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Hilb Rogal & Hobbs Company,
a Richmond-based risk management firm, was named
to Fortune Magazine’s 2004 List of America’s
Fastest Growing Companies, ranking 100th.
This is the second consecutive year the company
has made the list, which is based on earnings
growth, revenue growth and total investment
returns. (8/25/04, Press release)
Geeks On Call®, a Norfolk
technology services provider, was ranked fifth
on the Ten Hottest Deals in Franchising by Black
Enterprise Magazine. Geeks provide information
technology services to telecommuters and businesses
that cannot afford to maintain in-house IT operations.
The company has 175 franchises in 13 states,
plus the District of Columbia. (8/23/04,
Press release)
Greg Humphreys, assistant
professor of computer science at the University
of Virginia, received a place on the R&D
100, a list of the most significant technology
products and processes, as noted by R&D
Magazine. Humphreys developed Chromium computer
graphics software, which uses clusters of networked
PCs to process separate parts of a large complex
problem and then piece the parts back to together
to produce the answer. Cluster computing is
used in computer graphics applications for manufacturing,
defense simulation and medical science. (8/5/04,
Press release)
Hayes, Seay, Mattern &
Mattern, a Roanoke engineering firm, has
been ranked 168th on the list of
Top 500 Design Firms in the country by Engineering
News-Record. The firm was also ranked 12th
among the top 25 firms who design government
offices across the nation. (8/4/04, Press
release)
The Philip Morris Employee
Community Fund, a philanthropic organization
run by employees of Philip Morris, a Richmond-based
cigarette company, donated more than $2.5 million
to 82 nonprofit organizations in central Virginia.
It was the largest donation to date since the
fund was established four years ago. (8/6/04,
Richmond Times-Dispatch)
Clark*Nexsen Inc., a
Norfolk-based architecture and engineering firm,
received a Region III Technology Award from
the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating
& Air-Conditioning Engineers Inc. for its
work on the Virginia Shipbuilding and Carrier
Integration Center in Newport News. The 260,000-square-foot
facility provides a central location for research
and design work on the Navy’s next generation
of aircraft carriers. (8/3/04, Press release)
Virginia Tech’s College of
Architecture and Urban Studies received
a $1.5 million pledge, its largest gift ever,
from Pulte Homes Inc. of Bloomfield Hills, Mich.,
for establishment of an endowed professorship
in the Department of Building Construction.
(8/3/04, Press release)
Engineering students from Virginia
Tech and the United Kingdom’s Loughborough
University won the Best Overall Award in NASA’s
2004 Revolutionary Vehicles and Concepts Competition.
The team’s “Centura” single-engine jet design
was optimized for low flight speeds at low altitude,
a general aviation environment in which jets
do not typically operate. This is the second
year in a row and the fourth time in the past
seven that the Tech/Loughborough teams have
won first place in NASA-sponsored design competitions.
(7/30/04, Press release)
