The Richmond Register

Raising awareness
Eastern Kentucky University Level 2 associate nursing majors Brandi Ward, left, of Georgetown and Billie Elam of Jackson County hand out candy Friday on campus to freshman Matthew Butts of Henry County as part of the EKU nursing program’s Paint the Town Pink event to raise student awareness of breast cancer during the month of October. The nursing students also handed out literature and pins Friday and collected donations for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation to add to the $1,000 they raised by designing and selling breast cancer awareness T-shirts.
Former EU commissioner to speak at EKU
Alltech and Eastern Kentucky University will present a lecture Thursday by David Byrne, former European Union (EU) Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection.
Byrne’s talk, will speak from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in Posey Auditorium of the Stratton Building on “Life Experiences in the Legal World: Former Attorney General of Ireland, Former EU Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection, and the Northern Ireland Peace Accords.”
The event, including a reception from 6 to 7 p.m. outside the auditorium, is free and open to the public.
Chandler lavished with praise for EKU funding
Eastern Kentucky University and state officials lavished praise on U.S. Ben Chandler, D-Sixth District, on Tuesday as he visited the campus to get an update on EKU’s bio-fuels partnership.
In December, Chandler announced $4 million in federal funds he had “earmarked” for the project.
In addition to the federal government and General Atomics of San Diego, the partners include local governments in Clark County, the LexTran bus system in Fayette County and BioFuel of Estill County.
EKU Archives offers something for everyone
If walls could talk, the conversations heard here would be more interesting than any overheard at parties in Washington or Hollywood.
The Eastern Kentucky University Archives, a department of the EKU Libraries, is lined with books and file cabinets containing letters and other historical documents from politicians, sports figures, entertainers, scientists, historians and the “average” citizen. They include a personal letter from John F. Kennedy to Congressman Carl Perkins, pages from the handwritten draft of Noah Webster’s Dictionary of the American English Language, and the oldest document in the collections – a papal document written in 1319 during the reign of Pope John XXII.
Online mishap exposes information
The Social Security numbers of more than 5,000 Eastern Kentucky University employees accidentally were posted on an online directory Sept. 29, 2008.
EKU president Doug Whitlock issued a statement Wednesday addressing the matter and recommended that all employees during the 2007-08 academic year (with a last date of hire being Oct. 15, 2008) alert creditors.
The file containing the information was removed from the Internet on Friday, Sept. 18, Whitlock said.
Uncovering the past while building for the future
Next fall, Eastern Kentucky University’s library will open what planners call a cutting-edge innovation.
The Noel Studio for Academic Creativity — at the library’s center — will give students a single location where they can get help with research, writing and public presentations.
The studio will include sound-proof rooms with the latest audio-visual equipment so students can practice public presentations and review their performances.
EKU enrollment up by 2 percent
With 16,200 students enrolled this fall, Eastern Kentucky University’s enrollment is up 2 percent, President Doug Whitlock told the board of regents Saturday.
Freshman enrollment is up 6 percent and transfer enrollment is up 7, the president said. There is a downside to the positive numbers, however.
An overall increase of 2 percent with larger percentages of incoming freshman and transfers indicates the university is not meeting its retention goals, Whitlock said.
EKU junior receives one of only 20 EPA national fellowships
As a young child, she spent countless hours searching for crawdads under rocks in nearby streams.
As a teenager, she discovered the thrill of kayaking in wild rivers.
From those formative experiences, Jessica Pulliam developed a deep awareness of the need to protect nature, an interest she has further explored as a student at Eastern Kentucky University. Now, the junior sociology major and Honors Program participant from Crestwood has parlayed her academic prowess and undergraduate research experiences into a prestigious Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Fellowship Award, one of only 20 given nationally and the only one in Kentucky.
EKU music professor named to leadership role
Eastern Kentucky University music professor Connie Rhoades has been named state chair of the International Clarinet Association.
The ICA is a community of clarinetists and clarinet enthusiasts that supports projects that will benefit clarinet performance; provides opportunities for the exchange of ideas, materials and information among its members; and fosters the composition, publication, recording and distribution of music for the clarinet.

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