View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by University of Central Florida (UCF): STARS (Showcase of Text, Archives, Research &... University of Central Florida STARS The UCF Report University Archives 5-6-1987 The UCF Report, Vol. 09 No. 22, May 6, 1987 University of Central Florida Find similar works at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/ucfreport University of Central Florida Libraries http://library.ucf.edu This Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by the University Archives at STARS. It has been accepted for inclusion in The UCF Report by an authorized administrator of STARS. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Recommended Citation University of Central Florida, "The UCF Report, Vol. 09 No. 22, May 6, 1987" (1987). The UCF Report. 309. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/ucfreport/309 UCF'UBRAM Non-Profit Organization University of C* U S Postage Paid P.O. Box 25000 Orlando. Florida Orlando. Florida 32816 Permit No 3575 Address Correction Requested +UCF REPORT Volume 9, Number 22 For Faculty and Staff May 6, 1987 Math's Murray Barr FSEC's Philip Fairey win top recognition Fourteen UCF faculty members were biologist, and Paul Sommerville, statis­ honored at a special reception last week tician, were presented excellence in when they were named the outstanding research awards. teachers and researchers of 1987 in In the College of Business Adminis­ their respective colleges and units of tration, Dr. Jeff Madura, finance, is the the University. outstanding researcher; Dr. John Salter, Each received recognition at a faculty accounting, received the teaching MURRAY BARR (above) and PHILIP FAIREY (below) receive their reception, hosted by UCF President Tre­ award. Drs. Robert Lange and Timothy University-wide recognition from President Trevor Colbourn. vor Colbourn and the UCF Foundation, which also served as an occasion to honor retiring faculty. See Pages 4 and 5 for pic­ This year's top awards — Teacher and tures of 1987 faculty chosen Researcher of the Year for the entire for excellence in teaching, University — went to Murray Barr, who research and librarianship. teaches mathematics in the College of Arts and Sciences, and Philip W. Fairey, principle research scientist at the Flor­ J. Sullivan are the researcher and ida Solar Energy Center, Cape teacher awardees, respectively, in the Canaveral. College of Education. Because of its size, the College of Dr. Faissal Moslehy is the research Arts and Sciences traditionally names award recipient in the College of Engi­ two teachers and two researchers for neering, where Dr. Fred Gunnerson consideration by a university-wide was presented the teaching award. The selection committee. Dr. James R. Koe- College of Health named Nilda P. venig, biologist, received the award for Guarda for its research award of the teaching excellence. Drs. Harvey Miller, year and Sharon L. Koch as teacher awardee. The Excellence in Librarianship award went to Jeannette Ward, head of the serials department for the University UCF radar, used at Bridgeport, Libraries. Each of the teachers honored received $2,000 from a special state shows lifesaving possibilities appropriation administered by the Flor­ ida Board of Regents. The UCF Founda­ tion in turn presented $2,000 to Fairey The University's soil research radar, The transportation he provided was a ment would read through all the steel and $500 each to the other researchers taken to Bridgeport, CT, to search for single engine airplane provided by Ar­ (Continued on Page 8) and Ward. bodies in the rubble of a collapsed thur Jones, owner of Nautilus, that flew building, proved the worth of the equip­ out of Gainesville at midnight on Fri­ ment to save lives, according to Civil day. Engineering's Associate Professor Limited to a party of two, Kuo decided Commencement speaker says Shiou-San Kuo. not to go himself, but to send two hu­ "If we had been contacted immediate­ sky graduate students, Michael Pow- ly after the collapse we probably could ley, 31, and Dennis Filler, 27, who had have saved some lives", he said last to pick up 400 pounds of equipment at Ideas taught in classes week while reviewing the University's UCF at 11 p.m., load it into a car, drive unexpected involvement in a disaster to Gainesville, and transfer the load to of national news prominence. the airplane. control the social order Thursday morning on April 23, a 13- They were joined on the airplane by story apartment under construction Mike Powers, a Lake County employee, Ideas learned in the classroom, and and Health, advising them, "Don't tam­ gave way, concrete and steel piling who also was carrying radar equipment. not money, control the social order, the per with the system. Operate within down on workers. Of 61 on the site 31 They arrived at the disaster site at first of three commencement gather­ it." Those who