News Archive
- Congratulations to Dr. Roseanne Foti, inducted into Virginia Tech's Academy of Teaching Excellence
- Congratulations to Dr. Anne McNabb,
named Associate Dean of the Graduate School
- Congratulations to Dr. Beate Schmittmann, elected fellow of the American Physical Society.
- Congratulations
to Megan Elwood Madden (AdvanceVT Fellowship Recipient) for article in Nature
Oct. 2004.
- Congratulations to AdvanceVT's Dr. Karen Thole who has been named an ASME Fellow. The ASME Board of Governors confers the Fellow grade of membership in recognition of outstanding engineering achievements. Fellows are nominated by their peers (2004).
- We wish to recognize the Virginia Tech women scientists and engineers who received promotion and tenure this year. The following faculty were promoted to associate professor with tenure: Amy Bell (ECE), Jean Kampe (EF), Shirley Luckhart (BioChem), Jill Sible (BIO), and Ann Stevens (BIO). Ruby Cox (HNFE) and Susan Duncan (FST) were promoted to full professor (2004).
- Yilu Liu (ECE) has been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) for her contributions to modeling and diagnostic techniques for power systems. Congratulations to Dr. Liu on this honor (2004).
- We would like to recognize and congratulate the women faculty who received awards at the Dean's Awards Reception for Engineering Faculty. Tonya Smith Jackson (ISE) received an award in the category of teaching innovation. Eileen Van Aken (ISE) and Carin Roberts-Wollmann (CEE) were both named Faculty Fellows for 2004.
- Congratulations to AdvanceVT's first Leadership Fellowship recipients. Awardees are: Dr. Brenda Winkel, Biology, Fralin Biotechnology Center, and Dr. Andrea Dietrich, Civil and Environmental Engineering (2004).
- Congratulations to AdvanceVT's first Research Seed Grant recipients. Awardees are: Lynn Adler from biology, Julie Dunsmore from psychology, Naira Hovakimyan from aerospace and ocean engineering, Linsey Marr from civil and environmental engineering, Kathleen Meehan from electrical and computer engineering, and Corina Sandu from mechanical engineering (2004).
- Congratulations to AdvanceVT's first Ph.D. Fellowship recipients. Awardees are: Megan Elwood Madden from geosciences, Olga Pierrakos from the biomedical program in mechanical engineering, and Miriam Stewart from civil and environmental engineering (2004).
- Congratulations to Dr. Sheryl B. Ball, associate professor of economics, who has been named the College of Science's associate dean for curriculum, instruction, and advising (2004).
- Congratulations to Dr. Nancy Ross, professor mineralogy, who has been named the College of Science's associate dean for research, graduate studies, and outreach (2004).
- Congratulations to Glenda R. Scales on her appointment to Associate Dean of Distance Learning and Computing in the College of Engineering (2004).
- Congratulations to Dr. Sharron S. Quisenberry, the first woman to serve as dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) at Virginia Tech. Dr. Quisenberry joins us after serving as dean of the College of Agriculture at Montana State University and director of the Montana Agriculture Experiment Station (2004).
- Congratulations to Dr. Kathleen (Kitty) Hancock who will be joining the CEE faculty as an Associate Professor and will also serve as Associate Director of the Center for Geospatial Information Technology in Northern Virginia (2004).
- We would like to extend
a welcome to the new women faculty in the colleges of science and engineering (2004). Congratulations
to:
- Dr. Linsey Marr, Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Dr. Ann Chan, Industrial & Systems Engineering
- Dr. Corina Sandu, Mechanical Engineering
- Dr. Naira Hovakimyan, Aerospace & Ocean Engineering
- Dr. Julie Dunsmore, Psychology