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Outstanding FacultyMark V. Barrow Jr., professor and chair of the Department of History, was selected as the winner ofthe 2011 Susan Elizabeth Abrams Prize, awarded biennially for the best book in the history of sciencepublished by the University of Chicago Press. Barrow received the recognition for “Nature’s Ghosts:Confronting Extinction from the Age of Jefferson to the Age of Ecology.”Co-edited by Robert E. Denton Jr., chair of the Department of Communication, and John Hendricks,“Communicator-in-Chief: How Barack Obama Used New Media Technology to Win the White House”won the 2011 Distinguished Book Award from the Applied Communication Division of the NationalCommunication Association.University Distinguished Professor and Department of Political Science Chair Timothy W. Luke washonored at the combined Western Political Science Association annual meetings and the 10th anniversarycelebrations for the Environmental Political Theory Workshop. The event’s concluding roundtable,“Great Works in Environmental Political Thought,” featured Luke’s “Ecocritique: Contesting the Politicsof Nature, Economy, and Culture,” as one of three benchmark works that continue to anchor and orientcontemporary scholarship in this area of political thought.Erika Meitner, associate professor of English, won the 2012 Emily Clark Prize for Poetry from theVirginia Quarterly Review. She was selected for her series of poems, titled “This Is Not a Requiem forDetroit,” published in spring 2011. Annually, the quarterly recognizes the best work in each literary genrepublished in the previous year’s issues.Fred Piercy, professor of human development, was appointed editor of the Journal of Marital and FamilyTherapy, the flagship journal of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and thelargest family therapy journal in the world.The National Council on Family Relations conferred its prestigious Fellow status on Joyce Arditti,associate professor in the Department of Human Development. Arditti is known nationally andinternationally for her disciplined study of marginalized groups (e.g. prisoners and the families ofprisoners), including issues of poverty, diversity, and social justice, and the intersection of families andsocial policy.Benjamin Sax, assistant professor in the Department of Religion and Culture, was named faculty principalof the residential college at West Ambler Johnston. Jennifer Quijano Sax, assistant program director foreducation abroad in the Office of International Research, Education, and Development, accepted the roleof Senior Fellow. They live in the faculty apartment of the residential college, which houses more than800 students and just opened this fall after extensive renovations. Three other CLAHS faculty membersare serving as associate faculty principals: Sheila Carter-Tod, an associate professor of English; MatthewGabriele, an associate professor in religion and culture; and Erika Meitner, an associate professor ofEnglish.Student/Student Group AchieversNicole Faut, an interdisciplinary studies major in the Department of Religion and Culture who also hasminors in history and medieval and early modern studies, received a 2012-13 Fulbright award. Faut’sexperience with creative expression paved the way to India, where she will work on her project, titled“Bhiti Chitra: The History and Applications of Murals in South India.” Faut also received a CriticalLanguage Enhancement Award and will spend three months taking advanced classes in Hindi in animmersion experience.2012-13 University Facts & Figures 29
Robyn Jones, a master’s candidate in educational leadership and policy studies in the School ofEducation, was selected as the 2012-13 graduate student representative to the Virginia Tech Board ofVisitors. Jones earned her bachelor’s degree in pre-law and public policy from Virginia Tech in 2005. Asan undergraduate, she was elected class president in 2002 and served as a senator and executive directorin the Student Government Association and as a resident advisor.Damion Blake, an ASPECT student, was awarded a Latin American Security, Drugs, and DemocracyFellowship. He was among 20 doctoral candidates and junior researchers at top-ranked researchuniversities and Latin American Studies centers to receive this prestigious fellowship. Blake returnedto his native Jamaica to study the place and power of the Jamaican don in the country’s inner-citycommunities.The Virginia Tech Relay For Life and its 5,500 participants raised more than $600,000 for the AmericanCancer Society. Virginia Tech was ranked the No. 1 university in terms of online fundraising, according toAmerican Cancer Society reports. The event was directed by Emily Feeney, who graduated with a degreein communication.Philipp Kotlaba was named the 2012 Outstanding Graduating Senior in the college. A member of theUniversity Honors Program, Kotlaba received his degree with three majors (international studies,German, and psychology). After being accepted at several of the nation’s elite schools, he chose to enterYale University’s School of Law.Jennifer McCloud, a doctoral candidate in curriculum and instruction in the School of Education, wasawarded the 2011-12 CLAHS Outstanding Doctoral Student award and the CLAHS 2012 GraduateHumanities Fellowship. McCloud specializes in English as a second language and multiculturaleducation.College Of Natural Resources and EnvironmentNoted Accomplishments/HonorsThe National Science Foundation has ranked the university’s agricultural science and natural resourcesresearch program in the top five among the nation’s universities and colleges since 2007. This rankingincludes figures from the colleges of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Natural Resources and Environment,and Veterinary Medicine.The college’s forestry, fisheries, and wildlife programs have consistently ranked among the top in thenation. In its most recent ranking of doctoral programs, the National Research Council rated VirginiaTech’s graduate program in forestry as one of the country’s best.A new bachelor of science degree in meteorology, the first in the commonwealth, was initiated in spring2012. The degree program, which resides in the Department of Geography, prepares students for careersin meteorology and weather forecasting with a significant focus on geospatial information technology,and unites data from both the natural and human environments. Enrollment numbers easily surpassedexpectations.The college’s Leadership Institute develops leadership abilities in some of its top undergraduate studentsto prepare them for managing natural resources for sustainability and biodiversity. In this two-semesterspecial study sequence, select students with demonstrated leadership skills and academic abilitystrengthen their talents through in-class discussion and hands-on leadership projects.30University Facts & Figures 2012-13
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Page 3 and 4: TABLE OF CONTENTSSTATEMENT OF MISSI
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Page 7 and 8: University BudgetVirginia Tech’s
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Page 21 and 22: Seven research institutes have been
Page 23 and 24: CollegesCollege Of Agriculture and
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