Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, May 13, 1993 TAG: 9305130133
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV3 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
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He coordinates the university's judicial system and works with student clubs and organizations.
Prior to coming to Radford, McGuire was assistant director for student leadership development at the University of Puget Sound.
He received his doctorate from Oregon State University and holds a master's degree from Southern Illinois University and a bachelor's from Seton Hall University.
Sociology professors NELDA PEARSON and PEGGY SHIFFLETT received a $53,000 grant from the Jessie Ball duPont Foundation to continue a self-help program for long-term clients of the New River Valley's emergency services programs.
Art professor HALIDE SALAM exhibited paintings and lectured in Turkey on East and West aesthetics, new directions in contemporary art and trends in Islamic aesthetics.
Math and statistics professor WEI-CHI YANG will present several papers in Singapore, Taiwan, Korea and Japan this summer demonstrating how math researchers use computer algebra systems.
Art instructor KENDALL KESSLER recently exhibited "Young People and Places I Know," a collection of paintings depicting her son's friends, at the children's museum DiscoveryWorks in downtown Radford.
Geography professor BERND KUENNECKE is directing an internship project for the city of Roanoke that will provide digitization of property and subdivision maps.
English professor RITA SIZEMORE RIDDLE'S book "Soot and Sunshine," an illustrated collection of essays, stories and poems, is being published in the Occasional Publication Series of Radford's College of Arts and Sciences.
Oxford University Press has published English professor DON SAMSON'S "Editing Technical Writing" book.
English professor DONALD SEACREST'S collection of fictional short stories about the inner lives of a family in a small, rural North Carolina factory town has been published by Harper Collins.
Management professor BRAIMOH OSEGHALE discusses U.S. foreign economic policy in his new book "Political Instability, Interstate Conflict, Adverse Changes in Host Government Policies and Foreign Direct Investment."
\ BETH CONNER has joined the creative services department in the Office of Public Information and Relations as publications editor.
A graduate of James Madison University, Conner worked previously for the Private Industry Council for the Lynchburg and Martinsville area.
Conner is a resident of Roanoke and active in AD2, an organization for young professionals in advertising and public relations.
The creative services department of the Office of Public Information and Relations has hired DAVID POTEET as senior designer.
A Virginia Tech graduate and resident of Blacksburg, Poteet previously worked for Riddick Advertising Art in Richmond.
Among his projects, he will design for Radford Magazine.
Assistant professor of art CHARLIE BROUWER will have his wooden sculpture, "Painting Houses Made Him think of Ladders, Ladders Made Him Think of Other Things," on exhibit at the Huntington Museum of Art in Huntington, W.Va.
Other Brouwer works will be displayed in the Racine, Wis., Wustum Museum of Fine Arts 1993 summer exhibit, the 1993 Mayfair Festival in Allentown, Pa., and the sculpture tour at Western Michigan University.
Physical and health education professor STEVE AMES is president-elect of the Virginia Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance.
He will head convention planning and programming.
\ Geography department chairman BERND KUENNECKE and geography professor LORI BARFIELD have won a $1,500 forest service grant to conduct an environmental analysis of the Mill Creek archaeological site in Craig County.
\ PAULA H. STANLEY, assistant professor of counselor education at Radford University, presented a paper titled "The Tie That Binds" at last month's annual meeting of the American Counseling Association in Atlanta.
\ BRUCE MAHIN, assistant professor of music, performed his composition, "Time Chants: Los Angeles, April-May 1992," at the Southeastern Composers League Conference and the Western Illinois New Music Festival.
Art professor JENNIFER SPOON recently had works exhibited in two national juried exhibitions.
"Unhinged Torso," a basket of plaited silver maple bark and twigs, was on exhibit in April at the Sawtooth Center for Visual Arts in Winston-Salem, N.C., and a work of handmade paper and laser-printed type was exhibited at The Arts Center in Iowa City, Iowa, earlier this month.
by CNB