Ohio University professional activity announcements

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

Recognitions

DEAN MCWILLIAMS, Hamilton, Baker and Hostetler professor of humanities, will be presented the Sylvia Lyons Render Award at the American Literature Association meeting in June. MCWILLIAMS is being honored for his work about Charles W. Chesnutt, the first African-American writer of fiction to gain a national audience. MCWILLIAMS' editions of two previously unpublished Chesnutt novels, "Paul Marchand. F.M.C." and "The Quarry" were published by Princeton University Press in 1999. His critical study, "Charles Chesnutt and the Fictions of Race," is the most complete study of Chesnutt yet attempted. It will be published this fall by the University of Georgia Press.

BLIS HANOUSEK DEVAULT, WOUB Radio and Television, has been chosen to receive a Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB)/Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) Producers Academy alumni stipend. DEVAULT was one of five selected, based on the ability to "best exemplify the goals of the Academy through active production and development of projects for public television, contributions to peer mentoring, and the employment of the contacts and skills developed through the various programs."

KELLI WHITLOCK and ANDREA GIBSON, Office of Research Communications, received a bronze medal for excellence in periodical staff writing in this year's Circle of Excellence Awards program. This program is a national competition sponsored by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. WHITLOCK and GIBSON were recognized for their writing in "Perspectives," the University's biannual magazine of research and creative activity.

LEONARD RALEY, University Advancement, served on the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) Circle of Excellence Awards Committee in April 2002. The international awards competition recognizes work in Alumni Relations, Communications and Development and is judged by a committee of selected college and university advancement professionals.

BROOKE HALLOWELL, School of Hearing, Speech and Language Sciences, was elected chair of the Joint Committee on Academic Assessment in December 2001.

TIMOTHY J. RYAN, health sciences, received the 2001-2002 ASSEF/NIOSH Cash Award for the amount of $750. This award was issued by the American Society of Safety Engineers Foundation.

CHARLES SAVAGE, music, conducted his "Short Symphony No. 1" for wind ensemble at Muskingum College. His clarinet/saxophone duet "Mad Rush to the End" was performed at the College of Mount St. Joseph's in Cincinnati and at the School for Creative and Performing Arts.

Books

BROOKE HALLOWELL, School of Hearing, Speech and Language Sciences, and John Enderle of the University of Connecticut co-wrote "1999 Annual Review of Engineering Design Projects to Aid Persons with Disabilities," published by Creative Learning Press/National Science Foundation, Mansfield Center, Conn., 2001. HALLOWELL and Roberta Chapey of Brooklyn College co-wrote Introduction to Language Intervention Strategies in Adult Aphasia and Delivering Language Intervention Services to Adults with Neurogenic Communication Disorders, chapters in "Language Intervention Strategies in Adult Aphasia," published by Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, Md., 2001. HALLOWELL and Bernard Henri of the Cleveland Hearing and Speech Center, co-wrote Improving Access to Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Services, a chapter in "Professional Issues in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, 2^nd Edition," published by San Diego Singular Publishing Group, San Diego, Calif., 2001.

LENA WRIGHT MYERS, sociology and anthropology, wrote "A Broken Silence: Voices of African American Women in the Academy," published by Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., Westport, Conn., 2002.

DIANA KNOTT, journalism, wrote Having a Cow: Reactions to 'Veggie Libel' Laws and the Oprah Trials, a chapter in "Citizenship and Participation in the Information Age," published by Garamond Press, Aurora, Ontario, 2002.

ANDREA BAKER, sociology, wrote "Double Click: Romance and Commitment of Online Couples," published by Hampton Press, Cresskill, N.J., 2002.

Publications

BRIAN C. MCCARTHY, environmental and plant biology, and J. Forrest Meekins, alumna, co-wrote "Effect of population density on the demography of an invasive plant (Alliaria petiolata, Brassicaceae) population in a southeastern Ohio forest" in American Midland Naturalist, Vol. 147, 2002.

VEENA KASBEKAR, English, wrote "Using Haiku to Teach Essay Writing" in AURCO Journal, 2002.

SUSAN SARNOFF, social work, wrote "Central Appalachia – Still the Other America" in Journal of Poverty, Special Issue, 2002.

DIANA KNOTT, journalism, Virginia Carroll of Northwestern University and Philip Meyer of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill co-wrote "Social Responsibility Wins When CEO Has Been Editor" in Newspaper Research Journal, Vol. 23, 2002.

BROOKE HALLOWELL, School of Hearing, Speech and Language Sciences, and John Enderle of the University of Connecticut co-wrote "Improving Design Project Experiences Through Improved Assessment Practices" in Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation, 2001.

