Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, February 15, 1991 TAG: 9102150494
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Castagnoli came to Tech in 1988 for the professorship and to establish a research group. Before coming here, he was a University of California at San Francisco scientist, who determined what caused the brain to turn MPTP - a potent neurotoxin found in some illegal heroin-type street drugs - into a toxin that caused users to develop symptoms similar to Parkinson's. Castagnoli and other researchers hope to develop therapeutic agents that might intervene in the Parkinson's disease process.
\ Hotel industry veteran HOWARD FEIERTAG was named director of the Center for Hospitality Research and Service within the Department of Hotel, Restaurant and Insitutional Management. Feiertag joined the faculty in 1989 after 27 years in hotel marketing and operations. He is a certified hotel administrator, a certified hotel sales executive and a certified meeting professional.
Feiertag is also a regular columnist for Hotel and Motel Management magazine. He contributes to Meetings News magazine and Business Travel News, and serves a number of educational institutes.
\ JOSEPH L. WIECZYNSKI, a Russian history professor, served as chairman of a session on Russian social history at the Fourth World Slavic Congress in Harrogate, England. He also conducted research, while abroad, at the University of London and Oxford University before traveling to East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary.
Wieczynski is the university's representative to the International Research and Exchange Board, the organization responsible for all academic exchanges between the U.S. and Eastern European countries and the Soviet Union.
\ KYE-SUNG CHON, an assistant professor in hotel, restaurant and institutional management, was named editor of the Journal of Travel and Tourism Marketing, an international journal published by Hawarth Press. Chon is also a member of the Society of Travel and Tourism Educators' board and belongs to a number of related associations.
\ CORNELIA FLORA, head of the sociology department, received the 1990 Award for Research and Service from the Great Plains Sociological Association during a meeting at Moorhead State University in Minnesota. She also received an award from the Association of Farming Systems Research and Extension for founding the group's annual symposium.
\ NIKKI GIOVANNI, poet and English professor, was elected to the board of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities for a three-year term. The board reviews grant proposals and determines policy for the foundation.
\ CHARLES GOOD of the geology department was appointed to the international research and scholarly exchange committee of the Association of American Geographers for a three-year term.
\ ARUNA SETH, a predoctoral student in the biology department, was awarded $500 by the American Foundation for Aging Research for her contribution in delineating the immunological alterations seen in aging.
\ JACQUELINE BIXLER, an associate professor of Spanish, had articles published in Revista Hispanica Moderna, the Latin American Theatre Review and Alba de America.
\ ALLAN A. YOUSTEN, a microbiology professor, is co-writer of a booklet published by the World Health Organization Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases.
\ JUSTO C. ULLOA, a Spanish and Spanish-American literature professor, and Leonor Alvarez Ulloa of Radford University, published the second edition of their Spanish reader with D.C. Heath and Co. The new edition emphasizes the contributions of female writers to Hispanic literature.
The Newspaper Research Journal published an article by KENNETH RYSTROM of the communication studies department, entitled "Endorsing `Life-Style' Issues: Virginia Editors Respond to Two Gambling Proposals."
\ A book by LOUIS GWIN of the communication studies department, entitled "Speak No Evil: The Promotional Heritage of Nuclear Risk Communication," was published as a part of the Praeger Series in political communication.
\ A book by EZRA BROWN, a math professor, entitled "Regiomontanus: His Life and Work," was published as volume one of North-Holland Publishing Co.'s new series on the history and philosophy of mathematics.
\ PATRICIA MAHONEY, a geography student, won the Student Honors Award for the best paper by a master's degree student at the Southeastern Division meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Columbia, S.C.
\ K. KURT ESCHENMANN, associate professor of vocational and technical education, was elected by his peers to the board of trustees of the National Occupation Competency Testing Institute.
\ PATRICIA P. KELLY, College of Education, associate professor of curriculum and instruction, contributed an essay, "Style from the Inside Out," to "Literature & Life: Making Connections in the Classroom," published by the National Council of Teachers in English.
by CNB