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Columns::February 18, 2002

Senior VP Costello will step down March 1
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Kathryn Costello, senior vice president for external affairs, received the Outstanding Alumnus Award from the University of Kentucky’s College of Communications and Information Studies.
Costello was selected to receive the award by a college committee. This is the second year the award has been given out.
Costello earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in communication from the University of Kentucky.

Judy Harper

Judy Harper, administrative secretary for the Environmental Safety Division, is one of ten winners of the Great Results Achievement Awards, given by Avery Dennison Corporation, an office products manufacturer.
The award is given to office professionals who exemplify outstanding qualities such as leadership, creativity, mentoring, and humanitarian outreach. Harper has been active in gun education.

Larry Jones of the Institute of Higher Education has been given the Association of Institutional Research’s Distinguished Membership Award.
The award recognizes lifetime achievement and outstanding contributions to the field of institutional research.
AIR members include those on university and college campuses engaged in providing management research and policy analysis.
Jones is among 22 AIR members who have received this award in the 41 years that it has been given.

James H. Prestegard, professor and Eminent Scholar, Complex Carbohydrate Research Center and the departments of chemistry and biochemistry and molecular biology, received an honorary doctorate from the University of Minnesota.
An exponent of the use of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to elucidate the structure, dynamics and function of

Robert Rhoades

biological molecules and systems, Prestegard has focused primarily on systems involving biological membranes.

Robert Rhoades, professor of anthropology, delivered the first Sperling Lecture at the annual meeting of the national Crop and Soil Science Association in Charlotte, N.C.
The lecture was part of the Biodiversity and Cultural Heritage Symposium held in conjunction with the CSSA annual meeting. The title of Rhoades’s speech was “New Century, New Challenges: The Changing Historic Role of Local Culture in Genetic Resources.”
The lectureship honors the late Calvin Sperling, a scientist in the Plant Exchange office of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Office in Beltsville, Md.

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