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Executive Vice Chancellor’s Office
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School of Allied Health, School of Medicine and KU Endowment
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News from the
School of Allied Health
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Center on Aging
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News from the Executive Vice Chancellor’s Office
The next CenterNet Conference will be from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Sept. 10 in Lied Auditorium. Robert Balaban, MD, chief of laboratory and cardiac energetics at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, will discuss "Cardiovascular MRI." H. Clifford Lane, MD, clinical director at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, will discuss "Immunologic Aspects of HIV Infection." Although another upcoming CenterNet Conference will not be broadcast, videotapes of the conference, "Immunization Update," will be available Sept. 15 through the Educational Resource Center, ext. 7343.
News from the School of Allied Health, School of Medicine and KU Endowment Association
Two gifts to the KU Endowment Association will support the research of Deborah Kipp, PhD, RD, professor of dietetics and nutrition. Kipp has been named the first Midland Dairy Council Endowed Professor of Nutrition at KU Medical Center. The professorship was established by a $500,000 gift from the Midland Dairy Council to the KU Endowment Association in 1994. A fund created by late physician and professor Sam E. Roberts and his wife, Mary, has continued its support for KU by pledging $90,000 to also further the work of Kipp. KU Medical Center and the Midland Dairy Council recruited Kipp, who is also an adjunct associate professor in molecular and integrative physiology and medicine, to the position after an extensive search. She has served KU Medical Center since 1983, beginning as an assistant professor in dietetics and nutrition. She earned a doctorate in nutrition from Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., in 1984. The purpose of the professorship is to advance the academic study of human nutrition. The Midland Dairy Council is a division of the Midland Dairy Association, Ankeny, Iowa, serving Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska and Illinois. The Roberts Foundation Fund began financing nutrition programs at KU Medical Center more than 25 years ago. The initial pledge payment of $30,000 toward a three-year grant from the Sam E. and Mary F. Roberts Foundation Fund has established the Sam E. and Mary F. Roberts Nutrition Research Fund at the KU Endowment Association. Two equal installments will be added in l998 and l999, contingent upon progress of the research activity. Mary F. Roberts first began supporting nutrition education at KU in 1970 through the estate of her late husband, when she established the Sam E. Roberts Clinical Nutrition Fund with a $5,000 gift to the KU Endowment Association. In 1972, Barbara Lukert, MD, professor of medicine, began directing the program, and the foundation continued to finance it with $10,000 annual gifts during the early 1970s. By 1977, the Roberts Clinical Nutrition Fund had grown to more than $450,000, so the university and foundation agreed to finance the Mary F. Roberts Distinguished Professorship with the fund. One year later, Lukert was appointed to fill the professorship. Since then, the foundation has financed other nutrition programs at KU Medical Center including the Sam E. Roberts Nutrition Symposium, fellowships and visiting lectures. The foundation was established through the estate of Sam E. Roberts, MD. A 1911 graduate of the KU School of Medicine, Roberts served on the KU faculty for 45 years. He had a pioneering interest in nutrition affecting immunity long before the relationship received general attention. A distinguished ear, nose and throat doctor, he retired as head of otolaryngology in 1958. Upon the death of his wife in 1973, the Roberts Foundation was managed by the First National Bank of Kansas City and later became a fund of the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation and Affiliated Trusts.
News from the School of Allied Health
Khatab Hassanein, PhD, professor and chair, and Edward Brown, MS, assistant professor, both in biometry, are co-authors of "Estimating Life Functions, Location and Scale Parameters of the Maxwell Distribution by Selected Order Statistics," Journal of Applied Statistical Science, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 333-340, 1996.
News from the Center on Aging
The next Center on Aging Research Seminar will be from 4 to 5 p.m. Sept. 16 in 5030 Robinson. Stephanie Studenski, MD, director of the Center on Aging and associate professor of medicine, will discuss "Overview -- Kansas Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center."
Miscellaneous News
This fall, 90 new National Merit scholars -- including 67 Kansans -- enrolled in KU's freshman class, according to unofficial totals. That represents a 55 percent increase over the 1996 total of 58 Merit scholars and a 136 percent increase since 1994, when 38 of the scholars enrolled at the university. University officials are confident that KU will place among the top 10 public universities in the country in the recruitment of Merit scholars this year. The National Merit Scholarship Corp. will release those figures this winter. Since Chancellor Robert Hemenway made a pledge two years ago to recruit at least 100 National Merit scholars annually by the year 2000, KU has increased National Merit Scholarship awards to $5,000 per student, compared to about $3,330 in the fall of 1995 and $1,200 in the fall of 1993. The awards are renewable annually, based on the scholars' academic performances. National Merit Scholars represent the top 1 percent of graduating high school seniors. To be eligible for the KU scholarships, students must achieve finalist standing in the National Merit Scholarship competition and list KU as their college preference. The National Merit Scholarship Corp. is a nonprofit organization established in 1955 to conduct the annual Merit scholarship program. The scholarships are funded without federal or state funds. KU's program is financed by scholarship funds established through the KU Endowment Association. The official number of 1997 new Merit scholars attending KU won't be available until Sept. 25, the date when the Kansas Board of Regents will release final fall enrollment figures for all Regents schools.
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