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Lifeline Online Late Fall Early Winter 2009 Issue 103  FEATURED Exercise, healthy hearts and healthy brains: LSI researchers document a vital connectionIn addition to Kathleen Gustafson, several Life Span researchers are focusing on the connection between exercise and improved cognitive functioning and overall physical health in children, adults, the elderly and people with disabilities. Read Full Story LSI scientist studies impact of mom’s wellness on baby’s long-term healthIt’s long been known that exposure to toxic elements or disease during critical periods of fetal development can compromise a child’s physical and cognitive development. Now an LSI-affiliated neurologist is honing in on the opposite -- how the wellness choices a pregnant woman makes can benefit the life-long health of her offspring. Read Full Story IN THE NEWS Promises kept: Autism center holds first statewide conference for families and practitionersWhen it was founded in July 2008, the Kansas Center for Autism Research and Training (K-CART) vowed to widely disseminate practical knowledge backed by research to those Kansans whose lives are touched by Autism Spectrum Disorders as individuals with ASD, family members, practitioners and policy makers. Read Full Story ADMINISTRATIVE ANNOUNCEMENTS Groovin’ to move at Juniper GardensThe Juniper Gardens Children’s Project has launched a fundraising effort called “Move’n On Up” to support the purchase of furniture and equipment for its new quarters in the Children’s Campus in downtown Kansas City, Kan. Juniper Gardens will be on the third floor of the new $15.5 million facility currently under construction on the corner of 5th Street and Minnesota Avenue. Read Full Story HONORS Grad students receive Friends of the Life Span Institute research awardsEmily Zimmerman and Xiaoyi (Kimberly) Hu are the winners of the fifth annual Friends of the Life Span Institute Graduate Research Assistant Awards. Read Full Story PROJECT DEVELOPMENT NEWS During this quarter, LSI investigators generated 45 new proposals and received four new grants. Two of the awards and 12, or 27 percent, of the new proposals were generated by junior investigators. Seven of the proposals, or 16 percent, came from investigators submitting for the first time through LSI. See the Complete List |
MILESTONES Zamarripa retires after 40 years of service; receives first Jay Turnbull Fellowship
Edward Zamarripa Edward Zamarripa, LSI director of finance and administration, was honored for his 40 years of service by all four LSI directors, Richard Schiefelbusch, Stephen Schroeder, Steve Warren and John Colombo, at a November 30 reception at the Adams Alumni Center. He also was awarded the first Jay Turnbull Fellowship by Rud Turnbull, co-director of the Beach Center on Disability. Zamarripa was described as the “dean of center administrators,” “the ultimate general counsel” “our knight in shining armor” and “a man of vision driven by deep-seated values” by his former bosses and Turnbull. His current boss, John Colombo, summed it up this way: "In many ways, Ed helped craft and build the organization into what the LSI represents today for the university, for the state, and for the world. Ed was recently honored by both KU and the state of Kansas for his 40 years of service; he has served all four directors of the Institute and I dare say that none of them (myself included) could have directed as well as they did without him." Turnbull said that the Turnbull Fellowship honored not only Zamarripa’s advocacy for the employment of people with disabilities, like the late Jay Turnbull, but because toward Jay, “Ed demonstrated fellowship of the highest order.” Zamarripa graduated from Florence High School (1959), received his B.A. in History and Geography from the University of Southern Colorado (1966), his M.S. in Management and Administration from Florida State University (1969), and his doctorate in Special Education, Law and Policy from the University of Kansas (1991). |