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

DATE: SUNDAY, October 31, 1993                   TAG: 9310310140
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO 
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FOR THE RECORD

A front-page photo caption Sept. 14 created a misimpression in stating that Neal Castagnoli, Peters professor of Chemistry at Virginia Tech, spent most of his time researching neurological disorders and "didn't teach a single class last year." Omitted from the caption was the fact that last year was atypical. Castagnoli holds a privately endowed professorship, matched dollar for dollar by state funds, and his contract exempts him from undergraduate teaching. Nonetheless, Castagnoli voluntarily was teaching an undergraduate course when the article was published. He will teach a course again in the spring, and he has taught seven semesters of sophomore-level organic chemistry, with 200 students in each of the classes, since arriving at Tech in 1989.