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beneficiary. Then, the donor gives an amount equal to the premium to the university each year. University of Kentucky
actually owns the policy and the premium is a tax deductible gift. When making life-insurance-related charitable
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2008 - '09: Statistics Tell A Powerful Story
  • Record high number of freshman applicants: 11,120
  • Record high number of Governor’s Scholars/ School for the Arts Students: 389
 , • Record high retention rate: 81 percent
—       • Record high number of African-American first-year students: 347
7,%   a_ S ’ • Record high number of African-American undergraduate students: 1,234
Q ___;_ • Record high doctoral student enrollment: 2,391
‘o-# ‘=·—K   • Record high Hrst-professional (dentistry, law, medicine, and pharmacy)
enrollment: 1,558
A  A • Record high number of full-time faculty: 2,096
X t ,  • Record high number of African-American faculty: 84, including a record
W T 11 new African-American faculty
i` ,2, l • Record high number and percent of women in executive/administrative/
¢¥ L W managerial positions: 234, or 48.4 percent
• Record high research expenditures of $337 million
I often use this space to feature one of our top students, share a story about a faculty or staff member who is leading us in
our Top 20 mission, or tout a new outreach initiative.
Even though I am a UK College of Engineering alum, I seldom use this opportunity to simply hype numbers and statis-
tics. As I often say, it is the efforts of our students, alumni, faculty, and staff that are transforming communities across
Kentucky, and I love to tell those success stories.
However, sometimes the raw information is so powerful that it is the story. Such was the case at your alma mater in
2008-09, when UK experienced a “record” year.
As impressive as these statistics are on their own, the depth and breadth of excellence that we are experiencing across
the university community is what is so striking to me. Erom measures in undergraduate, graduate, and professional
education to diversity measures and research totals, UK is taking bold strides forward in a period of budget cuts and
financial turmoil.
I think that speaks directly to the type of people who work hard each and every day to move our alma mater forward.
None of these successes would be possible if not for the efforts and sacrihce of our world-class faculty and staff This
campus community takes great pride in our Top 20 mission. Because of their dedication and commitment to transforming
lives and communities in all 120 Kentucky counties, the United States, and throughout the world, UK continues to be on
the move.
That might be the most impressive record of all.
Sincerely,
Lee T. Todd ]r.
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noted feminist, will make a special guest appearance at this year’s tesneetive Colleges:
30th anniversary Kentucky Women Writers Conference. Nine _ David A_ Btennen is dean ofthe UK College o{Lavv,
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literary festival of women in the nation. Register for the event at eleputv eliteetoe
“”VWLdSYSdu/WWK • Mark Kornbluh is dean ofthe UK College ofArts & Sci-
ences. 1-1e previously was professor and chair ofthe De-
partment of History at Michigan State University and
also had an appointment in the Department of Computer
Science and Engineering.
The Kentucky Small Business Development Center ° H' _DSn O’HSif is dtéh httht iUK COllSgS Ofcommunh
(KSBDC), at the UK Opfiee ofcoinmeteialization and Eeo_ cations and 1nformation Studies. Previously he was at the
nomic Development, has o mow Web site promoting ommom Uhtttttttv ht Ohhhhhh  Whttt ht ttthsht tt tt htttt
ownership to current members ofthe armed forces, veterans and dmual PYSSSSSOY In tht DSPSICIHSHC OfCSmmumSStlOH
their families. The site kyvetbiz.com includes access to online and Was thttttht ht tht OU CSHSSI for Rlsk and Cmsls
business courses in English and Spanish, a list of statewide work- MSnSgSmSm; _ _
shops and links to business-related resources. The KSBDC also ° MSW Johff O Half ls dttth ht tht   @011SgS OfEduSS'
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about business assistaneei where she was vice provost for school and community
partnerships having held other positions there, including
associate dean of research and graduate studies in the OU
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And Prgvention gf AMD
Researchers led by Dr. ]ayakrishna Ambati at UK has discov- search,” says Ambati, a professor ofphysiology, professor and
ered a biological marker for neovascular age-related macular vice-chair of ophthalmology and visual sciences, and the Dr.
degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in older adults. E. Vernon and Eloise C. Smith Endowed Chair in Macular
The marker, a receptor known as CCR3, shows strong po- Degeneration at the UK College ofMedicine. "\Y/ith CCR3,
tential as a means for both the early detection ofthe disease we have for the first time found a unique molecular signature
and for preventive treatment. The findings were reported in for the disease. This brings us closer than we have ever been to
an article published online by the prestigious journal Nature. developing a clinical diagnostic tool to discover and treat the
“This is a major paradigm shift in macular degeneration re- disease early, before vision is lost.”
