On November 19th, 2010, the Council Forum on Haiti Reconstruction took place. In a collaborative presentation, Dr. Samuel Matheny, the Nicholas J. Pisacano Professor and Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine, and Dr. Israel (a graduate student form the College of Public Health) discussed the situation in Haiti and how the University can help.
Christie Shrestha's article about Bhutanese refugees in Lexington is now part of "New Issues in Refugee Research," a publication of the UN's High Committee on Refugees.
Happy Perkins is a graduate from the University of Kentucky. He serves as vice president of General Electric and is general council for GE Energy, which works to develop energy technologies, including wind power. His time at UK helped him gear up for law school and his career path ahead.
Laura Rankin is a graduate from the University of Kentucky. She currently resides in Oklahoma City, where she owns and is a partner in a private medical practice. Her education at UK helped prepare her for medical school and her career path ahead.
In fall of 2010, a panel of UK Alumni shared their thoughts with us on what current students should do to get the most out of their experience here at UK.
Holly Miller, a graduate student in the Department of Psychology, has recently received a lot of press for her research, which uses dogs as experiment subjects to test the effects of glucose on self-control. Miller's research addresses the physiological reasons for failures in self-control, but her conclusions are not just useful to understanding dog psychology, since expending glucose affects all mammals, including humans.
Ann Morris, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology, studies retinal regeneration and development in zebra fish. Morris discusses the potential that her research has to help people with eye diseases.
Vincent Cassone, chair of the Department of Biology, discusses how to bring the department to what he believes is its full potential.
Christia Brown, a professor in the Department of Psychology, focuses on childhood psychology, specifically looking at gender and ethnic discrimination among children. Brown and her team work within Fayette County Schools to gather information about the sources of discrimination--sources which are often difficult to pin down.
Betty Lorch, associate dean of Research and Graduate Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, speaks about the value of an Arts and Sciences education.
