Roanoke Times
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DATE: TUESDAY, June 7, 1994 TAG: 9406070050
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He is director of the honors program, and is a professor of English.
Brown has taught at Radford for 23 years.
B. SCOTT CRAWFORD, son of Al and Courtney Crawford of Blacksburg, received a bachelor of science degree in history from the university last month.
He graduated summa cum laude and will pursue a graduate degree in the fall.
Art professor Z.L. FENG was invited to take part in the 1994-1995 featured exhibition "The Face of America: Contemporary Portraits in Watercolor" to be shown in August in Old Forge, N.Y.
The show will again be on exhibit at McGill University in Canada.
STEVEN LERCH, chairman of the department of sociology and anthropology, was recently awarded the Donald Dedmon Professorial Award for his outstanding work at the university.
Lerch has taught at Radford for 16 years.
Philosophy professor DANIEL KOLB has been named an adjunct fellow at the Heritage Foundation's Salvatori Center for Academic Leadership.
The following students received Outstanding Student Awards for excellence in academics and leadership: RICHARD HASSELMAN, a graduate student in geography from Blacksburg; STEPHEN DWIGHT, a psychology graduate student from New England; ANNE FONTAINE, a physical education undergraduate from Wytheville; senior psychology and speech communications major EMILY WILKINSON STALLINGS from Christiansburg; ASHLEY PITSENBERGER, a junior in communications and sciences disorders from Elkins, W.Va., West Virginia and Big Stone Gap native, JENNIFER MADRID STAPLETON, a music education freshman.
Other winners included sophomore accounting major KEVIN SALMINEN; Mobile, Ala. native KATHRYN RIENDEAU, a freshman interdisciplinary major; senior music education major KIMBERLY DANIELS and ELIZABETH RAE DAVIS, a counselor education major from Radford.
STEVEN PONTIUS, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, received the 1993-1994 Scholar Award in Geography from the Virginia Social Science Association.
JAYARAM GURUSWAMY has been named technology manager of the university's new college of Global Studies.
He holds a two master's degrees from Virginia Tech and has a bachelor's degree from the University of Madras in India.
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