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Kelly named Cancer Center deputy director
Karen Kelly, an internationally recognized expert in lung cancer, has been named deputy director of the KU Cancer Center, professor and Frank B. Tyler Chair in Cancer Research.Kelly most recently served as director of the Clinical Thoracic Oncology Program and professor of medical oncology at the University of Colorado Cancer Center, which is designated as a Comprehensive Cancer Center by the National Cancer Institute. Kelly helped build the CU Cancer Center into one of the foremost lung cancer research and treatment facilities in the world and will play a key role in helping the KU Cancer Center achieve the prestigious NCI designation, currently held by just 39 institutions in the nation.
CLAS adds two new administrative staff
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has added two senior administrative associates, Lindsey McCombs and Samantha Bennett, to the dean's office.McCombs is from Salt Lake City, Utah, and a graduate of the University of Utah with a bachelor's degree in early childhood education. She also holds a master's degree in elementary education from The University of Phoenix. McCombs serves as an assistant to Associate Deans Barbara Romzek and Robert Weaver as well as the staff liaison to the committee on graduate studies and secretary to the college assembly.
Bennett is most recently from Kansas City, Kan., and a spring 2006 graduate of KU with a bachelor's degree in psychology and women's studies. She serves as the face of the college as the receptionist in the dean's office and provide administrative support to Assistant Dean Erin Spiridigliozzi.
Wenske-Mullinax to develop courses
Bioscience Continuing Education has named a program manager to develop biotechnology workshops and related short courses for community college students in the Kansas City area.Elizabeth Wenske-Mullinax, who has worked with biotechnology training programs at Middlesex Community College in Bedford, Mass., has been hired through the collaboration of KU Continuing Education and the Higuchi Biosciences Center to coordinate the activities of the Metro Student Bioscience Institute by KU Continuing Education.
Wenske-Mullinax earned a doctorate in microbiology/virology from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. She has considerable experience in the life science and pharmaceutical industries in the Boston area.
Hardin named first Stiefel Professor
Richard Hardin
The professorship is named after Frances L. Stiefel, who earned a bachelor's from KU in 1926. After her death in 1985, her husband, Milton I. Stiefel, established a trust to endow a distinguished professorship.
Hardin has taught in the English department for 40 years.
The professorship will award $20,000 per year for three years.
Governor appoints Carr to council
Gov. Kathleen Sebelius has appointed W. David Carr, associate professor of health, sport and exercise sciences, to the Athletic Trainers Council.The Athletic Trainers Council licenses and monitors athletic trainers within Kansas.
Carr earned a doctorate in human performance from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1999.
Carr is a member of the National Athletic Trainers' Association and was named Faculty Member of the Year by the University of Tulsa Student Athlete Advisory Council in 2002-03. He will serve a three-year term.
NTS names Berkley full-time director
Travis Berkley has been named associate director of technical operations for Networking and Telecommunications Services, a division of KU's Information Services. He had been serving in the position in an interim capacity.Berkeley earned his master's at KU through the tuition assistance program.
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