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Most insurance rates decrease
Some plans
increase; open
enrollment lasts
through October
When it comes to health insurance rates for KU employees, it’s
a topsy-turvy world. Though
many employees will see decreases in their rates for plan year 2007,
some will see increases. All
insured employees with dependent dental coverage will see
their dental rates increase, but the
Superior vision premiums are
holding steady.
Open enrollment for health
insurance and flexible spending
accounts started Oct. 1 and will
run through the end of this
month. Benefits-eligible faculty
and staff who wish to change
health insurance elections or who
wish to participate in the 2007
flexible spending account plan or
in the HealthyKIDS program need
to participate in Web open enrollment, which can be accessed at
www.hreo.ku.edu. Faculty and
staff are encouraged to attend an
open enrollment meeting to get
additional information about plan
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changes for plan year 2007. They
are scheduled for 9 a.m. and 1
p.m. Oct. 18 in the Big XII Room of
the Kansas Union.
Kansas Choice, a PPO plan,
will post decreases in rates for all
member-only and dependent
plans in the four designated
salary tiers. The most significant
decrease in terms of percentage,
26.58 percent, will be for those
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Bruce Liese, professor of family medicine at the KU Medical Center, takes a ride aboard one of his sailboats. Liese is a sailing enthusiast who teaches classes about the sport and
has taken part in races across the world.
Professor teaches
medicine, art of sailing
By Mike Krings
It never fails. When Bruce Liese, professor
of family medicine at the KU Medical Center,
wears his T-sthirt that says “Kansas Sailing,”
no one takes him seriously.
“That’s a universal experience that Kansas
sailors have,” Liese said. “Wherever we go
with the (Perry Yacht Club) T-shirts on, people
think it’s a joke.”
Though some may laugh, people do sail in
Kansas, and they take it quite seriously.
Liese, who grew up in New York, began
sailing at a young age and didn’t let relocation
to the middle of the continent quell his nautical passion. There may not be endless miles of
ocean coastline in Kansas, but there is Perry
Lake, where Liese and his fellow Perry Yacht
Club members practice their craft. Despite
misconceptions, the lake is ideal for sailing.
“You can sail for miles without seeing a
powerboat. You can even sail for four hours
without passing anything twice,” Liese said of
sailing at the lake.
Liese and the club members sail everything
from large yachts with onboard cabins to
small dinghies on the lake, but they also take
their boats on the road. The professor has
sailed in Italy, the Mediterranean Sea, the
Virgin Islands, Mexico and other far off
locales.
“Here in Kansas, sailing has
been tremendously addictive.”
-- Bruce Liese
Recently, his team participated in the
Newport to Ensenada Yacht Race, known as
the “world’s biggest yacht race.” The annual
event draws some of the sport’s biggest
names, including Dennis Conner, a former
winner of the America’s Cup. Liese was even
quoted in a Los Angeles Times article that
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focused on the duality of the race. The sailor
and his crew prefer to have fun at the event
and enjoy their time on the water with a few
good drinks and plenty of good laughs,
instead of trying to best Conner.
“Needless to say we haven’t beaten him
yet,” Liese said.
Back at the Perry Yacht Club, the sailing is
for fun, but there is business involved as well.
Liese recently finished a term as commodore
of the club. Comparable to the role of a CEO,
the commodore oversees the financial and
organizational aspects of the club, as well as
the day-to-day operations. He is also a city
council member in LeCompton.
Liese teaches students about medicine
while he’s on the clock and teaches sailing
enthusiasts about the sport in his free time.
He’s taught classes on keelboat sailing, coastal
cruising, navigation and numerous other topics. Several KU faculty and staff members
have come through his classes. Last year, he
took the family practice residents on a sailing
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The Board of Regents
has approved a proposed $2
million
expansion
to
Hilltop Childcare Center,
KU's childcare provider for
students, faculty and staff.
Pat Pisani, Hilltop executive director, said the
expansion will add six
classrooms, storage and
office and conference space.
“The expansion should
allow us to accommodate
an additional 100 children,”
she said.
Initial plans call for the
expansion to add three new
classrooms for 1 and 2-yearolds in the east wing and
three additional classrooms
in the preschool and
kindergarten wing. There
are also plans for additional
laundry, storage and office
space.
Pisani said the extra children would require the center to hire about 15 new full
time staff members and
some additional part time
student aides. Tentative
plans call for about 12 new
teachers, plus kitchen and
administrative staff. There
are currently 32 full-time
staff and approximately 50
part-time student aides.
The building, which was
constructed in 2000, was
built with the plan of eventually being expanded. The
center is at full capacity and
has a waiting list of about
350 children.
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KU IQ:
Lisa Timmons, assistant professor of molecular biosciences, has a “Nobel”
connection. She worked as a postdoctoral researcher for Andrew Fire at Stanford
University. Fire and Craig Mello recently were awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine for
their work with RNA interference. Timmons’ research focused on the process of turning
off the effects of certain genes. One KU alum, Vernon Smith, has won a Nobel Prize.
BOOKSHELF
CAMPUS CLOSEUP
IN THEIR HEADS: The new
book “Inside the
Economist’s Mind: The
History of Modern
Economic Thought, as
Explained by Those Who
Produced it,” edited by
William Barnett, Oswald
Distinguished Professor
of Macroeconomics, contains interviews with some
of the world’s foremost
authorities on economics. It
offers insight from several
former Nobel Laureates, as
well as an interview from
former Federal Reserve
Chairman Paul Volcker. The
interviews were previously
printed in the journal
Macroeconomic Dynamics,
which Barnett founded and
edits. He co-edited the book with Nobel Laureate Paul
Samuelson.
John Wade
Licensed psychologist, AbleHawks adviser
WEB WORKS
KUTUBE: KU has
made its presence
known on
www.youtube.com,
the increasingly
popular video sharing Web site. KU’s
promotional spot
“A Great Place to
Be” is featured on
the site and has
been viewed more
than 9,000 times.
The site, according
to Business Week,
accounts for 60 percent of videos
watched online. About 65,000 new videos are uploaded daily and
100 million are viewed.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvLrhOsd0lg
was told they’d be tested
against people in their 70s,
another was told they’d be
tested against people in their
20s, and a control group was
simply tested. The control
group and those being tested
against people in their 20s
averaged about the same,
while the group that thought it
would be tested against people
in their 70s did poorer.
KU SCHOOL OF NURSING
“An Evening to Remember,
2006 Centennial Celebration &
Awards Gala,” Sept. 16 celebrated
the School of Nursing’s centennial anniversary. Recipients of the
2006 KUMC Alumni Awards
were recognized, tributes were
given to all KUMC reunion classes and traditions and accomplishments of the KU School of
Nursing were celebrated.
mics and my channel tabs will
allow users to have access to
functions such as the Book
Exchange, recharging KU
Cards, access services, viewing
course schedules and a single
sign on for KU e-mail.
KU MEDICAL CENTER
The National Institutes of
Health has awarded the KU
School of Medicine two research
grants totaling nearly $730,000 to
study the progression of spinal
cord injuries. The grants will fund
research on neural fiber organization and vascular plasticity following spinal cord injuries with a goal
TECH TIPS
NEW KYOU: The Kyou portal
has several new features,
including more intuitive ordering and renaming functions, a
personalizable KU A-Z function
and announcements channel.
New tabs such as the community, finances, services, acade-
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Randy Edmonds/University Relations
University officials recently cut the ribbon on a new
biology lab at the Edwards Campus.The facility includes
teaching and research labs among other features.
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John Wade is a licensed psychologist and outreach coordinator. He works at
Counseling and Psychological Services and is the adviser for AbleHawks, a student
group that raises awareness of disability issues at KU.
How does Counseling and
Psychological Services assist
students who are having difficulties with homesickness? We
try first to provide information
that can hopefully help students
deal with the inevitable adjustment and transition issues more
effectively. We provide information on coping effectively with
homesickness through venues
such as New Student Orientation,
the housing department and even
the KU Parents Association
newsletter so parents are hopefully better equipped to respond to
their son or daughter if they are
struggling with homesickness.
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Mehmet Bilgen, associate professor of molecular and integrative physiology at the KU School
of Medicine, will serve as principal investigator.
also be part of the project
approved
by
the
Kansas
Legislature in the 2006 session.
The project will cost an estimated
$16,421,000.
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HEADLINERS
AS OLD AS YOU THINK: A
story in the New York Times
cited research by Mary Lee
Hummert, vice provost for
faculty support and professor
of communication studies. The
article regarded the memory of
senior citizens. Hummert and a
colleague from Tulane
University tested word recall in
men and women ranging in
age from 48 to 62. One group
Years at current job: Eight.
Job duties: I provide psychotherapy to individuals and
couples, and also conduct group
therapy. Since Counseling and
Psychological Services is a training agency, I also supervise
practicum students and interns.
As outreach coordinator, I oversee the agency’s outreach and
consultation efforts, such as our
liaison relationship with the
housing department and our programming efforts.
How does AbleHawks raise
awareness of disability issues on
campus? AbleHawks tries to be
very active raising awareness of
disability issues. Some recent and
current activities include: hosting
Disability Awareness Days, usually three times a year. The next
one is Oct. 23; bringing the star of
Murderball, a movie about a disabled rugby team, to campus; and
trying to increase accessibility on
campus busing.
The hills on campus can be an
obvious problem for an individual with a disability, but what
challenges exist that people
might not think about? Some
disabilities, such as limited
mobility, are easily observed.
However, many disabilities can
be much more hidden, such as
living with chronic pain or chronic fatigue, having ADD, or dealing with a colostomy, just to name
some examples.
KLETC
The Kansas Law Enforcement
Training Center in Hutchinson
will construct a new dormitory.
