College of Health Sciences

Friday Footnotes

January 9, 2009

 

Monday Morning Press Conference

UK Public Relations will be holding a press conference in the Commons on Monday morning - January 12 - from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. They will need to utilize the patient loading and unloading area in front of our building for an ambulance that will be part of the press conference. Please refrain from parking in that area during that time.

 

Earn Money For The College With A Click!

GoodSearch and GoodShop are two ways you can financially support the College of Health Sciences with just the click of a computer mouse!

Search the web with Yahoo-powered GoodSearch.com and they’ll donate a penny to the college each time you search!

Shop at more than 600 GoodShop.com merchants including Amazon, Best Buy, Toys R Us, and others, and a percentage of each purchase will go to the College of Health Sciences!

All you do it go to those sites and type in "University of Kentucky" under the "Who do you GoodSearch for?" heading. Then select "University of Kentucky - College of Health Sciences" and proceed with searching and shopping as normal!

View the flyer for more information.

 

Thomson-Hood Winter Project

Photo: Delivering goodies to Thomson-Hood Veterans Home

Staff Council would like to thank everyone for supporting the Thomson-Hood Veterans Center as the CHS winter 2008 service project. The entertainment goodies were delivered to the facility before the winter break. Two car-loads of movies, paint, woodworking material, cross-stitching patters, board games, DVD and CD players, shower totes, and more was donated. The staff and residents of the facility were thrilled and touched with the gifts. Thank you for your generosity.

Above: Staff Council President Linda Allen and Thomson-Hood activities employee Pam Warth read the card the college sent to the residents of the home. The poem on the card was written by Robin Baldwin and the calligraphy was done by Kevin Dean.

 

PT Students "Adopt" the Wendell Foster Campus

First-year Physical Therapy students adopted the Wendell Foster Campus in Owensboro as a winter service project. The students were led by Keisha Embry, a former WFC employee. More than $950 in presents and gift cards were collected by the students and were given to residents of the facility.

The Wendell Foster Campus for Developmental Disabilities was started in 1940. The mission of the campus is to be an organization that provides individualized support, therapy and training to empower individuals with cerebral palsy, mental disabilities and other development disabilities to realize their dreams and potential.

 

Spring Semester Kick Off!

View the attached flyer for information on the upcoming College of Health Spring Semester Kick Off on January 23, 2009.

Faculty will need to RSVP for the morning session and lunch.

Spring Faculty Meetings

Spring Faculty Meetings will be held on the FOURTH Friday of the month. Staff members are also invited to attend.

  • January 23 -- noon-1:30 p.m. -- CTW 219
  • Feb 27 -- noon-1 p.m. -- CTW 219
  • Mar 27 -- noon-1:30 p.m. --  CTW 219
  • April 24 -- noon-1 p.m. -- CON 505
  • May 22 -- noon-1:30 p.m. --  CTW 219

 

January Brunch and Learn

Date: January 30, 2009
Time: 9:30 – 10:30 a.m.
Topic: Effective Lecture Strategies
Location: CTW 405

The format will include a brief presentation by TASC personnel, followed by discussion.

E-mail Keturah by Friday, January 16 at noon if you plan to attend.

 

April Lunch and Learn - TIME CHANGE!

Date: April 3, 2009
Time: 11 a.m. to noon
Topic: Fostering Class Discussion
Location: TBD

The format will include a brief presentation by TASC personnel, followed by discussion.

 

Upcoming Staff Council Events

·         Basics of Leadership: February 24, 2009

·         Staff Retreat: March 20, 2009

·         Providing Exceptional Customer Service: April 23, 2009