
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, July 10, 1993                   TAG: 9307120221
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C2   EDITION: STATE 
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DATELINE: EMORY                                 LENGTH: Short

E&H PROFESSOR WINS CONTRACT FOR BIRD BOOK

An associate professor of psychology at Emory & Henry College has been awarded a book contract by the American Ornithologists' Union and National Museum of Natural History.

Steven L. Hopp, an experimental psychologist with a speciality in animal behavior, will write one of a 17-volume series on natural history. His book will focus on birds.

Hopp has done long-term research on a small, shy bird called the white-eyed vireo, taping its songs and using sophisticated computer equipment to analyze them. His interest promoted him to buy a Southwest Virginia farm near the college when he manages plant and animal life to make it a prime habitat for the white-eyed vireo.

He has taught at Emory & Henry since 1984.

-Southwest bureau

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