The facility will include 63 rooms
that can house 126 law enforcement officers and a multipurpose
training facility that can be divided into three spaces to accommodate the training of 100 officers in
each space or up to 800 people in
audience-style seating. A dining
facility expansion, emergency
vehicle driver training course,
tactical shooting training building and other improvements will
EDWARDS CAMPUS
The Greater Kansas City
Public Relations Society of
America awarded the Edwards
Campus with several awards in
its annual PRISM awards competition.
The public relations office
received a silver award in the category of Special Events $50,000 or
less. In partnership with Trozzolo
Communications
Group
of
Kansas City, Mo., the Edwards
Campus public relations office
won a silver award in the category of Internet Communication –
More than $20,000.
E-mail photos for snapshots to [email protected]. Be sure to include names of individuals in the photo.
Randy Edmonds/University Relations
Daniel Libeskind, the architect who designed the Freedom Tower, the
initial planned project at the site of the World Trade Center, spoke
about his work in a lecture at KU recently.
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Craig Sands/KU Endowment
A duplicate of the bronze “Academic Jayhawk” was recently unveiled at Edwards
Campus. Pictured are Edwards family members, from left, R.A. Edwards, Barbara
Edwards,Terry Edwards, Joan Edwards, Susan Edwards Miller and Doug Miller.
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TOPONYMS:
Lewis Lindsay Dyche earned four degrees
at KU. Dyche (1857-1915) was professor and chair of zoology and
taxidermy and curator of birds and mammals while leading international collecting expeditions. Dyche Hall still displays some of
the thousands of wildlife specimens he collected and mounted.
KU’s work to improve
teaching earns nod
from elite academy
Drawing future plans
Architect seeks
balance between
beauty, function
By Mike Krings
Even in this world of everchanging technology, sometimes
it’s just better to do a job by hand.
Such is the preference of Steve
Scannell, assistant director of
Design
and
Construction
Management. Many of the conceptual renderings of proposed
buildings,
expansions
and
remodeling projects at KU come
from Scannell’s pen.
“Before long, I’ll be a dinosaur,
and no one will do (renderings)
by hand like me,” he said with a
laugh.
Scannell is no neo-luddite,
though. Many of his renderings
will start with a three-dimensional
computer-aided
drafting
model that he creates, which is
then overlaid with tracing paper
and forms the basis of the final,
hand-drawn sketch.
His work is familiar to architects, contractors and construction companies who build at KU,
but those outside of the construction business often see them
when they appear in the pages of
newspapers when a new project
is announced.
A licensed architect by trade,
Scannell comes from a long KU
pedigree. His father, Dale
Scannell, was the dean of the
School of Education for 16 years.
His mother, Jo Scannell, worked
in the Department of Chemistry
for many years. Two of his siblings attended KU. All earned
degrees here, and his son Daniel
is currently a student in the
School of Fine Arts. For 19 years,
he was an architect in private
practice before the one job that
could entice him to leave opened.
“I always thought working for
KU would be great,” he said.
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Steve Scannell, assistant director of Design and Construction Management, displays
some of the sketches of KU building projects he was worked on.A licensed architect,
Scannell produces many of the sketches and renderings of KU building projects. He
often mixes use of modern technology with sketchings done by hand.
He’s been putting to paper the
visions that eventually become
buildings ever since. His conceptual drawings include prposed
projects at the Lied Center,
Wescoe Hall, Stauffer-Flint Hall,
Danforth Chapel and Rieger
Scholarship Hall.
Some of the projects he has
managed include the recentlycompleted Library Annex, the
Dole Institute of Politics, Eaton
Hall, the Murphy Hall Addition,
the
Sabatini
Multicultural
Resource Center and the Bales
Organ Recital Hall, for which he
was also the co-designer while
still in private practice.
The drawings are just one part
of a larger process. His office
takes part in interviews when
outside architects and engineers
are hired. The architects hired for
each project will then meet with
all interested parties to find out
their needs and desires for the
building. They then produce renderings of proposed designs and
revise them until all parties are
satisfied.
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KU’s dedication to the
improvement of teaching has led
to its selection for an elite group
known for elevating the quality
of undergraduate and graduate
education.
The Carnegie Academy for the
Scholarship of Teaching and
Learning has selected KU for its
Institutional
Leadership
Program, a three-year partnership between Carnegie and higher education institutions.
Dan Bernstein, professor of
psychology and director of the
Center for Teaching Excellence,
said KU has worked to identify
methods, practices and resources
for faculty throughout the university to improve teaching. The
Center for Teaching Excellence
shares its findings with KU, but
Bernstein, a former Carnegie fellow, said taking the information
to a wider audience makes perfect sense.
“For our work to be valuable,
we need to make the progress
toward making teaching excellence visible,” Bernstein said.
“My first reaction when I heard
about (the academy) was ‘we’re
doing this work, why not make it
public?’”
KU will be part of a group of
about 12 universities that focus
on expanding teaching commons.
Other institutions in the group
include
Indiana
University,
Georgetown
University,
the
University of Michigan, the
University of British Columbia
and Seton Hall University.
The group will meet yearly to
discuss each institution’s research
on improving teaching and learning, and what they can do to
make their findings more visible
to the public. Chris Haufler, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and Paul Atchley,
associate professor of psychology,
CTE online
The Center for Teaching
Excellence has a gallery of
course portfolios online at
www.cte.ku.edu/teaching
Innovations/gallery.
will represent KU at the group’s
first meeting in Washington, D.C.
in November.
“The institutions can take each
others’ ideas and advance them,”
Bernstein said. “They can also use
them to critique existing teaching
and learning. This community
treats teaching as serious intellectual work.”
At KU, the Center for
Teaching Excellence has worked
to make teaching innovations
available for faculty to use in
their classes. The center has a
gallery of course portfolios
including ideas, messages and
examples of student work and
implementation of new teaching
methods
online
at
www.cte.ku.edu/teaching
Innovations/gallery. Portfolios
include projects on testing for
deep understanding, writing as a
primary means for learning and
connecting historical issues to
contemporary problems with service learning.
Richard A. Gale, director of
the academy, said the universities
were selected for their achievements in teaching and learning
and
potential
for
further
advancements.
“Through
this
program,
Carnegie
acknowledges
the
important contributions of institutional leaders and advocates
while encouraging the development of new forums and structures supporting scholarly investigation into teaching and
learning,” he said.
Conference to examine indigenous, African-American relations
A three-day conference next month
examining the relationship between
Indigenous Americans and AfricanAmericans will highlight the final year of a
Ford Foundation-funded project involving
KU and Haskell Indian Nations University.
“The First and the Forced: Indigenous
and African American Intersections” is the
capstone conference of the Shifting Borders
of Race and Identity Project, coordinated
by KU’s Hall Center for the Humanities
and funded by a two-year Ford Foundation
grant.
Events begin Nov. 9 at Haskell Indian
Nations University and will continue Nov.
10 and 11 with panels and performances on
the KU and Haskell campuses.
An international community of students, activists and scholars, including
members of the Warriors Project, Haskell
Indian Nations student body and the
Descendants of the Freedmen of the Five
Civilized Tribes, will convene to share their
experiences and research reflecting the
multilayered
intersections
between
African-descended and First Nations people. Participants may choose from an
assortment of panels, roundtables, curriculum development sessions, documentary
films and performances examining interdisciplinary and intergenerational perspectives.
The conference is open to the public and
is free to students and $40 for others. For
more information, visit the Hall Center
Web site or the Shifting Borders Web site or
call the Shifting Borders office at (785) 8647884 or the Hall Center at (785) 864-4798.
Keynote speakers are Tiya Miles,
University of Michigan professor, author of
Ties that Bind: The Story of an AfroCherokee Family in Slavery and co-editor
of Crossing Waters, Crossing Paths: Black
and Indian Journeys in the Americas
(forthcoming); James Riding In (Pawnee
Nation), Arizona State University professor and editor of Wicazo Sa Review: A
Journal of Native American Studies; and
Tall Oak, community activist and historian
(Absentee Mashantucket Pequot and
Wampanoag) from Charlestown, R.I.
Haskell and KU faculty on program
include Dan Wildcat, Maryemma Graham,
Joyce McCray Pearson, Stacy Leeds, Kevin
Willmott, Chico Herbison and Tanya
Golash-Boza.
Entertainment during the conference
will include perforances by Pamuya,
award-winning world music artists based
in Alaska who combine Inuit harmonies
with the African djembe, on Nov. 10 in the
Woodruff Auditorium in KU’s Kansas
Union; and Ulali, an internationally
renowned First Nations women a cappella
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Paul M. Comolli, associate
professor of economics, has
had two peer-reviewed articles
accepted for publication:
“International Fragmentation
of Production: Theory and
Evidence,” Journal of the
International Society of
Business Disciplines, forthcoming (2006); “Sustainability and
Growth When Manufactured
Capital and Natural Capital Are
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Not Substitutable,” Ecological
Economics, forthcoming
(2006).
Deb Adams, associate professor of social welfare, was a
panelist at a symposium titled
“Children’s Savings Accounts:
Innovative Proposals to
Promote Savings, Ownership,
Financial Education and retirement Security.” The sympo-
sium, held Sept. 27 in
Washington, D.C., was sponsored by the New America
Foundation in association with
the Congressional Savings and
Ownership Caucus.
Elaine Gerbert, associate professor of East Asian languages
and literatures, presented
“Locating the Humor in Guro
Nansensu” at the Danish
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University of Education in
Copenhagen, Denmark, in July.
Diane McDiarmid, project
manager for the School of
Social Welfare, was an award
recipient for the Heroes in the
Fight program through the
Lead Organization, Minds and
K9s Inc., along with partnering
organizations. Minds and K9s
selected the Alliance Against
Family Violence, Leavenworth,
to receive a $500 donation in
McDiarmid’s name.
