

By Meredith Weber Rebecca Liebert’s gift establishes the Dr. Rebecca Burchett Liebert Dean’s Fund in the College of Engineering, with an emphasis on supporting female students and those who would strengthen UK’s commitment to diversity and inclusion.

ON THE COVER Asia Seidt NCAA Woman of the Year Elliott Hess, UK Athletics

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ART ‘CORNER’

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CHIMENE NTAKARUTIMANA NAMED MARSHALL SCHOLAR

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DEBRA POWELL: ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES FOR ANIMALS

Mark Cornelison One of the most distinctive features of The Cornerstone is the 55-foot-tall, first of its kind in Lexington, exterior digital media wall.

By Whitney Hale 2020 UK graduate Chimene Ntakarutimana of Lexington has been named a 2021 Marshall Scholar, which finances two years of graduate study in the United Kingdom.

By Stephanie J. Ruff Debra Powell ’99 AFE made her life all about horses until she saw a need to help other animals, too, starting a mobile business offering massage, acupuncture and chiropractic therapy.

MORE THAN A BOOK

By Ann Blackford Although Kennedy’s Wildcat Den has closed its doors, the Joseph P. Kennedy family works every year with the UK Office of Annual Giving to award the Joseph P. Kennedy Scholarship.

THE CORNERSTONE IS OPEN!

By Ryan Girves and Sarah Geegan The Cornerstone is a campus hub of activity around innovation, entrepreneurship and economic development.

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From the President Pride in Blue News Research Sports

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Club News Class Notes Creative Juices In Memoriam Quick Take

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS KENTUCKY ALUMNI MAGAZINE Vol. 92 No. 1 Spring 2021 Kentucky Alumni (ISSN 732-6297) is published quarterly by the University of Kentucky Alumni Association, Lexington, Kentucky, for its members. © 2021 University of Kentucky Alumni Association, except where noted. Views and opinions expressed in Kentucky Alumni do not necessarily represent the opinions of its editors, the UK Alumni Association nor the University of Kentucky.

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ASSOCIATION STAFF Executive Director: Jill Holloway Smith ’05 ’11 Editor/Sr. Associate Director: Meredith Weber Managing Editor: Linda Perry ’84 Marketing/Promotion Specialist: Hal Morris Graphic Designer: Whitney Stamper Brenda Bain ’15: Records Data Entry Nancy Culp: Administrative Services Assistant Caroline Francis ’88 ’93 ’02: Director, Alumni Career Services Jack Gallt ’84: Sr. Associate Director Leslie Hayes: Membership and Marketing Specialist Kathrine Hein ‘19: Programs Assistant Kelly Hinkel ’11 ’18: Marketing & Communications Coordinator Marci Hicks ’87: Director of Philanthropy Albert Kalim ’03 ’16 ‘20: Technical Support Specialist Jesse McInturf ’10: Principal Accountant Mark Pearson: Computer Support Specialist II William Raney ’14: House Support Kathryn Schaffer ’12: Alumni Engagement Coordinator Amanda Schagane ’09 ’10: Associate Director Samantha Seitz: Program Coordinator Hannah Simms ’14 ’17: Alumni Engagement Coordinator Pam Webb: Administrative Services Assistant

Officers Hannah Miner Myers ’93 ED: President Mary L. Shelman ’81 EN: President-elect Antoine Huffman ’05 CI: Treasurer Jill Holloway Smith ’05 BE, ’11 AFE: Secretary In-State Representatives Michelle Bishop Allen ’06 ’10 BE Michael W. Anderson ’92 BE Jeffrey L. Ashley ’89 CI Heath F. Bowling ’96 BE Jacob V. Broderick ’05 BE Andrew M. Cecil ’99 AS Kevin L. Collins ’84 EN William “Bill” M. Corum ’64 BE D. Michael Coyle ’62 BE, ’65 LAW Robert “Rob” L. Crady III ’94 BE Bruce E. Danhauer ’77 AFE Abra Akers Endsley ’98, ’01 CI James F. Gilles ’10 AFE Austin H. Hays ’03 BE Emily C. Henderson ’01 PHA Vicki S. Hiestand ’93 BE Dr. H. Fred Howard ’79 AS, ’82 DE Dr. Michael H. Huang ’89 AS, ’93 MED Tanya Bauer Jones ’81 BE Shelia M. Key ’91 PHA Janie McKenzie-Wells ’83 AS, ’86 LAW Herbert A. Miller Jr. ’72 AS, ’76 LAW Grant T. Mills ’09 AS Sherry R. Moak ’81 BE Dr. W. Mark Myers ’87 DE Jennifer A. Parks ’77 AS Tonya B. Parsons ’91 AS Peggy Barton Queen ’86 BE John D. Ryan ’92 ’95 BE R. Michael Stacy ’95 BE Jonell Tobin ’68 ’95 BE Kendra Lorene Wadsworth ’06 ED Lori E. Wells ’96 BE Amelia Brown Wilson ’03 ’06 AFE, ’11 ED Out-of-State Representatives Brooke C. Asbell ’86 BE Nicole Ramsey Blackwelder ’87 ’87 PHA Shiela D. Corley ’94 AS, ’95 AFE Erin Endersby ’01 EN Dr. Michael L. Hawks ’80 AS, ’85 DE Vincent M. Holloway ’84 EN John T. “Jay” Hornback ’04 EN Dr. Frank Kendrick ’90 ’92 DE Susan L. Liszeski ’84 AFE Abigail O. Payne ’05 CI Ronald “Ronnie” M. Perchik ’82 BE R. Brian Perkins ’97 EN Charles “Chad” D. Polk ’94 DES Robert J. Riddle ’11 AFE Lynn Spadaccini ’80 AFE Mary “Kekee” Szorcsik ’72 BE Scott Wittich ’75 BE Alumni Trustees Dr. Michael A. Christian ’76 AS, ’80 DE Paula L. Pope ’73 ’75 ED Rachel Watts Webb ’05 CI

William G. Francis ’68 AS, ’73 LAW W. P. Friedrich ’71 EN Dan Gipson ’69 EN Brenda B. Gosney ’70 HS, ’75 ED Cammie DeShields Grant ’77 LCC, ’79 ED John R. Guthrie ’63 CI Ann B. Haney ’71 AS Diane M. Massie ’79 CI Robert E. Miller Susan V. Mustian ’84 BE John C. Nichols II ’53 BE Dr. George A. Ochs IV ’74 DE Sandra Bugie Patterson ’68 AS Taunya Phillips ’87 EN, ’04 BE Robert F. Pickard ’57 ’61 EN Paula L. Pope ’73 ’75 ED David B. Ratterman ’68 EN G. David Ravencraft ’59 BE William Schuetze ’72 LAW David L. Shelton ’66 BE J. Fritz Skeen ’72 ’73 BE J. Tim Skinner ’80 DES James W. Stuckert ’60 EN, ’61 BE Hank B. Thompson Jr. ’71 CI Myra L. Tobin ’62 AFE J. Thomas Tucker ’56 BE Henry R. Wilhoit Jr. ’60 LAW Elaine A. Wilson ’68 SW Richard M. Womack ’53 AFE Leadership Advisory Council College Reps Michelle McDonald ’84 AFE, ’92 ED: Agriculture, Food and Environment Winn F. Williams ’71 AS: Arts & Sciences Michael R. Buchanan ’69 ’71 BE: Business & Economics Jeremy L. Jarvi ’02 CI: Communication & Information Dr. J. Clifford Lowdenback ’99 AS, ’03 DE: Dentistry G. Haviland Argo III ‘03 DES Cathy Crum Bell ’76 ED: Education Dominique Renee Wright ’08 EN: Engineering Joel W. Lovan ’77 FA: Fine Arts Benjamin D. Gecewich ‘03 HS Janis E. Clark ’78 GS, ’85 LAW: Law Dr. Debra J. Sowell ’82 MED: Medicine Laura B. Hieronymus ’81 ‘15 NUR, ’83 ED: Nursing Lynn Harrelson ’73 PHA: Pharmacy Keith R. Knapp ’78 AS, ’05 PH: Public Health Willis K. Bright Jr. ‘66 SW Appointed Jo Hern Curris ’63 AS, ’75 LAW: Honorary Katie Eiserman ’01 ED: Athletics Thomas W. Harris ’85 AS: University Relations Kelly Sullivan Holland ’93 AS ’98 ED: Honorary Stan R. Key ’72 ED: Honorary Marian Moore Sims ’72 ’76 ED: Honorary Bobby C. Whitaker ’58 CI: Honorary Bilal Shaikh: Student Government Association

Living Past Presidents George L. Atkins Jr. ’63 BE Richard A. Bean ’69 BE Michael A. Burleson ’74 PHA Bruce K. Davis ’71 LAW Scott E. Davis ’71 LAW Marianne Smith Edge ’77 AFE Franklin H. Farris Jr. ’72 BE

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he University of Kentucky — your university, the Commonwealth’s university — has long been a source of hope.

Today, in this moment and in this place, we are also a source for solutions.

And embedded in those moments of hope and sources of solution are our people and their unwavering commitment to UK’s mission of service — a mission that has sustained us for 156 years.

In our long fight against COVID-19, our people have come together like never before to develop and administer vaccines, ensuring the protection of our health care workers, teachers and older and underserved populations in the community through our Kroger Field clinic and mobile vaccine clinics.

As of the writing of this letter, we have administered more than 100,000 doses — a size, scope and scale unlike anything else in Kentucky.

We have the capacity now to administer 4,000 shots of hope a day because that’s what we have been called to do in partnership with our Commonwealth.

The feelings of relief and joy and the anxieties lifted at Kroger Field are tangible. You can feel the hope and happiness pulsing from that stadium like a beating heart. Still, this institution holds the promise of much more.

At the same time, we have not slowed in our efforts to unify this campus through our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Implementation Plan.

We recently announced substantive progress on a number of initiatives among the many we are pursuing in Phase 1 of our plan.

We announced the formation of a campus diversity master plan that will identify existing areas of concern on the campus relative to institutional history, art, sculpture and civic landscapes, accessibility and other barriers to inclusion within buildings across campus.

Through a new dedicated fund on all large building projects, we are prioritizing intentional and impactful public art

dedicated to enhancing diversity, equity and inclusion on campus.

And, after a national search, we have hired a supplier diversity manager who will guide our efforts to build trust and credibility in the community related to procurement.

Much work remains to be done.

But the stories of our people — our students, employees, alumni and friends of the university — instill a renewed sense of hope. I know that the individuals in the following pages will inspire in you the same sense of hope and with the same sense of pride that we are a source for solutions, too.

Your university also continues to make progress on a number of other fronts — stories and milestones you will read about in this edition.

Asia Seidt, our very own former student athlete, made history at UK Athletics as the first NCAA Woman of the Year.

Chimene Ntakarutimana, a 2020 graduate, was named a 2021 Marshall Scholar — the sixth UK student to receive the prestigious honor from the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission.

These alumni and so many more have left a mark on this special place, leaving it better than it was each day that passes.

I see this compassion in our students and our employees. I see it in you, friends of this special place, as you continue to support and uplift this community.

Thank you for all you do to support who we are — and who we must be — at this moment.

Sincerely,

Eli Capilouto President

College of Dentistry students prepare vaccines as part of the more than 1,000 volunteers from UK, including employees from UK HealthCare, athletics, emergency operations, health corps and public relations and marketing, as well as hundreds of volunteer students, faculty and staff from our health care colleges, who have joined forces to help our community via our COVID-19 vaccination clinic.

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Pride in Blue Lauren Tecau, UK Philanthropy

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uthor Jen Selinksy said of spring, “The promise of spring’s arrival is enough to get anyone through the bitter winter!”

And the good news is, we are almost through the bitter winter and see light at the end of the tunnel. Vaccinations have begun across the country, giving hope that life can soon return to normal and we can all gather together once again. It’s been wonderful seeing alumni virtually, but nothing compares to the fellowship we share when we’re together.

In the meantime, the UK Alumni Association has continued to find new ways to reach our alumni.

Alumni Career Services recently launched Career Conversations, a series of interviews conducted via Zoom by Caroline Francis and Amanda Schagane with alumni as they discuss their career paths and the lessons they learned along the way.

We also heard from alumni and faculty in our virtual “We’ll Be There for You” series, a special series of programs focused on health and wellness, financial wellbeing and developing good habits to ring in the new year.

Our next venture is the UK alumni podcast “From the Blue.” It’s alumni talking to alumni about “life after UK” and how their college experience made them who they are today. You will hear stories from interesting alumni around the world and feel proud to be part of the Wildcat family.

And, while the coronavirus has brought unprecedented challenges, our campus has continued to grow. The Cornerstone, a new space for learning, innovation, collaboration, entrepreneurship and economic development has opened on the corner of South Limestone and Winslow Street.

The Cornerstone supports the university’s nationally recognized Smart Campus digital strategy that focuses on increasing persistence and graduation rates, while preparing students for lives of meaning and purpose.

The pandemic has halted our in-person gatherings, but we have still been honor-

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ing our wonderful alumni, faculty and students in different ways.

In January, we announced our Great Teacher Award winners. This is the 60th anniversary of the award, the oldest, continuously-given award for teachers at the University of Kentucky. We usually notify each winner by surprising them while teaching in their classroom. This time, we surprised them virtually, but it was still a thrill to see the reaction of these wonderful instructors as they have their hard work rewarded. Unfortunately, we were not able to have our annual dinner or have the winners recognized on the floor of Rupp Arena, but we hope that time-honored tradition will carry on next year.

Last month, we held the 30th annual Lyman T. Johnson Torch Bearer and Torch of Excellence Awards. The UK Alumni Association Lyman T. Johnson African American Alumni Group, in partnership with the University for Kentucky Office for Institutional Diversity, hosted the 30th annual awards virtually and the public was able to watch live on our Facebook page. The program honored and celebrated African-American students and alumni from each college who epitomize the ideals of Lyman T. Johnson, the first African-American student to attend the University of Kentucky.

The third One Day for UK is scheduled for April 21. For 24 hours, alumni and friends are encouraged to give to their favorite UK college, unit or cause to benefit students, faculty, research, programs and initiatives across campus. We hope you will show your UK pride and support the UK Alumni Association on One Day for UK to make this day a success. I wish you and your loved ones good health and much warmth in 2021!

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News How can the look and layout of a campus make a community more diverse, just and equitable? That’s the central question being grappled with by a multidisciplinary project team that is part of the UK Diversity, Equity and Inclusion effort — a comprehensive campus-wide initiative, designed to foster a community at UK committed to acceptance and belonging.

“Our history, our art, our landscapes and, yes, our barriers to navigation — all of these things contribute to creating the type of community we are,” said UK President Eli Capilouto.

“The challenge now is to understand how all these things can, collectively, be positioned to be the community we aspire to be.”

A project team for several months — led by Vice President for Facilities Management Mary Vosevich and Interim Assistant Vice President for Auxiliary Services Andrew Smith — has been working to identify existing areas of concern on the campus relative to institutional history, art, sculpture and civic landscapes, accessibility and other barriers to inclusion within buildings across the campus.

The idea is to create a DEI master plan to complement the institution’s overall master plan, which was completed in 2020. A campus master plan is designed to contemplate and envision ongoing and future development of the campus — from the placement of roadways to the creation of additional greenspace.

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UK TO DEVELOP MASTER PLAN FOR MORE DIVERSE, EQUITABLE CAMPUS

As part of the creation of the DEI master plan, the university has embraced best-in-class consulting firm Sasaki to engage stakeholders from around the university collaboratively.

Sasaki will, among other initiatives, complete: • A listening tour and deep discussions with stakeholders across the campus.

• A campus survey on the issues involved.

• An inventory of campus art, sculptures and civic landscapes.

• Presentations to campus constituencies regarding key findings.

• The development of opportunities for transformation and change on the campus in response to the issues and concerns identified by the campus community as well as the opportunities and recommendations noted.

• A recommended DEI master vision and plan by July 2021. ■

UK, PARTNERS BREAK GROUND ON NEW COLDSTREAM RESEARCH LAB Representatives from UK, the Woodbury Corp., and state and local officials broke ground on what will soon become a home for early stage, high-tech companies from across Kentucky. The new $15 million development on the Coldstream Research Campus will offer these early-stage companies office and laboratory space in an environment where they can further develop and commercialize their products and services.

“When we think about strengthening our economy — particularly following the challenges we’ve faced over the past year — we believe that partnership with the city and the business community is the best way to move forward,” said UK President Eli Capilouto. “This space will create new opportunities for businesses to establish themselves here in Kentucky, create jobs and contribute to economic growth. We look forward to continuing in our role as the University of, for and with Kentucky.”

The new facility will be named “The Core — Collaboration. Research. Entrepreneurship,” and is designed to be the first stop for companies looking to locate on the research campus. The project will add much needed wet lab space in Central Kentucky, as well as working space near the interstates for companies and individuals that need to travel quickly to regional facilities.

Kentucky Technology Inc. (KTI), a subsidiary of the UK Research Foundation, will master lease 20,000 square feet of the building’s estimated 40,000 square feet. KTI plans to sublease its space to appropriate high-tech companies. The facility will bring in not only startup companies being incubated at UK, but other companies moving into the Commonwealth.

