Publications

TIMOTHY G. ANDERSON, associate professor of geography, wrote "Diagnostic Elements of the Pennsylvania-German Cultural Landscape in Ohio" for the North American Geographer, Vol. 4, in the summer issue 2005. ANDERSON also wrote "Introduction to Human Geography: A World-Systems Approach," published by Kendall/Hunt in Dubuque, Iowa, in August 2005.

SUSAN SARNOFF, associate professor of social work, wrote "Linking Social Work Students to the Wider World via an Asynchronous Learning Network" for the Journal of Teaching in Social Work: Special Issue on Technology in Social Work Education, Vol. 25, in 2005.

JANET L. DUVALL, assistant professor of deaf studies and interpreting, wrote "Deaf and Hearing Impaired in the Prison System" for the Corrections Compendium, Vol. May/June 2004, in 2004.

MOLLY R. MORRIS, associate professor of biological sciences, OSCAR RIOS-CARDENAS, an Ohio University postdoctoral fellow, and M. SCARLETT TUDOR, an Ohio University graduate student, wrote "Older Swordtail Females Prefer Asymmetrical Males" for Biology Letters, Royal Society of London, online, to be published later this month (2005).

ANNE COOPER-CHEN, Ph.D., professor of journalism and director of Ohio Shandong Center in East Asia, along with chapter authors RICK GERSHON, ANTHONY MORETTI, TOMOKO KANAYAMA, and REGINA SILVA, all holding College of Communication PhDs, and DR. HOG CHENG, an associate professor of journalism, wrote "Global Entertainment Media," published by Lawrence Earlbaum Associates in 2005.

Presentations

ROBERT L. WILLIAMS, II, professor of mechanical engineering, and PAUL BOSSCHER, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, judged and chaired the ASME presentation, "A Concept for Rapidly-Deployable Cable Robot Search and Rescue Systems," for the student mechanisms contest in Long Beach, Ca., in September 2005.

RICHARD GREENLEE, associate professor of social work, and WARREN GALBREATH, assistant professor of social work at the Ohio University Eastern campus, recently attended the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Delegate Assembly in Washington D.C. GREENLEE represented the state of Ohio and GALBREATH represented West Virginia.  

Recognitions

EDWARD A. RIEDINGER, head professor of the Latina America, Spanish, and Portugese Library at Ohio State University, and professor of Brazilian studies at Ohio State University and Ohio University, has been named Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Brazilian History and Culture by Routledge Publishers (New York and London). The two-volume work is scheduled for release in 2009.