Vol. 16 No. 38 Sept. 29, 1997
News from the Executive Vice Chancellor’s Office
News from the School of Medicine-Kansas City
News from the School of Nursing
News from the School of Allied Health
News from Graduate Studies and Research and the Research Institute
News from the Kansas Cancer Institute
News from International Programs
News from the KU Endowment Association
News from the Executive Vice Chancellor’s Office
Executive Vice Chancellor Donald Hagen, MD, will address the KU Medical Center campus at
3:30 p.m. Sept. 30 in Rieke Auditorium at the KU Medical Center campus and via interactive television in the Wichita Room at the Wichita campus. Chancellor Robert Hemenway will also be on hand. All faculty, staff, students and volunteers are encouraged to attend.
The next CenterNet conference will be from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Sept. 29 in Wahl East Auditorium. The topic will be "Serving the Public Through Quality Accreditation: Examining the Standards." The speakers will be: Linda Amos, RN, EdD, FAAN, dean of the University of Utah College of Nursing, Salt Lake City; Lynda Davidson, RN, PhD, University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing; Gary Filerman, PhD, health care policy expert; and Sherril Gelmon, PhD, associate professor of public health at Portland (Ore.) State University School of Urban Affairs. The conference is offered in cooperation with the American Association of Colleges of Nursing.
News from the School of Medicine-Kansas City
Laurence Cheung, MD, professor and chair of surgery, received a $204,999 minority supplement award from the National Institutes of Health for Ed Childs, MD, assistant professor of surgery, to conduct research in Cheung’s lab. This award supplements a $1,239,590 NIH renewal grant Cheung received in February 1997 for "Gastrointestinal Changes During Sepsis." This is the 19th year of funding for this grant, and Cheung has another NIH grant in its 13th year of funding.
Curtis Klaassen, PhD, professor of pharmacology and toxicology, hosted the fourth International Metallothionein Meeting Sept. 17-20 in Kansas City, Mo. More than 200 scientists from 24 countries attended this scientific meeting. Other KU Medical Center faculty attending and presenting data at the meeting were: Glen Andrews, PhD, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology; Jeff Johnson, PhD, assistant professor of pharmacology, toxicology and therapeutics; Jie Liu, MD, research assistant professor of pharmacology, toxicology and therapeutics; and Tom Pazdernik, PhD, professor of pharmacology, toxicology and therapeutics.
News from the School of Nursing
Hester Thurston, RN, EdS, professor emeritus in the School of Nursing, recently received the 1997 Leadership Award from the Johnson County Commission on Aging. Thurston, past director of the School of Nursing, is chair of the Commission on Aging, liaison to the Johnson County Nursing Center Advisory Council, and a member of the Foundation on Aging, the Nutrition Task Force as well as numerous other committees. She was the driving force in the creation of the first History of the Commission on Aging. She is a past recipient of the KU Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence and a Fullbright Scholarship to teach nursing at the University of Athens in Greece.
Debbie Ford, graduate recruiter for the School of Nursing, is the co-editor of the Handbook of Effective Business Communication, recently published by McGraw-Hill. In addition to her role as the book’s co-editor, Ford was the author of a chapter on conducting company research. A doctoral candidate in communication studies with an emphasis in organizational and health communication at KU, she is currently working on her dissertation on special interest groups and health care reform and also serves as a research assistant in telemedicine at the Medical Center.
The School of Nursing and the Greater Kansas City Missouri Association of Occupational Health Nurses will present the 36th annual conference of the Missouri Association of Occupational Health Nurses, "Surviving and Thriving," Oct 4 and 5 at the Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza, Kansas City, Mo. Call continuing education, ext. 4488, for more information.
News from the School of Allied Health
Winnie Dunn, PhD, OTR, FAOTA, professor and chair of occupational therapy education, received the Catherine Lyle Murray Award from the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine at the organization’s national meeting Sept. 19 in Portland, Ore.
News from Graduate Studies and Research and the Research Institute
This year’s Faculty Research Day will again feature a poster session. Posters presented at local, national or international meetings are allowable for the Nov. 7 Research Day poster session. Participants are limited to one poster. Those wanting to participate should send a title and list of authors to graduate studies and research, 5015 Wescoe, by Oct. 6.