The Core was made possible through a public-private partnership with the Woodbury Corp., the company developing the facility.

Construction is expected to be completed in early 2022. ■

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The UK Board of Trustees approved the naming of Mary J. Davis as full-time dean of the J. David Rosenberg College of Law. Davis, the Ashland, Inc.-Spears Distinguished Research Professor of Law at UK, had been serving as interim dean.

She will become the first woman to serve in the role of permanent dean at the college.

“In addition to her university service, Mary has made contributions to the profession at the state, regional, national, and international levels through scholarly activities, including service as a visiting professor at four law schools and authoring a leading casebook on product liability. She is passionate about continuing to enhance the college’s strong reputation,” said Provost David W. Blackwell.

Davis has served on the faculty since 1991. She began a tenure as interim dean on July 1, 2019, as the college transitioned from its two-year temporary location into a $56 million rebuild on its original site. Prior to becoming interim dean, Davis served as chairwoman of the college’s building committee. In this role, she was instrumental, from design through construction, in the College of Law having a facility to provide a 21st century legal education through teaching, learning, research, practical skills training and co-curricular programming.

During her tenure as interim dean, the UK College of Law also became the UK J. David Rosenberg College of Law in December 2019, following a generous gift from alumnus J. David Rosenberg and his wife, Dianne.

Davis succeeded David A. Brennen, who was the first African-American dean of the college, serving from 2009-2020.

In spring 2020, Davis led the college through unprecedented challenges in teaching and learning when the university quickly transitioned all classes online due to the COVID-19

pandemic, and she has been instrumental as the law school continues to adapt and thrive through the health crisis.

“When I received an offer to teach law at the University of Kentucky in 1991, I thought that I had won the lottery,” Davis said. “I have been honored to serve this institution as a member of a faculty of first-rate scholars and educators and to teach the exceptional students who attend the UK Rosenberg College of Law. I am grateful for the opportunity to continue to serve this institution as its dean. I was excited in 1991 for the future, and I remain excited for what the future holds for the UK Rosenberg College of Law.” Davis joined the law faculty at UK after spending six years in products liability litigation defense practice for the law firms of Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and McGuire, Woods, Battle & Boothe in Richmond, Virginia. Her practice experience involved management of nationwide litigation and she is a leading scholar in the nation in the field of products liability.

Davis is a 1985 magna cum laude graduate of the Wake Forest University School of Law and a 1979 cum laude graduate of the University of Virginia. ■

UK HEALTHCARE, KING’S DAUGHTERS ANNOUNCE SIGNIFICANT PARTNERSHIP

joint venture with equal representation of both UK and KDHS, but no additional changes in management, compensation, benefits or job responsibilities are anticipated at either UK HealthCare or KDHS. It’s anticipated that the final operational details of the partnership will be announced in early April.

The partnership will provide expanded access to tertiary-level services for residents of Eastern Kentucky and southern Ohio, including access to UK HealthCare’s solid organ transplantation program, bone marrow transplantation and expand on the existing relationship between the UK Markey Cancer Center and King’s Daughters. ■

King’s Daughters Health System (KDHS) and UK HealthCare, the clinical health care system of the University of Kentucky, announced their intent to enter into a significant partnership that will create new opportunities for both organizations to better serve patients throughout Kentucky, southern Ohio and West Virginia.

A new governing group will be formed for the proposed

UK HONORS DECEMBER 2020 GRADUATES WITH VIRTUAL CEREMONY

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DAVIS NAMED DEAN OF ROSENBERG COLLEGE OF LAW

UK celebrated its fall 2020 graduates with a virtual Commencement ceremony Dec. 4. The UK Board of Trustees approved conferral of 1,854 degrees for December 2020 graduates.

This total included 1,321 undergraduate, 512 graduate (encompassing master and doctoral degrees), and 21 professional degrees. These numbers reflect degree candidates, not individual graduates (some graduates earn more than one degree, thereby being counted as a degree candidate multiple times).

The Board of Trustees also conferred 641 degrees for August 2020. Those graduates had the opportunity to participate virtually in this ceremony alongside December graduates. ■ www. u kal u mni. net

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UK SOCIAL WORK LAUNCHES SUPPORT GROUP FOR ADOPTED KENTUCKY TEENS

The UK College of Design has unveiled Studio Gang’s design for the reinvented Reynolds Building. Working in collaboration with Louisville-based architect of record K. Norman Berry Associates, Studio Gang will transform the century-old tobacco warehouse into a vibrant and interactive learning space for design students.

The college has waited 50 years for a building opportunity that will allow its programs to grow, diversify and cross-pollinate. The Reynolds Building, situated at one of the most prominent entries into the city of Lexington, is set to serve as a nimble artifact that teaches students about architecture, interiors, historic preservation, landscape architecture, urban design, product design and biomedical engineering — all in a 21st-century, polycultural learning environment.

The design builds on Reynolds’ existing qualities, including open floorplates and a repetitive structural grid, to maximize interaction among people and disciplines and expand opportunities for making and experimentation.

Open studio spaces leverage the timber column grid to flexibly demarcate each studio, reinforced by mobile pin-up walls and custom furniture designed and fabricated by the college’s students. Existing level changes in the building are used to create clerestories, skylights, and a flexible, double-height lecture hall. In certain areas, the existing structure is strategically cut away to create new gathering spaces, sightlines, abundant daylight and vertical circulation. A new, steel stair is inserted into the center of the building, surrounded by shared spaces and amenities — including the fabrication lab, café and lecture hall — that encourage students, faculty and visitors to gather and mix.

Outside, a new fabrication dock creates space for large-scale making and displays these explorations to the wider university. New trees and a structural canopy provide shade and contribute to passive cooling inside the building. Geothermal wells and other green strategies contribute to the sensible deployment of environmentally conscious elements that fit within the university’s defined project construction budget. ■ 10

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In Kentucky there are nearly 10,000 young people in foster care, of which nearly one-third are waiting for their “forever” adoptive home. That’s why the College of Social Work remains committed to supporting adoptive and foster families and recently launched Adoption Support for Kentucky-Teens — a statewide, virtual support group for adopted teens ages 14-17.

“Having been in out-of-home care myself, I can certainly appreciate the complexities facing foster and adoptive families,” Jay Miller, dean of the college, said. “Our college is focused on actualizing a commitment to those families through cutting-edge programming, and we are able to do so in a way that is innovative, intentional and impactful.”

Melissa Segress, director of the College of Social Work’s centers and labs, said, “ASK-Teens is a vital first step in engaging youth who have experienced adoption with the purpose of listening to their perspectives, learning from their experiences and offering a platform for constructive peer and professional support.”

ASK-Teens offers real connections through Adoption Support for Kentucky (ASK). The award-winning peer support program has been serving adoptive, foster and kinship families for more than two decades. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, all ASK support groups and trainings are being offered virtually.

ASK-Teens harnesses technology to organize virtual meetings through a secure online platform. Group sessions will occur twice a month and will be led by an experienced behavioral health clinician. For more information about ASK-Teens, call 859-2576650 or text ASKKY to 31996. ■

FRAZEE HALL UNDERGOES RENOVATION Frazee Hall is currently under renovation, eventually providing 22,081 square feet of space — including a new connector. The $15 million modernization will revitalize the facility with a total renovation of the existing building, enhancements to the building envelope, a new elevator, two new stair towers and the construction of a connector to the Gatton Student Center.

The connector will provide ADA accessibility via vertical circulation and address floor elevations between buildings. The interior space will be configured to facilitate today’s educational needs while remaining flexible to allow future change. Upgrades to the existing mechanical, electrical and other building systems are included in the scope of work.

Upon completion in July 2022, the building will be occupied by the Center for Support and Intervention; Fraternity and Sorority Life; Family Programs and K Week; Office of Student Conduct; Residence Life; Dean of Students; and Equity, Inclusion and Social Justice (formerly known as Bias Incident Support Services). ■

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Artist Rendering

STUDIO GANG TO TRANSFORM FORMER REYNOLDS BUILDING FOR COLLEGE OF DESIGN

ZEADALLY RECEIVES HONOR

NURSING STUDY LINKS PERSISTENT COUGH TO E-CIGARETTE USE

Sherali Zeadally, an associate professor and University Research Professor in the School of Information Science in the UK College of Communication and Information, has been named one of the most highly cited researchers in the world.

Zeadally is the first UK researcher since 2014 to be named to the Highly Cited Researcher annual list published by Clarivate, The Web of Science Group. Clarivate’s annual list of Highly Cited Researchers recognizes the world’s most influential researchers of the past decade. Researchers are selected for their exceptional performance in 21 fields of the sciences and social sciences and a further cross disciplinary category.

Those recognized have demonstrated significant and broad influence reflected in their publication of multiple papers, highly cited by their peers in the past 10 years.

These highly cited papers rank in the top 1 percent by citations for a chosen field or fields and year in Web of Science. This year, researchers from more than 60 countries have been recognized, including Zeadally in the field of computer science. He is one of 124 computer science researchers worldwide recognized this year and one of only 13 researchers from the United States.

Zeadally’s expertise is in the areas of cybersecurity, privacy, the internet of things and computer networks. He has published more than 420 peer-reviewed publications. He has received more than 50 awards/ honors/prestigious fellowships nationally and internationally for his research, teaching and service in his career. ■

A new study by researchers in the University of Kentucky College of Nursing shows correlations between use of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) and persistent cough among college students. ENDS include electronic cigarettes (e-cigs) and JUULS. Published in Addictive Behaviors, the UK-funded pilot study surveyed 61 UK students about their tobacco and e-cig use, and if they had experienced respiratory symptoms such as a persistent cough. Even when controlling for traditional cigarette and marijuana use among participants, the study found a greater likelihood of persistent cough among ENDS users.

Kristin Ashford, UK College of Nursing professor and principal investigator of the project, along with UK Perinatal Research and Wellness Center Assistant Director Andrea McCubbin, highlight that the findings from this study further support research showing the misperceptions that college students have about the safety of ENDS. “As ENDS products, including JUUL, emerged in the U.S., many students believed they were less harmful than traditional cigarettes,” McCubbin said. “Creative marketing highlighted the appealing flavors of ENDS liquid, overshadowing the highly addictive nicotine content.”

“This study shows that ENDS users are at more risk for persistent cough than nonENDS users,” Ashford said. “They exhibit a dysregulated salivary immune function which may increase their risk for respiratory infection.” ■

STUDY FOCUSES ON HIP OSTEOARTHRITIS AMONG FARMERS The demands of farming put agricultural workers at high risk of developing hip osteoarthritis. Researchers at the UK College of Education are looking at why this happens and will develop methods to optimize hip health.

The pilot study, funded by the Southeast Center for Agricultural Health and Injury Prevention, is pairing two Department of Kinesiology and Health Promotion faculty members to assess farmers. Primary investigator Michael Samaan, an assistant professor specializing in biomechanics, will perform gait analysis and strength testing. Co-investigator Jody Clasey, a professor of exercise physiology, will contribute to the study’s bone density screening and analysis using dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) scanning.

The team will explore potential gait abnormalities, neuromuscular issues and hip joint bone composition in the farming population. Farmers will be referred to this study through the Southeast Center for Agricultural Health and Injury Prevention.

This pilot project is the first study of its kind to measure the biomechanical, neuromuscular and psychosocial factors that contribute to the clinical- and structural-based symptoms of hip osteoarthritis in the farming community.

“We hope this study will help us develop the knowledge needed to move forward and develop targeted exercise- and mental health-based programs that will optimize hip joint mechanics, reduce hip pain and prevent hip joint degeneration in farmers,” W W W.RESEARCH.UK Y.EDU Samaan said. ■ www. u kal u mni. net

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ASIA SEIDT NAMED 2020 NCAA WOMAN OF THE YEAR

By Robin Roenker sia Seidt ’20 ED is a self-described perfectionist. Put a task in front of her, and she tackles it with complete dedication and a drive for excellence.

That drive is part of the reason Seidt was named the University of Kentucky’s first-ever NCAA Woman of the Year in 2020. It’s why she graduated as UK’s most decorated swimmer — male or female — of all time.

It’s why she was able to maintain a perfect 4.0 GPA while earning her undergraduate degree in kinesiology.

And it’s why she found time, despite two-a-day practices and a full schedule of classes, to volunteer hundreds of hours at the Hope Center in Lexington and as a mentor to a local 10-year-old girl through Big Brothers Big Sisters of America.

“Coming in freshman year, I could not have told you in a million years that this is how my career would have gone,” says Seidt, a native of Louisville who swam with Lakeside Swim Club and for her high school, Sacred Heart Academy, before becoming a Wildcat. “But I remember [UK Swimming and Diving Head Coach] Lars [Jorgensen] specifically saying, ‘I’m going to make you the best you can be.’ And I think that’s so cool that he can see the potential in people.”

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FINDING A HOME AT UK With five individual UK swimming records and nine overall under her belt — including top times for the 100-yard backstroke (50.68), 200-yard backstroke (1:48:65) and 200-yard individual medley (1:53.04) — there’s no denying that Seidt is a uniquely talented swimmer. Her ability to go lighting fast in the water helped secure her love of the sport from an early age.

“I tried T-ball and other things, but nothing really stuck besides swimming,” says Seidt, who started her swimming career at 4 years old. “I joke that I don’t really have hand-eye coordination and am not that good on land.”

In all her years in the pool, Seidt quit training only once, at age 11, feeling that she’d lost her enjoyment for the sport. After eight months, though, she knew she was missing her calling.

“I told my mom that I wanted to go back and that I missed it more than anything,” Seidt says. After that, her training took off and she started breaking state records.

Throughout middle school and high school, Seidt’s parents would leave home at 4:15 a.m. to drive her to 5 a.m. practices at Lakeside Swim Club before school each day. They’d often sleep in their car in the parking lot while she trained.

Many times, her athletic training meshed with what she was learning about the human body in her kinesiology classes, including a class on biomechanics taught by UK professor Michael Samaan, which was one of her favorite courses.

While her UK experience may not have been filled with the socializing and free time that many students enjoy, she has no regrets.

“There were definitely times when your alarm would go off at 5 a.m., and you’re thinking ‘Why am I doing this?’” Seidt says.

“My freshman year was the hardest, adjustment wise, but once I got into the routine, you just don’t question it anymore. It just becomes second nature to you.”

Still, Seidt says she feels being so driven to excel both inside the pool and out was sometimes a double-edged sword.

“I think one of the best things about me is that I’m a type-A personality. It’s also one of the worst things about me,” she says.

“With swimming and within the classroom, if I wasn’t doing well, I would be so hard on myself. And that was never fun. Sometimes, I had to come back to Earth and realize there are bigger things in the world than getting a B on a test.”

A DIFFERENT KIND OF ENDING Thanks to her impeccable work ethic and distinct talent, Seidt’s UK swim career was stellar from the start. In 2017, she became the first-ever UK freshman to win an SEC swim title, snagging first place in the 200 backstroke, her signature event, at the SEC Swimming Championships. Seidt repeated the title in 2018 and 2019.

She made the USA Swimming National Team in 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 and the U.S. World University Games Team in 2018 and 2019.

In 2019, Seidt placed third at the NCAA Championships in the 200 backstroke and first in that event at the Phillips 66 National Championships, a summer event sanctioned by USA Swimming.

As one of the country’s top backstrokers, Seidt had hoped to compete for a national title in the 200 backstroke at last year’s NCAA Championships, scheduled for March 2020. She had also qualified for the 2020 Olympic Trials, originally set for June 2020, and had a real shot at making the 2020 U.S. Olympic Swim Team.

Then came COVID-19.

The 2020 NCAA Championships were cancelled, and the Olympic Trials were pushed forward to June 2021 due to the pandemic.

It was a bittersweet way to end an exceptional career.

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“I can’t give my parents enough thanks for all the things that they did,” Seidt says. “Half the reason I was able to excel in the sport was because of the commitment that they put in.”

When it came time to look at colleges, UK wasn’t initially at the top of Seidt’s list, since she had dreams of attending an out-ofstate school. “I had goals of getting out and exploring something new,” she says.

But Coach Lars Jorgensen convinced her to take a look at UK and her visit cemented her decision to swim for the university.

“I went on my official recruiting visit to UK and ended up falling in love with it,” Seidt says.

Seidt was struck by the camaraderie of the team and by Jorgensen’s commitment to developing his swimmers as well-rounded people, not just trimming seconds off their swim times.

“One of the biggest things that stayed in my mind during my visit was that Lars talked about how he wanted to develop me more than just an athlete — including as a person and as a student in the classroom, as well,” Seidt says. “Over my four years at UK he often said, ‘If you come back to me in 10 years and say the only thing I did for you was help you in swimming, then I failed as a coach.’ And I think that’s such a cool thing because you don’t find that in a lot of coaches. Many of them are focused only on athletics.”

Returning the compliment, Jorgensen says: “Asia is a fantastic representative of what it means to be a student-athlete at Kentucky. She embodies greatness in the pool, in the classroom and in our community. She has fundamentally changed our program at both the conference level and the national level. But above all, Asia is an amazing person.”

Looking back on her career, Seidt credits her teammates, too, for always pushing her to be her best, even if that meant pointing out, supportively, when she wasn’t giving 100 percent in practice.

