Compiled by Laura Lee Bloor, student editor, BSJ ‘05

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

Publications

SUSAN SARNOFF, associate professor of social work, wrote "Social Workers and the Witness Role" in The Journal of Social Work Values and Ethics, Vol. 15, in June. Vol. 1, No. 1, this fall.

ROSEMARY ROSSITER, professor of economics, and JEFF CONNER, professor of mathematics, co-wrote an article appearing in Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, Vol. 9.

D. LEE BEARD, instructor for the academic advancement center, wrote the book, "Macintosh Productivity Skills: A Visual Step-By-Step Guide," Stipes Publishing, Champaign, (2004) in September.

DAVID DRABOLD, professor of physics and astronomy, PARTHAPRATIM BISWAS, research assistant professor, DE NYAGO TAFEN, graduate student of physics and astronomy, and RAYMOND ATTA-FYNN, graduate student of physics and astronomy, wrote the chapter, "Recent Developments in Computer Modeling of Amorphous Materials, in the book, "In Non-Crystalline Materials for Optoelectronics," edited by G. Lucovsky and M. Popescu, INOE, Bucharest, pages 441-467 (2004). The book was published in September. The chapter, "Recent Developments in Computer Modeling of Amorphous Materials," also appeared in "Optoelectronic Materials and Devices," INOE, Bucharest, (2004). The four wrote experimental information in first principles modeling of materials included in the J Physics: Condensed Matter, Vol. 16, in October. DRABOLD and TESFAYE ABTEW, graduate student, wrote an article about thermally driven hopping and electron transport in amorphous materials from density functional calculations for J Physics: Condensed Matter, Vol. 16, in October.

MARKUS BOETTCHER, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, and A. REIMER, professor of Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany, wrote "Modeling the Multiwavelength Spectra and Variability of BL Lacertae in 2000" in The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 609, in July.

ROBERT SALOW, graduate student of physics and astronomy, and THOMAS STATLER, associate professor of physics and astronomy, wrote "Self-Gravitating Eccentric Disk Models for the Double Nucleus of M31" in The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 611, in August.

JOSEPH SHIELDS, associate professor of physics and astronomy, et al wrote "High-Resolution Ultraviolet Spectra of the Dwarf Seyfert 1 Galaxy NGC 4395: Evidence for Intrinsic Absorption" in The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 612, in September.

L. BIRZAN, graduate student of physics and astronomy, D.A. RAFFERTY, graduate student of physics and astronomy, and BRIAN McNAMARA, associate professor of physics and astronomy, wrote "A Systematic Study of Radio-Induced X-Ray Cavities in Clusters, Groups and Galaxies" in The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 607, in June.

R. DAMIAN NANCE, professor of geological sciences, J.D. KEPPIE, professor affiliated with the United Nations Assistance Mission (UNAM), and C.A. SANDBERG, professor affiliated with the U. S. Geological Survey, wrote "Implications of Latest Pennsylvanian to Middle Permian Paleontological and U-Pb SHRIMP Data from the Tecomate Formation to Re-Dating Tectonothermal Events in the Acatlan Complex, Southern Mexico" in the International Geology Review, Vol. 46, in September. NANCE, KEPPIE, and J. DOSTAL, professor at St. Mary's University, wrote "Mid-Jurassic Tectonothermal Event Superposed on a Paleozoic Geological Record in the Acatlan Complex of Southern Mexico: Hotspot Activity During the Breakup of Pangea" in the Gondwana Research, Vol. 7, in August. NANCE, J.B. MURPHY, professor at St. Francis Xavier University, and S.A. PISAREVSKY, professor at the University of Western Australia, wrote "Neoproterozoic-Early Paleozoic Configuration of Peri-Gondwanan Terranes: Implications for Laurentia-Gondwana Connections" in the International Journal of Earth Sciences, Vol. 93, in October. NANCE, MURPHY, and DOSTAL, wrote "Neoproterozoic Juvenile Crust Development in the Peri-Rodinian Ocean: Implications for Grenvillian Orogenesis" in the Geological Society of America Memoir, Vol. 197, in October. NANCE, DAVID DOWE, graduate student of geological sciences, and KEPPIE, wrote "Deformational History of the Granjeno Schist, Ciudad Victoria, Mexico: Constraints on the Closure of the Rheic Ocean?" in the International Geology Review, Vol. 46, in October. NANCE, MURPHY, and KEPPIE, wrote "Nick Rast and the Recognition of the Avalonian Arc" in the Journal of Geodynamics, Vol. 37, in August. NANCE and MURPHY wrote "How Do Supercontinents Form?" in the American Scientist, Vol. 92, in July.

