Community Happenings

2025 Outstanding Teaching Awards

The Outstanding Teaching Awards annually recognize faculty and graduate teaching assistants who demonstrate outstanding performance as instructors across all learning environments. Selected via nomination, candidates and finalists are reviewed by faculty-driven committees empaneled by the Office for Faculty Advancement and the Center for Enhancement of Learning and Teaching.

Faculty

Kelly Bradley, College of Education
Diana Byrne, Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering
Christy Brady, College of Health and Sciences
Juan Fernandez Cantero, College of Arts and Sciences
Cory Curl, The Graduate School
Frances Henderson, College of Arts and Sciences
Zada Komara, Lewis Honors College

Graduate teaching assistants

Jesús Ponte Bernal, College of Arts and Sciences
Leonie Bettel, Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering
Eric Luteyn, Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment

Lexington Stamp Club

The Henry Clay Philatelic Society (HCPS) meets monthly on the third Monday at 7:00 pm at the Broadway Christian Church, 2nd and Broadway, Lexington, Kentucky. Annual membership fees are $15. Visitors and new members are welcome.

The HCPS annually sponsors two stamp shows, that feature free admission, free stamps for kids, free informal appraisals, and stamps and similar materials for sale from several dealers. The Fall 2025 show will be held Saturday, September 20th at the Fairfield Inn Lexington North, 2100 Hackney Place, Lexington, KY 40511 from 10 am to 6 pm.

Annual Fellowship Donors List

Your gifts during July 1, 2024 – June 30, 2025, to memorialize deceased colleagues or honor living colleagues exceeded the amount anticipated. The UKAEF Board extends our sincerest gratitude for your continuing interest and support. We look forward to the new year that brings the opportunity to again meet in person and enjoy each other’s company at our quarterly luncheons.

The following donors contributed a total of $10,780 to the UKAEF Fellowship Fund for the 2024-2025 year. THANK YOU FOR YOUR GENEROUS GIFTS! (+signifies deceased)

Honor Roll $5.00 - $49.99 (In Memory of) (In Honor of)

Ruth Berry (Roberta James)	Sandra Miller (Edgar Sagan)
Janet Cabaniss & Damon Snyder (Jack Blanton)	Janet T Mullins & Douglas Mullins (Dr. Michael Goodin)
Austin & Susan Cantor	KB Poonacha
Don & Bonnie Diedrich	Carol Riker
Susan & Michael Effgen	Robert Schwemm & Sarah Welling
Theodore Fiedler & Sigrid Suesse	Donna Smith (Dr. Mary Ellen Edmondson)
Paul Freytag & Ann Tully	Dan Stone & Janis Carter
Daniel Fulks & L. Jill McNees	Seetha Subramanian
Bryan Hall & Barbara Delvecchio-Hall	Rodney & Charlotte Tulloch
Tagalie & Robert Heister	Kim Townley (Pam Kidd)
Clifford Hynniman	John & Jacqueline Van Willigen
Sandra & Glen McAninch (Bill Marshall)	Jesse Weil & Katalin Kellemen (Jean Pival)

Dean's List $50.00 - $199.99 (In memory of) (In Honor of)

Susan Abbott-Jamieson (Johnathan Ransom Abbott)	David Allen
Susan Barron (Dr. John Littleton)	Janice Birdwhistell (Terry L. Birdwhistell)
Jody Bosomworth	Bradley & Rose Canon
Greg Davis & Vanessa Oliver (Dr. J. Hill Hamon)	Roland & Colleen Duell (Robert Spedding & John Piecoro)
Lee & Melinda Edgerton (Joseph William Wilson & Jack Wilson (spouse of Angene Wilson)	Frances & Daniel Hardin-Fanning (Dr. Peggy El-Mallakh)
Don & Peggy Falace	Tom & Kate Lillich
Gerald & Charlene Ferretti (Abe Fosson)	Samuel C. Matheny (Abe Fosson)
Hazel Forsyth	Loys & Sonja Mather (Daniel R. Reedy)
Sue Fosson (Abe Fosson)	Alan (Jack) & Kay McAllister
Norman Goodman	A. Lee & Victoria Meyer
Linda Gorman	Frank & Pat Miller
Merl & Maxine Hackbart	Deborah Rood (Andrew Grimes)
Curt Harvey & Nancy Grayson (Dr. Tom Schrodt)	Gerald L Roth (Barbara R. Roth)
Jane & Greg Hayes	Judy Sackett (Paul A. Willis)
Janie & Mike Heath (Dr. Terry Birdwhistell)	Rosetta Sandidge
Sarah Henry	Louis & Bobbi Shain (Malcolm Siegel)
Beverly & Roger Hilton	Shirley Slatin (Dr. Gerald Slatin)
Carolyn Holmes (William & Nettie Adams)	Deborah & Tom Slaton
James & Barbara Holsinger (Terry Birdwhistell)	Sharon P. & Aubrey W. Turner (Dr. Mark V. Thomas)
Patricia & Mike Howard (Dr. Peggy El-Malluakh)	Mark & Janice Vranicar (Dr. Jacqueline Noonan)
Ronald & Carol Hustedde (Abe Fosson, Jr.MD)	Ken Kubota
Larry & Linda Jones (Abe Fosson, Jr.)	Thomas & Enid Waldhart
Rajan & Shobhna Joshi (Manubhai Joshi PhD & Dr. Ramanlal Joshi)	Harold Weinberg & Claire Schmelzer
Michael & Jerri Kennedy	Angene & Jack Wilson (+)
Suzanne & Edward Kifer	H. David & Jan Wilson (John Piecoro & Abe Fosson)
Gretchen LaGodna	John & Fran Wilson (Robert Straus)

Cum Laude $200.00 - $499.99 (In Memory of) (In Honor of)

Jim Albisetti	David C. & Katherine Johnson
Dick & Regi Clayton (Dr. Thomas M. Cooper)	Thomas Janoski & Linda Klink
Ronda Connaway	John & Lilian Ranseen
Joe & Renie Fink	+Diana Rast (Derek Sadd)
Don & Peggi Frazier	Peter & Katherine Timoney (Prof. John T. Bryans)
Robert French (Dr. Edmund Pellegrino)	Lee & Patsy Todd (Dr. Robert Cosgriff)
Claudia & J. Robert Heath	Thomas Vanaman

Magna Cum Laude $500.00 - $2500.00

James & Ann Chapman-funding for one UKAEF fellowship