Research Grants and Contracts

• Fourteen UMW Faculty Research Grants.

• Sixteen NSWC contracts.

• Six Navy/ASEE senior fellow grants.

• 1972 International Topology Conference (invited talk)

• January 1985 National Meeting of the AMS (graph theory talk)

• NSF Bela Bollobas lectures on graph theory given at Emory University (paid/invited)

• National Chair Meetings in Washington, D.C. (1984--87)

• Hosted regional MAA meeting

• Southeastern Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing (at LSU)

• International Congress of Mathematicians in Kyoto, Japan (1990).  Presented 40 minute invited (and paid) talk (and paper) at the International Colloquium on Words, Languages, and Combinatorics (Kyoto Sangy (University).

• NSF invited (and paid) 50 minute presentation Project AMPLE in July 1992 at Fairmont State University.

• NSF colloquium at UMW

• University of Louisville Department of Mathematics Colloquium Series lecture

• Taylor-Melville Institute Colloquium Invited lecture at Naval Surface Warfare, Carderock, MD. 10 Feb. 2003. (4-web structures)

• University of Virginia (Civil/Mechanical Engineering Departments) invited (4-web structures)

• NASA Langley invited lecture (4-web structures).

Issued August 2005 (filed application with U.S. Patents and Trademark Office 12/22/00).

• Referee for the Journal of Graph Theory
• Referee for the Journal Semigroup Forum
• Referee for the Journal Royal Society of Edinburgh Proceedings A
• Member of the American Mathematical Society
• Charter Member of Pi Mu Epsilon West Virginia University Chapter
• Elected by students of UMW as honorary
  member of Pi Mu Epsilon UMW Chapter
• Who's Who in American Education
• Who's Who in Science and Engineering (3rd, 5th, and 6th Editions)
• Who's Who in the South and Southwest
• Marquis Who's Who in America
• Strathmore’s Who’s Who in America
• International Biographical Centre (IBC) Who’s Who in the 21st Century – 1st Edition
• IBC’s One Thousand Great Americans
• IBC’s 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century – 1st Edition
• IBC’s 2000 Outstanding Scholars of the 21st Century – 1st Edition
• IBC’s 21st Century Award for Achievement
• Who's Who of Emerging Leaders in America
• Men of Achievement
• The International Directory of Distinguished Leadership
• 5,000 Personalities of the World
• Personalities of America
• Dictionary of International Biography
• The International Who's Who of Intellectuals
• American Men and Women of Science
• International Biographical Centre "Living Science Award" (for services to research, application, and education in all scientific fields)
• Belington High School, Belington, W.VA. (Class of 1961): FOOTBALL -- 1959 Class A Hon. Mention All State; 1960 Class AA All State 3rd team; Honorable Mention Tri-valley conference; and Particular Honorable Mention Tri-Valley conference
• Inventor of Lipscomb’s 4-web spine cage.
• Fairmont State University, Fairmont, W.VA. (Class of 1965): FOOTBALL -- four-year letterman, 1962 leading scorer; and 1964 All Conference (first team).
• Fairmont State University 2007 Letter winner of Distinction, Presented by the Fairmont State Athletic Association.