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Minority institutions selected by
NASA for Partnership Awards
NASA has selected 39 minority
institutions toreceive 65 Partner
ship Awards intended to expand
educational opportunities and en
hance diversity in the NASA-spon
sored research and education com
munity. :
Theselected institutionsare from
17 states, the District of Columbia
and Puerto Rico. The awards are
for two years with a maximum of
$200,000 per minority institution.
The 39institutions were chosen
Environmental Control
TRICIPE to showcase environmental
cleanup technologies at trade show
The newest and most sophisti
cated tools and techniquesfor clean
ing up the Savannah River Site
and other environmental problem
areas will be the focus at the
TRICIPE CSRA Trade Show and
Forum in Augusta, April 2 - 3.
More than 2,000 visitors are ex
pected tocome tothe Augusta-Rich
mond County Civic Center during
thetwodaysofthe trade show tosee
exhibitsby nearly 100 firmsfromall
over the United States, plus Canada
and Great Britain.
The forum, held at the Civic
Center in conjunction with the
trade show, will feature presenta
tions by U.S. Department of En
ergy and industry officials involved
with the Savannah River Site en
vironmental cleanup, plus presen
tations and workshops on tech
nologies that are currently avail
able and in development.
The TRICIPE CSRA events are
being produced by TRICIPE
Trade Shows of Bend, Ore., which
for the past four years has pre
sented highly successful trade
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by the Office of Equal Opportunity
Programs(OEOP)in collaboration
with NASA Headquarters program
offices. The concept papers were
submitted through the NASA in
stallations and the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Pa
pers were evaluated by review pan
els and submitted to Headquarters
for final selection.
The goals of the program are to
strengthen the partnerships be
tween minority institutions and
shows in the Tri-Cities area of
eastern Washington state, near
the DOE’s vast Hanford Nuclear
Site. (The name TRICIPE is de
rived from Tri-Cities Plant Engi
neering and CSRA stands for Cen
tral Savannah River Authority.)
“Exhibitors at the Hanford shows
kept telling us we should do one on
the East Coast,” said Carolyn Tillia
of TRICIPE Trade Shows. “We
chosethe Augustalocation because,
like the Tri-Cities area, it’s in the
back yard of one of the world’s
biggest environmental cleanup
projects—in this case, the Savan
nah River Site.”
The Savannah River Site, across
the Savannah River from Augusta
in South Carolina, was developed
in the early 1950 s to produce raw
materials for nuclear weapons, pri
marily tritium and plutonium-239.
Thesite’senvironmental problems
today include about 35 million gal
lons of intensely radioactive waste
stored in tanks, plus low-level ra
dioactive waste and hazardous
chemical waste.
NASA strategic enterprises, field
installations, America’s aerospace
industry, and other educational
institutions, and todevelop projects
which are unique, innovative and
outside of the usual NASA Minor
ity University Research and Edu
cation Programs competitive op
portunities. The projects also
should have potential for long-term
support from other sources.
More than 200 concept papers
were received by NASA. The insti
tutions submitted their concept pa-
More than 400 contaminated
sites have been identified at Sa
vannah River, and the cleanup
processisexpected totake decades.
SRS employs about 15,000 people
and has an annual budget of ap
proximately $1.6 billion.
Ondisplayatthe TRICIPE CSRA
Trade Show will be sophisticated
and exotic technologies for han
dling, transporting and storing
nuclear and other hazardous
wastes; instruments, virtual real
ity simulations and robot devices
for exploring and working in toxic
environments; and tools and mate
rials for cleaning up oil spills and
other types of pollution.
On the first day of the TRICIPE
CSRA Forum, officials from DOE
and Westinghouse Corp. will present
anoverview of the Savannah River
Site’s future technological needs.
On the second day, industry repre
sentatives willgive presentationson
currently available technologies, fol
lowedby anafternoonofsmall-group
workshops where members of the
public and private sectors can ex
persasaresearch project, an educa
tion project or acombination ofboth.
Southeastern schoolsamong the 39
chosen minorityinstitutionsinclude:
Clark Atlanta University, Ga.;
Morehouse School of Medicine, Ga.;
Spelman College, Ga.; and Voorhees
College,S.C.
The complete list of the selected
institutions can be found on the
world wide web. See the OEOP’s
Minority University Research and
Education Programs homepage at
URL: http//mured.gsfc.nasa.gov/.
change ideas and information on
specifictopics.