Laurence Draper, professor
of molecular biosciences and
faculty adviser in the
Freshman-Sophomore
Advising Center, received the
Supportive Advisor Award during the Kansas Academic
Advising Network annual conference, held Sept. 15.
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ku calendar
OCT. 9 - 22
9 Monday
Seminar. New Staff Orientation.
8 a.m. 204 Joseph R. Pearson
Hall. Free. Sponsored by
Human Resources and Equal
Opportunity. Call 864-4648.
Workshop. Conducting Faculty
Searches. 9 a.m. 250 Strong
Hall. Free. Sponsored by
Human Resources and Equal
Opportunity. Call 864-3686.
Workshop. KU Web Template —
Hands-on Implementation. 1:30
p.m. Budig PC Lab. Sponsored
by Instructional Services. Call
864-0410.
Lecture. History Through the
Distorting Lens of the Western.
Cynthia Haines, film
historian/critic. 2:30 p.m. 211
Spencer Museum of Art.
Sponsored by Spencer
Museum of Art. Call 864-4710.
Seminar. ABCs of City
Government. Sandy McKenzie,
professor of law. 3 p.m.
Continuing Education, 1515 St.
Andrews Dr. Sponsored by
Continuing Education. Call 8645823.
Public event. Real Security and
Real Power: How Communities
Overcome Fear Tactics Through
Grassroots Organizing. Marina
Diaz Flores and German
Gonzalez, leaders from organized communities in El
Salvador; and Emily Carpenter,
national director of Sister Cities
Network. 3 p.m. Parlors, Kansas
Union. Free. Sponsored by
Center of Latin American
Studies. Call 864-4213.
Seminar. Molecular
Biosciences. Harold P. Erickson,
Duke University. 3:30 p.m. 1005
Haworth Hall. Free. Sponsored
by Department of Molecular
Biosciences. Call 864-4311.
British Seminar. Eirwen
Nicholson, Richmond, Va. 3:30
p.m. Seminar Room, Hall
Center. Free. Sponsored by Hall
Center for the Humanities. Call
864-4798.
Lecture. Physics & Astronomy
Colloquium. Keith Olive,
University of Minnesota. 4 p.m.
3005 Malott Hall. Free.
Sponsored by Department of
Physics and Astronomy. Call
864-1225.
Globalization(s) Seminar.
Rhacel Parrenas, University of
California-Davis. 4 p.m. Big XII
Room, Kansas Union. Free.
Sponsored by Hall Center for
the Humanities. Call 864-4798.
Lecture. American Foreign
Policy Challenges in China and
Eurasia. Peter Brookes, senior
fellow for the Heritage
Foundation and commissioner
on the U.S.-China Economic
and Security Review
Commission. 4 p.m. Pine Room,
Kansas Union. Free. Sponsored
by Center for Russian, East
European and Eurasian Studies.
Call 864-4248.
Lecture. Hallmark Design
Symposium. Kurt van Dexter,
landscape architect. 6 p.m.
Alderson Auditorium, Kansas
Union. Free. Sponsored by
Department of Design. Call 8644401.
Workshop. MBA Essentials. 6
p.m. 250 Regnier Hall, Edwards
Campus, 12600 Quivira Road,
Overland Park. $2,695.
Sponsored by School of
Business. Call 864-1499.
Seminar. China, the Awakening
Lion. Charlene Hu, Desui Miao,
Jane Zhao. 7 p.m. Continuing
Education, 1515 St. Andrews Dr.
Sponsored by Continuing
Education. Call 864-5823.
Lecture. The 1916 Easter Rising.
Lorcan Collins. 7 p.m. Parlor
ABC, Kansas Union. Free.
Sponsored by Department of
English. Call 864-2519.
Lecture. Bamboo Ubiquity: a
Universal Material’s Role in
Japanese History, From Music
to the Mundane. David
Wheeler, musicologist and professional shakunhachi player of
the Chikuyu-sha school. 7:30
p.m. Malott Room, Kansas
Union. Free. Sponsored by
Center for East Asian Studies.
Call 864-3849.
Concert. Peter Chun, viola, and
Kyungmi Lee, piano. 7:30 p.m.
Swarthout Recital Hall, Murphy
Hall. Free. Sponsored by
Department of Music and
Dance. Call 864-3436.
SPENCER MUSEUM OF
ART
THROUGH DEC. 31
a.m. Budig PC Lab. Sponsored
by Instructional Services. Call
864-0410.
Workshop. Strategies for
Pursuing Academic Jobs. 9 a.m.
Jayhawk Room, Kansas Union.
Free. Sponsored by Graduate
School. Call 864-6161.
Workshop. Blackboard
Strategies and Tools. 9 a.m. 6
Budig Hall. Sponsored by
Instructional Services. Call 8640410.
Seminar. Astrophysics &
Astrobiology Seminar. Do
Fundamental Constants Change
Over Time? Keith Olive,
University of Minnesota. 11
a.m. 1089 Malott Hall. Free.
Sponsored by Department of
Physics and Astronomy. Call
864-1225.
Governance. Discussion with
new KU Provost Richard
Lariviere. Noon. Big 12 Room,
Kansas Union. Free. Sponsored
by Unclassified Senate. Call
864-5984.
Seminar. Religion in Popular
Song, Folk Music and
Spirituals. S. Daniel Breslauer. 2
p.m. Continuing Education,
1515 St. Andrews Dr.
Sponsored by Continuing
Education. Call 864-5823.
Before 1500 Seminar. Beth Poe,
Tulane University. 4 p.m.
Seminar Room, Hall Center.
Free. Sponsored by Hall Center
for the Humanities. Call 8644798.
Concert. Songs of Japan.
Yukiko Iwasaki, Kunitachi Music
College and professional opera
singer from Hiratsuka, Japan.
7:30 p.m. Swarthout Recital
Hall, Murphy Hall. Sponsored
by Center for East Asian
Studies. Call 864-3849.
11 Wednesday
Workshop. PeopleAdmin
Workshop. Access: Queries. 9
Training. 8:30 a.m. 31 CarruthO’Leary Hall. Free. Sponsored
by Human Resources and Equal
Opportunity. Call 864-3686.
Governance. University Support
Staff Senate. 10:30 a.m.
Centennial Room, Kansas
Union. Free. Sponsored by
University Support Staff
Senate. Call 864-4089.
Workshop. National Science
Foundation information meeting. 11:30 a.m. Malott Room,
Kansas Union. Sponsored by
Graduate School. Call 864-6161.
Lecture. University Forum. SelfDeception and Business Ethics:
Why Smart People Do Stupid
Art and Design Gallery
Natural History Museum
Oread.
302 Art and Design Building.
8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Mon.-Wed.,
8:30 a.m.-9 p.m. Thurs., 8:30
a.m.-1:30 p.m. Fri., 1 p.m.-4:30
p.m. Sun. Call 864-4401.
• Post Millennium Exponent.
Through Oct. 27.
1345 Jayhawk Blvd. 9 a.m.-5
p.m. Mon.-Sat., noon-5 p.m.
Sun. Call 864-4450.
• Explore Evolution
Union Gallery
KU ticket offices
Lied Center of Kansas
(785) 864-ARTS (2787)
Murphy Hall
(785) 864-3982
SUA, Kansas Union
(785) 864-3477
10 Tuesday
EXHIBITS
Booth Family Hall of Athletics
1651 Naismith Drive. 10 a.m.-5
p.m. Mon.-Sat. Call 864-3445.
Exhibits on KU’s historic athletics programs, its coaches and
student-athletes, past and present.
Dole Institute of Politics
2350 Petefish Drive. 9 a.m.-5
p.m. Mon.-Sat., noon-5 p.m.
Sun. Call 864-4900.
Exhibits, a soaring stained-glass
American flag, a World Trade
Center memorial and a memory
wall honoring World War II veterans from Kansas.
Lied Center Lobby
1600 Stewart Drive. 8 a.m.-5
p.m. Mon.-Fri. Call 864-2787.
• The Many Borders of the
Arabic Culture. Through Oct. 21.
4
Spencer Museum of Art
1301 Mississippi St. 10 a.m.-5
p.m. Tue.-Wed., 10 a.m.-9 p.m.
Thu., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Fri.-Sat.,
noon-5 p.m. Sun. Closed
Mondays. Call 864-4710.
• John Steuart Curry: Agrarian
Allegories. North Balcony
Gallery. Through Nov. 4.
• Art Into Art: Inspired
Responses. Central Court and
Galleries. Through Dec. 31.
• 20th Century Chinese Painting.
Asia Gallery.
• Views of Vietnam. South
Balcony Gallery. Opens Oct. 14.
Spencer Research Library
1450 Poplar Lane. 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Mon.-Fri. Closed Sat. and Sun.
Call 864-4334.
The North Gallery offers a selection from KU’s great rare book
collections and a view of the
Memorial Campanile, looking
north from the crest of Mount
Fourth floor, Kansas Union. 9
a.m.-4:30 p.m. Mon.-Fri. Call
864-7469.
• What’s KU to You? Through
Oct. 20.
Watson and Anschutz libraries
Watson: 1425 Jayhawk Blvd.
Anschutz: 1301 Hoch Auditoria
Drive, south of Budig Hall.
8 a.m.-midnight Mon.-Thu., 8
a.m.-8 p.m. Fri., 10 a.m.-8 p.m.
Sat., 10 a.m.-midnight Sun. For
other library hours, call 8648900.
Wilcox Classical Museum
103 Lippincott Hall. 9 a.m.-4
p.m. Mon.-Fri. Call 864-3153.
Antiquities such as vases, coins,
small sculptures, lamps and
architectural terra cottas and of
full-size replicas of well-known
works of Greek and Roman
sculpture.
www.oread.ku.edu
Things. Joseph Reitz, professor
emeritus of business. Noon.
ECM Center, 1204 Oread Ave.
