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The first group of participants in the Wounded Warriors program have enrolled at KU. The program allows wounded soldiers to get graduate degrees while remaining part of the U.S. Army. Pictured on a recent tour of Watson Library are, from left, Tom Davis, Ari Jean-Baptiste, Gates Brown, David Holden and Wesley Fine.

Submitted/Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center

The 2008-09 KU Women of Distinction calendars are now available. The calendars feature students, faculty, staff and an alumna of KU who have achieved success in their respective fields. Pictured above are Maritza Machado-Williams, director, Academic Programs for Excellence; Pamela Scott, associate director, Office of Multicultural Affairs; and Lora Bauer, program director, Student Involvement and Leadership Center. The calendars are available in the Kansas Union bookstores in Lawrence and the bookstores at the KU Medical Center, and the Edwards Campus in Overland Park, as well as the Student Involvement and Leadership Center in the Kansas Union.

Submitted/Frances Gorman

School of Business faculty and staff raised $550 and gathered 225 items for the Lawrence Humane Society at their annual Pet Projects Awards. Pictured, from left, are Midge Grinstead, Lawrence Humane Society director, and business school staff members Toni Dixon, Feloniz Lovato-Winston and Janet Lukehart with donated items.

Submitted/Claudia Bode

Four teachers spent six weeks at the Center For Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis this summer conducting environmental research projects. Pictured, from left, are Carolyn Pearson, Bonner Springs High School; Alan Gleue, Lawrence High School; Steve Stultz, J.C. Harmon High School; and Jason Sutton, Gardner-Edgerton High School.

Submitted/Susan Elkins

Jack Winerock, professor of piano, and three of his students, Nathan Salazar, Connie Mak and Dan Bruggeman, participated in the International Academy of Music, held June 18-28, in St. Petersburg, Russia. Winerock taught, coached and performed solo and chamber music, and his students performed solo and chamber music recitals.