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Academic vita

Space is infinite.
It is dark.
Space is neutral.
It is cold.

Stars occupy minute areas of space. They are clustered a few billion here. A few billion there. As if seeking consolation in numbers.

Space does not care.

Space does not threaten.

Space does not comfort.

It does not sleep;
it does not wake;
it does not dream;
it does not hope;
it does not fear;
it does not love;
it does not hate;
it does not encourage any of these qualities.

Space cannot be measured.

It cannot be angered, it cannot be placated.

It cannot be summed up.

Space is there.

Space is not large and it is not small.

It does not live and it does not die.

It does not offer truth and neither does it lie.

Space is a remorseless, senseless, impersonal fact.

Space is the absence of time and of matter.

- "Black Corridor" by Michael Moorcock.

Gary receives the 2005 Fairleigh Dickinson University Distinguished Faculty Award for Research and Scholarship from President Michael Adams. September 28, 2005
Gary (with Dr. Marie Radford) receives the 2003 Equal Opportunity Fund (EOF) Outstanding Faculty Award. May 2, 2003 Photograph by Meg Radford	Gary receives the 2003 Maxwell Becton College of Arts and Sciences Teacher of the Year Award from Dean Barbara Salmore. May 20, 2003 Photograph by Jeff Dunsavage

2006 Top Paper Award, National Communication Association (NCA) Semiotics and Communication Division for Radford, G. P. (2006). The author should die: Semiotics and the regime of communication. Presented at the 92nd Annual Conference of the National Communication Association, San Antonio, TX (November 17, 2006).

2005 Fairleigh Dickinson University Distinguished Faculty Award for Research and Scholarship. Presented September 28, 2005.

2003 Teacher of the Year, Maxwell Becton College of Arts and Sciences, Fairleigh Dickinson University. Presented May 20, 2003.

2003 Equal Opportunity Fund (EOF) Outstanding Faculty Award. Presented at the 29th Annual EOF Awards Ceremony at Fairleigh Dickinson University, May 2, 2003. This award is presented to the "faculty members who have provided exceptional service to the students enrolled in their classes. Faculty awardees are selected by the EOF student body."

2003 Top Paper Award, Eastern Communication Association (ECA) Theory and Methodology Interest Group for Radford, G. P. (2002). Casting a mist before our eyes: John Locke and the end of communication. Presented at the 94th Annual Conference of the Eastern Communication Association, Washington, DC (April 24-27, 2003).

2002 Top Paper Award, Eastern Communication Association (ECA) Theory and Methodology Interest Group for Radford, G. P. (2002). Beware of the fallout: Umberto Eco and the making of the Model Reader. Presented at the 93rd Annual Conference of the Eastern Communication Association, New York City, NY (April 25-28, 2002).

2001 Top Three Paper Award, International Communication Association (ICA) Popular Communication Division for Radford, G. P. and Radford, M. L. (2001). Michel Foucault and the discourse of fear: Representations of libraries in modern popular culture. Presented at the 51st Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, Washington, DC (May 24-28, 2001).

1997 New Jersey Communication Association Leadership Award: "In recognition of Gary Radford's excellence in his stewardship of the New Jersey Journal of Communication through his leadership and vision." Presented at the Inaugural Conference of the New Jersey Communication Association, Montclair State University (April 26, 1997).

1996 The Dean's Award of Honor for Exemplary Performance in Scholarship, (School of the Arts and Communication, William Paterson College, May 2, 1996).