The College of Science and Technology is closer to its grant submissions and awards goal thanks to mathematics faculty member Agida Manizade and College of Education and Human Development faculty member Laura Jacobsen.  The pair recently received a $221,953 grant from the Virginia Department of Education for their project Secondary Mathematics Professional Development Center.

In this project, Radford takes the lead and collaborates with Virginia Commonwealth University, Roanoke Higher Education Center, Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center, New College Institute, and the MathScience Innovation Center to offer distance education graduate courses for 130 high school teachers in Southwest, Southside and Richmond regions.

The college's goal for grant submissions is 30 by July 1, 2012, and faculty have submitted 19 to date.  Its goal for awards is 16 with 10 awards to date since July 1, 2011. 

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Biology senior Brandon Newmyer won the 2012 David S. Bruce Outstanding Undergraduate Abstract Award by the American Physiological Society (APS). Out of the 26 awardees across the nation, Newmyer was the only student from Virginia. To receive the award, Newmyer submitted a research abstract, letter of application, and letter of support from his research host --  faculty mentor Mark Cline.

The David S. Bruce Outstanding Undergraduate Abstract Awards provide a two-year complimentary membership with The American Physiological Society to undergraduate students who are presenting their research at the Experimental Biology meeting. -- JF

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Biology faculty member Mark Cline recently received the 2011-2012 Outstanding Recent Alumnus Award from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech.

 This award is presented to a recent alumnus who has achieved great success since graduation.
Cline graduated in 1999 from Virginia Tech's College of Animal and Poultry Sciences with a bachelors degree in animal and poultry sciences. In 2002, he earned his Masters of Science Degree in reproductive physiology and in 2005 earned his Ph.D., both from Virginia Tech. 

Since beginning his career at RU in 2002, Cline’s success is evidenced through his grant writing, multiple awards and student mentoring of RU's first Goldwater Scholar Brandon Newmyer, more than a dozen students who have published in peer reviewed journals and national research award recipients. 

 In 2011, Cline received the CSAT Outstanding Teaching Award.  And in 2008, he received the university-wide Radford University Distinguished Creative Scholar Award and the Virginia Academy of Science's J. Shelton Horsley Research Award.

Cline has more than 40 published articles in peer-reviewed research journals since 2005, and has been awarded close to $600,000 in research and teaching grants.

His students have made close to 150 professional presentations and earned close to $6,000 in student authored grant proposal awards under his tutelage. --JF

The Radford University Wildlife Society will host a Bioblitz on Saturday, April 14 from 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at Selu Conservancy.  The event will include bird watching, small mammal trapping and handling presentations, mushroom walk and wilflower walk, in addition to stations about radiotelemetry, bear trapping and immobilization, and bat capture and measuring techniques.

For more information, contact biology faculty member Karen Francl at kfrancl@radford.edu.