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   UK Demographics: How many
Hispanic/Latino Students are at UK?

Undergraduates:

•Black             1420
•Hispanic/Latino   362
•Asian               485
•White               16,110
Sampling of the Distribution of
  Hispanic Latino Students
       Throughout UK
               Agriculture

• Bachelor’s     36
• Masters        1
• PhD            4
       Arts and Sciences

• Bachelor’s   104
• Masters      1
• PhD          21
  Business and Economics

• Bachelor’s   45
• Masters      4
• PhD          0
Communications and Information

• Bachelor’s   20
• Masters      1
• PhD          0
            Dentistry

• Masters    3
• PhD        5
               Design

• Bachelor’s   11
• Masters      4
               Education

• Bachelor’s    30
• Masters       8
• PhD           4
           Engineering

• Bachelor’s   33
• Masters      3
• PhD          4
               Fine Arts

• Bachelor’s    15
• Masters       1
• PhD           5
        Health Sciences

• Bachelor’s   2
• Masters      1
• PhD          2
                 Law

• Juris Doctor   6
           Social Work

• Bachelor’s   7
• Masters      20
• PhD          0
          Hispanic Faculty 2011-2012
•   Alcalde, Maria – Gender and Women’s Studies          •   Marti, Francesc – Microbiology, Immunology and
•   Anaya, Paul – Internal Medicine                          Molecular Genetics
•   Andrade, Francisco – Physiology                      •   McKeon, Jennifer – Rehabilitation Sciences
•   Angulo, Paul – Internal Medicine                     •   Medina, Jorge – Hispanic Studies
•   Berger, Rolando – Internal Medicine                  •   Mendiondo, Marta – Biostatistics
•   Biglieri, Anibal, Hispanic Studies                   •   Morales, Gustavo – Internal Medicine
•   Bosch, Antonio – Internal Medicine                   •   Otero, Liliana – Oral Health Science
•   Brill, Yolanda – Pathology and Laboratory Medicine   •   Paz, Yanira – Hispanic Studies
•   Castellanos, Ana – Internal Medicine                 •   Pena, Luis – Internal Medicine
•   Castro, Maria - Family and Community Medicine        •   Pena Rivera, Carlos – Hispanic Studies
•   Chico-Wyatt, Irene – Hispanic Studies                •   Perez, Oscar – Family and Community Medicine
•   Crocker, Lina – English                              •   Polo, Juan – Family and Community Medicine
•   Daunert, Sylvia – Chemistry                          •   Quelopana, Ana Maria – Nursing Instruction
•   DeLaCruz, Franklin – Clinical Sciences               •   Rodriguez, Carla – Oral Health Practice
•   deLeon , Jose – Psychiatry                           •   Salazar, Abraham - Mechanical Engineering
•   Diaz Guzman Zavala, Enrique – Internal Medicine      •   Samayoa, Luis – Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
•   Escalante, David – Internal Medicine                 •   Sandoval, Arturo – Art
•   Fuentealba, Rodrigo – Oral Health Practice           •   Santi, Enrico – Hispanic Studies
•   Garcia Ramos, Gisela – Biology                       •   Suarez, Juana – Hispanic Studies
•   Gedaly, Roberto, - Surgery                           •   Tovar, Rudolph – Obstetrics and Gynecology
•   Hacker, Janell – Nursing Instruction                 •   Vascello, Luis – Anesthesiology
•   Hennings Yeomans, Dieter – Music                     •   Vasconez, Henry – Surgery
•   Hopenhayn, Claudia – Epidemiology                    •   Velez-Pestana, Luis – Anesthesiology
•   Kinnicutt, Fred – Psychiatry                         •   Veling, Maria – Otolaryngology
•   Lagos, Raul – Hispanic Studies                       •   Wallace, Sophia – Political Science
•   Liberato, Ana – Sociology                            •   Warren, Larry – Clinical Sciences
•   Lugo, Neomi – Music                                  •   Zaglul, Horacio - Pediatrics
       Faculty Highlights
Dieter Hennings
Assistant Professor of Guitar
University of Kentucky
School of Music

Dieter Hennings Yeomans's musical endevaours span from new music on guitar to early music for lute, baroque guitar, and
theorbo.
Mr. Hennings has been a soloist with Canada’s New Music Concerts Ensemble, Tito Sccipa Orchestra of Lecce, Italy, Eastman
BroadBand Ensemble, Eastman School Symphony Orchestra, the University of Arizona Philharmonia, the Orquesta Filarmonica
de Monterrey among many others. Mr. Hennings has won several prestigious competitions including the 2008 Aaron Brock
International Guitar Competition, 2005 Eastman Guitar Concerto Competition, the 2002 Villa de Petrer, Alicante (Spain)
International Competition, the 2001 Portland Guitar Competition, among others.

Mr. Hennings is an active proponent of new music, particularly that of Latin America, having recently worked with composers
Mario Davidovsky, Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Juan Trigos and Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon. Mr. Hennings has recently premiered
works by composers Jake Bancks, Wes Matthews, John Aylward, Beth Wiemann, Hebert Vazquez, Luca Cori, Juan Trigos and
Scott Worthington. He recently performed Synchronisms no. 10 for guitar and tape for Mario Davidovsky in a concert dedicated to
the composer's work. Mr. Hennings has received grants from the Howard Hanson Institute for American Music and the Fondo
Estatal para la Cultura y las Artes to commission and premiere contemporary works for guitar.

