Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, May 27, 1990 TAG: 9005260037
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-15 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: compiled by Kim Sunderland
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
\ MERLE D. PIERSON, head of the food science and technology department, has been elected a Fellow in the Institute of Food Technologists, an international organization with 24,000 members. He was recognized for achievements in the microbiological safety of foods, leadership in education and contributions to the field of food science and technology.
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JONATHAN ERIC GRONNING of Falls Church and WILLIAM KRESS FISHER of Blacksburg were co-winners of the third-year design competition in the College of Architecture and Urban Studies for their designs of a neighborhood child-care facility.
\ TYLER EVANS, an aerospace engineering student, is one of 33 young engineers selected by Tau Beta Pi's fellowship board for graduate fellowships, awarded for scholarship, leadership, service and the promise of future contributions to engineering.
\ IAN P. SOBIESKI of Hampton received the Paul E. Torgersen Leadership Scholarship for 1990 from the Student Engineers Council. Sobieski is a junior with a double major in aerospace engineering and philosophy.
\ The Army ROTC Ranger Challenge Team won the First Region Ranger Challenge finals. Members are: MARY C. BARILE, freshman from Sterling; THOMAS H. GARNETT, freshman from Richmond; KERMITT C. MELVIN, junior from Burke; ROBERT J. PURVIS, junior from Lovingston; ARTHUR B. ROBERTSON, senior from St. Albans, W.Va.; CRAIG J. TIPPINS, junior from Roanoke; PHILLIP W. WENTWORTH, senior from Blacksburg; RYAN S. JONES, senior from Newport News; MARK A. STILLWAGON, junior from Springfield, Mo., and TIMOTHY J. PALMER, junior from Lynchburg.
\ CHARLES A. KENNEDY, religion professor, received the Joseph J. Malone Faculty Fellows Award to participate in an Arab and Islamic studies program this summer in Tunisia.
\ ROBERT WALTERS, an aerospace and ocean engineering professor, and his student, \ WILLIAM MCGRORY, received a $10,000 third-place engineering award in the IBM supercomputing competition. Their paper, called "A High Speed Computational Fluid Dynamics Algorithm for Unstructured Grids," describes a mathematically efficient approach to predicting the aerodynamic characteristics of modern supersonic aircraft.
\ HAROLD MCNAIR, chemistry professor, was named head of the department. He has been at Tech since 1968 has held several positions in industry, received numerous awards and honors, published six books and helped 35 graduate students receive degrees.
\ GREGORY J. BUHYOFF, a forestry professor and director of the Center for Quantitative Studies in the School of Forestry and Wildlife Resources, was named Julian N. Cheatham Professor of Forestry.
\ Y.A. LIU, a chemical engineering professor, is the 1990 recipient of the George Westinghouse award for excellence in engineering education.
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