ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times
DATE: Wednesday, March 5, 1997 TAG: 9703050045
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-6 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
The following includes information about area residents' work-related accomplishments at local colleges and universities:
RADFORD UNIVERSITY
Jenny Doud has been appointed director of major gifts at Radford University.
This is a new staff position at the university. The position is part of the planning and execution of the university's first capital campaign. As director, she will manage and solicit large donations, as well as direct prospect research, tracking and development of fund-raising events.
Doud has worked at the university since 1976.
She was formerly director of alumni affairs. She received her bachelor's and master's degrees from Radford.
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The National Collegiate Honors Council has moved its home office to Radford University, following the election of Radford professor Earl Brown as executive secretary-treasurer.
Brown has been director of Radford's Honors Program since 1984. He has been an English professor at the university since 1971.
Steve Culver has been appointed interim associate director of Radford's Honors Program for the spring term.
Culver is a social work professor and former director of student assessment.
VIRGINIA TECH
The September issue of The Behavior Therapist, a publication of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, has ranked Virginia Tech's Department of Psychology and Professor Thomas Ollendick in the list of the "Top 50 Researchers and Institutions in Behavior Analysis, 1974-1994."
Ollendick was ranked 11th in the list of top 50 authors and Virginia Tech was ranked 10th.
The rankings are determined by the number of articles published in a group of 12 key applied behavioral journals.
Ken Holliday of Virginia Tech's music department is winner of the 1996 Virginia Music Teacher's Association (VMTA)/Music Teachers National Association Commissioned Composer Competition. Holliday wrote and recorded his winning work, the "Tango Exotico," in the summer of 1996.
He will receive a contract from the association's president formalizing the commission for a new work to be premiered at the 1997 VMTA convention in fall 1997.
The commission carries a cash award of $800.
Wing Ng of Blacksburg has been named a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Ng is a mechanical engineering professor at Virginia Tech.
A fellow is conferred upon a member who has at least 10 years active engineering practice and has made significant contributions to the field.
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Two Virginia Tech faculty members have received first prize in an essay competition sponsored by the International Food Policy Research Institute.
George Norton and Jeffrey Alwang are professors in the department of agriculture and applied economics at Virginia Tech. They will share a $10,000 prize.
The two have collaborated on other projects and recently published a textbook.
Their entry was one of 59 submissions. Second prize was awarded to Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. The third prize went to an entry from George Mason University.
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A Virginia Tech professor will be among nine scientists, innovators and industry leaders who will become members of the Plastics Hall of Fame.
James E. McGrath is the Ethyl Professor of Chemistry and co-director of the Polymer Materials and Interface Laboratory.
A key author and educator in the field of polymer science, he has been at the university since 1975. He lives in Blacksburg with his wife Marlene.
The Plastics Academy will have a ceremony for its living inductees in June.
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