WKU Geology Graduate
Receives National Recognition

April 23, 2004

Bowling Green, Ky. - Keith Milam, a 1997 geology graduate at Western Kentucky University, has achieved significant recognition in the field of earth and space science this past year for his research on impact cratering.

Milam, a doctoral candidate in geology with the Planetary Geosciences Institute at the University of Tennessee, has been honored by the Geological Society of America and has been featured in an issue of Smithsonian Museum's Air and Space magazine.

Milam co-authored a poster/paper with Dr. Kenneth Kuehn, a WKU Distinguished Professor, titled "Central Uplift Formation at the Middlesboro Impact Structure, Kentucky, USA" and presented the poster March 15-19 at the 35th international Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Texas. He will receive the GSA's Stephen E. Dwornik Award for the poster. The honor includes a plaque, a $500 award and a banquet hosted by the GSA's Planetary Geology Division.

Additionally, Milam is featured in "Crater Face" by Tony Reichhardt, an article about meteorite impacts in the United States published in the March/April issue of Air and Space magazine (www.airspacemag.com). Milam gave the writer a tour and explanation of the Middlesboro meteor impact site visited by the Kentucky Society of Professional Geologists field trip in September 2003.

For more information, contact Ken Kuehn at (270) 745-3082 or the Department of Geography and Geology at (270) 745-4555. More WKU news is available on the World Wide Web at www.wku.edu. If you'd like to receive WKU news via E-mail, send a message to WKUNews@wku.edu.

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