Faculty Excellence

  1. Accounting professor Bruce Chase built programs from simple motto: “Why can’t we do that?” »

    6/21/2022

    Before his retirement in December, Bruce Chase, Ph.D., CPA, taught accounting at Radford University for nearly 30 years. He also founded numerous important initiatives for the business college, such as the Governmental and Nonprofit Assistance Center, the Virginia Government Finance Officers/Radford University Certificate Program and the student employment exposition known as Firm Night.

  2. Highlanders in the News: Week of June 13 »

    6/17/2022

    This week in Highlanders in the News: Economics professor Jennifer Elias, Ph.D., talks with WFXR News about inflation and “shrinkflation”; the Radford Fishing Team casts its lines into Smith Mountain Lake and reels in a trophy; and the Virginia Production Alliance gives a hat-tip to Jayma Mays ’00, star of Disney’s upcoming fairy tale spoof “Disenchanted.” 

  3. History professor discusses hitchhiking and the counterculture on ‘With Good Reason’ »

    6/3/2022

    Radford University Professor of History Richard Straw, Ph.D., will appear on the With Good Reason radio program this week to share his research into hitchhikers who thumbed their way across the U.S. in the 1960s and ’70s. Straw is writing a book about the topic.

  4. Highlanders in the News: Week of May 30 »

    6/3/2022

    This week in Highlanders in the News: Science students Kaleb Martin and Sam Williams have written about the ways in which teaching can be educational, and geography professor Grigory Ioffe, Ph.D., evaluates how the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine affects neighboring Belarus. 

  5. Stockton Maxwell finds environmental secrets in tree rings »

    6/3/2022

    As a dendrochronologist, Associate Professor of Geospatial Science Stockton Maxwell focuses much of his research on vegetation dynamics and fire disturbance history using tree-ring analysis. He’s cored trees for research all across the United States, from Virginia to Maine to California, and exotic locations around the world, helping with efforts in Peru, Brazil and Zambia. Maxwell is a teacher, too, willing to talk with anyone, of any age or stature, about the science that captured his imagination nearly 20 years ago. 

  6. Pioneering martial arts educator guests on ‘With Good Reason’ »

    5/20/2022

    Retired Radford University faculty member Jerry Beasley, a ninth-degree black belt in karate and member of the Black Belt Magazine Hall of Fame, recently spoke to the With Good Reason radio program about his more than four decades of teaching self defense and a variety of martial arts at the university and the Asian martial arts minor he helped institute.

  7. Board of Visitors’ April 29 meeting addressed a broad range of business »

    5/10/2022

    During its quarterly meeting on April 29, Radford University’s Board of Visitors addressed a range of issues. Among other business, it elected a new rector and recognized its former one; it received a final report from its interim president; and it postponed a scheduled discussion regarding undergraduate tuition.

  8. With mobile burn unit, students investigate in the heat of the moment  »

    4/27/2022

    Criminal Justice instructor Todd Jones ‘88, M.S. ’94 teaches students enrolled in his spring semester fire and arson investigation course about what to look for when investigating a fire. His students put those skills to practical use recently inside a mobile burn trailer owned by the Virginia Department of Fire Programs.