Ruby Cox honored with emeritus status
Ruby H. Cox of Pilot Mountain, N.C., professor of human nutrition, foods, and exercise in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech, was conferred with the title "professor emeritus" by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors during the board’s quarterly meeting June 12.
The title of emeritus may be conferred on retired professors and associate professors, administrative officers, librarians, and exceptional staff members who have given exemplary service to the university and who are specially recommended to the board of visitors by Virginia Tech President Charles W. Steger. Nominated individuals who are approved by the board of visitors receive an emeritus certificate from the university.
A member of the Virginia Tech community since 1989, Cox also served as a Virginia Cooperative Extension specialist as coordinator of the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program and Smart Choices Nutrition Education Program for the Commonwealth of Virginia. She successfully managed these two programs while enhancing the knowledge and understanding of food, nutrition and health concerns of low-income families. Cox has presented more than 30 printed and electronic extension publications and programs related to nutrition education.
Cox received Virginia Tech’s 2005 Alumni Award of Recognition for Excellence in Extension, the 200 Excellence in Outreach Award from the College of Human Resource and Education, the 2001 Epsilon Sigma Phi State Distinguished Service Award in Extension, and the 1999 Excellence in Program Evolution Award from the American Evaluation Association.
Cox received her bachelor’s degree, master’s degree and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Ranked 11th in agricultural research expenditures by the National Science Foundation, Virginia Tech’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences offers students the opportunity to learn from some of the world’s leading agricultural scientists. The college’s comprehensive curriculum gives students a balanced education that ranges from food and fiber production to economics to human health. The college is a national leader in incorporating technology, biotechnology, computer applications, and other recent scientific advances into its teaching program.
Founded in 1872 as a land-grant college, Virginia Tech has grown to become among the largest universities in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Today, Virginia Tech’s eight colleges are dedicated to putting knowledge to work through teaching, research, and outreach activities and to fulfilling its vision to be among the top research universities in the nation. At its 2,600-acre main campus located in Blacksburg and other campus centers in Northern Virginia, Southwest Virginia, Hampton Roads, Richmond, and Roanoke, Virginia Tech enrolls more than 28,000 full- and part-time undergraduate and graduate students from all 50 states and more than 100 countries in 180 academic degree programs.
