Compiled by Natalie Smith

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

Presentations

BARBARA HARRISON and MOLLY KINNE, Residence Life, delivered a, presentation, "The Puzzle Project," which is a professional development series for professional staff in Student Affairs based upon topics of diversity, at the American College Personnel Association (ACPA) conference in Philadelphia.

BRIAN McCARTHY, environmental and plant biology, and RYAN McEWAN, graduate student, presented a talk entitled "Tree-ring analysis of the largest remaining stand of American chestnut, West Salem, WI" at a meeting for the Association of Southeastern Biologists in Memphis, Tenn.; McCARTHY and MATTHEW ALBRECHT, graduate student, also presented a talk entitled "The Population Biology and Life History of Black Cohosh, an Economically Important Eastern Woodland Herb" at the meeting.

NANCY STEVENS, biomedical sciences, presented "Influence of Support Type Upon Stride Duration and Duty Factor During Primate Arboreal Quadrupedalism" to the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Tampa, Florida.

Publications

PHILLIP CANTINO, environmental and plant biology, wrote "A Taxonomic Treatment of the Plant Family Phrymaceae" and co-wrote "A Taxonomic Treatment of the Family Lamiaceae in J.W. Kadereit" in The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, Vol. 7.

MORGAN VIS, environmental and plant biology, SARAH HAMSHER and BOB VERB, alumni, published "Analysis of Acid Mine Drainage Impacted Streams Using a Periphyton Index" in the Journal of Freshwater Ecology, Vol. 19; VIS, T.J Entwisle and H. McPherson, staff of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney, Australia, co-wrote "Battrachospermun Pseudogelatinosum (Battrachospermales, Rhodophyta), a Polyecious Paraspecies from Australia and New Zealand" in the Asturalian Journal of Botany, Vol. 17.

Awards

ANNE LOUCKS and JEAN THUMA, biological sciences, co-wrote "Luteinizing Hormone Pulsatility is Disrupted at a Threshold of Energy Availability in Regularly Menstruating Women" which has been selected as the best clinical research paper by the Chair of an Awards Committee for the Endocrine Society. The paper was chosen from approximately 700 of those published in 2003 in the Endocrine Society's journal entitled The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.

NANCY STEVENS, biomedical sciences, was awarded the Paleogene Paleontology in the East African Rift, Tanzania by the OURC.