News from the Kansas Cancer Institute
Linda Graves, wife of Kansas Gov. Bill Graves, will help honor the Kansas Breast and Cervical Cancer Initiative at a reception from 1 to 3 p.m. Oct. 10 at the Douglas Community Center, 1029 N. 32nd St., Kansas City, Kan. She will be joined by Executive Vice Chancellor Donald Hagen, MD, and other KU Medical Center representatives, as well as Carol Marinovich, Unified Government of Kansas City, Kan./Wyandotte County mayor and chief executive officer, who will announce the proclamation of Oct. 19 as National Mammography Day in Wyandotte County. Representatives from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, Douglas Community Center and KU Cancer Center will also be on hand. The initiative provides uninsured and underinsured women in Kansas with a personalized risk assessment, one-on-one breast cancer education, a clinical breast examination and a screening mammogram at no charge. To register for this event, call the KU Cancer Center Comprehensive Breast Center, ext. 4777.
The next Kansas Cancer Center Research Round Table will be at noon Oct 7 in Lied Auditorium. Tsuneo Suzuki, MD, PhD, interim chair and professor of microbiology, molecular genetics and immunology, will present "Cytokine Gene Therapy of Cancer."
News from International Programs
International studies has changed its name to international programs.
News from the KU Endowment Association
James Enns, MD, and his wife, Shirley Bull Enns, RN, of Estes Park, Colo., have made a gift of $50,000 to the KU Endowment Association toward the Albert N. Lemoine Jr. Education Fund for the KU department of ophthalmology. Lemoine was chair of ophthalmology when James Enns was a resident in the department. During Lemoine’s 30 years as chair, the department grew in scope and reputation. The Albert N. Lemoine Jr. Education Fund supports the department's residency training in many ways. It provides resources for fellowships, visiting lecturers and resident travel to academic meetings. It also helps pay for computers and training equipment, as well as materials for the library. James and Shirley Enns met at KU Medical Center. Shirley Enns earned a nursing diploma from KU in 1948 and worked as a community mental health nurse and in her husband's office. James Enns graduated from KU with a bachelor's degree from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in 1945 and a degree from the School of Medicine in 1947 before earning his ophthalmology certificate in 1950. He practiced ophthalmology in Newton until his retirement in 1980. He shared an office with his brother, Eugene K. Enns, who graduated from the KU School of Medicine in 1940. The Ennses are members of the Kansas Alumni Association. They have four children, two of whom graduated from KU. Their daughter, Jane Enns Sturgeon earned a bachelor's degree in nursing from KU in 1972 and is nurse coordinator for the Women's Reproductive Center at the Medical Center.
Miscellaneous News
KU is one of only 21 public colleges and universities to make the Best Buys of 1998 list in the latest edition of the Fiske Guide to Colleges. A total of 43 public and private colleges are included in the 1998 Fiske Guide. The guide, written by former New York Times education writer Edward B. Fiske, includes what Fiske describes as the "country’s 300 best and most interesting" four-year colleges and universities. In the latest guide, KU continues to score four out of five stars in academics, quality of life and social life. This is the second year the guide, updated annually, has included the best-buys category. In particular, Fiske cites the high quality of KU undergraduate programs in allied health, nursing, pharmacy, architecture and urban design, fine arts, social welfare, business, engineering, journalism, accounting, theatre, film and television, child language development and finance. Nine Big 12 Conference schools made this year's Fiske Guide. Missing are Kansas State University, Manhattan; Oklahoma State University, Stillwater; and Texas Tech University, Lubbock. Of the Big 12 schools that are ranked, only KU; the University of Colorado, Boulder; and the University of Texas, Austin, received four stars for academics. KU and the University of Texas also tied with four stars each for quality of life and social life, while the University of Colorado received five stars in both categories.
Enrollment of first-time freshmen at KU increased for the third straight year, according to 20th-day enrollment figures released Sept. 25. Between fall 1996 and 1997, first-time freshman enrollment jumped 7.1 percent, from 3,644 students to 3,901. The new freshman class includes 2,674 Kansans from 92 counties and 252 Kansas high schools. KU Medical Center reported 2,459 students, a decrease of 74. The Lawrence campus enrolled 23,290 students, an increase of 60. The KU Regents Center, Edwards Campus, in Overland Park, totaled 1,818 students, an increase of 174.
The Center for Teaching Excellence and the office of the provost at KU will present the fall 1997 Kemper Symposium from 7 to 9 p.m. Oct. 7 in 110 Budig Hall at the Lawrence Campus. James Morrison, professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, will discuss "Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century."
KU and Rockhurst College are the sponsors of "How to Excel in the Global Marketplace: Competing for the Future," a Rockhurst Executive Fellows’ Leadership Conference. The event, which will feature several of America’s business leaders, including Robert Galvin, chair of the executive committee of Motorola Inc., and Gary Hamel, PhD, a well-known author and strategist, will be from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 21 at the Hyatt Regency Crown Center, Kansas City, Mo. For more information, call Marian Nigro at Rockhurst, 501-4091. (A 50 percent discount will be offered to faculty and administrators in higher education.)
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