The sophomore from Louisville was recently awarded the Globalair.com Calvin L. Carrithers Aviation Scholarship for the second consecutive year. The scholarship, which comes with a $1,000 award, is given to only four full-time aviation students nationwide.
The scholarship was created last year and as part of a trial run, advertised to a small audience. Jones, along with two other EKU students, was among the four winners. This year, the scholarship was advertised nationally, and Jones won again, edging out a much larger pool of applicants.
■ The University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, Food and Environment's Department of Animal and Food Sciences has recognized two men who have been supporters of Kentucky animal agriculture for decades.
David Switzer is the 2015 Distinguished Alumnus. Switzer, a 1967 graduate of the college, has been associated with the Thoroughbred industry for more than 50 years, working in both racing and breeding. For 21 years, he was the executive director of the Kentucky Thoroughbred Association and the Kentucky Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association. He retired in 2014 and soon after began serving as a lobbyist for Keeneland Association and the Kentucky Thoroughbred Association, where he continues to advocate for agriculture.
Gary T. Lane is the 2015 UK Department of Animal and Food Sciences Hall of Fame inductee.
After growing up on a dairy and row crop farm in Central Kentucky, Lane graduated from Lindsey Wilson Junior College in Columbia in 1961 and received a bachelor's degree in agriculture from Berea College in 1963. He then earned a master's and a doctoral degree from Purdue University before joining the faculty at Texas A&M University.
Kathy Previs, associate professor of public relations, received the Applegate Award for Excellence in Research and Deborah T. Givens, assistant professor of journalism, received the Vernon Gantt Award for Distinguished Service.
Previs' research focuses on how issues and stories of science and technology are communicated to the public, and the role of public relations in those discourses. She has published numerous articles pertaining to public relations, social media, crisis communication, presidential rhetoric and pedagogy. Her most recent research, which examines how race and gender of scientists in popular media are portrayed, was presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication in San Francisco in August.
■ Kentucky State University associate professor of psychology and sociology Mara Merlino has been awarded grant funding of $728,615 from the National Institute of Justice for her new project, "Cognitive Human Factors and Forensic Document Examiner Methods and Procedures."
Merlino says the project deals with the examination of handwriting, hand printing and questioned documents.
This grant follows earlier funding that Merlino was awarded by the National Institute of Justice. In 2010, KSU received a little more than $467,000. Funding from the previous study supported the establishment of the Interdisciplinary Behavioral and Social Science Research Lab in Hathaway Hall, which currently houses the eye-tracking system, computer work stations for undergraduate and graduate research assistants, and facilities and equipment that support survey research and other experimental projects. The research team, led by Merlino and co-investigator Tierra Freeman, took several years to complete the project.
■ Lindsey Wilson College's counselor education and supervision doctoral program has received the Outstanding Doctoral Counselor Education and Supervision Program Award, given by the Southern Association for Counselor Education and Supervision.
The doctoral program has five areas of focus: teaching; advanced counseling; research and scholarship; leadership and advocacy; and consultation. For more information go to Lindsey.edu/ces.
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