Professional Activity Announcements

Compiled by Meredith Moriarty

Here's a look at recent accomplishments of Ohio University faculty and staff.

Steven Grimes Earle Hunt Mary Chamberlin

Recognitions

LENA WRIGHT MYERS, sociology, was elected to membership of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Teaching Sociology by the American Sociological Association. She will serve until Dec. 31, 2005.

SHANE GILKEY was named director of budget, planning and research, and sponsored programs. In this new position, GILKEY oversees the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs and manages budget and planning issues for the division.

KEVIN YATES was hired as the budget and planning analyst for the vice president for research in January 2003. YATES previously worked for an accounting firm in Lancaster and as a financial analyst for American Electric Power.

PATRICIA A. LEIB was hired as the grants and contracts manager proposal preparation for the vice president for research. LEIB previously worked at the Edison Biotechnology Institute as a grant contract administrator.

Books

JOHN F. REIGER, history, had a revised edition of "American Sportsmen and the Origins of Conservation" published by Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, Ore., 2001.

Publications

STEVEN M. GRIMES, physics and astronomy, wrote "Nuclear Level Densities" in the Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, Vol. 2, 2002. GRIMES, ROGER W. FINLAY, physics and astronomy, WERNER P. ABFALTERER and FRED B. BATEMAN, alumni, et al. co-wrote "Failure of Standard Optical Models to Reproduce Neutron Total Cross Section Differences in the W Isotopes" in the Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, Vol. 2, 2002. GRIMES and THOMAS N. MASSEY, physics and astronomy, et al. co-wrote "Structure Studies of 11Be and 12Be Observation of Molecular Rotational Bands" in Physics of Atomic Nuclei, Vol. 65, 2002. MASSEY, GRIMES, CHARLES E. BRIENT, physics and astronomy, DEVON K. JACOBS and SALEH I. AL-QURAISHI, graduate students, co-wrote "Study of the Be(p,n) and Be(d,n) Source Reactions" in the Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, Vol. 2, 2002.

G. DANIEL LASSITER, psychology, wrote "Illusory Causation in the Courtroom" in Current Directions in Psychological Science, Vol. 11, 2002. LASSITER, IAN M. HANDLEY, PAUL E. WEILAND, PATRICK J. MUNHALL, graduate students, and Andrew L. Geers of the University of Toledo, co-wrote "Videotaped Interrogations and Confessions: A Simple Change in Camera Perspective Alters Verdicts in Simulated Trials" in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol. 87, 2002.

MARKUS BOETTCHER, physics and astronomy, and James Chiang of the Goddard Space Flight Center and the University of Maryland, co-wrote "X-Ray Spectral Variability Signatures of Flares in BL Lacertae Objects" in The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 581, 2002. BOETTCHER, R. Mukherjee of Barnard College and Columbia University, and A. Reimer of Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, co-wrote "Prediction of the High-Energy Emission From BL Lacertae Objects: The Case of W Comae" in The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 581, 2002.

THOMAS S. STATLER and BRIAN MCNAMARA, physics and astronomy, co-wrote "A 15 Kiloparsec X-Ray Disk in the Elliptical Galaxy NGC 1700" in The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 581, 2002.

EARLE R. HUNT, physics and astronomy/condensed matter and surface sciences, P. M. GADE, graduate student, and Normand Mousseau of the Universite de Montreal, Canada, co-wrote "Stretched-Exponential Dynamics in a Chain of Coupled Chaotic Oscillators" in Europhysics Letters, Vol. 60, 2002.

STEPHEN M. REILLY, biological sciences, and LANCE D. MCBRAYER, graduate student, co-wrote "Prey Processing in Lizards: Behavioral Variation in Sit-and-Wait and Widely Foraging Taxa" in the Canadian Journal of Zoology, Vol. 80, 2002. REILLY and MCBRAYER also co-wrote "Testing Amniote Models of Prey Transport Kinematics: A Quantitative Analysis of Mouth Opening Patterns in Lizards" in Zoology, Vol. 105, 2002. REILLY and Thomas D. White of Buffalo State College, co-wrote "Hypaxial Motor Patterns and the Function of Epipubic Bones in Primitive Mammals" in Science, Vol. 299, 2003. REILLY and AUDRONE R. BIKNEVICIUS, biomedical sciences, co-wrote "Integrating Kinematic and Kinetic Approaches to the Analysis of Terrestrial Locomotion" in Experimental Biology Reviews, 2003. REILLY and PETER M. LARSON, graduate student, co-wrote "Functional Morphology of Feeding and Gill Irrigation in the Anuran Tadpole: Electromyography and Muscle Function in Larval Rana Catesbeiana" in the Journal of Morphology, Vol. 255, 2003.

Presentations

MARY CHAMBERLIN, biological sciences, wrote and presented "Mitochondrial Function During Insect Programmed Cell Death" at a meeting for the International Congress of Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry at La Trobe University, Australia in February 2003.

EARLE HUNT, physics and astronomy/condensed matter and surface sciences, and Normand Mousseau, Sergei Simdyankin and Marc-Andre Brere of the Universite de Montreal, Canada, co-wrote "Glassy Dynamics in Arrays of Chaotic Oscillators," which Mousseau presented at the 7th Experimental Chaos Conference in San Diego, Calif. in August 2002.

STEPHEN M. REILLY and AUDRONE R. BIKNEVICIUS co-wrote "Integrating Mechanics and Kinematic Gaits in Tetrapod Locomotion: Congruence and Variation in 'Walking' and 'Running'," which REILLY presented at a meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology in Toronto, Canada, in January 2003. REILLY, BIKNEVICIUS, A.R. LAMMERS, K.D. EARLS, N.J. STEVENS, graduate students, and A.J. PARCHMAN, undergraduate student, co-wrote "The Effects of Incline on Limb Forces in a Quadrupedal Mammal," which LAMMERS presented at a meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology in Toronto, Canada, in January 2003.

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