Newsmakers

The following faculty and administrators were quoted or featured in recent issues of national newspapers and magazines:

James V. Koch, president, was quoted in a Feb. 23 USA Today story and a Jan. 19 New York Times story about e-commerce as a new college major. He was also quoted in a Feb. 18 Chronicle of Higher Education story about Virginia Tech’s high-profile football season and the school’s efforts to leverage that into positive publicity in other areas.

J. Taylor Sims, dean of the College of Business and Public Administration, was quoted in a Feb. 21 Washington Times story about e-commerce as a new college major. The story was also carried by the Knight-Ridder Tribune Business News service.

Stephen K. Medvic, assistant professor of political science and geography, was quoted in a Feb. 22 Washington Post story about John McCain’s prospects in the Feb. 29 Virginia primary.

Michael O’Connor, director of admissions, was quoted in a February University Business story about business card-sized CD-ROMs.

Tim Seibles, assistant professor of English, was quoted in a Feb. 13 Kansas City Star feature on black poets and the “Our Souls” CDs.


The following were quoted or featured recently in The Virginian-Pilot:

James V. Koch, president, was cited in a Feb. 28 Larry Maddry column about Old Dominion’s need for state funding for a new engineering and computational sciences building. He was also quoted in a Feb. 20 story about Gov. Gilmore’s proposal for negotiating six-year “institutional performance agreements” with state colleges and universities.

Thomas Mastaglio, director of the Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center, was quoted in a Feb. 21 story about the center’s projects and the reluctance on the part of businesses to embrace modeling and simulation.

Stephen K. Medvic, assistant professor of political science and geography, was quoted in a Feb. 17 story about the recent Old Dominion University/Virginian- Pilot Survey on the Republican presidential primary in Virginia, conducted by the university’s Social Science Research Center.

Aleene Rose, director of the Writing Center; Maggi Curry-Williams, associate dean of students; Robert L. Ash, eminent scholar of aerospace engineering; Victoria E. Burke, director of university publications; Brett A. Newman, assistant professor of aerospace engineering; and Terry L. Hickey, dean of the College of Sciences, were quoted in a Feb. 11 story reporting on a forum on campus, sponsored by the Presidential Search Committee, held to solicit ideas on what people would like to see in the university’s next president.

Donald J. Zeigler, professor of political science and geography, was quoted in a Feb. 23 story about a recent 10-day trip to Egypt that he co-organized for about two dozen Virginia teachers and the wife of Gov. Jim Gilmore, Roxane Gilmore.

David P. Cook, assistant professor of information systems and decision sciences, was quoted in a Feb. 3 story about a partnership between Ford Motor Co. and UPS aimed at cutting car and truck delivery times.

Colin Box, associate professor of community health professions and physical therapy, was quoted in a Feb. 21 story about new programs Bon Secours Hampton Roads is offering in affiliation with the national Mind/Body Medical Institute.

John R. Broderick, vice president for institutional advancement, was quoted in a Feb. 17 story about applications at Virginia’s colleges and universities.

September Sanderlin, training and development coordinator for the Department of Human Resources and student representative on the Presidential Search Committee, was quoted in a Feb. 7 story about a public forum sponsored by the committee.


The following were quoted or featured recently in local, state and regional publications:

Vinod B. Agarwal, professor of economics, was was the expert for a Feb. 7 Q&A feature in Dolan’s Virginia Business Observer, titled “Micro Look at a Macro Market.”

Tiffany Capuano, media relations coordinator, was quoted in a Feb. 13 Daily Press story about radio station AM-610, “Highway Advisory Radio.”

Richard Whalen, director of military activities, and James V. Koch, president, were quoted in a Feb. 10 Flagship story about sailors aboard the USS Bataan who are taking M.B.A. courses via TELETECHNET.

Glen Wheless, co-director of the College of Sciences’ Virtual Environment Laboratory, was quoted in a Feb. 21 Dolan’s Virginia Business Observer story about the lab’s Cave Automatic Virtual Environment.

Earl Honeycutt, chair of business administration, was quoted in a Jan. 24 Inside Business story about the Fox 43/Cox Communications controversy.

David F. Harnage, vice president for administration and finance, was quoted in a Feb. 15-21 Port Folio Weekly story about land acquisition for the University Village project.

Ronald E. Johnson, associate professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, was quoted in a Feb. 7 Richmond Times-Dispatch story about a King William County resident who heard two years later from someone in the South Pacific, responding to a message in a bottle he had set adrift in local rivers.

Frances Hassencahl, assistant professor of communication, was quoted in a Feb. 18 Associated Press story about a promotion by Virginia Beach-based Liberty Tax Service to offer free tax preparation on Presidents Day to anyone with the same last name as a past U.S. president.


The following were interviewed recently by the electronic media:

Steve Yetiv, associate professor of political science, was interviewed Feb. 21 by Voice of America on the viability of United Nations economic sanctions against Iraq.

Stephen K. Medvic, assistant professor of political science and geography, appeared live March 1 on the San Francisco-based Cnet Radio program, “e-lection 2000,” to discuss the Virginia GOP Primary.