Optional lunch: $3 students,
$5.50 others. Sponsored by
Ecumenical Christian Ministries.
Call 843-4933.
Lecture. Australian author/illustrator Graeme Base. 1 p.m.
Oread Books, Kansas Union.
Free. Sponsored by KU
Memorial Unions. Call 8644431.
Workshop. Research
Administration 101.
Responsible Conduct of
Research II. 2:30 p.m. Apollo
Room, Nichols Hall. Free.
Sponsored by Office of the Vice
Provost for Research. Call 8647430.
Volleyball. KU vs. Kansas State.
7 p.m. Horejsi Family Athletics
Center. Sponsored by
Department of Intercollegiate
Athletics. Call 800-344-2957.
Seminar. Arlington National
Cemetery: Its History and Its
Heroes. James Edward Peters,
author of “Arlington National
Cemetery: Shrine to America’s
Heroes.” 7 p.m. Continuing
Education, 1515 St. Andrews Dr.
Sponsored by Continuing
Education. Call 877-404-5823.
Lecture. Judaism and
Christianity in the Dead Sea
Scrolls. Morris B. Margolies,
scholar-curator of the Dead Sea
Scrolls exhibit, Kansas City. 7:30
p.m. Alderson Auditorium,
Kansas Union. Free. Sponsored
by Hall Center for the
Humanities. Call 864-4798.
5823.
13 Friday
Public event. Kansas Public
Radio membership drive
begins. Ends Oct. 20.
Workshop. Food for Thought:
Cultivating a Positive Attitude in
the Workplace. 11:30 a.m.
Regionalist Room, Kansas
Union. Free. Sponsored by
Human Resources and Equal
Opportunity. Call 864-4648.
Entertainment. David Sedaris. 8
p.m. Lied Center. $20/$36, public. Sponsored by Lied Center.
Call 864-2787.
14 Saturday
Public event. Kansas Editors
Day. Special Guests: Pulitzer
Prize winners Jim Sheeler,
reporter, and Todd Heisler, photographer, The Rocky Mountain
News. Time TBA. 110 Budig
Hall. Free. Sponsored by School
of Journalism and Mass
Communications. Call 864-4755.
Social event. Game Day at the
Adams Tailgate. Time TBA.
Adams Alumni Center. $5-$12.
Sponsored by KU Alumni
Association. Call 864-4760.
Football. KU vs. Oklahoma
State. Time TBA. Memorial
Stadium. Sponsored by
Department of Intercollegiate
Athletics. Call 800-344-2957.
Volleyball. KU vs. Baylor. 7 p.m.
Horejsi Family Athletics Center.
Sponsored by Department of
Intercollegiate Athletics. Call
800-344-2957.
12 Thursday
Academic date. Fall break
begins. Ends Oct. 15.
Lecture. Gallery Talk: Senior
Sessions. 10 a.m. Spencer
Museum of Art. Sponsored by
Spencer Museum of Art. Call
864-4710.
Governance. Unclassified
Senate Executive Board meeting. Noon. Alcove G, Kansas
Union. Free. Sponsored by
Unclassified Senate. Call 8645984.
Football. Hawk Talk with Mark
Mangino. 6 p.m. Holiday Inn
Holidome, 200 McDonald Drive.
Free. Sponsored by KU Alumni
Association. Call 864-4760.
Seminar. The Americas, Pre1492. William Woods, professor
of geography. 7 p.m.
Continuing Education, 1515 St.
Andrews Dr. Sponsored by
Continuing Education. Call 864-
15 Sunday
Carillon Concert. Elizabeth
Berghout. 3 p.m. Memorial
Campanile. Free. Call 864-4464.
Concert. South African musical
performance and dance.
Francois Le Roux, cellist from
South Africa. 6 p.m. ECM
Center, 1204 Oread Ave. Free.
Sponsored by Kansas African
Studies Center. Call 864-3745.
16 Monday
Public event. All Majors Senior
Day. 9:15 a.m. Kansas Union.
$15.00. Sponsored by Office of
Admissions and Scholarships.
Call 864-3911.
Lecture. Vernacular
Architecture in Kansas. Dennis
Domer, University of Louisville.
2:30 p.m. 211 Spencer Museum
of Art. Sponsored by Spencer
August employees of
the month honored
Douglas Byers Unclassified employee
Jolene Fairchild University support staff
Started at
KU: 1998.
Current
title: Budget
administrator,
KUCR.
What that
means: Byers
oversees
a
multimilliondollar budget Douglas Byers
that includes NSF and Kansas
Technology
Enterprise
Corporation contributions.
Notable: Byers maintains
detailed accounting of grant
funding received, monitoring the
budgets of literally dozens of projects. He also routinely fields
requests from awardees for
rebudgeting and time extensions.
Started at
KU: 1976.
Current
title: Budget
officer,
College
of
Liberal Arts
and Sciences.
What that
means:
Jolene Fairchild
Fairchild
oversees an
annual budget of $80 million in
state funds and $40 million in
external research funds.
Notable: The University Office
of Internal Audit gave CLAS a
positive report after a recent
audit. The success was due in
large part to Fairchild's leadership in budget operations.
■ Would you like to nominate someone for Employee of the
Month? Winners receive $750 and compete for Employee of the
Year. Nomination forms available at www.hreo.ku.edu.
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
October 9, 2006
www.oread.ku.edu
SIMON SHAHEEN
AND DR. A.J. RACY
FRANCOIS LE ROUX
CELLIST,
ECUMENICAL CHRISTIAN
MINISTRIES
6 P.M. OCT. 15
Museum of Art. Call 864-4710.
Seminar. Molecular
Biosciences. Marcia Newcomer,
LSU. 3:30 p.m. 1005 Haworth
Hall. Free. Sponsored by
Department of Molecular
Biosciences. Call 864-4311.
Lecture. Physics & Astronomy
Colloquium. 4 p.m. 3005 Malott
Hall. Free. Sponsored by
Department of Physics and
Astronomy. Call 864-1225.
Ceremony. Kemper Awards. 4
p.m. Woodruff Auditorium,
Kansas Union. Sponsored by
Office of the Chancellor. Call
864-3131.
Workshop. MBA Essentials. 6
p.m. 250 Regnier Hall, Edwards
Campus, 12600 Quivira Road,
Overland Park. $2,695.
Sponsored by School of
Business. Call 864-1499.
Seminar. China, the Awakening
Lion. Charlene Hu, Desui Miao,
Jane Zhao. 7 p.m. Continuing
Education, 1515 St. Andrews Dr.
Sponsored by Continuing
Education. Call 864-5823.
Lecture. Humanities Lecture
Series. The God Delusion.
Richard Dawkins. 7:30 p.m. Lied
Center. Free. Sponsored by The
Commons. Call 864-4798.
Concert. Scott Watson, tuba.
7:30 p.m. Swarthout Recital
Hall, Murphy Hall. Free.
Sponsored by Department of
Music and Dance. Call 8643436.
17 Tuesday
Public event. Difficult Dialogues
at The Commons. Knowledge:
Faith & Reason Colloquium.
Dialogue with Richard Dawkins.
9 a.m. Conference Hall, Hall
Center. Free. Sponsored by The
Commons. Call 864-4798.
Workshop. Access: Forms. 9
a.m. Budig PC Lab. Sponsored
by Instructional Services. Call
864-0410.
Lecture. Brownbag discussion.
Zurab Tsereteli’s 9/11
Monument and Russian-U.S.
Relations. Stephen Woodburn,
Southwestern College. Noon.
318 Bailey Hall. Free.
Sponsored by Center for
Russian, East European and
Eurasian Studies. Call 864-4236.
Workshop. SoftChalk
LessonBuilder. 2 p.m. 6 Budig
Hall. Sponsored by Instructional
Services. Call 864-0410.
Gender Seminar. Tara Welch,
associate professor of classics.
3:30 p.m. Seminar Room, Hall
Center. Free. Sponsored by Hall
Center for the Humanities. Call
864-4798.
Concert. Woodwind trio led by
Ann Bilderback. Kansas City
Symphony. 7 p.m. Regnier Hall
auditorium, Edwards Campus,
12600 Quivira Road, Overland
Park. Free. Sponsored by
Edwards Campus. Call (913)
897-8400.
Concert. Richard Reber, piano.
7:30 p.m. Swarthout Recital
Hall, Murphy Hall. Free.
Sponsored by Department of
Music and Dance. Call 8643436.
18 Wednesday
Workshop. Photoshop:
Introduction. 9 a.m. Budig PC
Lab. Sponsored by Instructional
Services. Call 864-0410.
Lecture. Ujamaa Brownbag.
Summer Institute in AlAkhawyn University, Morocco.
Abdullah Jaradat. Noon. Alcove
G, Kansas Union. Sponsored by
Kansas African Studies Center.
Call 864-3745.
Lecture. University Forum. The
Future of Windpower in Kansas.
Jennifer States, managing
director of JW Prairie
Windpower. Noon. ECM Center,
1204 Oread Ave. Optional
lunch: $3 students, $5.50 others.
Sponsored by Ecumenical
Christian Ministries. Call 8434933.
Seminar. Best Practices in
Lower Division Science
Education. Dan Bernstein, director of the Center for Teaching
Excellence. Noon. 135 Budig
Hall. Free. Sponsored by Center
for Science Education. Call 8642379.
Workshop. Dreamweaver:
Creating Web Pages. 2 p.m.
Budig PC Lab. Sponsored by
Instructional Services. Call 8640410.
Workshop. Research
Administration 101. Purchasing.
2:30 p.m. Apollo Room, Nichols
Hall. Free. Sponsored by Office
of the Vice Provost for
Research. Call 864-7430.
Seminar. Expectations and Civil
Discourse in an Academic
Community. 3 p.m. 135 Budig
Hall. Sponsored by Center for
Teaching Excellence. Call 8644199.