DAVID A. DRABOLD, physics and astronomy, and Sergei N. Taraskin and S. R. Elliott of the University of Cambridge co-wrote "Spatial Decay of the Single-Particle Density Matrix in Insulators: Analytic Results in Two and Three Dimensions" in Physical Review Letters, Vol. 88, 2002. DRABOLD and JUN LI, research associate, co-wrote "Approximate Ab Initio Simulations of Amorphous Silicon and Glassy Chalcogenides" in Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science, Vol. 5, 2001.

Presentations

DIANNE BOUVIER, institutional equity, wrote and presented "Strategies for Managing Conflict on Campus" at a meeting of the College and University Personnel Association.

RICK SHRIVER, electronic media, wrote and presented "Balancing the Need for Retention and Academic Rigor in Small Programs" at a meeting of the Broadcast Education Association.

DIANA KNOTT, journalism, wrote and presented "Framing to Enhance Certainty and Commonality: Applying Agenda Melding to Strategic Communications" at the Fifth International, Interdisciplinary Public Relations Research Conference.

MIRIAM CLUBOK, social work, wrote and presented "Life at 100: Feisty or Frail" at the Annual Conference of the National Association of Social Workers, West Virginia Chapter.

LINDA CLARK, Innovation Center, wrote and presented "Removing Barriers to Growing a Technology Business" at the Technology Opportunities Conference.

DAVID BERGDAHL, English, wrote and presented "Discourse-openers of Student Messages in Online Discussion Groups" at the XXII International Poetics and Linguistics Association Conference in Birmingham, UK.

Several members from the School of Hearing, Speech and Language Sciences presented papers at a meeting of the Ohio Speech-Language-Hearing Association. BROOKE HALLOWELL, HANS KRUSE and AMY REID, LOLLIE VAUGHAN, STACEY COMMERFORD, NATALIE FRANKO and LEETAL CUPERMAN, graduate students, co-wrote and presented "Why Use Eye Movements to Study Language Comprehension?" HALLOWELL, REID, COMMERFORD, FRANKO, CUPERMAN, SOJUNG KIM, graduate student, and CHRISTINE JACKSON and ANGIE EVANS, undergraduate students, co-wrote and presented "Controlling for Vision in Research on Neurogenic Communication Disorders." HALLOWELL, DAVIDA PARSONS, NORMAN GARBER, REID, and JOCELYN HECKMAN and KAREN HLAVAC, graduate students, co-wrote and presented "Enriching Student Learning Through Community Service."

Several members from the School of Hearing, Speech and Language Sciences presented papers at the Annual Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. BROOKE HALLOWELL, HANS KRUSE, and KIRSTEN CARR, LOLLIE VAUGHAN and AMY REID, graduate students, co-wrote "Using Eye Movements to Study Auditory Comprehension in Children" which HALLOWELL and VAUGHAN presented. HALLOWELL and Heather Clark of Appalachian State University co-wrote and presented "Prioritization of Dysphagia Over Aphasia Services Under Managed Care." HALLOWELL and DAVIDA PARSONS, REID, KAREN HLAVAC, JOCLYN HECKMAN and STACEY COMMERFORD, graduate students, and Carlin Hageman of the University of Northern Iowa co-wrote and presented "Fostering Community Service to Enrich Learning in University Programs."

Several members from the School of Hearing, Speech and Language Sciences presented papers at the European Conference on Eye Movements. BROOKE HALLOWELL wrote and presented "The Influence of Semantic Relationships Between Auditory Verbal Messages and Images on Eye Fixations." HALLOWELL, BRUCE CARLSON, and PETULA VAZ, graduate student, co-wrote "A Taxonomy of Dependent Measures for Quantifying Eye Movement Responses in Studies of Cognitive Processing" which HALLOWELL presented.

BROOKE HALLOWELL, School of Hearing, Speech and Language Sciences, and Robert Wertz of Vanderbilt University/Nashville VA Medical Center co-wrote "Indexing Auditory Comprehension Through Eye Movements: Revised Token Test Adaptations" which HALLOWELL presented at a meeting of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics. HALLOWELL, HANS KRUSE and Wertz co-wrote "Using Eye Movement Responses to Index Auditory Comprehension: An Adaptation of the Revised Token Test" which HALLOWELL presented at the Clinical Aphasiology Conference. HALLOWELL and John Enderle of the University of Connecticut co-wrote "Improving Design Project Experiences Through Improved Assessment Practices" which Enderle presented at the Rocky Mountain Bioengineering Symposium.

DONALD B. MILES, biological sciences, CLAY CORBIN, graduate student, and David Pearson of Arizona State University co-wrote "Between Two Worlds: The Correlation Between Morphology and Foraging Ecology of Migratory Passerines in Temperate and Tropical Environments" which MILES presented at the "Birds of Two Worlds" Symposium for the Smithsonian Institute, Migratory Bird Center.

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