Presentations

MOLLY MORRIS, associate professor of biological sciences, and ANDRE FERNANDEZ, graduate student, presented on color vision in primates and potentially sexually selected traits: a pre-existing sensory bias to the Animal Behavior Society in Oaxaca, Mexico, in June. MORRIS, OSCAR RIOS-CARDENAS, postdoctoral fellow, and MARY SCARLETT TUDOR, undergraduate student, presented on female preference for bar patterns in swordtails: the effect of female size on bar number symmetry at the Animal Behavior Society in Oaxaca, Mexico, in June. Rios-Cardenas was the senior author. MORRIS, JASON MORETZ, graduate student, and KRISTEN FARLEY, undergraduate student, presented on the role of sexual selection in the loss of sexually selected traits in the swordtail fish Xiphophorus continens to the Animal Behavior Society in Oaxaca, Mexico, in June. Morris was the senior author with additional author Paul Nicoletto. MORRIS, CARLA GUTIERREZ-RODRIQUEZ, postdoctoral fellow, and AIDEN ELLIOT SHEARER, undergraduate student, presented on the documentation of a hybrid zone between the swordtails Xiphophours birchmanni and X. cortezi: morphological, genetic and behavioral evidence to the Animal Behavior Society in Oaxaca, Mexico, in June. Gutierrez-Rodriquez, was the senior author with additional authors, Rios-Cardenas and Fernandez.

KELLY JOHNSON, associate professor of biological sciences, gave an invited presentation on the contribution of plant phenolics and ascorbate to the antioxidant capacity of caterpillar midgets in a symposium titled "From Mandible to Midgut" at the 14th International Congress of Entomology in Brisbane, Australia, in August.

SUSAN SARNOFF, associate professor of social work, JOY BI, Blackboard coordinator and instructional designer, and ANITA GRANT, head of circulation at Alden Library, presented on the library-Blackboard interface and the results of a faculty survey of how Blackboard users link to library resources. It was published in conference proceedings at the E-Learn 2004 society in Washington, D.C., in November. Additional co-authors were Wanda Sue Rohrbaugh, Sherri Saines and Lorraine Wochna, all Alden librarians.

TERRY CONRY, director of facilities management, presented "Collective Bargaining in Higher Education" to the Institute for Facilities Management in September at the Association of Higher Education Facilities Officers in Montreal, Canada.

STEPHEN REILLY, associate professor of biological sciences, and AUDRONE BIKNEVICIUS, associate professor of biomedical sciences, College of Osteopathic Medicine (COM), and JENNIFER HANCOCK, biological sciences graduate student, presented "'Groucho Running' in Tinamous" at the International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology in Boca Raton, Fla. in August. REILLY, ERIC McELROY, biological sciences graduate student, and BIKNEVICIUS, presented "The Mechanics of Locomotion in Lizards" at the International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology in Boca Raton, Fla. REILLY and NANCY STEVENS, biomedical Sciences, College of Osteopathic Medicine (COM), presented "Integrating Approaches to the Study of Terrestrial Locomotion" at the International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology in Boca Raton, Fla., in August. They also organized an Invited Symposium at the event. REILLY and STEVENS presented "Integrating Locomotor Energetics, Mechanics and Gaits: Insights and Key Directions at the International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology" in Boca Raton, Fla.

MARKUS BOETTCHER, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, presented "Multiwavelength Observations of the Ultraluminous X-ray Sources in NGC 1313" at the American Astronomical Society High Energy Astrophysics Division meeting in New Orleans, La., in September. He and MANASVITA JOSHI, graduate student, presented "Multiwavelength Observations of 3C66A in 2003" at the American Astronomical Society High Energy Astrophysics Division meeting in New Orleans, La., in September.

BRIAN McNAMARA, associate professor of physics and astronomy, et al presented "A Detailed Analysis of the AGN/ICM Interaction in Hydra A" at the American Astronomical Society High Energy Astrophysics Division meeting in New Orleans, La., in September. He also presented "Cluster Scale AGN Shock Outbursts in Hydra A and MS0735.6+7421" at the American Astronomical Society High Energy Astrophysics Division meeting in New Orleans, La., in September. He presented "Bubbles and Supercavities in Clusters of Galaxies" with L. BIRZAN, graduate student of physics and astronomy, and D. RAFFERTY, graduate student of physics and astronomy, at the America Astronomical Society High Energy Astrophysics Division meeting in New Orleans, La., in September. BIRZAN, RAFFERTY and McNAMARA presented "Interactions between Radio Sources and the Intracluster Medium" and "Feedback and Star Formation in Custer Cores" at the Division meeting.

