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15-April-1998 
98127 
    College News 
 
    by Julian Shipp 
 
RALEIGH, N.C.-Laura Carpenter Bingham, an administrator in both higher 
education and health care, has been named the new president of Peace 
College. With her appointment, the North Carolina native becomes the first 
alumna and the second woman in the history of the women's college to hold 
the post. A Kings Mountain, N.C., native and a 1977 Peace graduate, Bingham 
will become the college's ninth president, succeeding Garrett Briggs, who 
will retire in June after 10 years of service. When Bingham begins her 
tenure in July, she will be the first woman to serve as president since 
1924, when Mary Owen Graham left her post after eight years. Bingham will 
be the first woman to lead the college since it began offering 
baccalaureate degrees in 1995. 
 
DAVIDSON, N.C.-Davidson College recently announced that Charlotte 
businessman John M. Belk has made a gift of $500,000 to be added to the 
endowment for the John Montgomery Belk Scholarship, established by Belk in 
1993. The Belk Scholarship is awarded each year to first-year students from 
the Southeast whose leadership in academics, student government, athletics 
or service distinguishes them as capable of the highest achievement. The 
scholarship offers full tuition and fees for four years and is one of just 
two such programs at Davidson. 
 
SPOKANE, Wash.-Whitworth College president Bill Robinson recently announced 
the selection of Tammy Reid as the new vice president for academic affairs 
at the college. A 1960 graduate of Whitworth College, Reid brings 27 years 
of teaching, research, and administrative experience at Whitworth to the 
position. She is also the first Whitworth College graduate ever to serve as 
the college's top academic officer. Reid holds a Ph.D. in education from 
Washington State University and an M.A. in English from Eastern Washington 
University." Tammy will provide Whitworth College with superb leadership in 
this position," Robinson said. 
 
WOOSTER, Ohio-Donald Jacobs, professor of physics at The College of 
Wooster, is one of 26 researchers nationwide to receive a grant from the 
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for fundamental 
research in microgravity. Jacobs was awarded the $202,000 grant to conduct 
ground-based experiments measuring the turbidity of a binary fluid mixture 
as it approaches the critical temperature, the point at which two 
components mix. The new grant will allow Jacobs to continue research he has 
been conducting since 1993 under an earlier NASA grant, which funded a 
ground-based experiment that supplemented two microgravity space shuttle 
experiments. 

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