
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, June 18, 1993                   TAG: 9306180262
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-5   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: SEATTLE                                LENGTH: Short

VA. TECH DEAN PICKED AS PROVOST IN WASH.

G. Wayne Clough, 51, dean of the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech, has been selected the new provost at the University of Washington, that school's president, William P. Gerberding, announced Thursday.

Clough still must be approved for the post by the school's Board of Regents.

If confirmed, he will take over the $155,000-a-year post Aug. 16.

Clough specializes in geotechnical engineering and has been a consultant to more than 70 companies and government agencies on problems involving earthquakes, landslides and tunnels.

In addition to the Virginia post, Clough is chairman of the Board of Consultants for San Francisco's $150 million Muni-Metro Project, a plan to extend a transit facility along that city's waterfront.

He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and won the State-of-the-Art Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1991.

He has been a proponent of the proposed "smart highway" between Blacksburg and Roanoke, which would allow Virginia Tech to be involved in cutting-edge research and technology.

Clough has a doctorate in civil engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and has taught at Duke and Stanford.

He would succeed Laurel Wilkening as provost and vice president for academic affairs in Washington.

"Wayne Clough will be an excellent provost here," Gerberding said in a news release. "He is a distinguished engineer with the requisite amount of academic administrator experience."

by CNB