“I am going to be friends with the girls I swam with at UK for the rest of my life. They become your family,” says Seidt. “When I first came to this college team, if I wasn’t doing well in practice, upperclassmen would call me out. At first, I was a little shocked because that hadn’t happened on my club team. They would say, ‘Listen, I know you’re better than this, and that you have goals.’

It was great to see that they were holding me accountable and pushing me to become a better swimmer.”

A typical UK day for Seidt went like this: wake up at 5 a.m. and head to Lancaster Aquatic Center for a two-hour morning practice. Grab some breakfast and head to classes for four to six hours. Then, head back to the pool for afternoon practice.

Finish up by 4:30 or 5 p.m., grab dinner, and head to the Center for Academic and Tutorial Services for homework and studying.

Repeat.

Seidt maintained this grueling schedule without making a single B in a class during her four years at UK. While she originally enrolled as a biology major, one particular course made her realize that degree wasn’t for her.

“I kind of had a crisis moment where I freaked out about what I was going to do,” she says. Seidt worked with her academic counselor to take some career interest tests. During this career exploration, she shadowed a Lexington-based physical therapist and found her calling and a new major: kinesiology, the study of the mechanics of body movement in the UK College of Education.

“I realized kinesiology was the best path to prepare me for physical therapy school,” she says.

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Seidt had been training diligently toward the NCAA championships, learning just three days before the event that it was to be cancelled because of the coronavirus.

“NCAAs are what you work toward all year long,” she says.

“We were days away from leaving, and so it was definitely difficult news to digest. I think that is probably one of the hardest things I have had to go through as an athlete.”

Following her graduation from UK last May, Seidt was faced with a difficult decision: delay her entry into UK’s Doctor of Physical Therapy graduate program to train another year for the delayed U.S. Olympic Trials or retire from competitive swimming and turn her full focus toward graduate school.

Seidt chose graduate school. She’s now about to complete her first year in the program and is looking forward to a career as a physical therapist after two more years of study.

Still, putting aside her competitive swim career was difficult, especially under such challenging circumstances.

“After March, when NCAAs were cancelled, I took four or five months off,” she says. “I didn’t want to get in the water at all.”

During her first semester of graduate studies, Seidt eventually returned to the UK pool during open swim hours — not to train, but rather simply for love of the sport.

“I just love swimming so much,” she says. “I love that I’m still able to do it and have it as an activity.”

Throughout her athletic career, Asia Seidt was rewarded with many assorted trophies, including taking third place in the 2019 NCAA Division 1 Women’s Swimming & Diving 200-Yard Backstroke.

A ROLE MODEL FOR HER SPORT Last November, Seidt watched from a couch at home, with Jorgensen and her parents by her side, as her name was called as the 2020 NCAA Woman of the Year during a socially distant, livestreamed award ceremony.

“I was so nervous during that award ceremony,” she says.

“I got the news toward the end of October that I was a Top 10 finalist, which was such an honor. Just being in the Top 10 was so incredible. I was so happy with that — and the girls that I met through that experience, seeing everything they’ve ac-

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complished. It was like, ‘Wow, how am I even in this field with them?’ because they’ve done such incredible things.”

As the NCAA Woman of the Year, Seidt was singled out from among all graduating female student athletes nationally in 2020 for her excellence in athletics, community service and leadership.

Seidt admitted the honor has made for “a pretty cool couple of months” and helped take a bit of the sting off the cancelled NCAA Championships.

“What Asia Seidt has been able to accomplish is nothing short of amazing,” says UK Athletics Director Mitch Barnhart. “Her all-around excellence in academics, swimming, leadership and service was reflected in her selection as NCAA Woman of the Year. Asia’s name will be listed in numerous places in our alltime lists of records and honors — an inspiration for Wildcats who know her now and an example for future Cats of what is ‘Wildly Possible’ at the University of Kentucky.”

Earlier this year, in January, the NCAA again honored Seidt by naming her a 2021 NCAA Today’s Top 10 honoree. The award is given to recent graduates, male and female, in recognition for their successes in the field, in the classroom and in the community.

In addition to her NCAA accolades, Seidt also feels especially proud to have been named the Arthur Ashe Female Sports Scholar of the Year by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education magazine in 2019, since that award “incorporates everything, especially your work within the community,” she says.

Encouraged by her swim team’s focus on community outreach, during her junior and senior years Seidt carved out time to serve meals weekly to the homeless at the Hope Center in Lexington. “I got to see a different side of Lexington,” she says.

“I enjoyed the people that I met there. I loved hearing their stories.”

Seidt also became a Big Sister to an elementary school girl in Lexington, a role she continues to cherish even as she pursues graduate school.

“Before COVID, I would go to her school once a week, and we would just talk about things,” Seidt says. “Now, we’re staying in touch on the phone. Every day is different with her. She’s just so awesome. That relationship gives back to me, more than I give to her.”

In honor of her perfect academic record, Seidt was also named the H. Boyd McWhorter Scholar-Athlete of the Year, the SEC’s highest award for student-athletes, in 2020. The award came with a $20,000 post-graduate scholarship, which she is applying toward her physical therapy studies.

In “Dear Swimming,” a personal letter Seidt wrote to her sport, which was broadcast nationally by the NCAA as part of her 2020 Woman of the Year ceremony, Seidt wrote that swimming taught her that “it was OK to be a strong female leader in the world of sports. Finding my self-confidence through you has allowed me to thrive in so many other aspects.”

She also acknowledged her overall path in swimming. “I honestly can’t sum up our 20-year relationship in a couple of sentences, or even a couple of pages, but I’m going to give it my best shot,” she read. “It’s been quite the journey — a journey full of memories I never could have dreamed possible. It only seems right to thank you for this experience of a lifetime, because it’s the greatest thing that has ever happened to me.” ■

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INTRODUCING

Our 2021

GREAT TEACHER AWARD

Recipients!

60 Years of Excellence in the Classroom 1961 – 2021

By Linda Perry

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e are happy to be celebrating 60 years of honoring our greatest teachers on the University of Kentucky campus.

Since 1961, the UK Alumni Association has recognized six professors each year with a Great Teacher Award based on outstanding teaching and concern for students inside and outside of the classroom.

It is the oldest, continuously given award for teachers on campus.

Nominations are accepted from current students only. Recipients are selected by a committee appointed by the UK Alumni Association Board of Directors and representatives of the student organization Omicron Delta Kappa.

It’s our pleasure to introduce to you some of the hardest working and most inspirational teachers that help UK students to thrive.

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CHRISTOPHER CRAWFORD

College of Arts & Sciences, Physics & Astronomy Nominator:

Diana Sahibnazarova, Arts & Sciences junior, physics major

Christopher Crawford is a professor and the director of Graduate Studies in the Physics & Astronomy Department, running one of the largest graduate programs on campus. He is a leading nuclear experimental physicist, a member of 10 national and international experimental collaborations and mentor to many UK students.

Diana Sahibnazarova, nominator, is passionate about how talented and valuable Crawford is to the UK campus. She says there were times when she was faced with many struggles, but his encouragement inspired her to continue.

“Dr. Crawford sees the positive factors in every human being and especially students … because of Dr. Crawford’s support, willingness to help and openness in communication, I was able to push through and keep going in college,” says Sahibnazarova. “Dr. Crawford is a supportive, helpful, open-hearted, diverse and intelligent professor who is a real researcher with a passion to teach.”

A native of Canada, Crawford earned a doctorate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and both a master’s degree and bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University. His research focuses on neutron

reactions including neutron decay, fusion and the search for a reaction mechanism responsible for depletion of the deadly antimatter present in the early universe. He invented a technique for designing precision electromagnets that are used to manipulate neutrons and is developing smart data collection systems to detect and identify the invisible particles present in his experiments.

“Dr. Crawford is an advisor for students who are majoring in physics. Also, he serves as a mentor for multiple undergraduate students, graduate students and postdocs,” says Sahibnazarova. “He is very involved in physics research and publications which members of his group present at different national, international and local conferences.

His research is performed far outside of the University of Kentucky, which allows students to collaborate on different projects between Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, and Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, while being full-time faculty at the University of Kentucky. He supports his students mentally, provides funds to students to work for him and allows them to bring new ideas into projects.”

JOSEPH H. HAMMER Joseph H. Hammer is a licensed psychologist and associate professor of counseling psychology and director of training in the UK Department of Educational, School, and Counseling Psychology. His research seeks to improve health by increasing access to health care, and he examines what helps or stops people from seeking mental health care when they need it.

Zack Dschaak, nominator, attests to Hammer’s acquaintance with current issues in his subject field and competence in dealing with student’s questions. “All of his instruction, research and service work is very intentional, considers the socio-political climate and has very specific tangible implications that promotes the well-being of vulnerable populations,” says Dschaak.

“With regard to his students’ questions, Dr. Hammer’s competence arises out of his strong attention to detail, cultural awareness and deliberate willingness to devote flexible time to student’s personal and professional development. Every student that has sought him out for consultation leaves his office feeling supported, heard and more confident regarding their concerns.”

Originally from Chicago, Hammer earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology at the

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, a master’s in counseling psychology at the University of Missouri, and doctorate in counseling psychology at Iowa State University. Over his 10-year teaching career, he taught psychology students at the undergraduate (Iowa State University) and graduate level (UK). At UK, he teaches graduate students how to provide effective mental health services to diverse clientele.

His courses include counseling techniques, counseling theories, counseling practicum and career counseling. He uses a flipped classroom design, where students learn the concepts in advance of class through readings and videos, allowing them to spend class time practicing putting the psychotherapy skills they are learning into practice.

“In his few years here, he has assisted more than 50 students through his academic advising, clinical supervision and serving as part of a students’ dissertation committee,” says Dschaak. “All of this requires an enormous amount of time and effort, but again, he has always been willing and grateful for the opportunity to assist students. What he has done for our college, the department and students cannot even come close to being measured.”

College of Education, Department of Educational, School and Counseling Psychology Nominator:

Zach Dschaak, Counseling Psychology grad student, counseling psychology major

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CHAD RISKO

College of Arts & Sciences/ Chemistry Nominators:

Vinayak Bhat, Chamikara Karunasena, Anton Perera, Keerthan Raghavendra Rao, Josiah Roberts, Arts & Sciences grad students, chemistry majors Parker Sornberger, Arts & Sciences junior, chemistry and computer science

Chad Risko, associate professor in the Chemistry Department, uses creative teaching practices and techniques in the classroom, like all his fellow Great Teacher recipients.

Anton Perera, nominator, is enthusiastic about Risko’s abilities as a teacher. “His Computing and Data Science in Chemistry class was quite different from a normal class. It was full of in-class activities and collaborative projects where we were given the chance to share and develop our knowledge by associating with our peers. The best part is, that did make us do a lot of work but without being stressed or overwhelmed,” he says. “The best quality I have seen is his time management and organization. All of his courses are extremely well structured, and he provides a timeline of the whole semester’s activities on the first day of class itself and gives timely reminders on assignments so that we can plan early and do well in the course.”

Risko received his doctoral degree at the Georgia Institute of Technology and his bachelor’s degree at Baker University in Kansas. He has been at UK since 2014. Risko’s research blends principles from organic and physical chemistry, condensed-matter physics and materials science to develop theoretical materials chemistry approaches to better

understand and design materials for advanced electronics and power generation and storage applications.

He was named a 2016 Emerging Investigator by the Journal of Materials Chemistry (Royal Society of Chemistry), received a 2018 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, was selected as a 2018 Cottrell Scholar (Research Corporation for Science Advancement, RCSA) and was a recipient of the 2019 UK College of Arts & Sciences Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentoring. He has approximately 7,500 citations and 140 publications.

Another nominator, Chamikara Karunasena, indicates it is more than just Risko’s service in the classroom. “I feel very comfortable discussing matters with him not only within official capacity, but also in a personal standpoint. I often seek his advice on personal matters, as well as managing school, work, research and family life. He is actively involved in the graduate student association, and I have seen many times members converse casually with him to share opinions.

Many of my colleagues recognize him as a ‘goto’ person when it comes to seeking solutions,” says Karunasena.

CLARK KEBODEAUX Students thrive when their teachers are highly creative in developing course content that enhances their knowledge and solidifies course objectives. That’s how nominator Scotty Reams describes the classes of Clark Kebodeaux, a clinical associate professor of pharmacy practice and science.

“To enhance knowledge of tobacco cessation, students were divided into groups of three and assigned roles, with the first-year student acting as the patient, the second year as the practitioner and the third year as the feedback provider. The first student was tasked with creating a ‘patient’ with varying conditions, medications, etc., that might impact treatment choice. In doing so, the student became familiar with factors that impact treatment.

The second student’s clinical knowledge of those factors was uniquely tested, and the third student’s feedback skills and content knowledge were enhanced,” says Reams.

Kebodeaux graduated from the University of Kansas School of Pharmacy with a doctorate in pharmacy and completed a PGY1 communitybased pharmacy residency at the UK College of Pharmacy. He practices in an interprofessional ambulatory clinic at the Bluegrass Community Health Center, an accredited Patient Centered Medical Home with a focus

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on diabetes, substance use disorders and underserved populations. He also serves as the residency program director for the PGY1 UK Community-Based Residency Program and preceptor for APPE and IPPE student pharmacist rotations. He received the Faculty Excellence Award from the St. Louis College of Pharmacy in 2015 and the 2017-2018 Michael J. Lach Award of Innovative Teaching at the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy.

Reams says Kebodeaux has a strong interest in helping UK students in the classroom, as well as in mentoring students. “Under his leadership, the APhA Academy of Student Pharmacists with Kentucky Alliance of Pharmacy Students provides healthcare services, free-of-charge, to thousands of Kentuckians each year and allows hundreds of students to hold leadership roles and practice clinical skills … The mentorship he provides has led to regional and national recognition for his students, with one of his mentees being named the National Good Government Student Pharmacist-of-theYear … And outside the university setting, he has mentored students serving on state and national professional association boards and committees,” says Reams.

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College of Pharmacy, Pharmacy Practice and Science Nominator:

Scotty Reams, Pharmacy grad student, pharmacy major

KATHY SWAN Kathy Swan has been a professor in social studies education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction since 2004.

“When it comes to social studies education, few people are as passionate, informed and engaged than Dr. Swan … Her work and research are a driving force in creating what social studies education looks like across the country. Her work has influenced state standards across the United States, making her a driving force in the conversation about what social studies should look like in the classroom. As the lead writer for the C3 Framework, which was adopted as the national standards framework for K-12 social studies education, Dr. Swan is at the absolute forefront of moving social studies teaching and learning away from rote memorization toward students’ investigation of important historical, economic, geographic and civic questions using disciplinary sources and communicating conclusions based on evidence gathered,” says Bonnie Lewis, nominator.

Swan earned her doctorate at the University of Virginia, a master’s degree in teaching from Johns Hopkins University and a bachelor’s degree in economics at Mount St. Mary’s College. She co-chairs the graduate secondary social studies program and oversees the doctoral program in social

studies education. Swan has been a fourtime recipient of the National Technology Leadership Award in Social Studies Education and works extensively with museums and other educational institutions including the Smithsonian American History Museum, Smithsonian American Indian Museum, National Geographic, Library of Congress, and the Southern Poverty Law Center, where she consults on inquiry-based initiatives for teachers. She has written several books, including her latest, “Blueprinting an InquiryBased Curriculum: Planning with the Inquiry Design Model.” She is the co-creator and co-director of two websites, C3 Teachers and Making Inquiry Possible, where she facilitates networks of educators around the world who are helping social studies and civic education become relevant in K-12 schools.

“From the first day of class, her students begin to construct their own identities as teachers by not just talking about big ideas in social studies like inquiry, literacy, equity and action — instead, they are enacting those ideas … What is especially unique about Dr. Swan’s teaching practice is the intentionality behind class time. She observes, listens to her students and spends time reflecting on what would best meet their needs in the classroom and beyond,” says Lewis.

College of Education, Curriculum and Instruction Nominator:

Bonnie Lewis, Education grad student, education sciences/curriculum and instruction major

WAYNE SANDERSON

College of Agriculture, Food and Environment, Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering College of Public Health, Epidemiology Nominators:

Courtney Walker, Brian Kovacic Public Health grad students, biostatistics and epidemiology

“Dr. Sanderson is brilliant. His career before coming to academia means that he brings treasure troves of real-world experience to the classroom. He doesn’t just throw jargon and useless terms at students … His assignments are reflective of what we will encounter in our day-to-day lives and feature real world problems,” says Courtney Walker, one of his nominators.

Wayne Sanderson plays many roles at UK. He brings supervisory, administrative, research and teaching experience as the director of the Southeast Center for Agricultural Health and Injury Prevention.

He is also a professor in the UK Department of Epidemiology, as well as the director of the Central Appalachian Regional Education Research Center, which provides graduate and continuing education and enhances the research skills of students and professionals in the occupational health and safety field.

His role with these centers and his research focus is on occupational and environmental exposure assessment and associations with disease risks, with a particular focus on agricultural health and safety. For 42 years, he has designed and led research studies on occupational/environmental exposure risk and disease causation and prevention.

