Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, October 20, 1994 TAG: 9411180003
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV11 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
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President Clinton has named YILU LIU, assistant professor of electrical engineering, as one of 5 recipients of the 1994 Presidential Faculty Fellow Awards for engineering research.
Liu will receive a National Science Grant of $100,000 per year for up to five years for her research on electric power systems.
The University Outreach and International Programs Division named MICHAEL E. STONE director of marketing for continuing education.
Stone comes to Virginia Tech from the University of California Los Angeles where he was director of communications and institutional development for the UCLA extension.
Finance professor ROBERT S. HANSEN has been appointed as the Crestar Professor of Finance in the Pamplin College of Business.
Crestar Bank established the endowed professorship to attract and retain scholars with demonstrated distinction in research and teaching.
Working for Animals Used in Research Drugs and Surgery has awarded Eleanor Watt Scholarships to four Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine students: TIMOTHY FAN, SUSAN MURPHY, SHARON MATTER and RENEE PRATER.
The Seeing Eye guide dog school in Morristown, N.J., awarded a certificate of recognition to Erin S. Champagne of Virginia Tech's Veterinary Teaching Hospital for outstanding care to Seeing Eye dogs.
Accounting seniors ERIN L. FOGLE of North Huntingdon, Pa., and MILLICENT A. GARRETT of Glen Rock, Pa., received 1994 Arthur H. Carter Scholarship awards.
The American Accounting Association selected 52 winners from about 200 applicants nationwide.
JAMES CRAIG, professor of geological sciences, hosted two Argentine visitors, Alicia Arizmendi from the Universidad Nacional de Patagonia in Comodoro Rivadoria and Susana Segal of the Secretariat of Mining.
They have initiated joint research on some ore deposits in the Andes in Northwestern Argentina.
HEATHER M. HALL, laboratory specialist in the chemistry department, was awarded national certification by the National Association of Scientific Materials Managers.
There are only five certified managers in the country, and Hall was one of two women to receive the award this year.
ERIC SMITH of the Virginia Tech statistics department was elected a member of the International Statistical Institute for his distinguished contributions to the development or application of statistical methods.
Smith was also recently elected secretary of the International Environmetics Society.
LAURENCE W. CARSTENSEN and ROBERT W. MORRILL of the geography department and CLIFFORD A. SHAFFER and EDWARD A. FOX of the computer science department received the Best Article Related to Teaching in a University or College Award from the National Council for Geographic Education's Journal of Geography.
Their article was chosen from material published in the journal between May 1992 and April 1994.
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