Seminar. Arlington National
Cemetery: Its History and Its
Heroes. James Edward Peters,
author of “Arlington National
Cemetery: Shrine to America’s
Heroes.” 7 p.m. Continuing
LIED CENTER
7:30 P.M. OCT. 21
Education, 1515 St. Andrews Dr.
Sponsored by Continuing
Education. Call 877-404-5823.
19 Thursday
Workshop. Word: Document
Enhancement Features. 10 a.m.
Budig PC Lab. Sponsored by
Instructional Services. Call 8640410.
Lecture. Using Satellite Imagery
to Locate Archaeological Soil
Sites in Amazonia. Jonathan
Thayne, master’s student in
geography. Noon. 318 Bailey
Hall. Free. Sponsored by Center
of Latin American Studies. Call
864-4213.
Lecture. Gallery Conversations.
Art into Art: Inspired
Responses. Ted Johnson, professor emeritus of French. 12:15
p.m. Spencer Museum of Art.
Sponsored by Spencer
Museum of Art. Call 864-4710.
Workshop. Blackboard
Strategies and Tools. 1:30 p.m.
6 Budig Hall. Sponsored by
Instructional Services. Call 8640410.
Seminar. Pedagogies of
Uncertainty. 3 p.m. 135 Budig
Hall. Sponsored by Center for
Teaching Excellence. Call 8644199.
Workshop. Dreamweaver:
Getting Started. 3 p.m. Budig
PC Lab. Sponsored by
Instructional Services. Call 8640410.
Workshop. Study abroad-NSEP
Boren Scholarship information
meeting. Justine Hamilton, program coordinator. 3:30 p.m.
English Room, Kansas Union.
Free. Sponsored by Office of
Study Abroad. Call 864-3742.
Lecture. African Studies
Seminar: U.S. National Security
Interests and the Role of the
Militaries in Africa. The Curse of
Oil in Africa. 3:30 p.m. 109
Bailey Hall. Free. Sponsored by
Kansas African Studies Center.
Call 864-3745.
Lecture. Geology Colloquium
Series. Karl Flessa, University of
Arizona. 4 p.m. 103 Lindley Hall.
Free. Sponsored by Department
of Geology. Call 864-4974.
Lecture. Tea & Talk: Bamboo:
applications in Furniture and
Sculpture. Thomas Huang. 4
p.m. Pine Room, Kansas Union.
Free. Sponsored by Center for
East Asian Studies. Call 8643849.
Seminar. Political Power Hour.
Bob Dole: The Senate Years.
Dole Fellow Scott Richardson
Prof’s election to academy marks
national first for public administration
When
professor
Steven
Maynard-Moody was elected to
the National Academy of Public
Administration, it marked not
only a significant achievement in
his career, but a first in higher
education.
Maynard-Moody’s
election
makes
KU’s
top-rated
Department
of
Public
Administration the first in the
country to have all full professors
in the department as members of
the prestigious academy.
Maynard-Moody, professor of
public administration and director of the Institute for Policy and
Social Research (formerly the
Policy Research Institute) is KU’s
fifth member of the academy. He
joins
George
Frederickson,
Distinguished Professor of Public
Administration;
Marilu
Goodyear, associate professor of
public
administration;
John
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Nalbandian, professor and chair
of the Department of Public
Administration; and Barbara
Romzek, associate dean of the
College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences and professor of public
administration.
“It is gratifying to see Steven
Maynard-Moody’s work with the
Institute for Policy and Social
Research, as well as in the classroom, recognized at such a high
level,” said Chancellor Robert
Hemenway.
Maynard-Moody, a professor
at KU since 1981, was instrumental in the creation of the Policy
Research Institute, a campuswide social and policy research
center. He has also served as chair
of the Department of Public
Administration.
Collaborating
with fellow KU faculty members
Charles Epp and Donald HaiderMarkel, his current National
Science
Foundation-funded
research focuses on how police
stops reconstruct law and citizenship.
Maynard-Moody has written
or co-authored three books on
public administration.
Last year, the American
Political Science Association and
the American Society of Public
Administration gave top awards
to his most recent book, Cops,
Teachers, Counselors: Stories
from the Front Lines of Public
Service (with Michael Musheno).
He has a doctorate in public
administration from Cornell
University.
“Steven’s work exemplifies the
scholarship of engagement. Not
only does his work inform his
academic colleagues, it clearly
helps professional public administrators gain perspective on their
work,” Nalbandian said.
www.oread.ku.edu
Calendar items....
are submitted by each department’s calendar administrator. To become an
administrator, visit www.calendar.ku.edu
and click “request an account.”
and former journalists Lew
Ferguson and Jim McLean. 4
p.m. Dole Institute of Politics.
Free. Sponsored by Dole
Institute of Politics. Call 8644900.
Lecture. Empty Representations
in Linguistic Perception.
Georges Rey, University of
Maryland. 4:30 p.m. Olympian
Room, Burge Union. Free.
Sponsored by Department of
Philosophy. Call 864-2334.
Public event. KU Youth Chorus.
4:30 p.m. 328 Murphy Hall. $45.
Sponsored by Music Education
and Music Therapy. Call 8649638.
Football. Hawk Talk with Mark
Mangino. 6 p.m. Holiday Inn
Holidome, 200 McDonald Drive.
Free. Sponsored by KU Alumni
Association. Call 864-4760.
Public event. Joyce Castle,
mezzo-soprano and professor
of voice. 7 p.m. Spencer
Museum of Art. Sponsored by
Spencer Museum of Art. Call
864-4710.
Seminar. The Americas, Pre1492. William Woods, professor
of geography. 7 p.m.
Continuing Education, 1515 St.
Andrews Dr. Sponsored by
Continuing Education. Call 8645823.
Concert. KU Jazz Ensembles I,
II, III. 7:30 p.m. Lied Center. $7
adults, $5 students and seniors.
Sponsored by Department of
Music and Dance. Call 8643436.
Film. You, Me, and Dupree. 8
p.m. Woodruff Auditorium,
Kansas Union. $2. Sponsored
by Student Union Activities.
Call 864-SHOW.
20 Friday
Conference. Midwestern Law
and Economics Association
annual meeting. 8 a.m. Green
Hall. Sponsored by School of
Law. Call 864-9239.
Soccer. KU vs. Baylor. 3 p.m.
Jayhawk Field. Sponsored by
Department of Intercollegiate
Athletics. Call 800-344-2957.
Andean & Amazonian Worlds
Seminar. Tanya Golash-Boza,
assistant professor of sociology/American studies. 3:30 p.m.
Seminar Room, Hall Center.
Free. Sponsored by Hall Center
for the Humanities. Call 8644798.
Concert. Tami Lee Hughes, violin. 7:30 p.m. Swarthout Recital
Hall, Murphy Hall. Free.
Sponsored by Department of
Music and Dance. Call 8643436.
Film. You, Me, and Dupree. 8
p.m. Woodruff Auditorium,
Kansas Union. $2. Sponsored
by Student Union Activities.
Call 864-SHOW.
Dance. Hawk Nights Discoteca
Series. 9 p.m. Kansas Room,
Kansas Union. Free. Sponsored
by Student Union Activities.
Call 864-SHOW.
Public event. Cosmic bowling.
10 p.m. Jaybowl, Kansas Union.
Free. Sponsored by Student
Union Activities. Call 864SHOW.
21 Saturday
Conference. Midwestern Law
and Economics Association
annual meeting. 8 a.m. Green
Hall. Sponsored by School of
Law. Call 864-9239.
Workshop. Heartsaver CPR. 9
a.m. 1800A Watkins Memorial
Health Center. $23.10-$25.41.
Sponsored by Center for Peer
Health. Call 864-9570.
Public event. Dole Archive
White Glove Tour. 10:30 a.m.
Dole Institute of Politics. Free.
Sponsored by Dole Institute of
Politics. Call 864-1420.
Workshop. Children’s Art
Appreciation Class. Vietnam
Watercolors. 10:30 a.m.
Spencer Museum of Art.
Sponsored by Spencer
Museum of Art. Call 864-4710.
Concert. Simon Shaheen and
Dr. A.J. Racy with the Near
Eastern Music Ensemble. 7:30
p.m. Lied Center. $24/$29 public, $12/$14.50 students.
Sponsored by Lied Center. Call
864-2787.
Concert. Genaro Mendez, tenor,
with special guest Alejandro
Cremaschi, piano. 7:30 p.m.
Swarthout Recital Hall, Murphy
Hall. Free. Sponsored by
Department of Music and
Dance. Call 864-3436.
Film. You, Me, and Dupree. 8
p.m. Woodruff Auditorium,
Kansas Union. $2. Sponsored
by Student Union Activities.
Call 864-SHOW.
22 Sunday
Soccer. KU vs. Texas Tech. 1
p.m. Jayhawk Field. Sponsored
by Department of
Intercollegiate Athletics. Call
800-344-2957.
Carillon Concert. Elizabeth
Berghout. 3 p.m. Memorial
Campanile. Free. Call 864-4464.
Madame Secretary
Doug Koch/University Relations
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright speaks at the Dole Institute of Politics as
Chancellor Robert Hemenway looks on, prior to her presentation at the Lied Center.
Albright, the first female Secretary of State under President Bill Clinton, was the highest-ranking female in the history of U.S. government during her service. She also took
part in an interview-style discussion at the Lied Center during her visit to KU.
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enrolled in member-only
plans who earn less than
$27,000 annually. All Kansas
Choice salary tier levels and
coverage
options
will
decrease at least six percent.
Thirty-five
percent
of
Lawrence campus faculty
and staff elected Kansas
Choice coverage during
2006.
Premier Blue will see
increases in premiums for
most plan enrollees, though
there are a few decreases.