Another nominator, Brian Kovacic says, “One of the most impoverished and underserved communities in Kentucky is Eastern Kentucky, with a population made up of the lowest socioeconomic status in the state and with the highest rates of smoking, drug abuse and alcoholism. Dr. Sanderson has been a beacon of light to this community in his outreach programs, as well as his position as a researcher and friend, helping the people of Eastern Kentucky with public health problems, such as environmental exposure, workplace hazards, clean water and food resources.”

Sanderson earned his doctorate at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1997. He received a master’s degree from Central Missouri State University and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Missouri. Before coming to UK in 2009, he was a professor in the University of Iowa College of Public Health. He was also the director of the Industrial Hygiene Training Program for the Heartland Center for Occupational Health and Safety. From 1978 to 2002, Sanderson was a commissioned officer in the U.S. Public Health Service for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.

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ou could say, “three p’s” shaped Rebecca Liebert ‘90 EN: planning, project management and not procrastinating.

For the University of Kentucky alumna and Paintsville native, these qualities were instilled at an early age. Planning for crops on her family’s farm in Eastern Kentucky, while managing schoolwork was no simple task and she wasn’t to procrastinate.

Fast forward, Liebert, the executive vice president at PPG — a global manufacturer of paints, coatings and specialty materials — attributes her successful career to leaning in on these three p’s.

Now, she’s applying those same principles in a commitment to the university and adding philanthropy as another “p” to success.

Accepted by the UK Board of Trustees, Liebert’s recent gift of more than $6 million will establish the Dr. Rebecca Burchett Liebert Dean’s Fund in the UK College of Engineering.

The fund will provide scholarship support to undergraduate students from Eastern Kentucky — with an emphasis on supporting female students and those who would strengthen UK’s commitment to diversity and inclusion. In recognition of her commitment, the dean of the college will be referred to as the “Dr. Rebecca Burchett Liebert Dean of the College of Engineering.”

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UK Alumna’s $6 Million Gift Will Pave Path for Future Female Engineers From Eastern Kentucky

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Rebecca Liebert, executive vice president at PPG, attributes her success to her childhood roots in Painstville. Her gift of more than $6 million to the College of Engineering will now open more doors for students from Eastern Kentucky. meeting made me realize engineering was my passion that put me “I am incredibly proud I can provide this gift to the University of on my path to earning a degree in chemical engineering from UK in Kentucky, but it is so much more than just a gift — it is an invest1990.” ment in securing a diverse future for the College of Engineering,” After earning her doctoral degree in chemical engineering from Liebert said. “I am convinced, we can continue to make a difference Carnegie Mellon in 1995, Liebert began her career as a developin the lives of future UK students from Eastern Kentucky.” ment engineer with Nova Chemicals. As she held positions of inRudolph Buchheit is proud to be the inaugural Dr. Rebecca Burcreasing responsibility at Nova Chemicals, Liebert commuted from chett Liebert dean of the College of Engineering.

Pittsburgh to Chicago on weekends “Dr. Liebert’s gift is gratifying to pursue a Master of Business in many ways. She is from a fam“I am incredibly proud I can provide Administration (MBA) from the ily that values education and the Kellogg School of Management at opportunity it creates,” Buchheit this gift to the University of Kentucky, said. “Her example will inspire but it is so much more than just a gift — Northwestern University.

In 2004, Liebert seized a new many future generations of it is an investment in securing a diverse opportunity — becoming president Kentucky students and reminds of Alcoa’s Reynolds Food Packus of the important contributions future for the College of Engineering. I and Kama divisions. She of women who are leaders in our am convinced, we can continue to make aging remained with Alcoa until 2006, field and the need to continue to a difference in the lives of future UK when she joined Honeywell to strengthen diversity.” become vice president and general “This transformative gift students from Eastern Kentucky.” manager of the electronic materiwill not only elevate the field of engineering but reflects our -Rebecca Liebert ’90 EN als business. In 2012, Liebert was made senior vice president and mission to create a diverse, general manager of Honeywell UOP and in 2016, she was named vibrant community with the most talented students from right here president and CEO of the division. in the Commonwealth,” UK Pres. Eli Capilouto added. “Dr. Liebert In 2018, Liebert joined PPG as senior vice president and asis opening the doors of UK to young women in Eastern Kentucky sumed her current role as executive vice president in 2019. She is aspiring to become engineers and making their dreams a reality. focused on engineering the best paints and coatings for the global I am beyond grateful for her generosity and her commitment to automotive industry and the company’s mobility initiatives. Liebert providing affordability and accessibility to higher education to help also leads global operations for the industrial segment, the procurebuild our next generation of leaders.” ment function and the Asia Pacific region.

Liebert attributes her success to surrounding herself with a great The needs and demands of the coating industry are rapidly team of people, the continued support of her husband of 28 years, changing keeping her on her toes, and she wants aspiring engineers Keith Liebert, and her family that still resides in Kentucky. to feel the same excitement she does when she unveils a new breakIn fact, both of her parents worked as teachers and then administhrough or sees positive results from a minor systemic adjustment. trators in the local school district, while running the family farm on Liebert’s gift and future donations to the Dr. Rebecca Burchett the side. Already an engineer at heart, Liebert’s constant curiosity Liebert Dean’s Fund supports the university’s comprehensive in understanding how things worked — from fixing electric fences campaign, Kentucky Can: The 21st Century Campaign, which to mixing pesticides and fertilizer — made her a “practical” engiincreases opportunities for student success, funds innovative neer from an early age. research, improves health care, strengthens UK’s alumni network “Truth be told, I almost ended up in the medical field. Before and enhances athletic programs. ■ arriving at UK, I had planned to obtain a chemistry degree and then apply to medical school, but through a chance meeting on campus with some chemical engineering students, everything changed,” LiRebecca Liebert’s family farm in Paintsville. ebert explained. “As a math and science junkie, this happenstance

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THAN A BOOK

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n the history of the University of Kentucky, few places can be named as iconic as Kennedy Book Store, a fixture on UK’s campus for 67+ years. Located on the edge of UK’s campus, the store was a popular place to get textbooks, and Kennedy’s had a large and loyal student following. The highly recognizable bright yellow and red polka dot Kennedy’s merchandise bags would flood campus at the beginning of each semester as students made their purchases and prepared to settle into academic life.

Store owner Joseph P. Kennedy changed the Kennedy Book Store name to Kennedy’s Wildcat Den in 2013 to signal it sold more than just textbooks. The store, located on the corner of South Limestone and Winslow Street, was more than just a place to buy textbooks, school supplies and UK gear. It also offered student employment and a place where many lifelong relationships were formed.

If you ask Kennedy or his daughter Carol Behr about their favorite memories of the store, without hesitation they will tell you it was the relationships they formed with the students. Behr says that she has kept up with many of them throughout the years and has even run into a few when she’s out of town — or the country! Some part-time student employees became full-time employees after graduation, and their own children even worked at the store. Kennedy’s was family 24

owned and operated, but it was the students who were the heartbeat of the business.

Although Kennedy’s Wildcat Den closed its doors for the last time in December 2017, the Kennedy family remains committed to students. Every year, the family works with the UK Office of Annual Giving to award the Joseph P. Kennedy Scholarship to four well-deserving undergraduate and graduate students. These students show excellence not only in their academic studies, but also show commitment to philanthropy, community service and the University of Kentucky.

Kennedy’s roots in the business of selling textbooks began when he worked in his cousin’s bookstore while attending classes at Indiana University. Already a World War II veteran, he quickly discovered that he liked selling books much more than reading them.

When he wanted to branch out on his own with a bookstore, he searched for a location close to home and found Lexington, a mere 4-hour drive away and with a growing student population. This was a time in Kennedy’s life that he says he switched from bleeding red to bleeding blue.

He and his wife Peggy moved to Lexington in 1950, and they poured their heart and soul into Kennedy’s, originally a rented building beside a bowling alley and adjacent to the permanent location he purchased in 1964 at 405 South Limestone. The Kennedys became completely invested in campus life,

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the students and UK sports.

Behr spent a good deal of time at the bookstore throughout her life and has many fond memories from childhood until the time she became general manager of the store in 1991 when their longtime general manager retired.

“I would come down with my dad every Saturday to hang out,” Behr says. When I was in junior high, I would ride my bike down after school and throw my bike in his station wagon to go home with him at the end of the day. So, I would work almost every day after school.

“I remember when I was young, he closed the store at 1 p.m. on UK football Saturdays, and we would walk over to Stoll Field to watch the games. He knew UK was where his bread was buttered.”

Kennedy’s was always prepared to sell fan merchandise, depending on what was happening in UK sports at the time.

“Every year during the National Men’s Basketball Championships, the bookstore had a plan in place if UK won and T-shirts needed to be ordered,” Behr says. “We rented extra tents to sell merchandise. My sons were young in 1996 when UK won the national championship. They set up a lemonade stand outside the store. I felt guilty that they had no spring break, but it was a way of life for them, and years later expressed how much fun they’d had then.”

Joseph P. Kennedy founded Kennedy Book Store in 1950 and continues to support UK students through the Joseph P. Kennedy Scholarship.

STORE Joseph Kennedy made a successful career with the bookstore, but perhaps even more important, the Kennedy family has impacted the lives of many students who worked there.

“The bookstore was integral to life on campus,” Behr says. “My dad loved working with students and became a mentor to many. He never felt like he aged much because he always worked with 18 to 22 year olds. He credits them with keeping him young-at-heart.”

Alecia Whitaker Pace ’02 FA, CI, currently a fiction writer living in New York City, worked at Kennedy’s from 1997 to 2002.

“When I went into work, I felt like I was in a place that really cared for me,” Pace says. “I wasn’t just another cog in the wheel.

Carol was a boss but also a wonderful human being and a mentor to me. I could tell how proud she was to carry on her dad’s work at the store.

“I met Mr. Kennedy a couple of times, and he was always so nice and would come around and shake your hand. He loved UK and the town.”

For some, like Kerry Atherton ’05 CI; ’09 ED, currently the director of customer success at Geoforce Inc. in Denver, working at the bookstore launched them into a fulltime career.

“I look back fondly on my 3 years working for Kennedy’s during my time at the University of Kentucky,” Atherton says.

“Now years later, I have a deep appreciation for the opportunity to have been a part of the Kennedy family Joe and Carol provided. The experience I received put me on a career path that I benefit from professionally today. After graduation, it launched an opportunity in higher ed textbooks and education technology that continues to positively impact my professional career.”

“THE JOSEPH P. KENNEDY SCHOLARSHIP HAS NOT ONLY FUNDED MY EDUCATION, BUT IT IS NOW SUPPORTING CAREGIVERS AND CHILDREN IN THE COMMUNITY.” — Jaeana Tooson, 2019-2020 Joseph P. Kennedy Scholarship recipient When asked why helping students through the Joseph P. Kennedy Scholarship is important to her and her dad, Behr said it was seeing deserving kids who didn’t have much of their own, give back to their communities anyway. Community service has always been an important part of Behr’s life.

Jaeana Tooson was one of the 2019-2020 Joseph P. Kennedy Scholarship recipients.

She is now a registered dietitian-nutritionist with the UK Dietetics and Human Nutrition Department to support caregivers in providing care to their children.

“As a first-generation student, I had no clue what I was getting into by enrolling in college. For me, the funds were the biggest hurdle to getting my foot in the door of opportunity to a better life,” Tooson says.

‘During my tenure at UK, a portion of my financial support came from the Joseph P. Kennedy Scholarship at a time when it was most impactful. I received the scholarship as a senior, and the funds helped me afford my dietetic internship after graduating.

Because of this scholarship, I was able to graduate from the internship program and complete my undergraduate journey.

“The Joseph P. Kennedy Scholarship has not only funded my education, but it is now supporting caregivers and children in the community. This scholarship means a lot to me, and I am grateful for the philanthropic heart of Joseph P. Kennedy and his daughter, Carol Behr.”

Kennedy, now nearing his 96th birthday, is retired and living at home in Lexington.

Behr describes him as quick witted and with a good disposition. He knows his family, and he still follows UK sports.

Behr said she appreciates all her parents taught her, beginning with those early days working in the store.

“My father is my hero, and my mother was the sweetest person I knew,” she says.

“They taught me that in giving, we get so much more.” ■ www. ukalumni. net

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RETAIL/DINING SPACE

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new space for learning, innovation and collaboration is now open to the Lexington and University of Kentucky community.

Designed as a hub of activity around innovation, entrepreneurship and economic development, The Cornerstone supports the university’s nationally recognized Smart Campus digital strategy that focuses on increasing persistence and graduation rates, while preparing students for lives of meaning and purpose.

The vision for The Cornerstone is to leverage the open-format space and use of technology to maximize student success, enhance a sense of community and bring together the university and city. Moreover, the space will foster outcome- and solution-driven thinking and design, connect people with different passions and interests and provide new pathways for career development in entrepreneurial fields.

The structure was named The Cornerstone to reflect the building’s role as a gateway to an emerging innovation district that will further link the university and city. Achieved through a publicprivate-partnership with the Signet Real Estate Group, the mixed-use parking, education and retail facility additionally makes critical progress on the university’s Transportation Master Plan (TMP).

The facility, on the corner of South Limestone and Winslow Street, has 900 new parking spaces, University of Kentucky esports, a flexible innovation zone and approximately 10,000 square feet of private retail space.

The Cornerstone can be broken into four spaces.

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The Cornerstone Exchange food hall is committed to featuring homegrown, Kentucky-based companies.

A Cup of Common Wealth and Rolling Oven Pizza were announced last year. Signet and the university recently announced that Ethereal Brewing and Miyako Poke Bowl have joined the lineup.

“We are very excited to be the first microbrewery on the University of Kentucky’s campus,” said Andrew Bishop, co-founder of Ethereal Brewing. “Coming from UK ourselves, Brandon (Floan, co-owner) and I look forward to working hard to create a unique and inclusive atmosphere to cater to those both over and under 21.”

A Cup of Common Wealth opened in 2020, with the remaining opening in early 2021.

“Cornerstone Exchange started with the idea that the Lexington community deserved a collaborative space for exchanging innovative ideas and creating connections over local food and drinks,” said Spencer Hyatt, vice president of Signet Real Estate Group. “We felt the best way for the community to have a window into all the exciting initiatives that UK provides was through a community-centered food hall. The Exchange is the perfect melting pot to bring together successful local Lexington-based restaurants, including coffee, desserts and brewery, while simultaneously showcasing UK Cornerstone’s innovation space, esports lounge and theater.”

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THE UK FEDERAL CREDIT UNION ESPORTS LOUNGE AND THEATER The space’s esports theater includes 100 retractable theater-style seats and an esports gamers lounge that offers more than 50 PCbased gaming units and multiple console-play areas. While this space is predominately used for gaming, the flexible use of the facility allows the community to engage in a variety of activities.

“As the official sponsor of the Esports Lounge at the University of Kentucky, we are very excited about the opening of The Cornerstone on UK’s campus,” said David Kennedy, University of Kentucky Federal Credit Union’s (UKFCU) president and CEO. “There is so much opportunity within this space for collaboration and technology development, and we look forward to watching it grow over the coming months. Our credit union’s investment in UK’s new esports program represents our commitment to innovate and cultivate new technologies and ideas for a large group of students. While typical sports teams are limited to a smaller population of the student body, we view esports as an opportunity for all students to participate. UKFCU is proud to have served the UK community for 83 years, and we are excited to grow our relationship for the next generation.”

FLEXIBLE INNOVATION SPACE A highly flexible open-format area infused with cutting-edge technology is a space to maximize student success, enhance a sense of community, bring together the university and community to foster outcome- and solution-driven thinking and design and provide new pathways for career development in the entrepreneurial fields. Equipped with new state-of-the-art technology, the innovation space is a great place for students, staff, faculty and community members to take classes, listen to a community speaking event or even brainstorm a new app.

Rooms and technology in the space can be reserved through the UK Event Management System.

PARKING By adding more than 900 new parking spaces, the combined number of spaces increases to over 2,300 between the existing garage and the new structure, now known as Cornerstone Garage. This is a significant step in the right direction in achieving the university’s TMP and adding much-needed parking capacity to campus.

DEVELOPING SUCCESSFUL PARTNERSHIPS While things on campus look different than in past years due to the global pandemic, The Cornerstone is providing innovative new ways to engage the campus and the community in learning and connection.

Underscoring the importance of this facility as a doorway to campus, and the university’s relationship with local businesses, UK, in partnership with UKFCU and Signet Real Estate Group, is defining a new model for higher education — a model that melds cutting-edge research and education with entrepreneurship and real-world application.

Signet will maintain and operate the retail/ dining space; UK will operate and maintain the innovation zone, esports center and parking structure.

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ART ‘CORNER’ When The Cornerstone opened in 2020, one of the most distinctive features of the new building was the 55-foot-tall, first of its kind in Lexington, exterior digital media wall standing tall for all to see. Wrapping the corner of South Limestone and Winslow Street, the media wall is strategically situated on one of the university’s most downtown and community facing corners.

In keeping with The Cornerstone’s spirit of ingenuity and creativity, the University of Kentucky, in partnership with the Coca-Cola Co., launched an inaugural call for digital artwork, in which students, faculty, staff and the community at large had the opportunity to submit their artwork to be projected on The Cornerstone’s digital media wall. Submissions revolved around two central themes: Black Lives in the Bluegrass or Kentucky Confronting COVID-19. Results of the contest are being displayed over the semester.

