Compiled by Natalie Smith

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

Publication

MORGAN L. VIS-CHIASSON, environmental and plant biology, and N.R. FILKIN, graduate student, wrote "Phenology of Paralemanea Aannulata (Lemaneaceae, Rhodophyta) in an Ohio Woodland Stream" in Hydrobiologia, Vol. 518.

Awards

DAVID BAYLESS, mechanical engineering, was appointed vice president of Pi Tau Sigma, the national mechanical engineering honor society, to be in charge of the Central Region (approximately the Midwestern portion of the United States) in April 2004.

Presentation

CHARLES OVERBY, industrial and systems engineering Emeritus professor, recently returned from a five-and-a-half week invited lecture tour in Japan that reached three of the five Japanese islands: Hokkaido, Honshu, and Okinawa. OVERBY presented a paper titled, "Article 9: Humanity's Plea For Rules-Of-Law Rather Than Rules-Of-War. Menaced By A Rogue State, The USA." He spoke at five universities - Hokkaido and Nagoya (National Universities) Nanzan (International Division) Chubu, and Nanzan Women's University - and gave public lectures in the following cities: Kushiro, Sapporo, Otaru, Akita, Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Hamamatsu, Kanazawa and Naha Okinawa. OVERBY was able to join his Okinawan friends in protesting U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's November 16 visit to U.S. military bases on that hugely militarized island from which he flew combat missions in the Korean War.