Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, July 7, 1993 TAG: 9307070346
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
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\ REBECCA LOVINGOOD of housing, interior design and resource management in the College of Human Resources has been selected a 1993 leader by the American Home Economics Association. The award is given nationally to 10 people for extensive leadership in the profession.
Eight students from Blacksburg have been initiated into the Mu Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. They are: SCOTT HENDERSON ALLEN, IAN ERIC BURBULIS, CHIKASHIGE HAYASKI, BRUCE BERNARD LOWEKAMP, JEFFREY ROBERT MORRILL, TOWNSEND JACKSON SMITH III, SPENCER JH TU and MARK ALAN ZIMMERMAN.
Assistant Professor ERIC A. WIEDEGREEN and department head JEANETTE E. BOWKER of housing, interior design and resource management won a first in a design competition sponsored by the Interior Design Educators Council.
\ GARTH L. WILKES, chemical engineering professor, has been named Turner Alfrey Visiting Professor, a professorship that recognizes world-renowned scientists. Wilkes directs the materials engineering science program.
\ PAT LINDSEY, doctoral candidate in interior design, has been selected as a summer faculty fellow at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. She will compare the perceptions and reactions of users of virtual reality technology with those experienced by people in a real environment.
Dean of the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, PETER EYRE, was presented the "Distinguished Virginia Veterinarian" award by the Virginia Veterinary Medical Association.
\ W. LEE DANIELS, associate professor of crop and soil environmental sciences, has received the 1993 Reclamation Researcher of the Year Award from the American Society for Surface Mining and Reclamation.
The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia named HANIF D. SHERALI one of its 11 outstanding faculty for 1993. Sherali is the Charles O. Gordon Endowed Professor for Engineering.
\ E.F. BENEFIELD, professor of biology, has been elected president of the North American Benthological Society, an international scientific society composed mostly of stream biologists. He will be president-elect though May 1994 and president from June 1994 to May 1995.
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