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CHIMENE NTAKARUTIMANA

NAMED MARSHALL SCHOLAR

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Recent UK graduate Chimene Ntakarutimana is the University of Kentucky’s sixth Marshall Scholar.

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he University of Kentucky Office of Nationally Competitive Awards announced that 2020 psychology, sociology and Lewis Honors College graduate Chimene Ntakarutimana, of Lexington, has been named a 2021 Marshall Scholar.

The scholarship finances two years of graduate study for her at an institution of her choice in the United Kingdom. Ntakarutimana is the sixth UK student to receive the honor from the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission.

“Chimene continues a strong and proud tradition of UK students being recognized for their outstanding work nationally and internationally, based on their undergraduate research, leadership and excellence in the classroom,” UK President Eli Capilouto said. “We will be excited to watch Chimene continue to make her mark on the world as she pursues graduate studies in migration in the United Kingdom as our sixth Wildcat to be named a Marshall Scholar.”

Up to 50 Marshall Scholars are selected each year to study at the graduate level at an institution in the United Kingdom. For the first time in the program’s 66-year history, the incoming class will be majority-minority with 52 percent reflecting minority communities across the United States, including a record number of Black and Latinx scholars. A majority of the class are female scholars and six are first-generation college students.

The Marshall Scholarship covers university fees, cost of living expenses, an annual book grant, thesis grant, research and daily travel grants, and fares to and from the United States.

The daughter of Charlotte Habuhazi and Desire Ntakarutimana, of Lexington, Ntakarutimana will use her Marshall Scholarship to pursue two master’s degrees in the U.K. She will attend University College London for her graduate study in the fields of global migration and gender, society and representation. As part of the two dissertations she will need to complete, she would like to examine gender-based violence in times of atrocity.

“The opportunity to work in a country that is at the forefront of migration policy will be life changing,” Ntakarutimana said. “Not only will I have access to professors with a breadth and depth of knowledge in the field of forced migration, I will be able to glean research skills that I can utilize in my own projects. Thus, being able to impact current migration polices, while creating new ones that fit the international climate.”

From personal experience, Ntakarutimana understands how forced migration can change one’s life. For six years, she lived in a refugee camp after fleeing genocide in her home country of Burundi. It was this constant moving and resettlement process that led to her interest in the field of migration, as well as her undergraduate research at UK and abroad as a participant in the National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates program in Rwanda.

“Coming to the U.S. as a refugee was a difficult process,” she said. “With the encouragement of my family, I was able to see that I could use my own

personal experience to change the way the world views immigration.

“It is with them and the millions of refugees abroad and at home that I hope to dedicate my life to ensuring that they have safe places to land. My time at the University of Kentucky and the courses I took also highlighted the importance of intersectionality. This is why a second degree in gender studies would ensure that I’m thinking about how people’s identities shift their experiences with migration.”

During her time at UK, Ntakarutimana was named a Chellgren Fellow and earned a minor in criminology and a certificate in social science research in addition to her two bachelor’s degrees from the UK College of Arts and Sciences. Active in undergraduate research, she analyzed how African Americans view other racially diverse people and their friendship groups. Outside of the classroom she was active as a College of Arts and Sciences Ambassador, K Crew Leader and UK 101 peer mentor.

Off campus, Ntakarutimana volunteered with Ampersand Sexual Violence Resource Center of the Bluegrass, getting trained in crisis response to support survivors in emergency rooms. She has been working as an administrative coordinator at Kentucky Refugee Ministries, where she has the opportunity to see the resettlement process firsthand, while learning how a nonprofit operates.

Ntakarutimana credits these experiences and her mentors for helping her attain her goals, including research mentor Jazmin Brown-Iannuzzi, assistant professor of social psychology, and Pat Whitlow, director of the UK Office of Nationally Competitive Awards.

After completing her two master’s degrees, Ntakarutimana would like to work with international nonprofit organizations focused on migration and one day be director of the United Nations Women’s Department.

“I’m excited to see what role I get to play in international migration policy,” the Marshall Scholar said. “And, hopefully, I get to come back and mentor other students here at UK. “I want to give back. That’s something that being here at UK has taught me — that you have to pass it forward. You have to make sure you are mentoring the people behind — that way everyone gets to be where you are at.”

Founded by a 1953 Act of Parliament and named in honor of U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall, Marshall Scholarships commemorate the humane ideals of the Marshall Plan and express the continuing gratitude of the British people to their American counterparts. In the United States, the selection process is managed by regional Consulates General in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Washington by the British Embassy. Ntakarutimana was one of 26 finalists who interviewed for the Marshall honor in the 14-state Chicago region. ■

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pharmacist’s role goes beyond checking pills and managing refills; they build relationships with patients and make a difference. O’Shea Hudspeth, Class of 2007, is a testament to the high moral character the University of Kentucky (UK) hopes to foster in its students.

Originally from Murray, Ky., Hudspeth knew he wanted to find the same hometown feeling while pursuing a pharmacy education. When he found his place at UK College of Pharmacy (UKCOP), he didn’t look back.

“Going to UK, and then working here in Lexington after I graduated, I knew this is where I wanted to be and start a family. The UK College of Pharmacy had the facilities and location and was top-ranked as well. It was an easy choice,” says Hudspeth.

Hudspeth originally started as a pharmacy technician at Kroger in 2002 while attending Georgetown College, where he played football and majored in biology. It was there he decided on his career path, and in the fall of 2003, he

pharmacies allowed me to learn some great lessons on how I wanted to practice. The second weekend after obtaining my license, I was also fully prepared to work solo. That’s the power of a Kentucky degree,” he states.

In all, Hudspeth spent 17 years with Kroger.

He had patients that came in every day to see him. “I found something I was passionate about,” he says. “It clearly came out in my work.” He is also quick to note the additional impact he has as a Black man working in healthcare.

“I am a Black pharmacy manager at a time when there are not many Black men and women in community pharmacy. I can be an example for kids who don’t have a Black doctor or dentist or don’t often see someone like me in this type of position. There aren’t many of us in the pharmacist role.”

Recent data supports Hudspeth’s experience, showing that Black pharmacists make up only 5% of the professionals in their field, and 9% of those currently enrolled in pharmacy school

“I can be an example for kids who don’t have a Black doctor or dentist or don’t often see someone like me in this type of position.” began pharmacy school at UKCOP and joined Kroger as a pharmacy intern.

When asked about his most meaningful interactions with patients, Hudspeth shares about helping patients through their battles with cancer and heart disease, many of whom mentioned how important it was that he spoke directly to them and asked how they were doing. He notes, “I’m grateful to be able to further relationships with my patients in a unique way. While pharmacists are true medication experts, we’re also one of the most trusted healthcare professionals. I take that responsibility seriously.”

After pharmacy school, Hudspeth worked at over 20 Kroger locations throughout central Kentucky. “I was at a different store nearly every day,” he remembers. “Floating to those

for the 2018-2019 academic year, according to the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. This is most likely due to systematic and systemic discrimination, often linked to mandatory standardized tests like the Pharmacy College Admission Test (PCAT) or inequitable hiring practices. Hudspeth notes, “I’m glad to see that UKCOP is starting to take more deliberate steps to make pharmacy a more appealing choice for young Black students interested in the medical field.”

During his tenure at Kroger, Hudspeth impacted countless lives, and he continues to be an example and mentor for other Black students hoping to pursue a healthcare career.

Most recently, Hudspeth joined UK HealthCare to manage its retail location within Chandler Hospital. In addition to traditional

community pharmacy duties, he reviews patient charts, consults on medication, and assists in discharging patients. He is also involved in the hospital’s Meds-to-Bed program, a free concierge bedside service specifically to help patients leave the hospital with their necessary medications without additional hassle.

“I believe in taking advantage of the many roles a pharmacist can play,” says Hudspeth.

“There is so much out there, so many opportunities to have relationships with your patients.

I enjoy working with the public, but there is an array of options within this profession.

Whether it be community, hospital, nuclear, research, or another pharmacy field, you have to find something that you enjoy.”

Hudspeth continues to lean into what it means to be a patient-centered provider. When asked about his proudest accomplishment since graduating, he talks about his new position at UK Chandler or working at Lexington’s busiest Kroger store. “Professionally, every step along the way has been an accomplishment,” Hudspeth says. This includes all techs and interns who have worked under him who now have blossoming careers.

In terms of his personal life, Hudspeth says he is blessed with a beautiful family. “My wife is passionate about pharmacy, and we have three awesome kids. I am so happy about the family life this career has allowed,” he says.

Hudspeth met his wife Brooke (Hicks) Hudspeth while the two were at pharmacy school. Brooke is UKCOP’s newly appointed Chief Practice Officer and another alum of the Class of 2007. Caring for patients and making a difference is a passion for both husband and wife, and the University of Kentucky is proud to recognize Drs. O’Shea and Brooke Hudspeth as part of the alumni family.

Sports UK Director of Athletics Mitch Barnhart has been named to the College Football Playoff Selection Committee for a threeyear term.

Barnhart was added to the selection committee along with Boo Corrigan, athletics director at North Carolina State; Texas AD Chris Del Conte; Will Shields, former All-America lineman at Nebraska; and Joe Taylor, longtime coach and current AD at Virginia Union.

In being named to the CFP Selection Committee, Barnhart adds to his leadership and impact in college athletics: • He is chairman of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Committee, which is responsible for the administration of the tournament in what is undoubtedly the most challenging year in the history of the event. His term on this committee expires following the 2021 tournament.

• He is chairman of the of the Southeastern Conference Athletics

Directors, now in his fourth year in that role.

• In his 19th year at Kentucky, he is the longest-termed AD in the Southeastern Conference and the second-longest among all Power 5 schools.

Barnhart has served on numerous other committees and boards for the NCAA and the National Association of College Directors of Athletics. Most notably he has worked on the NCAA Division I Council, been chairman of the NCAA Competition Oversight Committee and was a member of the NCAA Division I Baseball Committee. He was an original member of the SEC Network Content Committee, which was integral to the launch of the largest new cable channel in television history.

In 2019, Barnhart was named Athletic Director of Year by the Sports Business Journal. His legacy at UK includes helping develop administrators who have

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become athletics directors at nationally prominent universities, including Greg Byrne of Alabama, Mark Coyle at Minnesota, Rob Mullens at Oregon, Scott Stricklin at Florida, John Cohen at Mississippi State, Kevin Saal at Murray State and DeWayne Peevy at DePaul. ■

KENTUCKY FOOTBALL SIGNS 21 PLAYERS IN CLASS OF 2021 Kentucky, coming off a 5-6 season which included its third-straight bowl win, signed 21 players to the Class of 2021.

“The big storyline for this class is the state of Kentucky. You talk about the young men that we signed from the state. You have to credit the high school coaches and the programs for that. We do work extremely hard to keep the best talent at home.”

The signings further bolsters a class rated in the Top 40 nationally by ESPN and 247Sports and includes eight signees who have been rated as four- or five-star players by Rivals. Prospective student-athletes originally had until April 1, 2021, to sign national letters of intent

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but due to COVID-19, that has been extended to Aug. 1, 2021.

This year’s class: • Wilson Berry: Maribyrnong, Australia • Jager Burton: Lexington, Kentucky • Dekel Crowdus Jr: Lexington, Kentucky • Jordan Dingle: Bowling Green, Kentucky • Justice Dingle: Bowling Green, Kentucky • Jamarius Dinkins: Columbus, Ohio • Maxwell Hairston: West Bloomfield, Michigan • Adrian Huey: Nashville, Tennessee • Christian Lewis: Pleasant Grove, Alabama

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• Jordan Lovett: Radcliff, Kentucky • Chauncey Magwood: Leesburg, Georgia • Wan’Dale Robinson: Frankfort, Kentucky • Paul Rodriguez: Mason, Ohio • Devonte Ross: Cartersville, Georgia • Kahlil Saunders: Huntsville, Alabama • Kaiya Sheron: Somerset, Kentucky • Martez Thrower: Rochelle, Georgia • David Wohlabaugh: Stow, Ohio • La’Vell Wright: Radcliff, Kentucky February Signees: • Luke Fulton: Youngstown, Ohio • Trevin Wallace: Jesup, Georgia ■

UK SWIMMING AND DIVING WINS FIRST SEC WOMEN’S CHAMPIONSHIP is the fourth fastest in UK history. Caitlin Brooks followed her pace, earning her second individual podium finish of the meet with a bronze medal after touching the wall in 1:51.96.

Following the opening event, two swimmers broke school records in the next two events.

Riley Gaines broke the school record in the 100 freestyle for the third time this season, doing so in 48.21 and earning sixth place overall in the conference. In the next race, Gillian Davey broke the school record in the 200 breaststroke on a time of 2:05.59. With that time, she also earned her second silver medal of the meet and met the 2021 NCAA Championships “A” time standard.

Two other swimmers stepped up in the 200 breaststroke to win the “B” final and the “C” final on personal records. Jaclyn Hill won the “B” final for ninth place on a time of 2:08.62, while Anna Havens Rice, a freshman, won the “C” final for 17th place on a time of 2:10.21.

In the final individual event of the meet, the 200 butterfly, Gaines brought home fourth place on a personal record 1:55.10, while Izzy Gati finished in seventh place in 1:56.00.

On the men’s diving side, Danny Zhang earned his second podium finish of the meet, collecting a silver medal in the men’s platform event on a score of 403.20. Chase Lane, competing in the final SEC Championships of his career, finished in fifth place overall on a score of 345.40. ■

Tony Walsh, UK Athletics

For the first time in school history, the No. 3 University of Kentucky women’s swimming and diving team has won the Southeastern Conference Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships. The Wildcats broke five school records and produced 12 podium finishes throughout the meet, collecting 1,124 points for their highest score in program history.

Kentucky set itself up for success during the Saturday morning session after every single swimmer who competed in preliminaries earned a trip to that night’s finals, creating 20 scoring opportunities down the stretch. Fifteen swimmers earned a combined 16 personal records on Saturday, while 42 personal records were set throughout the meet.

“This championship means a lot,” said Head Coach Lars Jorgensen. “We’ve been building this over a few years now, and it’s about the people in front of us that helped build our program. The alumni from years past established it — our coaching staff, our administration. So many people had terrific effort this weekend. It was really fantastic. I couldn’t be more thrilled for our institution and for our girls. What a great moment.”

Kentucky set the pace early in finals, earning a 2-3 finish in the 200 backstroke.

Sophie Sorenson claimed the first individual podium finish at the SEC Championships in her career, collecting the silver medal in the event on a personal record 1:50.94. The time

No. 1 has new meaning for the UK women’s swimming and diving team as it wins its first SEC Women’s Championship.

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Thank you to all of our new Life Members!* Life Members are among our most loyal alumni and friends. We salute your commitment to strengthening UK’s alumni community and honor your dedication to the university’s past and future.

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Marc Dubick Charles Duncan Matthew Durham Michelle C. Feger Timothy A. Feger Wesley J. Flagler Wesley Flagler Joanna Gibbs Linda Gill Deborah A. Gona Adrian Gooch Lisa Q. Gothard Michael D. Gothard Dana Grube Samuel Hancock Michael A. Haunert Barry R. Hopkins Denise L. Hopkins Marcia Johnson Kathryn Jones Cynthia Kelly John Kelly

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1. Some members and friends of the Naples/Ft. Myers UK Alumni Club gathered together with #FLATWILDCAT to watch the UK/LSU men’s basketball game in January. Left to right: Alice Williams Curry (Class of 1979), Linda Keith, Vicki Napier Schmidt (Class of 1978), Carolyn Warner, Mitzi Carrico Coyle (Class of 1969), Kathy Wells, Kay Gupton, Pam Price Richardson (Class of 1971) and Linda Lowe.

2. The Central Virginia UK Alumni Club collected toys for the Marine Corps Toys for Tots program as a community service project. Here’s Hilton Withers with the more than 150 toys that club members collected, despite the ongoing pandemic. The Marines picked them up and distributed them in time for the holiday season.

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3. With the cancellation of Big Blue Santa last December, UK Legacy families (the children of alumni) were given the option to receive a commemorative UK Legacy ornament, like this one in the photo from the UK Alumni Association, to bring a little UK holiday cheer to their homes.

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Alternative Therapies for Animals

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ebra Powell ’99 AFE made her life all about horses until she saw a need to help other animals, too.

In 1999, after earning her doctorate from UK in animal sciences with a focus in equine nutrition and exercise physiology, she started her own mobile small business, Powell’s Equine Canine Therapeutic Services. Along the way she also earned certifications in equine and canine massage, acupuncture and chiropractic, allowing her to help hundreds of dogs, horses — and sometimes even cattle — while teaching others to do the same.

“I started with just doing massages on horses,” she says.

“Because of my background in equine physiology and nutrition, I found that working with horses while educating owners was what I enjoyed most. I wanted to make it mobile because it is easier on the clients. They don’t have to load their horses in the trailer or find someone to transport their horses for them — or load their dogs in their vehicles and take them to a strange building.”

She says most animals become frightened of new environments, and you cannot get a good response from treatment under those conditions.

“I have been told that I have a calming influence over animals, which may be because I am a rather calm and patient person myself,” Powell says.

