Compass Energy Services Inc., a Richmond-based
energy sales company, was ranked third in the Hot 100
list of the fastest growing new companies in America.
The list is drawn up by Entrepreneur magazine
and PricewaterhouseCoopers. (Press release)
J. Harwood Cochrane,
founder of Richmond’s
Overnite Transportation Co., now retired, donated $1
million for expansion of the Rockville branch of the
Pamunkey Regional Library. The facility was recently
renamed the Cochrane–Rockville Library. (Richmond
Times-Dispatch)
Hampton University’s School of Business won
the Cal Darden Campus Leadership Award as “Best in
the Nation” by the Black Executive Exchange Program
(BEEP) of the National Urban League. BEEP programs
use executives to facilitate workshops and panel seminars
on a variety of business topics. (Press release)
Edward Murphy, president and CEO of Carilion
Health Systems of Roanoke, was ranked as the 34th most
powerful physician-executive in the country by Modern
Physician magazine. Murphy took control at Carilion
in 2001. (The Roanoke Times)
Nextel CommunicationsInc., a Reston-based
telecommunications company, was ranked by Computerworld magazine
among the top 100 workplaces for information technology
professionals. This is the second year in a row Nextel
has been chosen. (Business Wire)
Jeffrey H. Reed, professor of electrical and
computer engineering at Virginia Tech, received the
Willis G. Worchester Professorship of Electrical and
Computer Engineering, awarded to a leading researcher.
Reed is known for his work on software defined radios,
which employ a minimum amount of hardware and software.
Reed did his undergraduate and graduate work at the
University of California at Davis. He joined the Virginia
Tech faculty in 1992. (Press release)
SRA International Inc., a Fairfax information
technology company, was named Government Solutions
Provider of the Year by GovernmentVAR magazine.
SRA was chosen among hundreds of companies in the government
IT services sector based on its income growth, expansion,
and excellence of service. (Press release)
Karen A. Thole, professor
of mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech, is the
first woman to receive an
endowed engineering professorship at the university,
the William S. Cross Professorship in the College of
Engineering. Thole’s areas of expertise are heat transfer
and fluid mechanics. She received her doctorate from
the University of Texas at Austin in 1992 and joined
the Virginia Tech faculty in 1999. (Press release)