There will be premium
decreases for those with
member-only coverage earning less than $27,000 annually, 4.65 percent; and for those
earning $27,000 to $47,000,
1.16 percent. The other
salary tiers and coverage
options will have premium
increases, though the jumps
will not be dramatic. The
other
premiums
will
increase from as little as .72
percent to as much as 2.63
percent.
Coventry is showing
across-the-board increases in
its HMO coverage, but uniform decreases in PPO coverage. The HMO coverage
includes increases of 164.45
percent, $19.06, and 120.65
percent, or $19.16 in the
member-only categories for
the two lowest salary tiers.
However, the same brackets
in PPO coverage are showing decreases at or above 40
percent.
Premiums
for
both
Superior Vision plans, basic
and enhanced, will remain
unchanged from a year ago.
Delta Dental premiums will
increase about 10 percent for
those with dependent coverage.
Aside from the peaks and
valleys in rate fluctuations,
there are several changes
KU HISTORY: A KU student managed to prompt a red
scare in 1937. Don Henry, a Dodge City native, was killed during
fighting in Spain with left-wing loyalists against right-wing
nationalist rebels led by Gen. Franciso Franco. The incident led to
months of speculation, debate and criticism of communist sympathies on campus. For more, visit www.kuhistory.com.
added for plan year 2007.
Among them:
Participants in the Health
Care Flexible Spending
Account will not have a
“grace period” for plan year
2007. Claims will need to be
incurred from January 1,
2007, through December 31,
2007, and claims must be
filed by April 15, 2008.
The Coventry Qualified
High Deductible Health
Plan (QHDHP) premiums
will decrease across the
board and deductibles will
not change, and in 2007
there will be an employer
contribution to the Health
Savings Account (HSA). The
QHDHP has a lower premium but higher deductible
and out-of-pocket limits
than the other health plan
options. The associated HSA
requires money to be set
aside, pre-tax, for medical
expenses. Those who elect
coverage under the QHDHP
will be required to participate in the HSA and will not
be eligible to participate in
the Health Care Flexible
Spending Account.
In dental coverage, composite, or white, resin fillings
will be covered and limited
coverage will be available
for dental implants. Routine
colonoscopy screenings will
be covered as a preventative
allowance on all plans and
copay and coinsurance will
be waived on HMO plans.
For retirees, open enrollment will run from Nov. 1 to
30. Kansas Health Policy
Authority in Topeka will
send information directly to
retirees who are participating in the state’s health
insurance program. Two
open enrollment meetings
for retirees are scheduled for
9:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Nov.
15, at the 4-H County
Fairgrounds, 2110 Harper,
building No. 21.
KU expands relationship
with Costa Rican university
R. Steve Dick/University Relations
Hilltop Childcare Center will be able to accomodate about 100 additional children upon completion of a $2 million expansion project. Above, one of the many classrooms at Hilltop that is currently at its capacity.
HILLTOP
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retreat.
KU produces more sailors than
one might imagine. In addition to
Liese and the faculty and staff
members who come through his
classes, the university has a sail-
6
ed by a combination of student
fees, user fees and university support.
Initial plans call for the first
additional classrooms to be open
by January 2008.
ing club. The club is made up of
students, many of whom have
never sailed before joining the
club. They travel across the country to compete in regattas, and
this year will host the district
competition.
The winner will advance to
nationals. Liese said he has begun
discussions with the club about
the possibility of working together on joint events.
Even though some have a hard
time grasping the idea that sailing
exists in Kansas, Liese said his
love for the sport has only grown
since he came to the state.
“Here in Kansas, sailing has
been enormously addictive,” he
said.
www.oread.ku.edu
The long-standing relationship
between the University of Costa
Rica and KU will continue to
expand as the result of an award
from
the
Costa
Rica-USA
Foundation to
support
and
strengthen KU and UCR faculty
exchanges.
The $60,000 award over three
years matches the $60,000 administered through the Office of
International Programs for KU
and UCR faculty to develop joint
research projects. Ongoing collaborations funded by KU are in
the Schools of Social Welfare,
Journalism,
Education
and
Pharmacy and in the Center for
Bioinformatics and Deparmtnents
of Molecular Biology, Biology
Economics and Political Science.
The foundation is a non-profit
organization that promotes cooperation between Costa Rica and
the United States by supporting
projects in technical cooperation,
technological transfer and capacity building.
Faculty members may apply
for grants for up to $5,000 per
year, renewable for up to three
years. Projects must establish and
strengthen institutional relationships in research activities
between specific KU programs,
departments, and schools and
their UCR counterparts and have
potential for external funding.
The application deadline is Oct.
15. Contact Associate Dean
Thomas Heilke, [email protected],
for more information.
KPR-2 hits airwaves
Kansas Public Radio has
launched KPR-2, a programming
service using high-definition
radio. The digital signal “multicasts” using KPR’s existing transmitters and will offer more choices for news programs, talk shows
and entertainment.
Listeners need an HD radio to
hear the broadcasts. They are available at retail outlets and online.
KPR is the first station in
Kansas to broadcast an HD signal. The HD signal also is
streamed through KPR’s Web site,
www.kpr.ku.edu.
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FACULTY
Assistant or Associate
Professor
20th Century AfricanAmerican History, History,
Full Time
Educational Psychology,
Psychology and Research in
Education, Full Time
Assistant Professor
Physical Chemistry,
Chemistry, Full Time
American Literature, English,
Full Time
Experimental Biophysics,
Physics and Astronomy, Full
Time
Condensed Matter, Physics
and Astronomy, Full Time
Korean Language and
Culture, East Asian
Languages, Full Time
Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science, Full Time
Speech-Language-Hearing,
Full Time
Medieval Art, History of Art,
Full Time
Applied Linguistics,
Germanic
Languages/Literatures, Full
Time
Social Psychology,
Psychology, Full Time
Communication Theory,
Communication Studies, Full
Time
Basic Public Speaking,
Communication Studies, Full
Time
Premodern China, History,
Full Time
Political Science, Full Time
Applied Behavioral Science,
Full Time
Philosophy, Full Time
JOBS ONLINE:
For a current list and complete job
announcements, visit jobs.ku.edu. For KU Medical Center jobs,
visit jobs.kumc.edu. Search either by using the 8-digit code
provided below (when available) or by department name. KU is
an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer.
Trombone, Music and Dance,
Full Time
U.S. and World History since
1945, History, Full Time
Neuroscience, Biological
Sciences, Full Time
Exercise Physiology, Health,
Sport and Exercise Science,
Full Time
Interpersonal
Communication,
Communication Studies, Full
Time
Oswald Scholar, Economics,
Full Time
Assistant Professor/
Assistant Curator
Systematic Entomologist,
Biological Sciences, Full
Time
Assistant Professor/
Assistant Scientist
Psychology, Full Time
Assistant Professor
Organizational Theory,
Educational Leadership and
Policy Studies, Full Time
Assistant Professor/
Associate Professor
Educational Technology,
Educational Leadership and
Policy Studies, Full Time
Assistant/Associate
Professor or Professor
Inorganic Chemistry,
Chemistry, Full Time
Associate Professor or
Professor
Law School, Full Time
Associate Professor or
Professor/ Chairperson
Pharmacy Practice, Full Time
Director/Assistant/Associ
ate Scientist or Scientist
KU Center for Research KUCR, Full Time, 00066632
Distinguished Professor
Irving Johnson Distinguished
Professor in Molecular
Biology, Biological Sciences,
Full Time
Oswald Distinguished
Professor of Economics,
Economics, Full Time
Lecturer
Finance, Business, Full Time
Lecturer POOL
History, Part Time
French and Italian, Part Time
Germanic
Languages/Literatures, Part
Time
Social Welfare, Part Time
Psychology, Part Time
Pharmacy Practice, Part Time
Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science, Part Time
Journalism, Part Time
English, Part Time
Biological Sciences, Part
Time
Political Science, Part Time
Architectural Engineering,
Part Time
Anthropology, Part Time
Aerospace Engineering, Part
Time
Mechanical Engineering/KU
Center for Research, Part
Time
American Studies, Part Time
Chemistry, Part Time
Humanities and Western
Civilization, Part Time
Design, Part Time
Applied English Center, Part
Time
Art, Part Time
Curriculum and Teaching,
Part Time
Spanish and Portuguese,
Part Time
Law School, Part Time
Mathematics, Part Time
Business, Part Time
Special Education - SPED,
Part Time
Health, Sport and Exercise
Science Part Time
Public Administration, Part
Time
Philosophy, Part Time
Psychology and Research in
Education Part Time
Professor
Howard Teaching Professor,
Humanities and Western
Civilization, Full Time
Capitol Federal Professor of
Financial Markets and
Institutions, Business, Full
Time
STAFF
Accountant
Kansas Geological Survey,
Part Time, 00008288
Vice Provost Research, Full
Time, 00068587
Administrative Associate
Senior
Comptroller’s Office, Full
Time, 00000120
Student Financial Aid, Full
Time, 00000847
Assistant Director
University Career Center, Full
Time, 00000571
Director of Research Design
and Analysis, Institute for
Life Span Studies, Full Time,
01118071
Assistant GIS
Coordinator
Kansas Geological Survey,
Full Time, 00066756
Associate Dean for
Student Affairs
Law Administration, Full
Time, 00004999
Budget Analyst
Budget Management/Fiscal
Services, Full Time, 00000039
Coordinator
Kansas Geological Survey,
Part Time, 00064550
Institute for Life Span
Studies, Full Time, 00068247
Counseling/Psychological
Services, Full Time, 00000991
Director Of Laboratories
Biological Sciences, Full
Time, 00001872
Field Hydrogeologist
Kansas Geological Survey,
Full Time, 00008396
Information Specialist I
Institute for Policy and Social
Research, Part Time,
00067226
Maintenance/Service
Worker – Storekeeper
Housing Maintenance, Full
Time, 00063426
POOL: Post Doctoral
Researcher
Chemistry, Full Time,
00001769
Pharmaceutical Chemistry,
Full Time, 00061075
Bureau of Child Research,
Full Time, 00062311
Medicinal Chemistry, Full
Time
Bioinformatics, Part Time
Post Doctoral
Researcher/Research
Associate
Center for Remote Sensing
Ice Sheets, Full Time,
00063457
Higuchi Biosciences Center,
Full Time, 00008519
Program Assistant
Educational Adviser,
Academic Programs for
Excellence, Full Time,
00061955
Social Welfare
Administration, Full Time,
00067095
Outreach Assistant,
African/African American
Studies, Part Time, 00067553
Visitor Service Coordinator,
Natural History Museum and
Biodiversity Research Center,
Full Time, 00077250
Assistant Technical Director,
Lied Center, Full Time,
00200607
Programmer I
Information ServicesInformation Technology, Full
Time, 00000056
Education Administration,
Full Time, 00201301
Project Coordinator
Instructional Coach, Center
for Research on Learning,
Full Time, 00065196
Research Aide – Pool
Language Intervention
Coordinator, Institute for Life
Span Studies, Part Time,
00066795
Research Assistant
Institute for Policy and Social
Research, Full Time,
00064620
Pharmaceutical Chemistry,
Full Time, 00206124
Research Associate
Chemistry, Full Time,
00008278
Systems Analyst
Institute for Life Span
Studies, Full Time, 00067368
University Police Officer
Public Safety Office, Full
Time, 00062607
First-time tuition assistance recipients set record
The tuition assistance program has
granted 187 awards to KU staff members
this spring, including a record 54 first-time
recipients. The program is available to
university support staff and unclassified
staff with six months of full or part-time
KU employment by the time the classes
begin. The program normally provides
tuition for one class and can cover up to a
five-hour course.
