ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Tuesday, December 10, 1996 TAG: 9612100075
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-5 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
RADFORD UNIVERSITY
The Radford University Foundation appointed two new members to the Board of Directors. Joyce C. Graham and Gordon C. King Jr. joined the board this fall.
Graham is an associate professor and coordinator of English education in the university's English department. She received her undergraduate and master's degrees from Radford and her Ph.D. from Virginia Tech. She is a former member of the Radford Board of Visitors and was president of the Student Government Association while she was a student at Radford.
King is retired from the Washington Post, where he served as vice president as well as executive vice president of its broadcasting subsidiary Post-Newsweek Stations Inc. He is a graduate of Virginia Tech. He also is on the board of directors of the Shenandoah Valley Partnership. He lives in Hot Springs.
The foundation board comprises 24 individuals representing alumni, friends, businesses, faculty and the community. The board manages the Radford University Foundation Inc., a nonprofit organization.
VIRGINIA TECH
Virginia Tech professor James R. Martin II is one of two professors to receive the Norman Medal awarded by the American Society of Civil Engineers. Martin is an associate professor of civil engineering. He was recognized for a paper he wrote with Wayne Clough, president of Georgia Tech. Clough is the other winner of the Norman Medal.
Martin is a recipient of several teaching performance awards, including the 1996 State Council of Higher Education in Virginia's Outstanding Faculty Award. He also won the National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award. Martin received his master's and doctoral degrees from Virginia Tech.
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Marcus M. Alley, professor of agronomy at Virginia Tech, has been elected a Fellow in the American Society of Agronomy. He teaches soil fertility and advises graduate and undergraduate students. Alley's research at the university focuses on soil fertility and crop management.
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James A. Burger, professor of forest soil science at Virginia Tech, has been elected a Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America. He also is a member of the organization's Board of Directors. His research focus at Virginia Tech is on forest soil productivity, the intensive management of forest soils and the restoration of damaged soils.
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