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Transylvania accounting students offer free tax service to those with incomes $50,000 or less

Posted on January 23, 2012July 14, 2020 by Office of Marketing and Communications

Students electronically file tax forms. LEXINGTON, Ky.—Transylvania University accounting students will assist taxpayers with an income of $50,000 or less in the preparation of Internal Revenue Service income tax forms 1040, 1040A, 1040EZ and the Kentucky form 740. The service is free. All forms will be filed electronically. Student volunteers will be available each Wednesday in February (1, 8, 15 and 22) from 3-5:30 p.m. on the first floor of Transylvania’s Cowgill Center for Business, Economics and Education on Third Street. This is a popular program and taxpayers will be served on a first-come, first-served basis. Transylvania accounting students, who have completed an income tax preparation training program, will work under the supervision of accounting professors to aid taxpayers. Individuals interested in this free service should bring with them all of the necessary information including: their W2s, 1099s (interest income), state and federal tax returns from last year, the IRS forms received in the mail and the birthdates and social security numbers for any dependents. Transylvania has offered this free program to the Lexington community for more than 20 years. For more information, contact the public relations office at (859) 233-8120 or Stephanie Coriale at (859) 233-8104.

The Rambler wins 30 awards in Kentucky’s annual student newspaper competition

Posted on January 23, 2012July 14, 2020 by Office of Marketing and Communications

LEXINGTON, Ky.—The staff of The Rambler, Transylvania University’s student-run newspaper, had its best showing ever in the Kentucky Intercollegiate Press Association’s annual awards competition. The yearly competition for campus newspapers features a variety of categories designed to showcase the talent of student journalists throughout the state. The staff brought home 30 awards, including 11 first-place honors, and-for the third year in a row-a first place for senior John Johnson in the deadline copy editing competition. Johnson bested copy editors from both the large- and small-school divisions. He has been the copy editor for The Rambler since his sophomore year. The awards were announced in Lexington last weekend during the annual gathering of student and professional journalists from across the state. “I could not be more proud of the staffers who volunteer their time and energy every week to give their fellow students a voice on Transylvania’s campus,” said Terri McLean, student media adviser. “Unlike many of the other schools in the state, Transylvania does not have a journalism degree program. So they learn by doing. It’s just amazing to me how well they’ve done.” Other notable winners included senior sports editor Abby Ferguson for her coverage of the UK-Transylvania basketball game in November. She won a first-place award for sports game story and sports headline and a second-place award for sports game story. Editor-in-chief Erin Brock, also a senior, won a first-place award for a sports column comparing the coaching

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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 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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