Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, October 12, 1994 TAG: 9410120025
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-12 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
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He is one of nearly 2,000 professors to travel abroad in the 1994-95 academic year with a Fulbright program.
Graduate students MICHAEL BRUMFIELD and CRYSTAL YORK won the 1993 Southwestern Virginia Chapter of the American Production and Inventory Control Society student paper competition.
The M.B.A. students received an award of $100 for joint research in time-based management.
Associate professor of geography SUSAN WOODWARD and junior EDMUND ZAVADA participated in an exchange program at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco in Recife, Brazil. Woodward presented a short course in arid lands biogeography, followed by a three-day field trip into the semiarid backlands of northeast Brazil led by Brazilian geographers.
Zavada helped to assess the educational value of such an experience for students.
Woodward also traveled with a group of Radford University students to Kursk, Russia to participate in a 10-day field practicum directed by the Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences.
They examined the natural landscapes of the forest-steppe and studied Russian food production through a comparison of kitchen gardens, family farms and state farms.
Chemistry professors CINDY A. BURKHARDT, H. FRANCIS WEBSTER and ROBERT K. BOGGESS received a $22,580 grant from the National Science Foundation to assist in the incorporation of thermal analysis and experimental polymer chemistry in the undergraduate curriculum.
CHARLES C. BOYD JR., associate professor of sociology and anthropology, received a $1,250 grant from Montgomery County Planning Department for an archaeological survey that would identify any historically significant sites which would be affected by the preparation of the proposed Huckleberry Trail.
Student services specialist GERRI GLASS received a $9,474 grant from the Virginia Campus Outreach Opportunity League for a pilot program intended to bring campus-based community service to Virginia.
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