Curious about what's on offer at Pascal's Kitchen, Macado's or even Radford University's Dalton Hall dining facility?

Log on to RadMenus. com.

Officially launched Monday, the site was created by Radford student group Collegiate Entrepreneurs to serve as a "one-stop source for students and community residents to find any and all information relevant to restaurants."

Thus far, the Web site (RadMenus.com) features menus from 40 restaurants, most of them in Radford.

Project Manager Steve Sherman, a senior business administration major at Radford University, said the group plans to gather more menus from eateries in Christiansburg and Blacksburg in coming weeks.

Sherman said thus far, the site gets about 75 to 100 views a day, but he expects that number to grow once members of Collegiate Entrepreneurs begin advertising it to Radford students.

It's essential to RadMenus.com's business plan that traffic increases.

After two and a half months, Sherman said the group will begin charging restaurants to keep their menus on the site, as well as sell advertising.

The group of about 10 has yet to come up with a pricing strategy, but all revenue will go to Collegiate Entrepreneurs to help fund business competitions, field trips, guest speakers and professional seminars.

San Diego-based SAIC opens Blacksburg office

The Technology and Advanced Systems Business Unit of Science Applications International Corporation, or SAIC, has opened an office in Blacksburg's Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center.

The 3,500-square-foot office at 1750 Kraft Drive was established with the aim of growing a team of information technology professionals. Employees will work in software development, database administration, system administration and application help desk services.

Headquartered in San Diego, Calif., the scientific, engineering, systems integration and technical services company works with all branches of the U.S. military, agencies of the Department of Defense, the U.S. Department of Homeland and customers in commercial markets. SAIC has about 44,000 employees in more than 150 cities worldwide and had annual revenues of $8.3 billion for the fiscal year ended Jan. 31, 2007.

GM, Tech launch Neuroinformatics lab

Officials with General Motors recently visited Virginia Tech's computer science department to launch the Laboratory for Neuroinformatics.

The laboratory, which hopes to create new algorithms to process the data neuroscientists are able to collect from the brain, will be led by two co-directors: associate professor of computer science Naren Ramakrishnan and General Motors research scientist K.P. Unnikrishnan.

General Motors will provide $220,000 toward the effort over one year.

Radford's Gallery offers handmade baubles

The Gallery in downtown Radford is hosting an annual exhibition of handmade jewelry.

The pieces, which were made by members of the Radford University Jewelry Guild will be on exhibit -- and for sale -- until Jan. 10.

Department partners with companies

Virginia Tech's Department of Biological Sciences has launched a corporate partners program to foster collaboration between faculty, students and bio-science-oriented corporations in the mid-Atlantic region of the country.

Called Biological Sciences Partners in Research and Education, or BioSPIRE, the program aims to engage companies with the interest and capacity to impact education in the biological sciences. The program will include scholarships to enhance diversity in the undergraduate student population and to support undergraduate research projects and other kinds of hands-on learning and training experiences.

Names and changes

Roanoke native BENJAMIN BOWMAN has joined Tuck Chiropractic Clinic in Fairlawn.

Radford University physics professors RHETT HERMAN and JACK BROCKWAY won the Frank R. Haig Prize for best paper from four-year colleges at a conference of the Chesapeake Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers.

The Association of College Unions International has named SCOTT REED, senior associate director of union operations and services at Virginia Tech, the recipient of the 2007 C. Shaw Smith Award. The annual award honors those who embody the spirit, professionalism and dedication of Smith, first Union Director for Davidson College.

A team of researchers led by PAVAN BALAJI of Argonne National Laboratory and WU FENG of Virginia Tech, won an international competition for the most effective approach in using large-scale storage for high-performance computing at a November conference on high-performance computing and networking.

Three Virginia Tech departments were honored with 2007 University Exemplary Department Awards this week. Honorees included the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, the Department of Apparel, Housing and Resource Management and the University Academic Advising Center. The awards recognized departments that developed and sustained innovative and effective departmental approaches to advising.

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