Recent engagements include concerts with pop-singer Natalie Merchant and baroque vioinist Monica Huggett as well as
appearances at the Mexican Embassy in Rome, Festival SpazioMusica of Cagliari, Conservatorio de las Rosas in Morelia,
Mexico, University of Chicago, Festival Internacional de Chihuahua, New York’s Joyce Theater, Julliard’s Paul Hall, and New
England Conservatory. Mr. Hennings is a resident artist at the East Coast Composers Ensemble and the Eastman Broad Band
Ensemble, with whom he maintains an active performing schedule.
In 2005 and 2007 he participated in the modern premieres of the baroque operas "Apollo and Daphne" and “La virtù de’stralli
d’Amore” by Francesco Cavalli, both directed by Paul O'Dette. Mr. Hennings recently performed recitals on baroque lute and
guitar at Milan’s Spazio Tadini, the Arizona Early Music Society and the Rochester Early Music Society among many others.

Current recording projects include an album of works by Silvius Leopold Weiss for baroque lute and the guitar works of composers
Juan Trigos and Luca Cori. Recently he collaborated in a recording project with singer Natalie Merchant which also featured
musicians like Winton Marsalis, Medeski, Martin and Wood, and producer Anders Levin.

Since August of 2009, Dieter Hennings is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Kentucky where he directs the
Classical Guitar Studies program.
    Faculty Highlights
Cristina Alcade
Ph.D., Indiana University

Cristina Alcalde is an Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and
Faculty Co-Director of A&S Wired Residential College. Her areas of specialization
include Latin America (with an emphasis on Peru and the Andean region);
Latinos/as in the U.S; gender and race; intersections of state, institutional, and
interpersonal violence; domestic violence; migration; and Latino masculinities. She
holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology and an M.A. in Latin American Studies from Indiana
University.

Her publications include her book, The Woman in the Violence: Gender, Poverty,
and Resistance in Peru (2010) and a co-edited book (with J. Zavala), Visiones del
Perú de académicos peruanos en Estados Unidos (Visions of Peru of Peruvian
Academics in the United States) (2008). She has also published articles in the
journals Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism; the Journal of Latin
American and Caribbean Anthropology; Latin American Perspectives; Journal of
Consumer Culture; Latino Studies; JARM: Journal of the Association for Research
on Mothering; and Journal of Gender Studies. Her work has also appeared in book
chapters in collections including Local Violence, Global Media: Feminist Analyses of
Gendered Representations and Anthropology at the Front Lines of Gender-Based
Violence. Her current research areas include Latino masculinities, pregnancy and
women’s experiences of bed rest, and Latino/a migration to Kentucky.
   Faculty Highlights
Marta Mendiondo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Dr. Mendiondo holds a Master in Computer Science from
Boston University and a PhD in Statistics from the
University of Kentucky. She is currently responsible for
data management and biostatistical analysis in
PREADISE, a multicenter Alzheimer's Disease prevention
trial. Data management in PREADVISE is handled using
FAX TELEform. She has also been responsible for data
management and statistical analysis in the Biostatistics
and Data Management Core of the Alzheimer's Disease
Research Center at the University of Kentucky.
     Faculty Highlights
Noemi Lugo, soprano, is a native of Caracas, Venezuela. She received a Vocal Performance Diploma
from the José Angel Lamas National Conservatory of Music. While in Venezuela, she performed with
major orchestras and choral organizations, soloing extensively throughout the country and Europe with
Schola Cantorum de Caracas under the direction of Alberto Grau. She performed with the Opera
Metropolitana de Caracas and Opera Teresa Carreflo, Madison Civic Opera, University of Wisconsin
Opera, and University of Colorado Opera. Dr. Lugo’s operatic roles include Oscar in Ballo in Maschera,
Despina in Cosi fan tutte, Norma in Don Pasquale, Adina in L’Elisir d’amore, Susanna in La Nozze di
Figaro, Belinda in Dido and Aeneas, and Amelia in Amelia al Ballo.

She remains active, presenting many recitals and lecture recitals of Art Songs from Spain and Latin
America. In January 2003, Dr. Lugo traveled to South East Asia to offer concerts in Malaysia, Singapore,
Thailand, and Hong Kong. These concerts benefited institutions such as the Kidney Foundation, Children
with Aids, and others. The summer of 2003 took her to Bolivia where she participated as a performer and
scholar in the first “Songs Across The Americas Festival,” organized by Songs Unlimited, Inc.

Dr. Lugo has taught for the Kentucky Institute for International Studies, Middlebury College, and
Operafestival di Roma. She has presented recitals, master classes, and lecture recitals in Arkansas,
Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Ohio, Texas, Utah, Puerto Rico, and Germany. She was a presenter in
the National Conference of the National Association of Teachers of Singers in San Diego and in the
International Conference of the College Music Society in Alcalá de Henares in Madrid, Spain.

She served as chair of the Vocal Area at the University of Kentucky’s School of Music from 1997 to 1999
and as Director of Latin American Studies Program from 2002 to 2004. She teaches a course for the
Freshman Discovery Seminar on “Musical Understanding through Music.” In 2007, Dr. Lugo was a guest
teacher for the Operafestival di Roma in Italy, and will offered a solo recital in Middlebury College,
Vermont. Also, Dr. Lugo was one of only two tenured faculty at UK named a winner of the 2008 Provost's
Outstanding Teaching Award. In the Spring of 2010, Dr. Lugo was a Fulbright Scholar at Universidade
Federal de Goiania in Brazil.