Since the COVID pandemic, she still travels to clients, but just locally and only if she can work on the animal with the owner or handler at a safe distance.

Powell’s overall goal with her alternative therapies is to improve an animal’s quality of life, but she treats every case individually and formulates a plan based on the animal’s and owner’s needs. “When I get a call about coming to see their animal, I always get a history and information about what the owner is seeing in their animal, or perhaps what they want to introduce to their animal,” she says.

“Some owners want to make massage a component of their pet’s welfare. Some wish to provide additional relief from discomfort instead of using medication or wanting to use less medication. There are really a lot of different components to the business, and I try to advise what I think is going to be best for the animal,” she says. “I have a lot of owners with older pets that I work on to keep them as mobile as possible. I have worked on show cattle to get them stretched out and relaxed so that they move better in the show pen. I have also worked on show dogs to get them ready prior to their performance, and the same goes for horses.”

Powell says she always tells owners that she will only do what she feels will help the animal and will not intentionally hurt or mask any discomfort for the sake of the animal’s performance.

That is not the mission for her business.

MOVING FORWARD DESPITE A PANDEMIC “Because I am mobile, I get to travel. Prior to COVID, I did not have any limits on distance, if fit within my college duties,” says Powell.

In January 2021, Powell started a new position as equine science program manager at Hocking College in Ohio, moving from her previous position at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in Indiana. “This position involves my providing meaningful educational outcomes for the students within the four equine programs,” she says. “This is very exciting as it will allow me to make a difference in the lives of those students, which is something I am passionate about and always value.”

She says that because she has an entrepreneurial outlook, the new position also allows her to create and offer additional programs that are in keeping with student interests and changes within the equine industry. Because Hocking is a community college with a soon to open equine event complex, she can also provide events and educational programs that are relevant.

A native of Charleston, South Carolina, Powell earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from Hampton University in Virginia and a master’s degree in animal sciences from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana before graduating from the UK College of Agriculture, Food and Environment.

Powell chose the UK Department of Animal Science for her Ph.D. program. “My area of interest has always been in equine nutrition and how nutrition and exercise work together, and UK has one of the best graduate programs in that area,” she says.

“What better place to study horses?”

Powell says she felt UK has some of the best equine researchers. “They have provided opportunities to travel, conduct cutting-edge research, and opportunities to present my research locally, nationally and abroad. I continue to utilize those connections that I have formed at UK,” she says.

It was Laurie Lawrence, a professor in the UK Department of Animal Science, who influenced her the most. “She was always very open-minded by allowing me to try different ideas related to horse care and nutrition,” Powell says. “I began studying alternative therapies because of that open-mindedness.”

Regardless of the current pandemic, Powell has goals for her new program at Hocking. “I really want to build an academic program where the students can learn their technology or skill in a particular area, but also effectively communicate and have some business savvy so that when they leave college they are ready for what life throws at them … I have met a lot of students who are truly afraid of venturing out of their hometowns. I want to present them with a glimpse of what is available in hopes that it sparks a desire to continue that venture. I want to expose as many students as possible to the numerous facets of the horse industry to broaden their knowledge of possibilities,” she says. ■

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Class Notes Winston E. Miller ’67 BE, ’70 LAW lives in Louisville and is executive director of the Kentucky Housing Corp. He previously was appointed deputy secretary of the Commonwealth of Kentucky Finance and Administration Cabinet

by Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear and was a partner with the firm Frost Brown Todd LLC. Robert C. Sparks ’68 BE lives in Clarkson, Michigan, and is a business and management instructor with the University of Phoenix.

His research paper was based on 23 online classes he instructed over 2 ½ years. “The Faculty-Student Connection in the Online Classroom and Its Impact on Student Evaluations of Teaching,” was published in the winter 2020 edition of Transformative Dialogues, a peer-reviewed, Canadian teaching and learning journal.

1970s Deborah Larkin-Carney ’75 NUR is senior vice president, quality and patient safety and patient experience at RWJBarnabas Health in West Orange, New Jersey.

Kay Kirkpatrick Haltom ’76 AS lives in Marietta, Georgia, and was appointed to the Georgia Joint Defense Commission by 42

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, representing Dobbins Air Reserve Base. Haltom is a retired orthopedic hand surgeon and a member of the Georgia State Senate for the 32nd District, which includes portions of Cobb and Fulton counties.

Steven B. Angelucci ’76 AS, ’79 DE is assistant to the president at Transylvania University in Lexington, focusing on developing an immersive entrepreneurship program for students. He had been the university’s vice president for advancement.

Lee Weber ’77 AS is the founder and CEO of The Lee Weber Group in Lexington. After serving at the senior leadership level with Johnson & Johnson and Smith & Nephew, he created a healthcare recruiting firm specializing in the medical device and orthopedics industry. Weber has been acknowledged for several achievements made within the recruiting industry.

Kathleen M. Flynn ’79 AFE is state veterinarian at the Kentucky Department of Agriculture in Frankfort.

She has been the deputy state veterinarian and was previously the veterinary specialist for the California Department of Food and Agriculture Animal Health Branch.

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The 1908-1909 women’s basketball team looked focused on winning while posing for this photo. The first University of Kentucky women’s basketball team was organized in 1902 and competed for the first time in 1903. However, in 1924, the University Senate passed a bill to abolish women’s basketball in part because, according to state politicians, “basketball had proven to be a strenuous sport for boys and therefore was too strenuous for girls.” After 50 years, women’s basketball was granted varsity status in 1974 and today is led by Head Coach Kyra Elzy.

obstetrics and gynecology at the UK College of Medicine and a member of the gynecological cancer team at the UK Markey Cancer Center Division of Gynecologic Oncology.

Robert M. Stone ’79 ’84 AFE lives in Georgetown and is the owner of Elmwood Stock Farm, an organic farming operation. He was named to the Kentucky Agricultural Finance Corp., representing horticulture farmers across the Commonwealth.

1980s Augustine M.K. Choi ’80 AS is the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medicine and provost for medical affairs of Cornell University. He

was elected to the National Academy of Medicine, which recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service. Choi earned his medical degree from the University of Louisville School of Medicine.

Mark C. Johnson ’80 MED lives in Savannah, Georgia, and is CEO of the Gateway Community Service Board.

He was appointed to the Georgia Behavioral Health Reform and Innovation Commission by Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp. Johnson was previously medical director for BJC Behavioral Health.

Paula M. Anderson ’81 CI is president and CEO of the YMCA of Central Kentucky.

She was previously the YMCA’s chief administrative officer and vice president of human resources.

Charles W. Rice ’81 AFE is professor of soil microbiology and holds the Vanier University Professorship in the Kansas State University Department of Agronomy in Manhattan. He received the Mid America CropLife Association Educator of the Year Award. Rice won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Gerald L. Smith ’81 AS is a professor of African American and Africana Studies in the UK College of Arts & Sciences and pastor of the Pilgrim Baptist Church. He was appointed co-chairman of the Commission for Racial Justice and Equality

by Lexington Mayor Linda Gorton.

Debra Ralston Sowell ’82 MED is a pediatrician in Bowling Green, Kentucky. She was appointed president of the University of Kentucky Medical Alumni Association.

Zindell Richardson ’83 DE is chairman of the Department of Oral Health Science in the UK College of Dentistry. He was previously commander of the 59th Dental Training Squadron at Lackland Air Force Base.

Eric J. Cremers ’84 EN is president and CEO of PotlatchDeltic Corp., a real estate investment trust in Spokane, Washington. He had been the company’s president and chief operating officer.

Mary L. Harville ’84 AS, ’88 LAW lives in Louisville and was appointed president and CEO of the Kentucky Lottery Corp.

by Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear. She had been senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary for the Kentucky Lottery Corp.

Chamber of Commerce for the 2021 term.

Dale E. Toney ’87 MED is interim chief, Division of General Internal Medicine and Women’s Health at the UK Albert B. Chandler Hospital and associate professor at the UK College of Medicine. He was elected president of the Kentucky Medical Association.

Cathy King Dodd ’88 BE is senior vice president, president of distribution, for Avient Corp., a provider of specialized polymer materi-

als and services headquartered in Avon Lake, Ohio.

She was previously the company’s chief commercial officer.

Quita Beeler Highsmith ’88 CI lives in Brisbane, California, and is vice president and chief diversity officer at Genentech, a biotechnology company.

She had been the company’s head of alliance and advocacy relations.

Allyson True Cook ’86 BE, ’89 LAW is president and CEO of Erigo Employer Solutions in Fort Mitchell.

She was previously an attorney at Stites & Harbison PLLC. Anthony M. Nolte ’86 BE is chief financial officer and general counsel for Open Mortgage LLC in Austin, Texas. He was named to the Sollensys Corp. Business Advisory Board. Nolte earned his law degree from the South Texas College of Law Houston.

Winston R. Griffin ’87 BE lives in London, Kentucky, and is CEO and chairman of Laurel Grocery Co., a family-owned grocery wholesaler that supplies several states, including Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee and West Virginia. He was elected chairman of the Kentucky

Marguerite McLaughlin taught journalism at UK, where she also earned her degree in 1903. She was the first woman teacher of journalism in the United States and trained many well-known journalists, including the late Joe Creason. A 40-year veteran reporter and a charter member of Theta Sigma Phi, she was executive secretary of the UK Alumni Association during each World War; served 20 years (1920-1940) as president of the Lexington Alumni Club, and 30 years (1920-1950) as a member of the association’s Executive Committee. During World War II, McLaughlin endeared herself to military alumni by having the Kentucky Kernel sent to them wherever they were stationed.

In 1950, McLaughlin received the UK Alumni Association’s Alma Magna Mater Award. She retired from UK and became president of Welsh Printing Co. McLaughlin was named to the UK Alumni Association Hall of Distinguished Alumni in 1980.

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Class Notes David T. Susman ’88 ’92 AS lives in Lexington and is a licensed psychologist, an assistant professor of psychology and director of the Department of Psychology Jesse G. Harris, Jr. Psychological Services Center in the UK College of Arts and Sciences.

associate dean of research and graduate programs.

Michael L. Westendorf ’88 ’91 AFE is an Extension specialist and professor in the Department of Animal Sciences in the Rutgers University School of Environmental and Biological Sciences in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Marjorie A. Farris ’92 AS lives in Louisville and is an attorney, partner and the first chairwoman at Stites & Harbison PLLC. She was previously the firm’s co-chairwoman of the class action and multi-district litigation group and a member of the torts and insurance practice service group.

1990s Thomas P. Williams ’00 GS is an environmental product line leader for Markel Corp., a holding company for insurance, reinsurance and investment operations headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. He was the environmental practice group leader at Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty.

Brent M. Cooper ’91 AS lives in Fort Thomas and is president and CEO of the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce.

He is also the founder of C-Forward, an information technology company.

James K. Drennen ’91 PHA is interim dean of the Duquesne University School of Pharmacy in Pittsburgh.

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Brian C. Evans ’91 BE is chief information officer for Shoppa’s Material Handling in Fort Worth, Texas. He was previously international director of Briggs Construction Equipment Inc.

Ronya A. Corey ’93 AS is managing director of The Corey Group of Washington, a woman led and run financial services firm affiliated with Bank of America Merrill. She was named to Working Mother magazine’s list of Top Wealth Advisor Moms.

Skip McGaw ’93 ED is president of Riddle Insurance in Madisonville. He was appointed to the board of directors of First United Bancorp Inc. and First United Bank and Trust Co. David E. Voelker ’93 EN lives in Ft. Mitchell and is senior vice president of transformation office for Ameritas Mutual Holding Co. He had been the company’s vice president, information technology.

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Angie M. Evans ’94 LAW is vice president of corporate responsibility and community affairs at LG&E and KU Energy in Louisville.

She was previously vice president of community leadership at the Community Foundation of Louisville.

Rebecca L. Garcia ’94 NUR lives in Hollywood, Florida, and is an advanced practice registered nurse at Active Life Wellness Center.

Arthur E. Walker ‘94 EN is president of Walker Construction and Materials LLC, a highway construction and materials company. He was appointed to the Morehead State University Board of Regents by Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear. Walker lives in Mount Sterling.

Katherine Sadler Stickel ’95 BE lives in Smyrna, Tennessee, and is director of state audit for the Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury, responsible for conducting financial and performance audits of all state departments, agencies and institutions. She was previously director of the Comptroller Office of Management Services.

Melinda F. Caldwell ’96 ED, ’07 CI is the library media specialist at Northside Elementary School in Midway. Previously, she had been the librarian at Northern Elementary School in Georgetown.

David L. DeRemer ’96 AS, ’02 PHA is a clinical associate professor of pharmacotherapy and translational research at the University of Florida College of Pharmacy and serves as the assistant director of the experimental therapeutics incubator program at the University of Florida Health Cancer Center in Gainesville. He is also president of the Hematology/Oncology Pharmacy Association.

Stephen T. Jones ’96 BE lives in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, and is senior executive vice president and chief financial officer for ScanSource Inc. He was previously international chief financial officer for Blackbaud Inc. Elizabeth A. Murphy ’96 BE lives in Chicago and received the Illinois Certified Public Accountant Society 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award. She is professor emerita at the DePaul University Driehaus College of Business & Kellstadt Graduate School of Business School of Accountancy & MIS. Jacqueline R. Nichols ’96 SW is vice president of the Owensboro Chamber of Commerce. She was previously civic engagement for the Public Life Foundation of Owensboro and is a former chamber membership development manager.

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Class Notes Amy Adams Schirmer ’96 LAW is managing director, senior wealth advisor at MAI Capital Management LLC in the company’s Weston, Virginia, office.

She had been a wealth and estate planning strategist at SunTrust Wealth Management.

Aaron Z. Tobin ’96 BE is an attorney and partner at Condon Tobin Sladek Thornton Nerenberg PLLC in Dallas. He was elected president of the Dallas Bar Association for 2021. Tobin earned his law degree from the Southern Methodist University School of Law. Bridget M. Cohee ’97 ED, ’00 LAW lives in Martinsburg, West Virginia, and is a judge for the West Virginia 23rd Judicial Circuit representing Berkeley, Jefferson and Morgan counties.

Jeffery L. Larkin ’97 ’01 AFE is a professor of biology in the Department of Biology in the Indiana University of Pennsylvania John J. and Char Kopchick College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics in Indiana, Pennsylvania.

Paula Boggs Muething ’97 AS, ’98 CI is the city manager for Cincinnati.

She had been Cincinnati’s city solicitor and interim city manager. Muething earned her law degree from the University of Cincinnati College of Law.

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Clint Overby ’97 ED is vice president of ESPN’s Events Division in the company’s Charlotte, North Carolina, office. He was previously senior director of events at ESPN. Joseph Lester ’98 LAW is associate director of advocacy training and competitions in the American University Washington College of Law Stephen S. Weinstein Advocacy Program in Washington.

He had been the Southern Illinois University Hiram H. Lazar Distinguished Professor of Law. Kelly Pigman Stephens ’98 AS, ’02 LAW lives in Georgetown and is clerk for the Supreme Court of Kentucky. She was the interim clerk and governmental affairs liaison for the Administrative Office of the Courts.

Vivian A. Lasley-Bibbs ’99 PH lives in Lexington and is director of the Kentucky Department for Public Health Office of Health Equity. She was elected 2021 chairwoman of the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky Board of Directors.

William C. Cox ’99 FA is an artist and sculptor living in Lexington.

Kwane M. Watson ’99 DE lives in Prospect and is the founder and operator of Kare Mobile, a mobile dental care practice.

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2000s Mari Chinn ’00 ’03 AFE is chairwoman of the Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering in the Oklahoma State University Ferguson College of Agriculture and the College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology in Stillwater. She was previously a professor at North Carolina State University.

Nicholas C. Proffitt ’00 EN lives in Erlanger and is business development executive for Messer Construction Co., leading the company’s higher education market segment.

Amy Dix Rock ’00 MED lives in Simpsonville and is vice president of clinical development and regulatory affairs at Altor BioScience.

She was senior director-regulatory and scientific affairs at Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Rock is also a member of the American Saddlebred Horse Association Honorary Board of Directors.

Shannon Mathews ’01 AS, ’05 PH is dean of the University of La Verne College of Arts and Sciences in La Verne, California. She had been dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences and professor of social and behavioral sciences at Savannah State University.

Eric B. Propes ’01 AFE is chief operating officer for EDSA Inc., a planning, landscape architecture and urban design firm in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Beth E. Sweeney ’01 CI is morning news anchor for WFIE-TV in Evansville, Indiana.

Shannon Bishop Arvin ’02 LAW is president and CEO of Keeneland Association Inc. in Lexington. She was a partner at Stoll Keenon Ogden PLLC, where she was corporate counsel to Keeneland and secretary and advisory member of the Keeneland Board of Directors.

Jennifer J. Bales ’02 MED is an Emergency Department physician at Reid Health in Richmond, Indiana. She was the hospital’s first female chief of staff in 2019-2020 and received the Reid Health 2020 Paul S. Rhoads Humanity in Medicine Award.

Cinnamon L. Butler ’02 AFE is an attorney and examiner with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Division of Civil Rights in Washington. She earned her law degree from the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law.