Clinical Trials Begin For Grant Promotes Eastern Kentucky
Spinal Cord Injury Drug Cancer Prevention And Control
The trials on riluzole, an already-marketed drug for slowing Richard A. Crosby in the UK College of Public Health has
the progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou received a multi-million dollar grant from the Centers for
Gehrig’s disease), builds on the research of two University of Disease Control and Prevention. Crosby and Dr. Baretta R.
Kentucky researchers, ]oe Springer and ]ames Geddes, who Casey, director ofthe UK Center for Excellence in Rural
published several studies investigating potential uses ofthe Health — Hazard, will use this five-year grant to conduct com-
drug. Both researchers have affiliations with the UK Spinal munity-based participatory research in Appalachia with a
Cord and Brain Injury Research Center. focus on cancer prevention and control.
Springer and Geddes began investigating the potential use of Through this grant, the Rural Cancer Prevention Center
riluzole, which inhibits glutamate release that can exacerbate will be housed in Hazard and will cater to the 23-county serv-
spinal cord injuries, in animal models. Their work demon- ice area ofthe UK Center for Excellence in Rural Health-Haz-
strated that riluzole and methylprednisolone, used in combi- ard.
nation, produce a better effect in improving functional One primary emphasis ofthe project will be the acceptance
recovery than using either drug by itself Their research was ofthe vaccine against cervical cancer. “We find that less than
supported in part by the Kentucky Spinal Cord and Head In- 30 percent ofyoung women offered the vaccine will accept
jury Research Trust, funding for which comes from the Com- even the first dose for free,” says Crosby. “It’s even more diffi-
monwealth of Kentucky, and by the National Institutes of cult when you talk about the second or third dose.”
Health. The project will also be looking for ways to prevent other
The clinical trials will be conducted at the University of types of cancer that are quite common in Eastern Kentucky,
Louisville Health Sciences Center; the University ofMiami in including colorectal cancer.
Miami, Ela.; the University of Maryland Medical Center in “The community liaisons who will talk and meet with the
Baltimore; Thomas jefferson University in Philadelphia; participants ofthe research project are people from the commu-
Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas; the University of nity, so they trust them and they understand them,” said Casey.
Texas at Houston; the University ofVirginia Health System in Casey says the hope is that this localized approach will enable
Charlottsville, Va.; and the University of Toronto/Toronto researchers to turn their findings around quickly and have a
Western Hospital, Toronto, Ontario. positive effect on the community to improve health disparities.
Sponsors and collaborators in the clinical trials are the
Methodist Hospital System, Christopher Reeve Paralysis Compiled from news reports
Eoundation, the U.S. Department of Defense, AO Clinical In- about T€$€8TCh at UK-
vestigation and Documentation, and the Ontario Neuro- For more information about
trauma Eoundation. research taking place at UK,
visit www.research.uky.eoIu
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Alumni and friends ofthe university gave record support coming more aware that their private gifts are needed to help the
through the ’08 — ’09 UK phonathon program which ran from university carry on its tradition of excellence in teaching, scholar-
]uly 1 to ]une 30. More than 17,500 pledges were received ship, research and outreach.”
amounting to a record $1.35 million, an increase of 8.8 percent Phonathons are conducted on a year-round basis on behalf of
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“We are extremely grateful for the generosity of UK alumni and Phonathon gifts assist the university by helping to provide fund-
friends — especially during this year of budget cuts in higher edu- ing for student scholarships, library acquisitions, faculty instruc-
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