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LEXINGTON, Ky.—On January 8, 2010, Transylvania professors Kurt Gohde and Kremena Todorova took a photograph that would become the first of their 277 images for their exhibit “Discarded.” On that day, they spotted a sofa on the curb and asked the owners to sit on it one last time before it was taken away. One year later, they took the last photo. The photographs are labeled with the location, date, time and temperature. They offer glimpses into frozen moments in the lives of discarded pieces of furniture, and the people willing to pose – families, college students, couples, children, hipsters and tradesmen. A small collection of images from “Discarded” is on displace the Good Foods Co-op Café on Southland Drive through February 28 and the entire exhibit, which also includes music and poetry inspired by the photographs, will be on display at the Land of Tomorrow (LOT) Gallery beginning February 18. An opening reception will be held on February 18, from 7-10 p.m., featuring a song by Vandaveer and poems, including pieces written by Bianca Spriggs ’03, Eric Sutherland, Kenan Visiting Writer and former Kentucky Poet Laureate Richard Taylor and fellow Transylvania professors Martha Gehringer and Jeremy Paden. The installation at LOT will also feature some of the discarded pieces of furniture and floor-to-ceiling drawings of the locations where the furniture was found. For gallery information, visit www.landoftomorrow.org.

LEXINGTON, Ky.—Transylvania University accounting students will assist taxpayers with an income of less than $40,000 in the preparation of Internal Revenue Service income tax forms 1040, 1040A, 1040EZ and the Kentucky form 740. The service is free. Student volunteers will be available each Wednesday in February (2, 9, 16 and 23) 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.

LEXINGTON, Ky.—Transylvania University’s student newspaper, The Rambler, was again a big winner in the Kentucky Intercollegiate Press Association (KIPA) awards competition. Current and former staffers picked up four first-place awards and several second- and third-place honors at the group’s annual conference in Louisville this past weekend. The yearly competition for two- and four-year campus newspapers features a variety of categories designed to showcase the talent of student journalists throughout the state. The Rambler writers, photographers and page designers competed in the division for schools with fewer than 5,000 students. Among the top winners was sophomore Jake Hawkins, the paper’s news editor. Hawkins won two first-place awards in news-one for his story on Kentucky’s texting while driving law and the other for his work with 2010 graduate Kim Rodgers covering the university’s search for a new president. News judges Kevin Kelly and Brenna Kelly of the Cincinnati Enquirer had high praise for Hawkins and Rodgers in particular, saying they “did a great job of chronicling the school’s search for a new president. The paper covered the candidate forums with students, profiled each candidate, then interviewed the winner.”  The judges commented that Hawkins and Rodgers were very thorough in their coverage. Also bringing home a first-place award was photographer Ian Gerard in the feature photo category. His photo of Transy students marching in the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Freedom March in Lexington last year was deemed “a nice moment from an

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LEXINGTON, Ky.—The Transylvania University admissions viewbook received the Grand Champion award for printed publications in the Council for Advancement and Support of Education–Kentucky annual awards ceremony December 10 in Louisville. Transylvania also received the Award of Excellence for the admissions travel brochure and Transylvania magazine and the Special Merit award for the parents fund brochure. The viewbook provides a comprehensive introduction to Transylvania for prospective students, and the travel brochure, which admissions counselors distribute at college fairs and other events, summarizes important points about the university. Transylvania magazine is produced three times a year and goes primarily to alumni and parents. The parents fund brochure helped the university raise a record number of gifts to support its library. The winning works were all produced in-house by the university’s publications staff: Martha Baker, director; William Bowden, writer/editor; Barbara Grinnell, graphic designer; and Tyler Young, editorial assistant. The concept for the parents fund brochure was originated by Lori Burlingham, assistant director of development, and Susie Bullock, development writer. “It was a thrill for our publications team to be recognized once again for their outstanding work,” said Sarah Emmons, Transylvania’s associate vice president of communications and public relations. “Transylvania has a long history of producing award-winning publications and I’m delighted that the tradition continues.”   The award winners were selected from a pool of entries from public and private colleges throughout the state. Transylvania, founded in 1780, is the nation’s sixteenth oldest institution

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