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Today's Stories:
Alvarez Appointed Chief Financial Officer at RU
Blogging from Malawi
Professor's Trip to Cuba Focused on Communication Skills
Three RUPD Officers Earn Certification
Student Receives Internship Scholarship
Young Developing Successful Career as Director
Kirk Scholars' Visit Covered by Chinese Media
RU Sustainability: Efforts Featured in RU Magazine
Athletics Update
Alumni News: Graduate's Work Featured at Arts Center
Kudos: Freshman Brandon Newmyer
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Campus News
Alvarez Appointed Chief Financial Officer at RU
 Radford University has hired Richard S. Alvarez -- a career United States Marine Corps officer with more than 35 years of executive management experience in the public and private sectors, including more than 20 years in higher education administration -- as its new chief financial officer and vice president for finance and administration. To learn more, see the RU News Release.
Blogging from Malawi
School of Teacher Education professor Ann Mary Roberts and a group of Radford University students are in Malawi for the next three weeks to explore literacy and health issues in the southeast African country. Roberts and McGlothlin Study Abroad Award winner Beth Dickey are blogging about their experiences.
Ann Roberts' Blog
Beth Dickey's Blog
Professor's Trip to Cuba Focused
on Communication Skills for Counselors
 Radford University Counselor Education Professor Ellen Armbruster's spring trip to Cuba will have a lasting impact on her students, their clients and on her. In May, Armbruster taught a two-week graduate course on enhancing communication skills at a seminary in Matanzas. "Some of these places do not have the same access to counseling resources that we do in this country, although needs may be increased due to circumstances such as poverty and natural disasters," Armbruster said. "I wanted to focus on skills that would be concrete and useful to my students and would help them serve their communities more effectively." To learn more, see the RU News Release.
Three RUPD Officers Earn Certification
 Three RU police officers graduated from the New River Criminal Justice Training Academy on Friday, June 12, in Draper. RU officers Tina Hutchinson, Whitney Gray and Jason Hayes graduated from the academy's 21-week Basic Entry Level Law Enforcement program and were certified as sworn police officers at the ceremony. To learn more, see the RU News Release.
Student Receives Internship Scholarship
 Computer Science and Technology student Sean Lunsford was named a recipient of a $500 scholarship from RU's Center for Experiential Learning and Career Services. Lunsford, who spent 14 years working in the information technology industry before deciding to return to RU, will serve as an intern at the Phoenix Project for Non-Profit Leadership and Social Entrepreneurship in Petersburg. He sees his internship as a way to take what he learned in college and in the industry and put it to use in a way that can change society. Lunsford believes now is the time that students and communities can come together to give back to the country.
Young Developing Successful Career as Director
 Wesley Young, Associate Professor of Theatre at Radford University, has kicked off a very successful directing career since joining the faculty 10 years ago. His 24 productions in this time include plays at RU, Wohlfahrt Haus Dinner Theatre, Mill Mountain Theatre and St. Croix Festival Theatre.
Young's directing experience is a potpourri of genres spanning comedy, musical and serious drama. Moments after Radford's spring commencement, Young left to direct A. R. Gurney's comedy Sylvia at Kentucky Repertory Theatre. To learn more, see the RU News Release.
Kirk Scholars' Visit Covered by Chinese Media
A group of 10 RU students recently visited China as part of the Zylphia Shu-En Kirk Scholars Program and received a warm welcome from the Chinese news media. To learn more, see the RU News Release.
RU Sustainability: Efforts Featured in RU Magazine
Learn all about RU's past, present and future sustainability initiatives in the new edition of The Magazine of Radford University.
Radford Athletics Update
Head softball coach Mickey Dean, assistant coach Katy Lampman and volunteer assistant Ashley Taylor have been named the Mid-Atlantic Region Coaching Staff of the Year. See RU Sports for more.
 Freshman Justin Smith recorded a school record in the shot put and placed 17th overall to highlight the trio of RU track and field participants at the 2009 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships. For more, see the RU Sports Release.
Assistant Athletic Director for External Affairs Greg Herring was re-appointed to the board of directors for the National Association of Collegiate Marketing Administrators. For more, see the RU Sports Release.
Former RU first baseman Alex Gregory '09 has been assigned to the Brooklyn Cyclones of the New York-Penn League following his selection by the New York Mets in the 2009 Major League Baseball First Year Player Draft on June 10. (See story.) Gregory isn't the only Highlander playing ball this summer. Thirteen members of the 2009 RU baseball team and a pair of 2010 newcomers have signed with collegiate summer teams up and down the East Coast. See RU Baseball to follow their progress.
Alumni News
Work of RU Graduate Featured at Arts Center
The work of Stanley Bermudez, who received his master's degree in fine arts from RU, is now featured at the Lone Star-Montgomery's Center for the Arts in The Woodlands, Texas. His exhibit, entitled "Continuity III," will be on display through July 8. The exhibit re-examines the portrait using a hard edge and a range of colors.
For more about RU alumni, read Radford Alumni e-News.
Kudos
Freshman's Work Published in Prestigious Research Journal
 Brandon Newmyer just completed his first year at Radford University and already the biology major has become the lead author on an important study that is accepted for publication in a highly-respected behavioral neuroscience journal.
Newmyer, a rising sophomore, worked during the spring semester with RU biology professor Mark Cline on research concerning the effect of the neurotransmitter neuropeptide SF on the appetite of birds. (In the photo: Brandon Newmyer, seated, and professor Mark Cline.) To learn more, see the RU News Release.
The Back Page
On July 1, 1979, Radford celebrated its fifth name change when it became Radford University.
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Coming Up at RU
6/29, Summer Session II begins
7/10-12, Spencer Smith Soccer Camp
7/13-17, Spencer Smith Soccer Camp
7/13-17, Boys and Girls Basketball Camp
7/23-28, Transfer Student Orientation
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