Roanoke Times
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DATE: SATURDAY, November 13, 1993 TAG: 9311130123
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\ ROBERT HELLER, professor of engineering science and mechanics, was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Technical University of Budapest, Hungary, the oldest engineering school in Europe.
Heller was a Fulbright Scholar at the Technical Universities of Vienna, Austria, and Budapest in 1990.
\ RICHARD CLAUS, professor-eminent scholar of electrical engineering and head of the fiber-optics center, was featured in the second episode of the PBS series "The Stuff of Dreams." The series features advances in the field of materials and how they are changing everyday life. Claus appeared on the Oct. 26 segment.
\ BRIAN WARREN has been named director of the University Counseling Center. He will oversee 11 staff members who provide Virginia Tech students with ca- Warren reer, educational and psychological counseling. He also will supervise group-counseling sessions.
Warren has been associate director of the center since 1980. He was named assistant director in 1974.
\ PETER KIPP has been re-elected vice president of the Southern Innkeepers Association. Kipp is the director of hotel and operating services at Virginia Tech's Donaldson Brown Hotel and Conference Center. He is a Certified Hotel Administrator and a Certified Hospitality Sales Executive. He also is an instructor in lodging management and hospitality sales.
\ OSMAN BALCI, associate professor of computer science, has accepted an appointment as editor in chief of Annals of Software Engineering, an international journal published in Switzerland.
\ GRACE BAUER of the English department has had a chapbook of poems, "The House Where I've Never Lived," published by Anabiosis Press as winner of its 1993 chapbook contest. Another collection, "Where You've Seen Her," is due out this month.
\ BONNIE CLINE and THOMAS HANEY, Blacksburg natives and veterinary students at the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, were chosen to participate in a weeklong study Haney trip to England.
The trip was organized by the Waltham Center for Pet Nutrition, which provides the opportunity for American veterinary students to visit the best research facilities in the world.
\ K.S. KANAKA DURGA, a master's degree student in clothing and textiles in the College of Human Resources, received a $1,000 International Textile and Apparel Association Eastern Region Scholarship for 1993-94.
\ SCOTT JOHNSON, an assistant professor in the department of family and child development in the College of Human Resources, has been named director of the department's clinical training in marriage and family therapy doctoral program. He also is the internship coordinator for the program. HOWARD PROTINSKY, of the same department, was named director of the Center for Family Services and director for the department of family and child development's clinical training in marriage and family therapy doctoral program. He replaces JAMES KELLER, who stepped aside to resume teaching.
\ MARY CHERIAN, an instructor and extension specialist of family and child development, received a $64,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for her ongoing project, "Strong Families, Competent Kids and Caring Communities."
\ GERALD TOAL of the geography department recently received the Environment and Planning A Anniversary Prize for 1992 for his article, "Pearl Harbor Without Bombs." Environment and Planning A is an international journal of urban and regional research.
\ DJAVAD SALEHI-ISFAHANI, associate professor of economics, was one of a dozen scholars from the United States among 60 from around the world who met in Cairo, Egypt, to establish a Middle East economic research forum with its own academic journal. One of the themes of the meeting was the prospect for Middle East peace.
\ JULIE SINA, assistant dean of students, and KERRY REDICAN, associate professor in the department of health and physical education, received a $79,000 grant under the Funding for Improvement Post Secondary Education program. The grant will be used to start a peer education course that allows students to receive credit toward graduation.
\ CRAIG ROGERS, director of Virginia Tech's Center for Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, presented a segment on emerging technologies at the National Conference on Technology Conversion held in Washington.
by CNB