Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, March 11, 1995 TAG: 9503130016
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-8 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
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The Communications Sciences and Disorders Department recently named JOHN PETTIT its new chairman. Pettit comes to Radford from the University of Maine, where he served as a professor for 26 years, 15 as program chairman for the communication disorders department. He specializes in adult language disorders resulting from stroke, cleft palate, cerebral palsy or vocal abuse.
Pettit received his undergraduate degree in speech correction from the University of Illinois, a master's degree in speech pathology and speech science from Ohio State University and a doctorate in speech communication from Purdue University. He was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship in speech pathology from the Mayo Clinic's department of neurology in 1976.
Business management professor CHARLES McNICHOLS is spending this semester at the University of Lisbon in Portugal teaching an information systems course. McNichols was recently selected as the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Market Globalization and received a financial award to teach abroad.
The United States Information Agency, participating foreign governments and host institutions fund and administer the Fulbright Program. The presidentially appointed J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board selects all grantees.
Radford University political science professor Robert Gill will serve as one of three directors for the third-year program of the East Central Consortium's North American Free Trade Agreement and North American Nations project, funded by the U.S. Department of Education. Nine colleges and universities in Pennsylvania and Ohio make up the consortium. Gill and his colleagues will conduct a two-week seminar in July at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, for consortium faculty.
Centenary College in Shreveport, La., has requested a copy of music professor MARK CAMPHOUSE's composition, ``To Build A Fire,'' based on the Jack London short story, for deposit in its Jack London Museum.
Published by TRN Music, the composition won the 1991 National Band Association Composition prize.
Camphouse's works were featured in several February performances, including those by the Indiana University Symphonic Band at the American Bandmasters Association Convention in Lawrence, Kan.; the Colorado Intercollegiate Band at the College Band Directors National Association Conference in Boulder, Colo.; and the California All-State High School Honor Band in Oxnard.
Foreign languages and literature professor SALLE ANN SCHLUETER-GILL was re-elected to a second term as president of the Classical Association of Virginia at the fall 1994 meeting held at the University of Virginia.
The International Baccalaureate Examining Board selected JANET WAGNER, foreign languages and literature professor, to devise, administer and evaluate oral examinations based on literary studies in French. The International Baccalaureate is an internationally recognized high school-level test encompassing a number of subjects.
Counselor education professor ALAN FORREST has been selected by the Virginia Board of Professional Counselors to serve as a mental health care representative on the Medical Malpractice Review Panel. The panel, a fact-finding body composed of one judge, two lawyers and two health care providers, is to screen frivolous claims in an effort to hold down health insurance cost.
Grants
Physical science professor FRANKLIN M. JONES received a $220,103 grant from the Virginia Department of Education through V-QUEST, a National Science Foundation initiative to reform mathematics and science education in Virginia.
The grant is the largest single award ever received at Radford University.
The Southwest Virginia Collaborative Project, along with two other programs in Virginia, make up one of the seven components of V-QUEST.
Sociology and anthropology professor CLIFF BOYD received a $5,260 grant from Equitable Resources Exploration to fund a Wise County survey, a continuation of a 1994 archaeological survey of 15 gas well locations on U.S. Forest Service property in Wise and Scott counties. Seven of 15 proposed sites produced evidence for prehistoric human occupation, requiring the sponsor to relocate portions of the originally planned facilities. University faculty will survey alternate locations for these facilities.
PETER BALSAMO, office of continuing education director, and CHRISTI C. LEFTWICH, continuing education office program coordinator, received a $1,350 grant from Southwest Virginia Governor's School to fund courses in advanced telecommunications.
The Virginia Department for the Visually Handicapped donated $10,000 to the office of disabled student services for development of a Visually Impaired Educational Workstation in McConnell Library. This workstation will allow visually impaired students to have access to the Internet and e-mail and perform library research. Faculty members using the program can issue tests and hand-outs in Braille.
The Blue Ridge Council of the Blind contributed $3,500 to supplement the initial start-up costs. ANTHONY MORRIS of the Ecological Physics and Natural Computing Laboratory, in conjunction with the university's Disabled Student Services Office, secured the money for the project with a grant proposal.
Pulaski Community Hospital awarded two grants totaling $5,500 to the continuing education office to conduct a 30-hour noncredit management program and a three-credit undergraduate course in health care management issues at the hospital.
Continuing education director Balsamo and management department chairman ALLEN BURES will direct the course to be taught by university faculty members.
by CNB