Jeremy L. Hall ’04 ’05 GS is a professor of public administration and doctoral program director in the University of Central Florida School of Public Administration in Orlando. He was selected to the National Academy of Public Administration 2020 Class of Academy Fellows.

Although the photograph is not identified as such, this certainly looks like our own Helen G. King, director of the UK Alumni Association (1946-1969), possibly telling Head Coach Adolph Rupp how to execute a three-man weave! You can listen to an interview with King that was recorded in 1977 and archived in the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History: www.ukalumni.net/kinginterview

April Barnes Deener ’02 ED is an eighth-grade social studies teacher at Edythe J. Hayes Middle School in Lexington. She was one of five winners of a contest sponsored by American Success through Purposeful Instruction and Rigorous Education. This is a history and civics program funded through the U.S. Department of Education and the Kentucky Educational Development Corp., with a document-based questioning lesson using a six-step process for engaging students. Deener was the 2018 Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Kentucky History Teacher of the Year.

Joe D. Luck ’02 ’07 ’12 EN is an associate professor and precision agriculture engineer with an Extension and research

appointment in the Department of Biological Systems Engineering in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Institute of Agricultural and Natural Resources.

Kenan G. Stratman ’02 EN is the public works director and assistant city engineer for the City of St. Matthews.

He was previously a project manager for HDR Inc. Mollie E. Aleshire ’03 ’10 NUR is an assistant professor of nursing in the Department of Nursing Education in the University of Louisville School of Nursing.

Diane Arnold ’03 CI is reference and outreach coordinator for Delaware County Libraries in Media, Pennsylvania. She was previously librarian at Chestnut Hill College.

Breeanna R. Bergman ’05 CI is director of vertical and field marketing practice lead at Zebra Technologies Corp. in Lincolnshire, Illinois.

Katherine G. Jenner ’05 ’09 ED lives in Madison, Indiana, and was appointed Indiana Secretary of Education by Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb. She was previously the governor’s senior education advisor.

Kerry D. Kemp ’05 ED is recreation director for Fairview Park, Ohio. He had been athletic director for the Middleburg Heights Recreation Department.

Katherine Dunagan Osborne ’05 ’07 ’10 AS is a professor of English and chairwoman of the Davis & Elkins College Department of English, Communication and Foreign Language in Elkins, West Virginia. She received the Lois Latham Award for Teaching Excellence.

Library in Erlanger. She was the reference librarian and circulation manager for the library system.

Jessica Lainge Siegel ’05 BE is an assistant professor of kinesiology at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke.

Michelle Bishop Allen ’06 ’10 BE is vice president of sales, DIY for Valvoline Inc. in Versailles. She was previously senior director of marketing for DIY. Richard A. Bailey ’06 is the Fitzpatrick Professor of History and chairman of the Department of History in the Canisius College of Arts and Sciences in Buffalo, New York.

Ryan D. Cater ’06 AFE lives in Naples, Florida, and is executive vice president and co-founder of Scotlynn USA Division Inc., a logistics and transportation company. He was named the U.S. Small Business Administration Small Business Person of the Year for 2020 in Florida.

Harold D. Dillow ’06 EN is director of supply chain at University of Cincinnati Health. He was previously director of supply chain operations and logistics at University of Chicago Medical Center.

Natalie A. Ruppert ’05 CI is the workforce development manager for the Kenton County Public www. u kal u mni. net

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HONE YOUR LEADERSHIP SKILLS AT LEADERSHIP WEEK SERIES Gallup research shows managers account for at least 70 percent of the variance in employee engagement scores across business units. We asked our fellow Wildcat leaders what skills they thought were essential for today’s supervisors and managers.

Sylvester Miller ’08 AFE, senior strategic account manager for Indigo Ag, US Biologicals said, “There is a long list of skills I think are essential for supervisors and managers. I will just narrow it down to a few key ones … leadership, communication, critical thinking. I would put being a people person top of list, but that depends on if your role requires direct reports or not.”

Tonya Bumm Parsons ’90 A&S, small business coach for the Kentucky Small Business Development Center and UK Women & Philanthropy Network co-chairwoman replied, “Essential skills include effective communication, problem solving, conflict resolution and ability to lead and delegate. I think the pursuit of learning, growth and the ability to listen are the most important because engaging your team is the tricky part.”

The impact of COVID-19 in the workplace has made team management and engagement a unique challenge. In response, and hoping to make it an annual event, UK Alumni Career Services is announcing its Leadership Week Series for managers, supervisors and aspiring leaders April 26-29. The virtual conference sessions will be hosted on a combination of Zoom Meeting and Facebook Livestream platforms.

The kickoff session, Wildcats Take the Lead: Best Practices from Today’s Leaders, will feature UK alumni in a variety of leadership roles and industries discussing the impact of COVID-19 in the workplace. Submit your questions in advance to ukalumnicareer@uky.edu. This session will be hosted in Zoom Webinar and also streamed on the UK Alumni Association Facebook page at www.facebook.com/ukalumni. Roundtable sessions will be hosted in Zoom Meeting and are limited to the first 300 registrants.

Examples of topics are Leading Remote Teams: Practical Tips for Supervising Teams via Distance, What’s My Management Style? and 8 Behaviors of the World’s Best Managers.

Parsons said she was drawn to the WWYD – Manager Edition: Ally Development for Leadership topic. “Achieving an inclusive work environment is an on-going struggle when managing a team, especially if you have high turnover. Also, leading remote teams is a new focus as a result of the pandemic, and I have been looking to improve my skills in this area,” she said.

Miller, also interested in that conference session, said, “I never thought to look into what Alumni Career Services was offering unless I was looking for a new opportunity. Now with the offering of programs that can assist with career development and skill sets, I am fully engaged throughout my career path.”

Many alumni engage with Alumni Career Services during the job search or career change process, but services are available throughout your career progression regardless of career stage.

Offering this new Leadership Week Series is just one of the many ways our nationally certified career counselors are expanding program and career counseling services to better meet your career development needs.

“Expanding Alumni Career Services offerings to assist alums upon graduation, and well after, strengthens the value of a UK degree,” said Parsons.

UK Alumni Association Active and Life Members are eligible for two complimentary appointments per year with a certified career counselor. Call 859-257-8905 or 800-269 ALUM (2586) to schedule an appointment. Visit www.ukalumni.net/career to learn more about resume critiques, networking events, Central Kentucky Job Club and other Alumni Career Services. To post a job opening, employers may visit www.ukalumni.net/employers and email job leads to ukalumnicareer@uky.edu.

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Keisha Mabry Haymore ’06 AFE lives in St. Louis and is director of entrepreneurship with WePower, a nonprofit designed to help Black and Latinx people.

She is also the digital coach with the Grow with Google initiative, where she facilitates free workshops to help Black and Brown entrepreneurs with digital skills training.

Christopher A. Taylor ’06 BE is the long-range planning administrative officer for the Lexington LongRange Planning Section.

Juan F. Yepes ’07 ’11 PH, ’12 DE is professor in the Department of Pediatric Dentistry in the Indiana University School of Dentistry and an attending dentist at Riley Children Hospital in Indianapolis.

Jenifer E. Alonson ’08 AS, ’13 NUR is a nurse in the medical intensive care unit at the UK Albert B. Chandler Hospital.

Miranda J. Clubb ’08 PHA is the owner of Clubb Pharmacy in New Castle.

Joshua R. Hendrix ’08 CI lives in Mount Sterling and is CEO of BestBall CBD and chairman of Hendrix Holdings. He is a founding member of the U.S. Hemp Growers Association Board of Directors. Hendrix also founded the Kentucky Hemp Industries Association and has served as

president and on the board of directors for the group.

Stephanie J. Lay ’08 ED is a seventh-grade math teacher at Cocoa High School in Cocoa, Florida.

Michael P. Sama ’08 ’13 EN is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the UK College of Engineering.

Xiaowei N. Dong ’09 PHA is an associate professor and P1 curriculum director in the University of North Texas Health Science Center College of Pharmacy in Fort Worth. She was awarded the Maximizing Investigators’ Resource Award, a five-year, $1.8 million grant from National Institutes of General Medical Sciences at the National Institutes of Health.

Robert A. Fleming ’09 LAW is president and CEO for the Breeders’ Cup Ltd. In Lexington. He had been the company’s chief operating officer.

Jill A. Massey ’09 BE is an attorney and litigation partner at Cordell & Cordell in the firm’s Atlanta office. She earned her law degree from the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law.

Carroll VanHook Weaver ’09 AFE is executive director of Kenect Nashville, a division of Alkara Partners LLC, a data-driven direct real estate investment, development and operating platform based in Chicago. She is also director of leasing and marketing for all Kenect properties.

Vincent L. Williams ’09 AS lives in Union and is co-founder of Orchestrate Technologies.

athletes located in Orlando, Florida.

James B. Woodward ’12 ’16 GS is a research analyst for Ohio Southeast Economic Development in Nelsonville. He was previously an economic research analyst at the Buckeye Institute Economic Research Center.

Austin J. Edwards ’13 AFE is an inside sales representative for Affinity Tech-

nology Partners in the firm’s Brentwood, Tennessee, office. He was a business development representative with MedArchon.

Lisa N. Fioretti ’13 AS is a resident in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. She earned her medical degree from the University of Louisville School of Medicine.

2010s Christopher M. McCurry ’10 AS, ’11 ED is an English teacher at Lafayette High School in Lexington. He was named the Kentucky Department of Education and Valvoline Inc. Kentucky High School Teacher of the Year.

Connie Porter Fillman ’12 AFE lives in Owensboro and is director of food services for Daviess County schools.

Stephen H. Shelman ’12 BE, ’16 LAW is an attorney at Chamberlain Hrdlicka White Williams & Aughtry in the firm’s tax controversy and litigation practice in Atlanta. He had been international specialty tax services senior associate for BDO USA LLP. Johnny L. Williams ’12 AFE is a founder of Player Epic Inc., a gaming platform for aspiring eSports

In 1926, UK Professor of Engineering Louis Edward Nollau took this bucolic photo of the Old Agriculture Building, now known as the Mathews Building. It is thanks to Nollau’s skills as a photographer that the University of Kentucky Archives has so many images of early life on campus. Nollau received a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the then State College of Kentucky, now the University of Kentucky, and later a master’s degree from the university.

From 1904 to 1908 he served as an instructor and later assistant professor in the Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Department, teaching wood shop and engineering drawing. In 1908, he was appointed a full professor of engineering drawing and served as department head from 1916 to 1939. Though his academic work was involved primarily with teaching mechanical engineering, Nollau took thousands of pictures of campus. As a speaker at the Lexington Camera Club, he lectured on the history of photography, from the discovery of the action of light on silver compounds to the current state of the art at that time. Retired in 1953, he was placed on special assignment until his death in 1955.

Anne E. Harman-Ware ’13 AS is a researcher at the Renewable Resources and Enabling Sciences Center National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado.

Kellie R. Lynch ’13 ’16 AS is an assistant professor of criminology and criminal justice at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Mohammad Razaee ’13 ’15 EN is an assistant professor of mining engineering in the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering, He holds the Thomas V. and Jean C. Falkie Mining Engineering Faculty Fellowship in the Penn State University College of Earth and Mineral Sciences in University Park.

He received the Outstanding Young Engineer Award from the Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration’s Mineral and Metallurgical Processing Division.

Bryan T. Ingoglia ’14 AS is an assistant professor of organometallic chemistry at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Colby J. Hall ’15 AS is executive director of Shaping Our Appalachian Region, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization located in Pikeville working on expanding job creation, enhancing regional opportunities and innovation, and improving quality of life for Appalachia Kentucky. www. u kal u mni. net

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Class Notes Rachel M. Martell ’15 BE is operations manager for Equine Analysis Systems in Midway. She had been a senior technician at the company.

Jamie Michael McWilliams ’16 AS, ’20 DE is a dentist at Howard Family Dental in the practice’s Bluffton and Beaufort, South Carolina, locations.

Michaela Rogers ’16 AFE lives in Louisville and is an environmental scientist with the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife. She was a biological technician for Bat Conservation International.

Caitlyn M. Barnes ’17 CI, ’20 LAW is an associate at Stites & Harbison PLLC in the firm’s Torts & Insurance Practice Service Group in Louisville.

Danielle Galyer Day ’17 AS is an attorney at Stoll Keenon Ogden PLLC in the firm’s Lexington office. She earned her law degree from the University of Florida Levin College of Law. Robert B. Hartley ’17 BE is an applied microeconomist and an assistant professor of social work in the Columbia University School of Social Work in New York.

Ameena R. Khan ’17 AS, ’20 LAW is an associate at Stites & Harbison PLLC in the firm’s Business Litigation Service Group in Louisville.

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Matthew T. Marshall ’17 MED is an oral surgeon at Marshall Oral, Facial & Implant Surgery Center in Akron, Ohio. He earned his dental degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine.

Alexis A. Mathews ’17 CI is a reporter for WLKYTV in Louisville. She was previously a reporter and weekend anchor at WTAPTV in Parkersburg, West Virginia.

Emily Bertram Pence ’17 AS, ’20 LAW is an attorney at Sturgill Turner Barker & Moloney PLLC in Lexington in the firm’s Torts & Insurance Practice Group.

Yisrael M. Safeek ’17 AS, ’20 LAW lives in Lexington and was named to the SafeCare Group Board of Directors. He was previously chief of operations for the company.

Olivia K. Desch ’18 AFE is a member of the WinStar Farms Stallion Season Sales team based in Versailles.

She had been a bloodstock assistant at the horse farm.

Toni C. Hobbs ’18 FA is director of creative and branding services at Morehead State University in Morehead. She received the MSU Distinguished Staff Service Award.

Lamon T. Hubbs ’18 BE lives in Albany and is a project manager and estimator for Schiller Architectural

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Hardware, headquartered in Lexington. He also owns Cumberland Marine Wash & Wax and co-owns LT’s Fireworks and Displays.

Timothy W. Mullett ’18 BE is medical director of the UK Markey Cancer Center Affiliate Network in Lexington. He was named chairman of the Commission on Cancer, a program of the American College of Surgeons. Mullett earned his medical degree from the University of Florida College of Medicine.

Kylie P. Carrico ’19 CI is the AmeriCorps VISTA hire (Volunteers in Service to America) for 2020-2021 for Park Place Outreach in Savannah, Georgia. She was previously a development intern for the Savannah Music Festival.

Samantha R. Geller ’19 AFE, ’20 BE is a special programs manager for the American Saddlebred Horse Association in Lexington.

2020s Megan S. Barker ’20 LAW is an associate at Stites & Harbison PLLC in the firm’s Health Care and Insurance Regulatory Service Group in Lexington.

Kelly Ball Broadbent ’20 LAW is an attorney at Stoll Keenon Ogden PLLC in the firm’s Lexington office.

Ashley E. Steuer ’20 AFE is an assistant professor of parasitology in the Texas Tech School of Veterinary Medicine in Lubbock, focusing her research on equine and large animal parasitology.

Information in Class Notes is compiled from previously published items in newspapers and other media outlets, as well as items submitted by individual alumni.

Send us your class note by emailing ukalumni@uky.edu or submitting your information in the online community at www.ukalumni.net/class.

COLLEGE INDEX Agriculture, Food Fine Arts — FA & Environment — AFE The Graduate School — GS Arts & Sciences — AS Health Sciences — HS Business & Economics — BE Law — LAW Communication & Medicine — MED Information — CI Nursing — NUR Dentistry — DE Pharmacy — PHA Design — DES Public Health — PH Education — ED Social Work — SW Engineering — EN

Creative Juices Melanie Beals Goan ’96 ’00 AS has written “Simple Justice: Kentucky Women Fight for the Vote,” offering a deeper understanding of the women’s suffrage movement in Kentucky by following the people who labored hard to see the battle won, such as Laura Clay and Madeline McDowell Breckinridge.

When the Declaration of Independence was signed by wealthy white men in 1776, poor white men, African Americans and women quickly discovered that the unalienable rights it promised were not truly for all.

The Nineteenth Amendment eventually gave women the right to vote in 1920, but the change was not welcomed by people of all genders in politically and religiously conservative Kentucky. As a result, the suffrage movement in the Commonwealth involved a tangled web of stakeholders, entrenched interest groups, unyielding constitutional barriers and activists with competing strategies. Women’s suffrage was not simply a question of whether women could and should vote. It carried more serious implications for white supremacy and for the balance of federal and state powers — especially in a border state. Shocking racial hostility surfaced even as activists attempted to make America more equitable.

Kristin Stultz Pressley ’05 FA is the author of “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love, Baby: Dorothy Fields and Her Life in the American Musical Theatre.” Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein, Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin and … Dorothy Fields are the giants of the golden age of musical theater. Although she may not be as well-known as her male counterparts, Fields was America’s most brilliant and successful female lyricist, who for five decades kept up with the greats. This book introduces Fields to audiences who may not know her name but know her five decades worth of work. As the only woman among the boys’ club of popular song, she was welcomed by her fellow male artists, who considered her an equal and a beloved colleague. Working with 13 different composers, Fields wrote the lyrics and/or librettos for unforgettable masterpieces, such as “Annie Get Your Gun,” “Redhead” and “Sweet Charity.” Her more than 400 songs include the standards “On the Sunny Side of the Street,” “Pick Yourself Up” and “The Way You Look Tonight,” among other classic tunes.