Although the budgets -for the
Hanford and Savannah River
cleanup projects have been scaled
back during the past two years,
Tilliasaid environmental cleanupis
still a growing worldwide business
and will remain one for the foresee
ablefuture.
“Nuclear and toxic wastes and
other forms of pollution don’t go
away by themselves, and we can’t
Jjust forget about them,” she said.
“There’san enormous environmen
talcleanupjobtobed ne,notjustat
Hanford and Savannah River but
all over the world, and the compa
nies at TRICIPE CSRA and
TRICIPEV are the onesthat willdo
it.
For more information about
TRICIPE events, call TRICIPE
TradeShowsat (541)385-8964, fax
t0(541)385-1014, or send e-mail to
tricipe@teleport.com. More infor
mation also can be found at
TRICIPE’s web site, http:/
www.teleport.com/~tricipe.
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Local real estate agents
recognized by Augusta
Builders Association
Local real estate agents were rec
ognized for theireffortsin new home
sales during 1996 by the Builders
Association of Metro Augusta Sales
and Marketing Council atthe Awards
Banquet February 7. The following
real estate agents and their compa
nieswere recognized:
Community of the Year—
Stratford, Prudential Beazley Real
Estate Company;
Best Selling Community of
the YearSummerfield, Para
mount Realty withß3 unitsand $7.7
million sold; Sales Office of the
Year—Nordahl with $14.4 million
sold; SMC Mortgage Banker of
the Year—Bart Chandler of Prime
Lending, Inc.; SMC Member of
the Year—Ann Eskew of Blanchard
and Calhoun Real Estate; New
Home Site Sales Agent of the
Year—Kathy Rawls of Prudential
Beazley Real Estate.
Sales Manager/Broker Cita
tions, given for total volume of
closedsalesachieved by his/herstaff,
wereawarded to:Joe Croftof Nordahl
Realty for having $14.7 million in
new home sales closed; Rose Ann
Strickland of Prudential Beazley
Real Estate forhaving $14.9 million
in new home sales closed; E.G.
Meybohm of Meybohm Realty was
awarded the only “Platinum” Sales
Manager Award for having $39 mil
lion in new home sales closed.
National Sales and Market
ing Council Million Dollar
Circle Awards, awarded to local
agentsby National SMC for having
overone milliondollarsinnewhome
sales: Kathy Rawls of Prudential
Beazley Real Estate was awarded
the only Gold Citation for having
ss.9milliondollarsinnewhomesales.
Silver Citations, given to
those who sold $2 to $5 million
in new homes sales were: Claire
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Black Expo on Saturday, April 12, at the
Augusta State University Athletic Complex.
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Stone, Sid Reeves, Donna Hallman,
Karenßlackburnand Gardelle Lewis
allofMeybohm Realty; Bill Grubbs,
and DeeAnn Williams both of Pru
dential Beazley Real Estate; and
Lula V. Kanardy of Century 21
Larry Miller.
Bronze Citations, given to
those agents whosold $1 t 051.9
million in new home sales,
were: Chris Leitza, Brenda Dansby
and Juanita Bryd, all of Blanchard
and Calhoun Real Estate; Dianne
Phillips, Judy Morris, Lorraine
Banks, Carla Ellisand Sheri Murphy
all of Meybohm Realty; Patti Story
Cornette, Judy Pinson, and Susan
Ogletree all of Prudential Beazley
Real Estate; and Gerry Bellaof Cen
tury 21 Gary Waters.
SMC Half Million Dollar Circle
Awards, awarded to those agents
whohaveover half-million dollarsin
new home sales were: Stewart
Phinizy, Kimberly Fairey and Ann
Eskew, all of Blanchard and Calhoun
Real Estate; Nell Morris, Sally
Gibbs, Sylvia Brown, Margaret
Daniel, Betty Beard, Tom Spain,
Georgia Chancellor, Barbara
Hudson, Lynn Mears, Peggy Baker,
Helen Ford, Patsy Shulko-Barab,
Ken Faile, Bob Bolton, Ann Marie
McManus, Carole Rice, Robert Dixon,
Beverly Hixon all of Meybohm Re
alty; and Barbara McPeake of Pru
dential Beazley Real Estate.
Only SMC members wereeligible
forthe awards, and thelocal Council
boasts over 125 members. The Sales
and Marketing Councilis part ofthe
Builders Association of Metro Au
gusta and is designed to promote
better relations between builders
and Realtors, as well as offer educa
tional courses and seminars tomem
bers.
Formoreinformation, call Ginger
Ashford at 860-2371.
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