To be accepted into the program, it is
necessary to make application. The tuition
assistance application form is available on
the Human Resources and Equal
Opportunity
Web
page
at
www.hreo.ku.edu under Professional and
Organizational Effectiveness. Deadline for
the spring semester is Nov. 17. For more
information, contact Lynn George in
Human Resources and Equal Opportunity
at 864-3686 or [email protected].
Kristen Abell, Student Involvement and
Leadership
Center;
Katherine
Acosta,
Education; Muhammad Ahmed, Information
Services; Ruth Allenbrand, College of Liberal
Arts and Sciences; Steve Alvarez, Facilities
Operations; Marc Anderson, Chemistry;
Sharon Anthony, Vice Provost-Research; Ranjit
Arab, University Press of Kansas; Pat Argueta,
University Registrar; Alice Arredondo,
Admissions and Scholarships; Karley Trae Ast,
Spencer Museum of Art; Mike Auchard,
Student Housing; Karley Trae Ast, Spencer
Museum of Art; Mike Auchard, Student
Housing; Beth Baca, Social Welfare; Melanie
Bacon,
Center
for
Research
on
Learning/Advanced Learning Technologies;
Charles
Bankart,
Graduate
School/
International Programs; Jill Becker, Libraries;
Tammie
Benham
,
KU
Center
on
Developmental Disabilities; Brenda S. Bertsch,
Human Resources/Equal Opportunity; Aaron
C. Blanchard, Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science; Elizabeth Boldridge,
Athletics; Craig Brooks, Facilities Operations;
Laura Burrows, Student Housing; Paul
Buskirk, Athletics; Darcie Callahan, FreshmanSophomore Advising Center; Kathryn Capps,
Athletics; Kathryn Chaney, Admissions and
Scholarships; Abigail Coffin, Business; Stacy
Cohen, Center for Research on Learning;
Rebecca Combs, Business; Matthew Cook,
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Biological Sciences; Lynn Cool, Mathematics;
Mary Cordova, Tertiary Oil Recovery Project;
Brett Counley, LAN Support Services;
Jacqueline M. Counts, School of Education;
Laurie Phillips Crees, Continuing EducationKansas Law Enforcement Training Center;
Scott Cregg, Biological Sciences; Mayumi
Crider, Tertiary Oil Recovery Project; Chelsea
R. Curry, Bureau of Child Research; Cynthia
Davis, Army ROTC; Mary Denning, Vice
Provost-Research; Laura Diede, Continuing
Education; Angela M. Dittrich, Study Abroad;
Carol DiVilbiss, University Career Center;
Kevin Dobbs, Kansas Biological Survey;
Patricia Dunsworth, Kansas Law Enforcement
Training Center; Kimberlee Eberle, FreshmanSophomore Advising Center; Tracy Evans,
Study Abroad; Clinton Everhart, Continuing
Education; Paul Farran, Academic Technology
Services; Lora Farrell, Libraries; Karen Feltner,
Housing Office Administration; Ray C. Finch
III, Russian, East Asian Languages; Anne
Flaherty, Student Success-Vice Provost; Lisa
Flaig, Admissions and Scholarships; Sara M.
Flint, Education; Ed Foley, Edwards Campus;
Linda
Fund,
Human
Resources/Equal
Opportunity; Charles Gabel, Mechanical
Engineering;
John
Gallagher,
Facilities
Operations; Debra Garcia, Mathematics; Aida
Garcia-Berducido, Multicultural Affairs; Brett
Gerstenberger,
Business;
Allison
Gile,
Academic Achievement and Access CenterDisability
Resources;
Rebecca
Gillam,
Education
Administration;
Gretchen
Goodman-Jansen, Education; Catherine Green,
Business; Karen Hammond, University
Registrar; Winona Hansen, Student Health
Services; Jana Craig Hare, Center for Research
on
Learning/Advanced
Learning
Technologies;
Linda Harris, International Student and
Scholar Services; Shanda Hayden, Business;
Gretchen Heasty, Academic Programs for
Excellence; Dan Hellebust, Comptroller; Miki
Herman, Education Administration; Robert
Hickerson, Spencer Museum of Art; Barbara L.
Hicks, Naval ROTC; Benjamin Hicks, Facilities
Operations; Megan J. Hill, Admissions and
Scholarships; Robin Holladay, English;
Lavonne R. Holmgren, Center for Research on
Learning; John F. Hope III, Vice ProvostResearch; Xiaolin Charlene Hu, Continuing
Education-Academic Outreach Programs;
Maud Humphrey, History of Art; Jane Njeri
Irungu,
Graduate
School/International
Programs; Catherine Jarzemkoski, Athletics;
Anne Madden Johnson, School of Business;
Ryan Jones, Higuchi Biosciences; Chris J.
Keary, Office of Public Safety; Kyle King,
Russian, East Asian Languages; Scott Kollin,
Student Housing; Jill Krebs, Natural History
Museum; Isa Kretschmer, Center for Research
on Learning; Alice Ming-Hsiang Kuo,
Transportation Center; Kathy A. Lafferty,
Libraries; John Ledford, Chemistry; Monica
Lemmons, Business; Michael P. Lemon,
Education; Kassie Liebsch, Athletics; Justin
Lohrmeyer, Mechanical Engineering; Emily
Louni, Libraries; Feloniz Lovato-Winston,
Business;
Jessica
Ludlum,
Business
Administration; Susan E. MacNally, Vice
Provost-Research;
Jannette
Madlock,
Education; Meagon Marshall, KU Center for
Research; April Matthews, Bureau of Child
Research; Debbie McCord, Social Welfare;
Susan D. McDaniel, English; Brian McDow,
University
Career
Center;
Christine
McNicholas, Academic Technology Services;
Lynn Menke, Bureau of Child Research;
Michael Meredith, Athletics;
Linda Merillat, Center for Research on
Learning/Advanced Learning Technologies;
Denise Modin, Information Services; Elizabeth
Montgomery-Anderson, School of Business;
Johnathan Morris, KU Public Management;
Kris Moyer, Freshman-Sophomore Advising
Center; Katie Naeve, Fine Arts; Hang Nguyen,
Education Administration; Eric Nicholson,
Facilities
Operations;
Santos
Nunez,
Multicultural Resources Center; Mary Obrien,
Center for Research on Learning/Advanced
Learning Technologies; Patricia Owens,
Architecture Administration and Academic;
Elizabeth Patrick, Vice Provost-Student
Success; David Pedersen, Athletics; Amy
Prettejohn, Education Administration; Jane
Platt, Political Science; Mason Powell,
Instructional Development and Support;
Jessica Prebyl, Business; Nicholas W. Prewett,
Student Financial Aid; Sara Prewett, Center for
Research on Learning; Katherine L. Pryor,
University Theatre and Film; Dara Raney,
Admissions and Scholarships; Melinda
Rendon, Student Housing; Kimberly Reynolds,
www.oread.ku.edu
Social Welfare; Susann Richardson, Provost’s
Office; Charles Rigdon, Law Library; John
Rinnert, Instructional Development and
Support;
Daniel
Rolf,
Architecture
Administration and Academic; Kathy RoseMockry, Student Involvement and Leadership
Center; Barbara Russell, Office of Institutional
Research and Planning; Evelia Sandoval,
Student Housing; Dean Sartin, Facilities
Operations; Daniel Sauerwein, Libraries; Erica
Schaapveld,
Center
for
Research
on
Learning/Advanced Learning Technologies;
David Scherrer, Center for Research on
Learning; Jennifer Schmitendorf, KU Center
for Excellence; Thomas Schmitendorf, Facilities
Operations; Sarah Scholle , Admissions and
Scholarships;
Brent
Schultz,
Applied
Behavioral Science; Walter Schwarz, Applied
English Center; Lana Seibel, Bureau of Child
Research; Patricia J. Sergent, International
Student and Scholar Services; Jeff Severin,
Environmental Stewardship; Rhonda Sharp,
Libraries; Larry Sheppard III, Athletics; Jessica
Silvia, Life Span Institute; Rodney Smith,
Facilities Operations; Janene Snyder, Dean of
Students; Scott Sponholtz, Student Financial
Aid; Jeremy Staab, Networking and
Telecommunications Services; Regina Starnes,
University Career Center; Jean Stribling ,
Center for Research on Learning; Bobbi
Studstill, Pharmacy Practice;
Nicholas
Studt,
Engineering
Administration;
Annette
Tetmeyer,
Engineering Management; Jean Thoma,
Athletics; Amanda L. Thomas, Engineering
Administration; Gail Tiemann, Center for
Research on Learning; Brian Timmerman, KU
Dining Services; Susan Transue, Biological
Sciences; Danielle Vanderbilt, Law School;
Lauren Van Waardhuizen, Law Library; Tara
Vereen, Student Housing; Sheila Walker,
Academic Programs for Excellence; Tamara
Weatherholt,
Libraries;
Susie
Whalen,
Pharmacy Administration; R. Renee Wiesner,
University Registrar; Linda Wiley, Biological
Sciences; Cathleen Wilkinson, Bursar; Janelle
Williams,
Sociology;
Renee
Williams,
Academic Programs for Excellence; Howard
Wills, Bureau of Child Research; Laurie
Winter,Education Administration; Nikki Wolf ,
Bureau of Child Research; Celeste Yaluk,
International Programs.