have made the news survived. After the first day no one 8:30 in the morning, to find organiza­ ings last Friday was told as UCF lately for unethical trading in millions was brought out alive from under the tion effective in one way--the press launched another 1,500 students into of dollars, probably had the ability to 30-foot high stack of rubble. was barred completely from the scene. the worlds of commerce, industry, ser­ succeed very well within the system, It was not until Friday afternoon that The people Mutch was dealing with ig- vice and government. he said. anyone in UCF's College of Engineering noredthem. The speaker at the second ceremony Handy was32yearsold in 1976 when had any idea of getting involved in the Powley and Filler said they hung heaped praise on UCF for how well it he arrived in Florida to become presi­ New England disaster. around until 5 p.m. when they decided to has moved from the stage of providing dent of Combanks Corp. and chairman of The message came, not from the owners let everybody know that if they were not classrooms for the onrush of students its subsidiary banks. He left that po­ of the building, nor the city of Bridge­ going to be used they would pick up into the State University System sition four years later to form his own port, but rather from a Gainesville con­ their equipment and go back to Florida. theme of building excellence into the investment company and begin to sultant, Gordon Mutch, who operates One of the laborers overheard their re­ institution. amass businesses from Florida to as Solenex International, and who saw mark and they were on the job within 10 At the final ceremony the speaker Australia, meanwhile becoming in­ the potential of radar to probe beneath minutes. stressed that graduation is only the volved in local civic affairs and state the rubble for victims. The radar that Powers brought was beginning of education, that knowledge government. Civil Engineering's chair David Jen­ selected to suspend from a crane a few must be replenished continuously and Although his vita showed the speaker kins decided Dr. Kuo was his faculty feet above the collapsed rubble. Pow­ at every opportunity. had accumulated money as well as in­ memberto pass judgment on whether ley climbed on top of the pile and In each ceremony the gymnasium in fluence, Handy stressed ideas and not UCF's equipment might help. Kuo spe­ pushed the radar where Filler directed the Education Building was packed with money controlled the system. He re­ cializes in soil mechanics and dynam­ him by walkie-talkie. The radar was degree candidates, their families, fa­ minded graduates they had attended ics and his use of radar to probe the connected by 200 feet of cable to an culty, administrators and support UCF for the purpose of accumulating subsoil exceeds any other in academic oscilloscope and graphic printer that staff. ideas. research, he believes. Filler used to profile the 100 by 200- F.Philip Handy, founder and president The chair of the Florida Board of Re­ Mutch wanted to get UCF's equip­ foot outline of the building from the top of Parkview Investment Co. of Winter gents, T. Terrell Sessums, Tampa law- ment and Kuo's expertise to Bridge­ of the pile to the base, 30 feet below. Park, addressed the graduates in the port, but he was operating on his own. "We had serious doubts the equip­ Colleges of Business Administration (Continued on Page 8) Page 2 The UCF Report, Wednesday, May 6, 1987 Grant Publication of these memoranda and announcements about University Opportunities Official memoranda policy and procedure constitutes official notice to faculty and staff. "INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS To: All Employees To: All Departments and Student Organizations DEVELOPMENT" (NSF) — Supports From: Sarah. H. Pappas From: Victor M. Collazo, the development of new or improved Director, Daytona Campus Assistant Director, Student Center instructional materials and strategies Subject: Direct-Access Telephone Lines Subject: Rental of Student Activities Center for pre-college science, mathematics and technology education and, encour­ The direct telephone lines to/from Orlando Main Campus The Student Activities Center will be available for group ages the development of materials that and Daytona Beach Campus are now functional: rental during nonregular business hours (after 7 p.m., Mon­ fill gaps in content or curricula, present x2103 — General Campus Number (Faculty and Staff) day — Friday; Saturday and Sunday, all day) this summer. significant new approaches to the study x2105 — General Campus Number (Faculty and Staff) The labor charge for campus organizations and depart­ of traditional subjects, introduce recent x5181 — Director's Office Number ments will be $15 per hour, plus $15 for setup and break­ discoveries, or demonstrate applications Thank you for your patience during our "telephone trials." down.