SWATI GUPTA, graduate student of physics and astronomy, and MARKUS BOETTCHER, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, presented "Time Dependent Radiation Signatures from Microquasar Jets" at the American Astronomical Society High Energy Astrophysics Division meeting in New Orleans, La., in September.

JUSTIN FINKE, graduate student of physics and astronomy, and MARKUS BOETTCHER, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, presented "Modeling of a High/Soft State Flare in Cygnus X-1" at the American Astronomical Society High Energy Astrophysics Division meeting in New Orleans, La., in September.

ROBERT L. WILLIAMS II, associate professor of mechanical engineering, BEN SNYDER, graduate student, and JAMES ALBUS, NIST Fellow, presented "Seven-DOF Cable-Suspended Robot with Independent Metrology" at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Mechanisms and Robotics Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, in September.

L. BIRZAN, graduate student of physics and astronomy, D.A. RAFFERTY, graduate student of physics and astronomy, and BRIAN McNAMARA, associate professor of physics and astronomy, presented "Interactions Between Radio Sources and the Intracluster Medium" at the American Astronomical Society High Energy Astrophysics Division meeting in New Orleans, La., in September. They also presented "Feedback and Star Formation in Cluster Cores" at the American Astronomical Society High Energy Astrophysics Division meeting in New Orleans, La., in September.

DIANNE M. GUT, assistant professor of teacher education, and MARY C. MARKOWITZ, assistant professor at the University of Kentucky, presented "Can it be Personal and Professional? Teacher Self-disclosure in the College Classroom" at the Mid-western Educational Research Association in Columbus, in October.

Recognitions

JAY GUNASEKERA, professor of mechanical engineering, was elected to the North American Manufacturing Research Institution of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (NAMRI/SME) board of directors.

DANIEL PHILLIPS, associate professor of physics and astronomy, was awarded $61,000 by the United States Department of Energy in July for the third year of his Outstanding Junior Investigator award. The money will fund research titled "Few-Nucleon Systems in the Laboratory, Supernovae and the Cosmos." He also was chair of the 2004 Gordon Research Conference on Photonuclear Reactions, held at Tilton School in Tilton, N.H. from August 1-6. Co-vice-chairs included ADAM SARTY, associate professor at St. Mary's University and BERND KRUSCHE, professor at the University of Basel.

LEWIS RANDOLPH, associate professor of political science, and GAYLE TATE, associate professor of African studies at Rutgers University, received the "Best Book of 2004 On Race and Ethnic Politics in Local Contexts" award for their book "Rights for a Season: The Politics of Race, Class, Gender in Richmond, Va." They received the award from the Section on Race, Ethnicity and Politics, American Political Science Association on Sept. 4, in Chicago, Ill. at the Annual of the American Political Science Association Meeting.

SUSAN SARNOFF, associate professor of social work, won second place in a competition for best articles published in the Journal of Technology in Human Services, 1999-2004. Her article "Ensuring that Course Web sites are ADA Compliant" was published in the Journal of Technology in Human Services, Vol., 18, in 2001, and in a compendium of best articles from the journal, posted on the Ohio Learning Network Web site.

MARY C. DILLON, director of university communications and marketing, MARK KRUMEL, graphic designer, and STACEY RILEY, graphic designer, had works that were selected for the fourth consecutive year for inclusion in The Creativity Annual's 34th edition. Selected pieces include: a series of postcards designed for the university's bicentennial; the catalog for The Trisolini Print exhibition; Profiles magazine, the alumni magazine for the College of Arts and Sciences; and the 2003-2004 art calendar. Entries were received from 40 states and 31 countries.

ANGIE BUKLEY, visiting Stocker professor in the electrical engineering and computer science department, was elected by the International Space University Academic Council for a three-year mandate renewable one time in July. The Space University Academic Council charts the academic direction of the International Space University Summers Session program, master of space studies and master of space business degree programs. They suggest and, or approve all changes and additions to the curriculum as well as provide recommendations to the International Space University dean and president for improvements in the programs.