The UCF Report, Vol. 09 No. 23, May 20, 1987

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Volume 9, Number 23
Three get
Challenger
scholarships
Three UCF graduate students have
received $5,000 Challenger Astronaut
Memorial Scholarships for 1987-88.
One scholarship is new and two are
renewals.
Chancellor Charles B. Reed announced that the Board of Regents
has granted the new scholarship in
physics to Sherry Lynne Savrda who
graduated summa cum laude in electro
optics last December.   She said the
grant will make it possible to spend
the next year as a full time student
pursuing her masters degree in electro optics and lasers.
Savrda's husband, Steve, got his
bachelors degree on May 1 in electro
optics, but chose to earn it in electrical engineering.  He also plans to earn
a masters degree.
Mahendra Joshi and Padmandabha
Chappidi received the renewed grants
to help them earn doctorates in mechanical engineering and aerospace.
Joshi is doing research in laser propagation problems, working through
CREOL with Ron Phillips and James
Beck.  Chappidi is doing work in two-
phase flows, a study of how to reduce
drag on a missile fired under water.
His advisor is Fred Gunnerson.
The BOR created the scholarships
to honor the ill-fated Challenger
space shuttle crew. The grants were
made available for advance study in
the fields of electrical engineering,
aeronautical/aerospace engineering,
physics and education (social studies and science only), to students
who maintained a 3.5, or higher, grade
point average in undergraduate work.
For Faculty and Staff
SHERRYSAVRDA
Space discoveries
open to businesses
How to turn space age know-how into
commercial opportunity is the bottom
line at a free seminar May 20 in Melbourne where experts on high tech
manufacturing will share the program
with funding sources for venture
capitalists.
"The target audience is high tech
businesses, engineers and scientists,"
said Dr. Al Pozefsky, director of STAC
(Southern Technology Applications Center) at UCF..
FLIGHT DIRECTOR JOE KITTINGER, PILOT DICK GILSON
... at Orlando before the UCF Professor took off for Paris
Gilson's Atlantic flight
dramatizes Lindbergh's
ideas for conservation
Psychology's Professor Dick Gil-
son completed a solo flight in his
single engine, production line, airplane from Orlando to Paris last Sunday to commemmorate the first
transatlantic flight 60 years earlier.
Inthe ABC Good Morning America
telecast Monday Gilson said he was
carrying out Charles Lindbergh's
wish--to use technology for conservation. His Mooney monoplane flew
twice as high, twice as fast and on
half the gasoline as The Spirit of St.
Louis and that is what Lindbergh
thought technology should do, Gilson
said.
Gilson stayed in France this week
to take part in the Lindbergh anniversary flight observances  and to participate, as a director, in meetings of
the Charles Lindbergh Fund, which
dispenses grants that carry out the
theme "doing more with less".  His
wife, Liz, flew to Paris Sunday to join
him.
The Mooney aircraft is made by a
French-based company and the one
Gilson used was loaned to him for the
flight.   Other than optional fuel tanks
in the wings, it was like any other
model coming off the assembly line.
It would have taken extra modifications to have flown from Long Island
to Paris non-stop, he said, and the
purpose of the flight was not to duplicate what Lindbergh did first, but
to dramatize Lindbergh's passion for
conservation.
Formerly at Ohio State University,
Gilson joined the UCF faculty a year
agoand now heads upthe planning
stage of the Psychology Department's first doctorate program that
will offer a PhD in human factors psychology. Department Chair Dick Tucker said he hopes the Board of Regents
will approve the PhD program for implementation in the fall of 1988.
A former Navy pilot, Gilson specializes in research that matches
man and machine for optimum performance by both. With veteran pilot
Joe Kittinger directing his transatlantic flight preparations, Gilson had
"landed" at every airport along the
way via ground simulators.
Staff Council to organize
tomorrow for coming year
Staff Council will meet in the Registrar's conference room  on Thursday, May 21, at 9:30 a.m., to elect
new officers and organize committees for the next 12 months.
Annual spring election of Staff
Council representatives was completed at the Staff Assembly on May
12 with the announcement of election
results.  The 1987-88 representatives are:
Barbara Feasel (President's Office); Douglas Kucklick, Gloria
White, Gladys Yost, Louise Nuckolls
and Florence Glazier (Academic Affairs); Cynthia Abrams (FSEC); Ruth
Byrne and Neil D. McDonald
(Financial Services).
Also, Libby Baggett (Brevard Campus); Doris Stoneberger (University
Relations); Margot Ruede (Daytona
Beach Campus); Bonnie Coller
(Sponsored Research); Loretta Webb
(Human Resources); Dale Milner and
Judy Sayers (Student Affairs); Kay
Harward, Sharon Olson and Betty
Shepherd (Institutional Services).
The ranks will be filled by future appointment in places where vacancies
occurred and there were no candidates.
Staff Council will hold its annual
awards dinner at the Holiday Inn inthe
Quadrangle on Friday, May 22, begin-
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May 20, 1987
Research Park
provides UCF
door to future
Central Florida Research Park is
rapidly shaping up as UCF's gateway
to the future, Pat Vaughn, park marketing director, told University employees in a picture-illustrated talk
at the annual Staff Assembly last
week.
Another 144-acre section of the
1,255-acre development tract, has
been started, extending the park
nearer Highway 50 and the source of
traffic from three directions, he said.
It was started in March and will be finished in September.
He said the eastward extension of
the Orlando East-West Expressway
will be completed in 1989, and plans
call for a bridge over Highway 50 for
direct access to park and campus.
The design includes access to Alafaya Trail, two entrances into the park
and an interchange between Highway
50 and the Expressway.
Those concerned about the projected increase in traffic hope to convince the Florida Department of
Transportation to use some of its
pool of money reserved for helping
new industry on the widening of Alafaya Trail. The improvement from
Highway 50 north past the last entrance to UCF is due to start in June
1988 as fouHanes on a right of way
wide enough for six lanes. Vaughn
told his audience six lanes are needed now and the over all cost would be
less to do it all at once.
The research park was established
through the Orange County Commission eight years ago as a non-profit
corporation with the purpose of establishing a closer relationship between UCF and research-oriented
businesses, particularly in high-
tech. The latest count shows 31 organizations operating in the park with
600 employees in 506,000 square feet
of completed buildings.
The management office projects
employment at 1,000 by the end of
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Alumni banquet
set for June 13
UCF alumni have until June 4 to
reserve a place at this year's super
saver alumni banquet, to be held June
13 at Orlando's Church Street Station.
The evening's activities will begin
with a cash bar at 6:30 p.m. in Lili Mar-
lene's private parlour, where dinner will
follow an hour later. The $25 per person cost includes complimentary
admission to all Church Street Station
attractions for the remainder of the
evening.
Seating is limited, and early reservations are suggested. To make reservations, call the UCF Alumni Affairs office,
x2233 by June 4.
HOLIDAY
Memorial Day, Monday, May 25, is a
holiday for employees throughout the
State University System.