Roanoke Times
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DATE: SUNDAY, April 21, 1991 TAG: 9104190387
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-13 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
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Research associates JONATHAN HETHERINGTON, UMA KOMMINENI, JUDD H. MICHAEL, PALLABI SABOO and\ AJAY TANDON received the award from Virginia Secretary of Economic Development Lawrence Framme. The International Market Planning Program emphasizes the importance of international trade to Virginia's economy.
Framme made the presentation on behalf of Gov. Douglas Wilder at the annual Governor's Recognition Day luncheon at the Richmond Marriott Hotel. The event was sponsored by the state Department of Economic Development, whose trade services section administers the IMP program.
The winning program was titled "A Strategy for Exporting of Textile Machinery for Southeastern Textile Machinery, Inc. in Danville."
\ THOMAS M. MURRAY, the Montague-Betts professor of structural steel design, won the 1991 T.R. Higgins Lectureship Award, which recognizes an outstanding lecturer and author whose technical paper is considered a major contribution to engineering literature on fabricated structural steel.
Murray's paper, "Building Floor Vibrations," discussed state-of-the-art control for floor movement in residential, office and commercial structures. Murray will receive $5,000 and a certificate at a national steel conference in June.
Murray joined Tech in 1987 after 17 years with the University of Oklahoma, the last year of which was spent as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the U.S. Air Force Academy. He is a registered structural engineer and has been a consultant to several government agencies, industrial corporations and engineering firms.
Corporate Research Center President\ PAUL E. TORGERSEN, who holds the Hancock Chair in industrial and systems engineering, was reappointed to a three-year term on the National Research Council's commission on engineering and technical systems. The NRC is the principal operating agency of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering to serve the federal government and other organizations.
Theatre faculty member BARBARA CARLISLE's world premiere of "I Don't Want To Die In China" will open at Mill Mountain Theatre in Roanoke. Subtitled "A play in 18 refrains," Carlisle's production is the expression of what one woman learned about being a foreigner in an ancient culture by discovering the true meaning of home.
Freshman computer science major SPENCER TU of Blacksburg received a $500 Investment in Excellence scholarship for the spring semester based upon his high school academic achievements and potential.
Tu, a Blacksburg High School graduate, was on the 1990 American High School Mathematical Examination honor roll and participated in the 1990 American Invitational Mathematics Examination. Tu is familiar with graphics software; his interest is in advanced computer programming.
BiblioTech, the University Libraries newsletter, received the Southeastern Library Association's Spotlight on Public Relations Award as best library newsletter in the Southeast in 1988 and 1989. The newsletter is edited by GLENN MCMULLEN and KELLY QUEIJO.
\ W. DEE WHITTIER, an extension veterinary specialist with the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, won the 1991 Superior Service Award from the Virginia Beef Cattle Improvement Association.
\ WILLIAM HUBER and JEFFREY WILCKE, faculty members in the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, were named to the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention's advisory panel on veterinary medicine.
\ DEAN T. MOOK, an engineering science and mechanics professor, was U.S. organizer of the second Pan American Congress of Applied Mechanics, which met recently in Chile to promote technology transfer among North and South American scientists.
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