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NOTABLE ALUMS:
KU and Harvard are still the only
universities that presently can claim two elected women governors as alums — Kansas’ Kathleen Sebelius, who earned a MPA
degree, and former Arizona Gov. Jane Dee Hull, an education
graduate. However, if Kerry Healy is elected Massachusetts governor in November KU will fall behind Harvard.
Kelly named Cancer Center deputy director
Karen Kelly, an internationally
recognized expert in lung cancer,
has been named deputy director
of the KU Cancer Center, professor and Frank B. Tyler Chair in
Cancer Research.
Kelly most recently served as
director of the Clinical Thoracic
Oncology Program and professor
of medical oncology at the
University of Colorado Cancer
Center, which is designated as a
Comprehensive Cancer Center by
the National Cancer Institute.
Kelly helped build the CU Cancer
Center into one of the foremost
lung cancer research and treatment facilities in the world and
will play a key role in helping the
KU Cancer Center achieve the
prestigious NCI designation, currently held by just 39 institutions
in the nation.
CLAS adds two new
administrative staff
The College of Liberal Arts
and Sciences has added two
senior administrative associates,
Lindsey McCombs and Samantha
Bennett, to the dean’s office.
McCombs is from Salt Lake
City, Utah, and a graduate of the
University of Utah with a bachelor’s degree in early childhood
education. She also holds a master’s degree in elementary education from The University of
Phoenix. McCombs serves as an
assistant to Associate Deans
Barbara Romzek and Robert
Weaver as well as the staff liaison
to the committee on graduate
studies and secretary to the college assembly.
Bennett is most recently from
Kansas City, Kan., and a spring
2006 graduate of KU with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and
women’s studies. She serves as
the face of the college as the
receptionist in the dean’s office
and provide administrative support to Assistant Dean Erin
Spiridigliozzi.
Wenske-Mullinax to
develop courses
Bioscience
Continuing
Education has named a program
manager to develop biotechnology workshops and related short
courses for community college
students in the Kansas City area.
Elizabeth Wenske-Mullinax,
who has worked with biotechnol-
IN MEMORY
Mabel E. O’Brien
Rockhold
Mabel E. O’Brien Rockhold, 91,
died Sept. 25. Rockhold worked
for the KU Medical Center in
medical records for four years.
Survivors include 10 nieces and
nephews and many great-nieces
and nephews. The family suggests memorials to the Gospel
Chapel in Baldwin, Lawrence
Bible Chapel or Bible Chapel of
Shawnee, sent in care of RumseyYost Funeral Home.
day of class. This fall that date is
Nov. 13.
Dropped courses will no longer
affect a student’s grade point average. Details and deadlines for the
fall and spring semester are
online at www.registrar.ku.edu.
Reduced hours procedure OK’d
Human Resources and Equal
Opportunity has implemented a
new policy regarding how authorization is given for units to close
or go on reduced hours. Units
that want to close or reduce hours
will require authorization at the
dean or vice provost level, said
Ola Faucher, director of HREO.
Individuals within units will not
have the authority to reduce
hours or close the department
without the OK of the appropriate dean or provost.
Deans or vice provosts who
give approval for reduced services or hours will be required to
notify HREO. Staff can still take
vacation leave or request use of
voluntary leave without pay pro-
Hardin named first
Stiefel Professor
Richard Hardin, professor of
English, has been named the
inaugural
Frances
L.
Stiefel
Professor of
English. He
was
recognized for his
service
in
teaching,
research and
Richard Hardin
service.
gram, and non-exempt staff may
request the use of accrued compensatory time during closures.
Staff with accrued leave won’t
be forced to use vacation leave
without pay during closures.
Those who do not wish to take
leave may be assigned elsewhere.
The policy will also help ensure
accurate reporting of time.
Faucher compared the policy
to the inclement weather closing
policy. The provost or chancellor
makes the decision when to close
campus for inclement weather.
The policy aims to provide consistency in the decision-making
process by having a dean or vice
provost authorize unit closures or
hour reductions.
KU named ‘College
with a Conscience’
KU is a “College with a
Conscience,” according to the
Princeton Review’s
361 Best Colleges, which put
KU among the top 81 schools in
the country when it comes to service-learning
programs
and
blending academics with community service.
The annual publication also
named KU to its overall list of
best 361 colleges and to the lists of
best Midwestern colleges and
America’s best value colleges.
The Princeton Review looked
for an engaged student body, support for student activism and support for service learning.
Promotion, tenure
deadline Nov. 1
Members of the College of
Liberal Arts and Sciences wishing
to apply for promotion and/or
tenure should submit their application, endorsed by their department, to the College Dean’s
Office, 200 Strong Hall, by 5 p.m.,
Nov. 1 for consideration by the
committee on Appointments,
Promotion and Tenure.
Teaching award
nominations due
Distinguished
Teaching
Governor appoints
Carr to council
Gov. Kathleen Sebelius has
appointed W. David Carr, associate professor of health, sport and
exercise sciences, to the Athletic
Trainers Council.
The Athletic Trainers Council
licenses and monitors athletic
trainers
within
Kansas.
Carr earned a doctorate in human
performance from the University
of Southern Mississippi in 1999.
Carr is a member of the
National
Athletic
Trainers’
Association and was named
Faculty Member of the Year by
the University of Tulsa Student
Athlete Advisory Council in 200203. He will serve a three-year
term.
Award Nominations are being
accepted in the Office of the
Provost, 250 Strong Hall, or via email at [email protected].
Funds are provided by the
Ned Fleming Trust, the late Byron
T. Shutz and the 25-year alumni
class. The Fleming and Shutz
awards are designated for fulltime tenured or tenure-track faculty. The Silver Anniversary
Award, funded by the 25-year
alumni class, is intended for individuals in the tenure-track who
have not yet been considered for
tenure.
Any student, student organization, alumni, colleague, department, or school committee may
nominate faculty. Previous recipients are not eligible to receive the
awards.
Only the names of individuals
who are being nominated for one
of the three awards should be
submitted. The deadline for submission is Oct. 17.
NTS names Berkley
full-time director
Travis Berkley has been named
associate director of technical
operations for Networking and
Telecommunications Services, a
division of KU’s Information
Services. He had been serving in
the position in an interim capacity.
Berkeley earned his master’s
at KU through the tuition assistance program.
Dandridge renamed
to commission
Deborah Dandridge, field
archivist
for
the
Kansas
Collection
at
the
Spencer
Research Library, has been
appointed by Sen. Anthony
Hensley to a second term as one
of seven commissioners who
serve on the Kansas African
American Affairs Commission.
The Commission is based in the
Office of the Governor of Kansas.
from Yale University and holds
doctoral degrees from the
University
of
Wisconsin,
Madison. He has been a research
fellow with the William Davidson
Institute at the University of
Michigan since 1999 and served
as a visiting scholar at the Prague
School of Economics, Czech
Republic, and at the Center for
Economic Research and Graduate
Education at Charles University,
Prague.
With honor
Earnhart to give
Shutz Award lecture
Dietrich Earnhart, associate
professor of economics, and
recipient of the 20th Byron T.
Shutz Award for Distinguished
Teaching will present his public
Shutz Award lecture, “The Effects
of Ownership Structure on
Corporate Performance,” on Oct.
23, in Alderson Auditorium of the
Kansas Union.
Earnhart earned a bachelors
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The professorship is named
after Frances L. Stiefel, who
earned a bachelor’s from KU in
1926. After her death in 1985, her
husband, Milton I. Stiefel, established a trust to endow a distinguished professorship.
Hardin has taught in the
English department for 40 years.
The professorship will award
$20,000 per year for three years.
NEWS IN BRIEF
Class drop policy changed
Starting this fall all students —
except law students — will have
far less time to drop a class.
Under a new policy approved
by Provost and Executive Vice
Chancellor Richard Lariviere, the
last day to drop classes is the 60th
ogy
training
programs
at
Middlesex Community College in
Bedford, Mass., has been hired
through the collaboration of KU
Continuing Education and the
Higuchi Biosciences Center to
coordinate the activities of the
Metro
Student
Bioscience
Institute by KU Continuing
Education.
Wenske-Mullinax earned a
doctorate in microbiology/virology from the University of
Tennessee-Knoxville. She has
considerable experience in the life
science
and
pharmaceutical
industries in the Boston area.
Randy Edmonds/University Relations
John E. Jones III, the judge in the Dover,
Pa., intelligent design in schools case,
spoke as part of the Hall Center lecture
series about the case and not letting politics influence judgments.
Oct. 23, 2006
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