News briefs on cultural events around Kentucky
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News briefs on cultural events around Kentucky
Business Committee for the Arts Honors Brown-Forman Corporation
Brown-Forman Corp. of Louisville was named one of the 10 best companies supporting the arts in America by the Business Committee for the Arts. The BCA 10 is a national list created to recognize businesses of all sizes for their exceptional involvement with the arts that enrich the workplace, education and the community. These companies set the standard of excellence and serve as role models for others to follow.
Recognized at a gala dinner Oct. 30 at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, other honorees included: Anadarko Petroleum Corp., Houston; Emprise Bank, Wichita, Kan.; First Tennessee, Memphis, Tenn.; H&R Block Inc., Kansas City, Mo.; Limited Brands Inc., Columbus, Ohio; Northwestern Mutual, Milwaukee; Sweetwater Sound Inc., Fort Wayne, Ind.; Wachovia, Charlotte, N.C.; and Zions First National Bank, Salt Lake City.
Kentucky Poets Featured at the Library of Congress
The November 2008 Poetry at Noon reading at the Library of Congress will spotlight Kentucky Poet Laureate Jane Gentry Vance. Other poets to be featured at the event are Kentucky natives Tony Crunk, Maurice Manning and Davis McCombs. All three have won the Yale Younger Poets Award.
The Kentucky poets will read at noon Tuesday, Nov. 18, in the Whittall Pavilion on the ground level of the Thomas Jefferson Building in Washington, D.C. A reception will follow the readings.
The reading by the Kentucky poets is sponsored by the Library of Congress’ Poetry and Literature Center and the Library’s Center for the Book and supported by a partnership grant from the Kentucky Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.
KFW Director Named to Boardof Grantmakers in the Arts
Judi Jennings, executive director of The Kentucky Foundation for Women (KFW), has been elected to the Board of Grantmakers in the Arts (GIA). GIA is a membership organization representing over 300 organizations including private, community, corporate and family foundations, as well as public sector grantmakers, regranting organizations and individual donors.
Nominations Sought for Annual Kentucky Women Remembered
The Kentucky Commission on Women is seeking nominations of outstanding women in Kentucky’s history to be honored in the Kentucky Women Remembered exhibit in the Capitol. Nominations must be submitted by Dec. 1.
Kentucky Women Remembered began in 1978 and consists of portraits depicting exceptional women in Kentucky’s history.
Nominees must have been born in, or spent a significant part of their lives in Kentucky and may be living or deceased. Nominees’ actions or achievements should have influence outside their communities or should have increased the status of women in some significant manner.
Visit www.women.ky.gov or call (502) 564-2611.
New Gold for Kentucky's Economy
Fort Knox area booms as Army brings in battalions of higher-paid personnel
A Pep Rally for Boldness
Kentucky must encourage change to compete in today's economic environment
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University Research
Fischer-Tropsch Is Turning Kentucky's Coal and Biomass into Ultra Clean Fuels Discovered by two German scientists in the 1920s, the Fischer-Tropsch (FT) process uses a catalyst (a reaction accelerator) to convert syngas to hydrocarbons.
One-On-One
Home Builders Association executive Bob Weiss talks abouthow the current economic crisis is affecting Kentucky construction
Updates on business and economic news from across Kentucky compiled by the editors of the Lane Report.
- Indiana Tech will build new 70,000 sq. ft. law
school on campus
January 25, 2012 - Jobless rates down in 37 states, up in 3 in
December; payroll jobs up in 25 states, down in
24
January 25, 2012 - Stites & Harbison construction attorney Angela
Stephens named finalist for ABA award
January 25, 2012 - Xerox retires the ACS name; company has 5,000
Kentucky employees
January 25, 2012 - Tempur-Pedic reports record fourth quarter and
full year sales and earnings
January 25, 2012 - Governor Beshear describes 2012-2018
Kentucky Highway Plan, provides blueprint
January 25, 2012 - BREAKING: Magna Seating opens new $20M
facility in Bullitt; Ford supplier to employ 450 in
3 years
January 24, 2012 - Renowned architect Deborah Berke bringing
Yale Studio Design project to Louisville
January 24, 2012 - Greater Louisville home sales volume, prices
down slightly in 2011; Oldham prices up
January 24, 2012 - Lexmark and Anheuser-Busch ink five-year
managed print services deal
January 24, 2012
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