FREDERICK TONER, modern languages, was recently elected executive vice president of the Ohio Foreign Language Association, a position that will lead to the presidency of OFLA in three years. OFLA's Web site states that the organization "is committed to world language study beginning in the primary grades, so that every learner, from early childhood through adult, acquires a high level of communicative and intercultural competence."
BARRY THOMAS, professor emeritus of German, received a Special Recognition Award acknowledging his "stellar career" at the Ohio Foreign Language Association's recent annual conference. Some of his many accomplishments include 41 years of teaching at Ohio University; directing the study abroad program in Salzburg, Austria, 11 times; serving as president of OFLA; chairing several committees in the organization; receiving other distinguished awards; and playing a prominent role in establishing foreign language alliances in Ohio.
LINDA CLARK, Innovation Center, has been elected to the board of directors of the National Business Incubation Association. Her three-year term begins Oct. 1. Read more.
MARY De GROOT, psychology, was honored by being invited to the Second Annual American Psychological Assocation Leadership Conference. She was one of 22 early-career scientists selected nationally to join established psychologists to discuss trends and priorities in psychology.
ZINA TROST, undergraduate student, psychology, will receive the Student Investigator Award presented by the Society of Behavioral Medicine's Pain Special Interest Group. She will present her research at the upcoming annual meeting.
LINDSAY ORCHOWSKI, graduate student and counselor in residence, was honored at the 5th Annual Depression on College Campuses Conference with the 2007 Student Mental Health Advocate Award. The conference took place at the University of Michigan.
QIUPING CAO, health and human services, Ohio University-Lancaster, presented (with Hannah Nissen) "Strategies for Engaging Children in Circle Time" at the 2007 Ohio Early Care and Education Conference sponsored by the Ohio Association for the Education of Young Children and the Ohio Department of Education, Columbus, April 12-14.
KITTY CONSOLO, health and human services, Ohio University-Zanesville, debuted her video production, "Running and Winning the Race of Life," at the Ohio Association of Track and Cross Country Coaches in Columbus.
BRIAN HOYT, business technology, Ohio University-Lancaster, presented "A Research Study: Service-learning and Ethics Education" at the Association of University Regional Campuses of Ohio at the BGSU Firelands Campus on April 13 and 14.
ANDREA BAKER, arts and sciences, Ohio University-Lancaster, presented "Researching an Online Fan Community: E-Research or Traditional Methodology" at the Midwest Sociological Association/North Central Sociological Association meetings April 4-7, in Chicago.
DA ZHANG, computer science technology, Ohio University-Lancaster, presented "Integrating Teaching Slides into Computer/Technology Course Development" (co-authored by CHRISTINE WOLFE) at the International Conference of Society of Information Technology in Education March 27 in San Antonio.
KEN HEINEMAN, Ohio University-Lancaster, authored "Catholicism" in "Encyclopedia of American Urban History" (David Goldfield, ed., Sage, 2007) and "Monsignor Charles Owen Rice" in "Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working Class History" (Eric Arnesen, ed., Routledge, 2007).
BARBARA MAHAFFEY, Ohio University-Chillicothe, had a manuscript titled "Therapeutic Alliance: Size, Assignment, and Generalizability Sampling Strategies Reported in Marital and Family Therapy Studies" accepted for publication in the international journal The Family Journal Counseling and Therapy for Couples and Families.
CHARLES SAVAGE, music, Ohio University-Zanesville, premiered two new pieces of music, "Sonnet 122" and "Spirits of the Dead." Another of his compositions, "Mad Rush to the End," was performed at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point College of Fine Arts and Communication.
DAVID DRABOLD, physics and astronomy, and TESFAYE ABTEW, graduate student, had one of their papers selected for inclusion in the Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter Top Papers of 2006. This is the second year in a row that Dave has landed in the "Greatest Hits" category with the Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter.
JILL ALLYN ROSSER, English, is the winner of the seventh annual New Criterion Poetry Prize for a book-length manuscript of poems that pay close attention to form. She will receive $3000 and her book, Foiled Again, will be published by Ivan R. Dee, Chicago in the fall of 2007.
KEVIN MATTSON, history, published "Age of Anxiety: the old ideas won't work in the war on terror" in the national political and literary magazine Boston Review. Read the article, a review of Peter Beinart's book, "The Good Fight," online at http://bostonreview.net/BR31.4/mattson.html.
BOJINKA BISHOP, journalism, had her article "Theory and practice converge: a proposed set of corporate communication principles," published in the August edition of the Corporate Communications: an International Journal.
SHAHROKH GHAFFARI, chemistry, and BRIANNA LAMBES, student research assistant, Ohio University-Zanesville, were published in the American Journal of Undergraduate Research regarding the work they have done with fly ash and the process of separating unleaded fuel from water using column chromatography.
HEIDI PORTER, recent graudate, CRISSY HOKINSON, student, and JASON WRENCH, communication, Ohio University-Eastern, had their article "The Influence of Supervisor Temperament on Subordinate Job Satisfaction and Perceptions of Supervisor Sociocommunicative Orientation and Approachability" published in Communication Quarterly.
BARBARA MAHAFFEY, Ohio University-Chillicothe, had a manuscript titled "Therapeutic Alliance: Size, Assignment, and Generalizability Sampling Strategies Reported in Marital and Family Therapy Studies" accepted for publication in the international journal, The Family Journal Counseling and Therapy for Couples and Families.
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