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Aug 25 Spectrum TODAY’S EDITION See page 4 for SPECTRUM event information. VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY http://www.unirel.vt.edu/spectrum/ VOLUME 23 NUMBER 1 FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 2000 More than $1 billion, 15,000 jobs Bork named University major source of economic activity new landscape By Larry Hincker university. Roanoke and New River region. Visitors architecture head A recently completed study estimates “These are conservative estimates. I am attending other events such as student move-in, By Sarah Newbill that Virginia Tech and its affiliates generated confident that the actual financial impact of the orientation, admissions, and Parents Day spent Dean Bork has been named head of the $1.287 billion in annual economic activity university on the region is even greater,” Alwang about $10.6 million in the NRRV. Department of Landscape Architecture. Bork and 15,000 jobs in the New River and Roanoke said. For example, visitor impacts for sports are Each Virginia Tech graduate and has been with the department since 1980 and Valley (NRRV) region for fiscal year 1999. understated. Only football was measured. undergraduate student accounts for $10,878 steps up to lead a full-time faculty of nine. The NRRV is defined as Montgomery, Floyd, and $3,897 respectively in annual spending. He replaces Patrick Miller who stepped down Pulaski, Roanoke, Craig, and Giles counties ‘These are conservative Student spending creates a total NRRV impact July 1 after leading the department for 14 and Radford, Salem, and Roanoke cities. of $145.7 million ($93.5 for undergraduates years. During the study period, approximately estimates. I am confident that and $52.5 for graduate students). “Dean has been a strong member of the The report is an update to a 1992 study 5,800 people were on university payroll. An the actual financial impact of college team and the department for two additional 9,200 jobs were created in the which estimated the overall impact of Virginia decades. He brings to his new post both Roanoke and New River Valleys as a result of the university on the region is Tech to be $762.6 million and 10,284 jobs. The energy and a deep and broad awareness of Virginia Tech’s presence and activities. 1992 and 2000 studies measure impacts only in the discipline and profession of landscape The study, led by Jeffrey Alwang, an even greater.’ the local region and not state wide. Virginia architecture,” said Paul Knox, dean of the associate professor of applied economics at Tech has a presence in every county in Virginia, College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Virginia Tech, estimated that 27 percent of The study also analyzed the impacts of operates 12 agricultural experiments stations, Bork’s agenda for the future of the the gross regional product (GRP) for spending by visitors estimating the overall has a horse facility in Leesburg, and two centers department includes continuing the Montgomery County and 6 percent of the impact from football, conferences, special in Alexandria, and has graduate operations in development and refinement of the graduate GRP for the Roanoke New River Region is events, and student-related visits at $40.1 Falls Church, Abingdon, and Roanoke. program offered at the Washington attributable to Virginia Tech. One quarter million. Football visitors accounted for $10.3 Copies of the full report can be obtained Alexandria Architecture Center, and building (25.3 percent) of all jobs in Montgomery million or about $1.7 million in direct spending from the Office of University Relations, at 1- better alliances between the department and County, but one-third (33.3 percent) of all per game in Montgomery County. Conferences 5396. The report is also available on line at partners with shared interests across the salaries earned in the county are due to the added $8.8 million in direct spending in the http://www.unirel.vt.edu/vt/econimpact/. state and internationally. Bork received his B.S. in landscape architecture from the University of Office of Transportation Activities Affect Campus Community Wisconsin and his master’s from Louisiana State University. (Editor’s note: Following is the first on-campus parking spaces have made Parking mation to us. From that information, we have of a series of articles which will highlight Services a lightning rod for campus discussion. put together concepts for short-term ways to the activities of campus offices and To respond positively to the concerns of address the university’s parking-and-transpor- departments.) faculty and staff members regarding current tation issues.” MPRG teams with By John Ashby Mouras said four action items have been It’s a pretty safe bet that Parking developed in the effort to improve parking Raytheon on Services, a part of the Office of Transpor- CAMPUS availability by maximizing the university’s tation, may affect more university em- existing parking spaces. The first action is to ployees