Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, August 11, 1993 TAG: 9308110071
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-3 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
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Watkins is an honors graduate of Hampton Institute in Tidewater and received a law degree from Boston University.
\ MICHAEL CRONIN, director of oral communications, RICK OLSEN, JANET STAHL and GUS ZADER were co-authors and national winners in the "Innovations in Multimedia" contest, co-sponsored by the Technological Horizons in Education magazine and Sony.
The competition was created to recognize excellence in multimedia applications.
\ ROBERT SMALL, dean of the College of Education and Human Development, has had an essay published on the importance of the novel "Flowers for Algernon."
\ JOHN BRYAN has been appointed executive director for information technology resources.
In this newly created position, Bryan will be responsible for planning and managing academic and administrative information technology.
\ DEBORAH BROWN, director of public information and relations, was the keynote speaker at a conference in Abingdon sponsored by the Virginia Organization of Resource Development.
\ GARY UPP, academic coordinator for athletics, and graduate Paul Hightower, assistant director of athletics at Duquesne University, recently teamed up to deliver a presentation in Denver on developing an academic support program for college student athletes.
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