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Today's Stories:
RU Grad Receives McGlothlin Award for Teaching Excellence
Spring BFA Show Opens Tonight
Volunteers Needed for Interpretive Tours at The Farm at Selu
“Library People” on Display in RU's McConnell Library
IT Service Center to Implement New Changes Effective April 21
RU Recycling Information
Kudos: R.J. Kirk
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Today's Top Story
RU Graduate Tamatha Farrell Receives
McGlothlin Award for Teaching Excellence
RU graduate Tamatha Farrell '95 received one of two 2008 McGlothlin Awards for Teaching Excellence last night at a ceremony in Bondurant Auditorium, Preston Hall. The award includes $25,000 from the McGlothlin Foundation of Bristol, Va., with the stipulation that she use at least $10,000 for international travel.
 Farrell teaches in Roanoke County's Burlington Elementary School. She is known for getting refugee ESL and at-risk students to love reading and learning. With her prize, she plans to travel to England, homeland of Roald Dahl, whose book James and the Giant Peach is a major part of her students' year.
For nine years, the McGlothlin Foundation has given $25,000 prizes to two teachers, one in grades K-5 and one in grades 6-12. Tracy Easterling of Vance Middle School in Bristol City, Tenn., won the 2008 award for grades 6-12.
Two RU School of Teacher Education and Leadership faculty members, Tricia Easterling and Carmel Vaccare (retired), served among the judges for the 2008 competition. Blue Ridge PBS administers the McGlothlin Awards, and RU has hosted the award ceremony since 2002. (See RU News Release.)
Campus News
Spring BFA Show Opens Tonight
Bachelor of Fine Arts students show their best work during the spring BFA show tonight through Saturday, May 3, in the Martin Gallery, Powell 200 and RU Art Museum Downtown, 1129 East Main St., second level. The show's receptions are tonight at 5 p.m. and 6 p.m.
Volunteers Needed for Interpretive Tours at The Farm at Selu
The Farm at Selu is working to become a popular destination for school and community groups who want to learn more about rural life in depression-era Southwestern Virginia. Volunteer interpreters are being sought to present 15-minute interpretive programs on food, clothing, music, farm tools and methods, and other aspects of daily life on a 1930s farm.
Appalachian Studies faculty member Ricky Cox will be hosting volunteer orientations in the coming weeks. The first session is today. Faculty, staff, students, and alumni are welcome and encouraged to volunteer as their schedules allow. To learn more, email rcox@radford.edu or call the Appalachian Regional Studies Center at 831-5366.
"Library People" on Display in RU's McConnell Library
“Library People,” an art installation by students in professor Charlie Brouwer's sculpture class, is on display now through May 1 in McConnell Library. The installation consists of 26 human figure sculptures. Brouwer says, “The assignment was to use mostly cardboard to create a figure in any style, for a specific place in the library. The emphasis was both on solving the technical problems of making a human figure and on creativity responding to some aspect of the library experience.”
Admission is open to the public. For a listing of McConnell Library's hours of operation, visit http://lib.radford.edu/. To learn more, email cbrouwer@radford.edu.
Technology Assistance Service Center
to Implement New Changes Effective April 21
The Division of Information Technology is devoted to delivering the highest level of technology support services to RU faculty, students, and staff. In keeping with this mission, effective April 21, 2008, the Technology Assistance Service Center will implement a series of changes designed to improve the quality, availability and timeliness of support services. These changes include the following:
-- Creation of a One-stop Shop:
Faculty, students and staff will be encouraged to go to the Service Center as their first line of technical support. The Service Center is located in Walker 154, and can be reached at 831-7500. The goal in creating this one-stop shop is to reduce complexity of support, make delivery of support quicker, and free up resources for training and academic application support.
-- Change in Support Hours and in Support Staffing:
The Service Center will extend phone support hours to 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Walk-in support will continue to observe hours from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Trained, professional support staff will answer all support calls and be available for walk-in support.
-- Change in Phone Menu for Support:
The options on the phone-in support menu will be simplified in order to make it easier for members of the RU community to locate and obtain technical assistance. Three options will be offered as follows: 1.) An automated systems status providing information about systems status and downtime; 2.) Emergency classroom support that will provide direct access to lab and multimedia technicians; and 3.) All other support issues.
RU Recycling Information
Want to know where to recycle in the RU area? Students Max Appleby, Lauren Johnston, Whittney Paige Bell and Scott Chattin, on behalf of RU's Social Justice in the Helping Professions class, recently gathered information to let the community know where and what they may recycle at on- and off-campus locations. To learn more, see the Recycling in Radford flyer.
Kudos
Kirk Named Virginia's Outstanding Industrialist of the Year
 R.J. Kirk, RU's Rector of the Board of Visitors and a 1976 graduate, received one of the highest honors bestowed by the Commonwealth last night during an awards ceremony in Richmond. Recipients of the Industrialist of the Year Award are recognized for their tremendous contributions to Virginia business or industry. “These select people are at the top of their fields,” said Governor Timothy M. Kaine. “Their creativity, contributions and dedication make life better for us all.”
Kirk is senior managing director and CEO of Third Security LLC, an investment management firm he founded in 1999. He was also founder of New River Pharmaceuticals, a company focused on improving versions of widely prescribed drugs. New River was sold last year. Attending the ceremony in support of Kirk were Kaine; Lieutenant Governor and Mrs. Bill Bolling; Attorney General Bob McDonnell; RU President Penelope W. Kyle; RU board members Thomas Fraim, Nancy Agee and Mark Pace; Kirk's uncle, George Harvey; and Alana Czypinski.
The Back Page
 On this day in 1906 at 5:13 a.m., an earthquake estimated at close to 8.0 on the Richter scale struck San Francisco, killing hundreds of people as it toppled numerous buildings.The quake was caused by a slip of the San Andreas Fault over a segment about 275 miles long, and shock waves could be felt from southern Oregon down to Los Angeles.
Photo answer for April 17 edition: Windows of McConnell Library.
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