Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, April 24, 1993 TAG: 9304240289
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-5 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: New River Valley bureau
DATELINE: RICHMOND LENGTH: Medium
Leonor Ulloa, professor of Spanish at Radford, and Hanif D. Sherali, a Charles O. Gordon endowed professor of engineering at Ulloa Tech, were recognized for making education come alive, said Hugh Patterson, chairman of the council.
Winners will receive a $5,000 prize from state funds and a crystal sculpture designed by Kent Ipsen, a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Winners were selected by a 15-member panel of council members, business and community leaders, past recipients and representatives of Virginia's public and private colleges and universities.
There were 59 nominations statewide.
Ulloa, who has been teaching Spanish language and literature at Radford since 1978, has written many editions of two widely adopted textbooks for teaching Spanish. In the last two years, these textbooks have been used in more than 100 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada, including 16 major state universities.
She received her doctorate from the University of Kentucky, where she also received a master's in Spanish and a bachelor's degree in French. She has done additional work at Yale University and at Northwestern's School of Criticism and Thought.
She constantly works to update and improve the curriculum at Radford, and has been instrumental in encouraging students to study abroad.
Sherali has been awarded the College of Engineering Certificate of Teaching Excellence at Tech three times.
He has written three books and more than 96 journal articles. He also has reviewed 277 journal articles and a number of manuscripts for journals, federal agencies and book publishers.
He received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Bombay University, where he was awarded the Indian Institute of Engineers' Gold Medal.
He received his master's and doctorate in operations research from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Sherali has worked as principal investigator on 22 research projects and is currently working on a $158,000 research project funded by the National Science Foundation.
by CNB