on a daily basis than any other PROFILES discourage violators by raising the cost of $15-million contract department on campus. For that reason, parking tickets by $5 to $25. The next step is to By Liz Crumbley the Office of Transportation is the first parking issues, Mouras developed a survey a boot the wheels of habitual abusers. “Those The Virginia Tech Mobile & Portable campus department to be profiled in a year ago which garnered 8,000 responses. A who are not deterred by the cost of parking Radio Research Group (MPRG) is collabo- series of profiles to be published in Spec- detailed analysis followed. “We got a lot of tickets,” Mouras said. rating with Massachusetts-based Raytheon trum this year. feedback, and we spent a lot of time talking with The third step in the process of improving Company, a world-wide leader in electronics The Office of Transportation consists various campus groups, and with the Parking parking availability will be to install gates at for defense and information systems, on a of the departments of Parking Services, and Transportation Committee,” Mouras said. the entrances of some faculty and staff lots. $15-million contract with the Defense Ad- Motor Pool, Air Transportation Services, “All of these groups provided conduits of infor- “We want to validate the cost-effectiveness of vanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Airport, and Records Management. Addi- gate technology,” Mouras said. “If the gate is MPRG and Raytheon will develop advanced tionally, it coordinates BT support of Vir- effective, we will gate other faculty-staff lots.” technologies for the project, which will rep- ginia Tech activities, and the Alternative The first gate is being installed at the Media resent more than $1-million worth of fund- Transportation program. Building lot across from the Donaldson Brown ing for MPRG. The Office of Transportation is in- center and will be activated on September 4. MPRG will work with Raytheon on a volved in a number of activities which will The fourth short-term activity aimed at phase of the project called Airborne Com- have an on-going effect on faculty and improving parking availability, Mouras said, munications Node (ACN), to be used in staff members. is to hire more parking-enforcement officers. military-communications strategies. The Steve Mouras, director of Transpor- In addition to the program outlined above, ACN payload will act as a surrogate satellite, tation and Records Management, said, “It’s Mouras said there are several new approaches relaying voice and data communications a great job. It’s not the least bit boring, and which are intended to enhance parking and among ground forces, enabling them to com- there is always plenty of opportunity for transportation by encouraging the use of alter- municate well beyond line-of-sight. growth.” native transportation such as biking, walking, “Raytheon’s ACN is a multi-mission, Mouras has been in the position since and taking the BT and increasing the number of scaleable payload that can be used not only 1997, but the forces which have shaped spaces. They are: as a communications relay to improve battle- parking and transportation at the univer- Commuter Alternatives Program field support, but also will be capable of The new parking-lot gate at the Media Building sity go back to the late ‘80s. At that time, will permit faculty and staff members with (CAP): Beginning in fall 2000, employees and surveillance and information operations,” there was a state-wide mandate that state Hokie Passports or transponders to use the students who commute to campus by foot, said Hank Orejuela, vice president of funds could no longer be used to build and lot. The gate system will be evaluated for its Blacksburg Transit, or bike will have the op- Raytheon’s Information and Advanced Sys- maintain parking lots. Since then, the re- cost-effectiveness and may be used on other tion to register for CAP. CAP participants will tems business area in Falls Church. faculty-staff lots. sulting parking fees and competition for (See TRANSPORTATION on 8) (See MPRG on 8) 2 SPECTRUM FRIDAY, August 25, 2000 ACHIEVERS Jeffrey Bloomquist, associate professor of entomology, Burger teaches topics on forest soils, ecology, silviculture, Virginia Tech. The second lecture, “Tribology and Arthritis: Are received the Gamma Sigma Delta Research Award of Merit this agroforestry, and research methods. There Connections?”—delivered at Cambridge University— spring from the Virginia Tech Chapter. His current research is on was drawn from Furey’s research on biotribology and cartilage the molecular mechanisms of insecticide toxicology, and the Jason Rodrigue, a graduate research assistant in the wear, carried out during the past 15 years in collaboration with relationship between exposure to pesticides and the onset of department of forestry, received the Master of Science Memorial researchers from biochemistry and the Virginia-Maryland College Parkinson’s disease.
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