RADFORD -- Anthropology professor Cliff Boyd and the RU Forensic Science Institute recently received a Radford Heritage Foundation grant to conduct an archaeological assessment of the grounds of the historical Arnheim house, which was home to the city's namesake Dr. John Blair Radford in the 1800s.

The archaeological survey is the initial stage of the restoration project. This month, Boyd will supervise a group of RU students and alumni as they survey about an acre surrounding Arnheim. All recovered artifacts will be cleaned and analyzed at the on-campus RU Archaeological and Physical Anthropology laboratory.

Boyd is co-director of RU's Forensic Science Institute and recently was a recipient of the 2008 Virginia Outstanding Faculty Awards, the Commonwealth's highest honor for educators at Virginia's colleges and universities.