Kentucky universities, colleges share grant

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KDE gets $2.1 for AP Expansion

LEXINGTON, Ky. --The National Science Foundation has awarded a $12.5 million technology research grant to several public universities and private colleges in Kentucky.

Gov. Steve Beshear announced the grant during an appearance in Lexington on Monday. The money will fund research into biotechnology, nanotechnology and cyber technologies.

Beshear said the University of Kentucky and University of Louisville will be the major recipients. Eastern Kentucky, Morehead State and Northern Kentucky universities will share in the grant, as will Berea and Centre colleges.

Beshear also announced a $2.1 million federal grant to the Kentucky Department of Education to help expand the number of Kentucky high schools offering advanced placement classes in math, science and English.

Sylvia Lovely to head Morehead Board of Regents

Sylvia Lovely of Lexington, executive director and chief executive officer of the Kentucky League of Cities, has become the first woman elected to head Morehead State University’s Board of Regents.

Lovely, 57, was elected chairwoman at the board’s meeting Thursday.

She succeeds James Booth of Inez, the chairman since 2004.

With Lovely’s election, women now preside over the governing boards at four of Kentucky’s eight state universities.

The other chairwomen are: Mira Ball of Lexington, University of Kentucky; Laura Douglas of Louisville, Kentucky State University; and Lois Gray of Vine Grove, Western Kentucky University...

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Professor Arrested After Baby Tests Positive For Drugs

MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) - Police in Morehead have charged an assistant university professor with the wanton endangerment of her 2-month-old daughter.

Noelle N'Diaye was arrested after he husband called police and reported his wife had smoked crack cocaine with their child in the car.

Ibrahim N'Diaye and his wife both teach at Morehead State University in eastern Kentucky.

City Police Captain Mike Adams says the baby later tested positive for cocaine, but was not harmed and was returned to her father.

The husband had called police Saturday night, saying his wife and child were gone.

Early Sunday, police got a call from a woman who had locked herself out of her car with her baby inside it at an Interstate 64 rest stop. It turned out to be the wife, who was returned to her home.

This from WKYT TV. (video)