Beginning in the 1920s, Fields was one of the few women writing for commercial theater, and she did it so remarkably well that her work was recognized with a Tony Award and an Oscar.

Richard G. Edwards ’62 ’64 ’70 EN has written “Festival,” his ninth mystery novel based in Kentucky, with this one focusing on an international story taking place in Harlan.

Alex F. Menrisky ’14 ’18 AS has written “Wild Abandon: American Literature and the Identity Politics of Ecology,” which considers how ecology’s interaction with radical politics of authenticity in the 20th century has kept that narrative alive in altered form.

Burton Milward Jr. ’73 LAW (Joy de Livre) is coauthor of “The Woman in the Gazebo,” a novel about the aspirations of Marie who poses as live art two hours each day so as to “live art” with the material world becoming abstract.

Benjamin W. Nero ’67 DE is the author of “That’s the Way It Was: A Memoir,” which is a heartfelt story of family values passed through several generations, only two removed from slavery.

Henrietta Hampton Pepper ’85 CI BE has written “Out of the Gate: What Inspires Us Drives Us Forward,” a compilation of stories rooted in a blend of faith, family and friends inspired by her own life.

Patricia Mullins Shifflett (Patti Grace) ’62 BE is the author of “Our Fellowship with His Holy Spirit: Developing Intimacy with God,” about how to enrich your faith-based life.

UK and the UK Alumni Association do not necessarily endorse books or other original material mentioned in Creative Juices. The University of Kentucky and the UK Alumni Association are not responsible for the content, views and opinions expressed on websites mentioned in Creative Juices or found via links off of those websites.

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In Memoriam Jean W. Branson ’41 Winchester, Ky. Life Member Catherine Stephenson ’41 Lexington, Ky. Scott D. Breckinridge Jr. ’42 Lexington, Ky. Fellow

Julian J. Howard Jr. ’50 Lexington, Ky. Houston M. Morris ’50 Owensboro, Ky. James J. Mulloy ’50 Atlanta, Ga.

Naomi S. Christian ’53 Harrodsburg, Ky. Life Member, Fellow

William K. Lutz ’56 Louisville, Ky. Life Member

Jacquette Maffett Taylor ’53 Charleston, W.Va.

John S. Miller Jr. ’56 Jacksonville, N.C.

Bess Clements Abell ’54 Potomac, Md. Life Member, Fellow

Bob G. Rogers ’56 Lexington, Ky.

Kenneth R. Ralston ’50 Sarasota, Fla.

Mary Gillespie Ward ’45 Mayslick, Ky.

William R. Smither ’50 Madison, Wis.

Doris Hall Barnes ’46 Lexington, Ky.

Nita Powers Byrum ’51 Washington, N.C. Life Member

Carolyn Turner Moulton ’54 San Diego, Calif.

Edward M. Coffman ’51 Lexington, Ky. Life Member

Fred J. Silhanek Jr. ’54 Louisville, Ky. Life Member, Fellow

Mary Daniel Goodson ’57 Bethesda, Md.

Barbara McGhee Dukes ’51 Liberty Hill, Texas

Earl C. Snedegar ’54 Winchester, Ky.

David T. Holdaway ’57 Louisville, Ky.

Hal T. Hughes ’51 Saint Simons Island, Ga.

John D. Henry ’55 Hoschton, Ga.

Maynard D. Lay ’57 O’Fallon, Ill.

Ruth White Maynard ’51 Colchester, Conn.

Life Member

Leroy G. Jackopin ’55 Wickliffe, Ohio

Thomas L. Lyne Jr. ’57 Chadds Ford, Pa. Fellow

Mary Estill Larkin ’47 Lexington, Ky. Patricia Parrent Cox ’49 Louisville, Ky. Woodford N. England ’49 Louisville, Ky. Life Member John William McCord Jr. ’49 Lexington, Ky. Life Member, Fellow

Ray E. Tucker ’51 Lexington, Ky.

Jean Hemlepp McCown ’49 Coatesville, Pa.

Max W. Ankney ’52 Somerset, Pa.

Bennett B. Young Jr. ’49 Louisville, Ky.

William H. Reichenbach ’52 North Vernon, Ind.

James H. Barker ’50 Kennebunk, Maine Life Member

Shirley Ellis Sheperson ’52 Danville, Ky.

Jacqueline Fish Byrd ’50 Paducah, Ky.

Carl M. Bolton ’53 Lexington, Ky.

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William B. Evans ’54 Louisville, Ky. Life Member, Fellow

James F. Temple ’56 Richmond, Ky.

Maxine Rodgers Price ’45 Liberty, Ky. Life Member

Martha Null Martin ’46 Lexington, Ky. Life Member

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Jack E. Cook ’50 Cincinnati, Ohio

Daniel B. Howard ’54 Winchester, Ky. Life Member, Fellow

Thomas N. Watkins ’56 Lexington, Ky. Richard G. Boyatt Jr. ’57 Nicholasville, Ky. Bob M. Deweese ’57 Louisville, Ky. Life Member, Fellow

Margaret Holyfield Potter ’55 Richmond, Va. Life Member

Carmel L. Powell ’57 Clarkson, Ky.

Elizabeth Arnette Schultz ’55 Bloomington, Ill. Life Member

Hugh R. Rightmyer ’57 Calhoun, Ky. Life Member

Eugene Slusher ’55 Lexington, Ky.

Billie Petrie Carter ’58 Hopkinsville, Ky.

Ray Johnson Jr. ’56 Mount Sterling, Ky.

Harriet Hart Collier ’58 Lexington, Ky. Life Member, Fellow

Mona King Crissey ’58 Winter Park, Fla.

Herbert A. Steely ’60 Atlanta, Ga.

Ronald A. Forester ’58 Fairhope, Ala. Life Member, Fellow

William C. Thornbury Sr. ’60 Lexington, Ky. Fellow

Larry Lovell ’64 Sturgis, Ky.

William E. Halbert ’58 Roswell, Ga. Life Member

Jerry C. Baird ’61 Utica, Ky.

William H. Pieratt ’64 Lexington, Ky.

Belinda McGinley Jefferson ’58 Bowling Green, Ky.

Donald L. Fowler ’61 Columbia, S.C. Life Member

Roger Blair ’65 Lexington, Ky.

Lawrence W. Gurewich ’69 Dryden, N.Y. Life Member

Jerry P. King ’58 Bethlehem, Pa.

Ivan L. Goldstein ’61 Louisville, Ky.

Joseph H. Kurre Jr. ’65 Bristol, Tenn.

William E. Stark ’69 Georgetown, Ky.

Richard L. Smith ’58 Franklin, Tenn.

Hunter M. Hancock ’61 Lexington, Ky.

Billie Davis Casey ’66 Lexington, Ky.

David J. Trojan ’69 Eau Claire, Wis.

Donna Reed Beeker ’59 Bloomington, Ind.

J. B. Johnson Jr. ’61 Corbin, Ky. Life Member

Stanley C. Nickell ’66 Frankfort, Ky.

Clifford D. Roy ’69 Greenville, S.C.

David P. O’Brien III ’66 Atlanta, Ga.

Paul W. Woods ’69 Jacksonville, Fla.

Diane Vittitow Stuckert ’61 Prospect, Ky. Life Member, Fellow

Judy B. Scearce ’66 Shelbyville, Ky.

Virgil T. Price ’69 Elizabethtown, Ky. Life Member

John M. Young ’61 Gaithersburg, Md.

Margaret Bradley Starsinic ’66 Lexington, Ky.

Jay A. Bayless ’62 Knoxville, Tenn.

Michael Adams Sr. ’67 Clermont, Fla.

Esther Geele Bryant ’62 Tampa, Fla.

Charles J. Budd ’67 Columbus, Ind. Life Member

Marvin G. Gregory Jr. ’59 Nashville, Tenn.

John H. Miles Jr. ’59 Louisville, Ky. Charles M. Spilman ’59 Collegeville, Pa. Arvis R. Stephens ’59 Lexington, Ky. Life Member Isaac E. Watson ’59 Frankfort, Ky. Charles E. Bratcher ’60 Frankfort, Ky. Harry H. Browning ’60 Cincinnati, Ohio Life Member Larry D. Gosser ’60 Nancy, Ky. Lynne Santen Lewis ’60 Lexington, Ky.

Anne Blanton Oldham ’62 Georgetown, Ky. Fellow John B. Hitt II ’63 Louisville, Ky. Marie VanHoose Sayre ’63 Murphy, Texas Fred F. Waters ’63 Georgetown, Ky.

R. Douglas Wood ’63 Lexington, Va. Life Member, Fellow

David A. Flanagan ’67 Orange, Calif.

Life Member J. Michael Freiberg ’67 San Antonio, Texas Earl R. Roberts ’67 Lexington, Ky. John C. Ryan ’67 Frankfort, Ky.

Mollie Steele Griffith ’68 Lexington, Ky. William E. Stumph II ’68 Glasgow, Ky. Michael D. Curley ’69 Marietta, Ga.

Fred L. Ballou Jr. ’70 Richmond, Ky. Jessie T. Baugh ’70 Lexington, Ky. Benjamin L. Dickinson ’70 Glasgow, Ky. K. Gregory Haynes ’70 Pewee Valley, Ky. Steven D. Blair ’71 Pelzer, S.C. Lynda Hobbs Hollan ’71 Mathews, Ala. Dale L. Miles ’71 West Paducah, Ky.

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In Memoriam Roy V. Ramage ’71 Clinton, S.C.

Paula Sharp Pulliam ’79 Spring Hill, Tenn.

Stacey Lynn Mudd ’87 Lexington, Ky.

Adam Ross Davis ’08 Lexington, Ky.

Alice G. Herman ’72 Perryville, Ky.

Calvin R. Fulkerson ’80 Lexington, Ky.

Gregory N. Champe ’88 Lexington, Ky.

Chelsea Elam Rust ’08 Fort Thomas, Ky.

Katherine Yoder Joseph ’72 East Palestine, Ohio

Jeffrey A. Norville ’80 Marianna, Fla.

Carol Hemesath Enright ’90 Lexington, Ky.

Nancy Roberts Kloha ’11 Ashland, Ky.

Dean W. Pruitt ’72 Rome, Ga.

Michael W. Grimes ’82 Louisville, Ky.

Richard W. Sallee II ’91 Lexington, Ky.

Nickolas Bryce Payne ’13 Evansville, Ind.

Sharon A. Durham ’73 Marietta, Ga.

Carl F. Landis II ’82 New Waterford, Ohio

Jennifer Lee Spradlin ’91 Versailles, Ky.

Nicholas Robert Weiskittel ’14 Fort Wayne, Ind.

Reginald A. Guy Jr. ’73 Harrisburg, Pa.

Betty Withers Peterson ’82 Nancy, Ky.

Kathy D. Feinberg ’92 Lexington, Ky. Fellow

Glenna R. Jones ’73 Mount Sterling, Ky.

Carolyn Mitchell Sundy ’82 Lynch, Ky.

FORMER STUDENTS AND FRIENDS

Jessica S. Crytzer ’93 Lexington, Ky.

Brynlee Minee Bigelow Somerset, Ky.

Walter L. Bowman ’74 Lexington, Ky. Life Member

Barbara Bartlett Butler ’83 Barnard, Vt.

Virginia Rouleau Eklund ’93 Danville, Ky.

Lester Breeding London, Ky. Life Member

Terrance A. Havig ’74 Naples, Fla. Barbara Kindoll Newcomb ’74 Nicholasville, Ky. Fellow

David H. Holwerk ’75 Dayton, Ohio Nancy Kavanaugh Bisk ’77 Lexington, Ky. John T. Haertzen ’77 Louisville, Ky.

Andrew T. Coiner ’83 Paducah, Ky. Life Member

Bryan K. Parrott ’94 Lexington, Ky.

John T. Kelley ’83 Lexington, Ky.

John D. Schlarman ’98 Lexington, Ky.

Garry L. Posey ’83 Georgetown, Ind.

William E. Stilwell IV ’01 Midway, Ky.

Charles S. Eaves ’86 Bowling Green, Ky.

William G. Clark Jr. ’02 Midway, Ky. Life Member

Steven R. Adams ’87 Cincinnati, Ohio

Amy M. Waugh ’03 Paris, Ky.

Cullen J. Ritchie ’77 Hazard, Ky.

Charlotte F. Cannon ’87 Lexington, Ky. Life Member

Ryan P. Sallee ’05 Lexington, Ky.

Thomas W. Billhymer ’78 Lexington, Ky.

William T. Hickman ’87 Huntington, W.Va.

Jamal Shteiwi ’05 Cincinnati, Ohio

Dave Atcher ’79 Salt Point, N.Y.

Rozel L. Hollingsworth ’87 Lexington, Ky.

Corey T. Fannin ’07 Lexington, Ky.

Louis J. Burke Lexington, Ky. Robert L. Charmoli Brookhaven, Ga. Charles W. Ellinger Lexington, Ky. Life Member, Fellow Joan D. Fyffe Lexington, Ky. D. Gwen Shropshire Gorham Venice, Fla. Life Member Madilyn T. Grisham Lexington, Ky. Carl W. Ham Lexington, Ky. Tom Kennedy Oxnard, Calif.

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Sylvester Kiger Lexington, Ky. Life Member

Zoe Landis Nutter Springfield, Ohio Life Member, Fellow

Wanda Carter Quillen Wilmore, Ky. Life Member

Lois Landrum-Hall Lexington, Ky. Life Member

Bettye Arnsparger Page Nashville, Tenn.

Life Member, Fellow

Franklin D. Robinson Lexington, Ky. Life Member

Gwen Lentz Paducah, Ky.

Peggy Harrison Papania Altamonte Springs, Fla.

U. Yun Ryo Lecanto, Fla. Fellow

Gerald H. Marvel Lexington, Ky.

Cecilianna Skees Phillips Elizabethtown, Ky.

Anne Downing Matthews Glasgow, Ky.

Julie J. Phillips Tullahoma, Tenn.

W. Terry McBrayer Lexington, Ky. Fellow

Margery S. Pierson Lexington, Ky. Walter E. Poore Jr. La Grange, Ky.

PAUL E. FENWICK, FORMER UKAA PRESIDENT Dr. Paul E. Fenwick of Louisville, a former president of the UK Alumni Association, passed away in January.

He attended St. Augustine High School in Lebanon, Kentucky, served in the Army during the Korean War, earned his bachelor’s degree in agriculture from UK in 1952 and received his veterinarian degree from Auburn University in 1956.

He owned Fenwick Animal Clinic in Louisville before retiring from veterinary medicine and moving on to real estate development. He had been the official vet with Churchill Downs, the Rock Creek Saddlebred Horse Show and several

Goldie Taylor Smith Nicholasville, Ky. Joan Prather Stephens Lexington, Ky. Life Member Melinda E. Sublett Ashland, Ky. William E. Summerlin Lexington, Ky.

Elmira Reinhardt Scott Villa Hills, Ky. Fellow

Constance Leichhardt Thomas Bowling Green, Ky.

Paul M. Slater Forest Hills, Ky.

Henry S. Vance Jr. Lexington, Ky.

Harry Somerville Lexington, Ky.

James H. Withrow Lexington, Ky.

others. In 1964 he received the Kentucky Veterinary Association Veterinarian of the Year Award, and in 1965 he served as president of the Kentucky Veterinary Medical Association and was a member of the Auburn University Advisory Committee to the Dean of Veterinary School of Medicine through 1973. In 1966 he was chairman for the National Veterinary Association, and in 1967 he received the Kentucky Veterinary Association Distinguished Service Award From 1979 to 1983 Fenwick was a member of the UK Alumni Association Board of Directors, and in 1983 he served as president of association. He was the recipient of the UK Alumni Association Distinguished Service Award in 1985. He also served for several years on the UK Advisory Committee for the Department of Veterinary Science in the College of Agriculture, and in 1994 he received the UK College of Agriculture Distinguished Alumni Award.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Susan Ellen Tharp Fenwick, and is survived by his children: Mary Ann Fenwick Weisenberger, Paul Fenwick Jr. and Catherine Fenwick Billman (Dustin), among many other family members.

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Quick Take

Pharmacy student Kellen Greenwell administered the COVID vaccine to Lenore Breeden in February at the Kroger Field vaccination clinic. By Feb. 17, the clinic featured 24 check-in stations and 50 individual vaccination spaces — allowing nearly 450 Kentuckians an hour to roll up their sleeves and receive a vaccine. By the same date, UK HealthCare had administered 60,000 doses to citizens across the Commonwealth.

Approximately 120 staff members and volunteers work at the clinic every day.

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THE BEST in KENTUCKY. THE BEST for KENTUCKY. When you’re named the #1 hospital in Kentucky for five straight years, it comes with enormous responsibility—a responsibility we’re honored to hold.

It means no health care challenge is too big, or too small. It means we will always show the best of us, from our patients and their families to our dedicated, caring team of doctors, nurses, researchers, and staff. It means we are the hospital to meet the health care needs of the Commonwealth. That’s what makes us the best in Kentucky, and the best for Kentucky.

See why at ukhealthcare.com/best

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