Education Notes: Oct. 28

Contests

■ The Keep It Real Campaign to Reduce Underage Drinking kicked off its sixth annual Keep It Real Internet/video contest recently. Area teens can win cash prizes and media exposure.

This regional contest is for 30-second commercials telling why people younger than 21 shouldn't drink. All entries are posted at www.keep-it-real.us, and viewers may vote for people's choice winners. A new feature this year is a curriculum-support package for teachers. For details, go to the Web site.

Entry deadline is Dec. 11. Voting will be Jan. 11 to 22 for the people's choice. Other winners will be chosen by a team of professionals.

Winners will be announced Feb. 2. The top prize is $200.

Scholarships/Grants

■ Campbellsville University has announced academic scholarship recipients for 2009-10. They are:

Jordan Blair, Katelyn Daniel and Jessica Brinker of Georgetown; Sarah Akers, Courtney Danis, Emily Schultz, Mackenzie Lee and Justin Martin of Mount Sterling; Matthew Fitch, Bryan Orme and Emily Underwood of Nicholasville; Jacob Hurst of Paris; Jared Clark, Rachel Edenstrom, Amy Etherington, Hunter Omohundro and Benjamin Randall of Versailles; Sarah Cross and Dana Eberhard of Wilmore; Stephen Sandefur of Berea; Jordan Cornett, Bailey Dillender, Michael Harmon, Cory Snyder, Cassandra Yannelli, Jeffrey Mobley, Danielle Waldrop, Joshua Ashbrook, Corin Dunn, Mark Caldwell, Michael McKinley and Matthew Sisk of Lexington; Brittany Austin, Morgan Bullock, Mindy Long and Emmanuel Nfor of Frankfort; and Ashley Ratliff of Richmond.

Scholarships are based on high school grade-point average, ACT or SAT scores and high school ranking, or through competitions.

■ John Brent of Florence, who recently earned a master's degree in criminal justice from Eastern Kentucky University, placed second in an international research-paper competition sponsored by the American Society of Criminology. He was honored for "The Barbaric Spectacle of Late Modern Fighting," which was part of his master's thesis.

■ EKU student Michael G. Mazzotta, a chemistry major from Apex, N.C., was one of 60 students nationwide to receive the Phi Kappa Phi Emerging Scholar Award for sophomores. He received $250.

■ EKU assistant psychology professor Dustin Wygant was named the 2010 John E. Exner Scholar by the Society for Personality Assessment. The award honors John E. Exner, a pioneer in personality assessment.