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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

News Release - Three Named for Honorary Doctorates at Commencement


The University of Kentucky Board of Trustees today approved honorary degrees to be presented at UK's 143rd Commencement to newspaper editor Judith G. Clabes, architect Daniel Libeskind and alcoholism researcher Robert Straus.

Straus, who was a professor at UK from 1956 to 1987, established the field of Medical Behavioral Science in the UK College of Medicine in 1959. He established the pioneering protocols for evaluating alcoholism.

Straus served as a special consultant to the director of the National Institute of Mental Health. He was elected a member of the Institute of Medicine at the National Academy of Sciences in 1975 and received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Public Health Association in 1993 and the Leo G. Reeder Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Medical Sociology from the American Sociological Association in 1998.

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