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"Preserved" installation explores personal relationships through memory capsules.

Posted on January 17, 2012July 14, 2020 by Office of Marketing and Communications

LEXINGTON, Ky.—Kathleen Burke ’10 spent the past year noticing how her daily interactions with friends had changed since graduating. She found that the information she was getting about her friends through her Facebook newsfeed was the kind of information she used to receive in person. As part of her studio assistant position at Transylvania, she was encouraged to put on a show. Her ponderings on how her relationships and interactions were different post-college and the recent passing of her grandfather led Burke to formulate the concept for “Preserved,” a participatory installation that opens in Transylvania’s Shearer Art Building on January 17 and runs through January 27. “I was playing around with ideas of memory and using mason jars,” said Burke. “I was originally going to can my own childhood memories, but then after talking to so many people about my experiences regarding the many people who have come in and out of my life, I realized the show could become an opportunity to engage people in a creative way to represent the memories of those who were influential in their life.” In October 2011, Burke announced her plans for “Preserved,” on Facebook and on a blog she created for the exhibit, preservedinstallation.blogspot.com, and asked people to submit their own memory capsules of people of influence in their life with whom they no longer interacted. In some cases, the person of influence had passed away, but that was not always the

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Transylvania website, presidential inauguration project and publications receive awards

Posted on December 13, 2011July 14, 2020 by Office of Marketing and Communications

LEXINGTON, Ky.—The Transylvania University communications office received Grand Champion awards for its website design and implementation, website homepage and presidential inauguration project in the Council for Advancement and Support of Education-Kentucky’s annual awards ceremony December 9 in Lexington. Transylvania also received Award of Excellence recognition for its presidential inauguration invitation and presidential inauguration program and the Special Merit award for Transylvania magazine. Transylvania’s redesigned and reorganized website was launched in July with special attention to the needs of prospective students, alumni, students’ families, the news media and the general public. The site’s homepage features a clean, simple and image-centric design that emphasizes the university’s urban location, distinguished history and positive outcomes. The website was the work of Web Development Manager Mariana Shochat with content contributed by Web Writer/Editor Jesse Darland and other members of the communications team. The presidential inauguration project included more than 40 unique pieces, including the award-winning invitation and program. The material was a joint effort of the communications office: Associate Vice President Sarah Emmons, Publications Director Martha Baker, Writer/Editor Bill Bowden, Public Relations Associate Mollie Eblen, Graphic Designer Barbara Grinnell, Editorial Assistant Tyler Young, Shochat and Darland. “We are delighted that our communications staff has been recognized once again for its outstanding results,” said President R. Owen Williams. “Transylvania has a long history of producing award-winning work, and I’m proud to see that tradition continue.” The award winners were selected from more than 150 entries submitted

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Transylvania junior plans meal of local foods for Lexington elementary school

Posted on December 2, 2011July 14, 2020 by Office of Marketing and Communications

LEXINGTON, Ky.—Childhood obesity rates rose nearly 15 percent between 1980 and 2008 and a flurry of articles from The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and USA Today, among others, place at least part of the blame on nutritionally deficient school lunches. First Lady Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move!” campaign and organic garden on the White House lawn have brought national attention to childhood obesity and the need for kids to have access to healthy food options. Transylvania University junior and exercise science major Eryn Hornberger sees a deeper issue. “A lot of the problem lies in kids not wanting the healthy food in the first place,” she said. “They don’t understand the importance of its healthy qualities, better taste and the strong impact it has on their community and local economy.” As an intern in the Fayette County Public School’s (FCPS) Child Nutrition department this semester, Hornberger has seen the commodity and processed foods that are ordered by school systems and the lack of local foods on school menus. The ordering process for those items is simpler, she said, and the “processed foods and produce vendors the schools use guarantee a specific serving size, which most farmers can’t do, or won’t be able to determine until the food service has the data to see from experience. Too often this results in turning back to old ways, as they are already working with very little funding. The food service providers

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Transylvania acquires land for future expansion

Posted on November 22, 2011July 14, 2020 by Office of Marketing and Communications

This is one rendering of possible athletic fields. A campus planner is being hired and a feasibility study will be conducted. LEXINGTON, Ky.—President R. Owen Williams announced today that Transylvania University has purchased one property on the corner of Fourth and Jefferson streets in Lexington and is in the process of purchasing another property on Fourth Street. “Our long-term plans may well include further acquisitions, but at this time we have no intention of purchasing more land until we have completed a feasibility study for what we’ve already acquired,” said Williams. One of the properties Transylvania is purchasing is a 10-acre lot—523, 551 and 555 West Fourth Street—that Williams sees as the future site of athletic fields for soccer, lacrosse, field hockey and track. “We would expect to begin construction during the 2012 calendar year, though precise dates will be determined through the course of campus planning,” said Williams. The university is currently interviewing campus planners and a decision should be made within the next month. The raising of funds for future development of these properties will happen during the university’s next campaign, which will begin in 2012.

Transylvania senior Lee Richardson is a Rhodes Scholarship Finalist

Posted on November 20, 2011July 14, 2020 by Office of Marketing and Communications

LEXINGTON, Ky.—Transylvania University senior Lee Richardson of Nicholasville, Ky., represented the university at the District IX Rhodes Scholarship interview this weekend. Richardson, a biochemistry and Spanish double major, was one of 830 finalists from 299 colleges and universities across the country. Thirty-two Rhodes Scholars are named from the United States each year, two from each district. “We are all very proud of Lee for being selected a Rhodes finalist,” said Transylvania President R. Owen Williams. “Though not selected for this prestigious award, he was one of only 11 finalists in our district of Kentucky, Ohio, and Indiana. We congratulate him on this extraordinary accomplishment and for carrying the Transylvania banner.” Richardson is extremely involved in curricular and extracurricular activities. His commitment to service has taken him to Ecuador as a medical intern, Costa Rica for storm relief and Mexico for construction of sustainable housing for homeless families. Closer to home, he has served as a founding member of T.U.T.O.R.S, an organization of Transylvania students who volunteer at local middle schools on a weekly basis to mentor and tutor newly arrived refugee ESL students; has participated in alternative spring break; and served as fundraising coordinator for Transylvania’s Hope for Haiti efforts to raise money for the Haitian citizens affected by the January 2010 earthquake. An aspiring physician, Richardson has been applying and interviewing at medical schools concurrently with applying for the Rhodes Scholarship. He is also applying for a Fulbright research

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