Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, June 26, 1990 TAG: 9006230227
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Recipients of the Virginia Planning Foundation Award and $300 were MARTHA SHORT of Clintwood, Va., the outstanding second-year student, and LI-XIO ZHANG of Blacksburg, the outstanding first-year student.
\ HEIDI MUNGER of Blacksburg received the Virginia Chapter of the American Planning Association award. PATRICK BURTON of Marion was outstanding student for the National Chapter of the APA.
\ KELLY CLEMENTS of Blacksburg and TOM MCMICHAEL of Roanoke received the Bob Stuart Award in urban affairs.
\ DAVID HIRSHMAN of Blacksburg received the David Loeks Award as outstanding graduate in urban and regional planning.
\ JON SMIBERT of Blacksburg won the Al Steiss Award as outstanding senior in urban affairs.
Distinguished professor G.V. GIBBS was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences at its 210th annual meeting in Cambridge, Mass. Gibbs was the only earth scientist among the 96 new fellows. The academy honors achievements in science, scholarship, the arts and public affairs. Gibbs has an international reputation for his research in mathematical crystallography and crystal chemistry of rock-forming minerals.
Gibbs is working on the mathematical modeling of the structures and physical properties of minerals, funded by a five-year National Science Foundation grant. He is collaborating on another study and writing a book.
\ S. WAYNE BINGHAM, professor of weed science and extension weed specialist, was named a Fellow in the Weed Science Society of America for professional achievement and contributions to the discipline.
Widely recognized for his investigations of the influence of environmental factors on the efficacy of plant growth regulators and herbicides, Bingham is responsible for weed management research and extension in turfgrass and plant growth regulation in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
\ GLEN MITCHELL, a Housing, Interior Design and Resource Management professor, was appointed state coordinator for the National Coalition for Consumer Education at its national conference in Atlanta. He also was named a visiting scholar to the Institute of Social Research at the University of Michigan for the first summer term.
\ J.F. MARCHMAN, associate dean of engineering, was selected by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics to participate in its Distinguished Lecturer Program for 1990-91. He will speak around the country on the National Aerospace Plane mockup. Marchman's presentation will be based on a project he co-directed in which a team of engineering students built an 80-foot-long mockup of the hypersonic X-30 aircraft for NASA and the Air Force.
\ The environmental engineering division of the American Society of Civil Engineers awarded the 1990 Wesley W. Horner Award to THEO A. DILLAHA, associate professor of agricultural engineering; DOWAN LEE, a graduate student from Korea, and JOSEPH H. SHERRARD, a former civil engineering professor, for their paper, "Modeling Phosphorous Transport in Grass Buffer Strips."
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