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Rosemary Chapin, professor and director of the Office of Aging and Long Term Care in the KU School of Social Welfare, made the opening presentation at the Long Term Care Financing Solutions Forum held at the Dole Institute of Politics on March 31. The title of her presentation was “Aging Demographics and Long-Term Care in Kansas.” The forum was sponsored by the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging, and speakers and participants included state as well as national long-term care policy experts.

Kim Templeton, associate professor of orthopedic surgery and health policy and management, was the keynote speaker at the National Association of Medical Communicators annual meeting April 1 in Albuquerque, N.M. She also recently became the president of the Medical Society of Johnson and Wyandotte Counties.

Paul Mirecki, associate professor of religious studies, presented the talk “Whose Easter? Varieties of Resurrection Beliefs among Early Christians and Why it Matters” at the Community of Reason on April 5 at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, Mo.

Katherine Clark, associate professor of history, has been awarded a Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society. The grant will support summer research in the United Kingdom for her second monograph, a study of Catholic and Jacobite visual culture c1500-1850.

Suzanne House, junior specialist at the Applied English Center, gave a presentation titled “Classroom Observation as Opportunity Instead of Torment” on March 26 at the 2009 Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Convention in Denver, Colorado.

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