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APS Foundation Announces the Kyung Soo Kim Student Travel AwardThe APS Foundation is pleased to announce the establishment of the Kyung
Soo Kim Student Travel Fund. This fund was established in honor of Kyung
Soo Kim by friends and colleagues. The first travel award will be
made for the 2003 APS Annual meeting in Charlotte, NC.
In recognition of his distinguished contributions to the university community and outstanding research accomplishments, Kim was awarded the University of Arkansas Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Research in 1989. He was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Fellow of The American Phytopathological Society. Do You Have an Idea for an Online Event?
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Starting
in July, the journal Plant Health Progress (PHP) began posting
more printer-friendly PDF versions of its articles in addition to its
popular online format. Copies of the PDF files are also being sent to
authors for use in filling reprint requests; posting on the author's personal
website; and inclusion with promotion and tenure documentation. In keeping
with PHP's charge-free publication policies, the new service is
free to authors. Printer-friendly versions are also being introduced in
Crop Management, a second peer-reviewed journal published with
PHP through the Plant Management Network, 
Kyung Soo Kim,
university professor in the Department of Plant Pathology at the University
of Arkansas, earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of
Arkansas. He joined the faculty at Arkansas in 1974 and served as director
of the university-wide Electron Microscope Facility for more than 30 years.
He enthusiastically taught an Electron Microscopy course and trained graduate
students from diverse scientific disciplines in the fine science and art
of electron microscopy. Kim explored the submicroscopic world of organisms,
ranging from plant and animal viruses to insects, nematodes, and other
life forms. Kim’s research was primarily directed toward plant cell ultrastructure,
particularly with regard to the reactions of plant cells to virus infection.
For almost 40 years, he devoted much of his time to deciphering the virus
“signatures” that result from virus infection of plant cells. Kim was
the first to describe the unique viral signatures for several groups of
plant viruses, and he helped produce the background for an orderly recognition
of these signatures and their use in viral taxonomy. 