Linda Arena, associate professor of health, fitness and sport, has been voted Coach of the Year by the North Coast Athletic Conference and Regional Coach of the Year by the National Field Hockey Coaches Association.

Rob Baker, associate professor of political science, along with former student Scott R. Meinke (’97), presented a paper titled “Neighborhoods, Grassroots Organizations, and City Government: The Politics of Neighborhood Mobilization and Collective Action in Springfield, Ohio” at the Southern Political Science Association meeting in Atlanta last fall. Baker also helped draft high school graduation competency statements in the social studies as part of the Ohio Department of Education and Board of Regents’ conference in September titled “Looking to the New Education Millennium: Developing Common Expectations for Ohio’s High School Graduates.” Additionally, Dr. Baker has recently signed a contract with Lanahan Publishers, Inc. of Baltimore to do a revised edition of his state and local government text titled The Lanahan Readings in State and Local Government: Diversity, Innovation, and Rejuvenation. Baker currently serves as vice-president of the Board of the Clark County Combined Health District, and as president of the Board of the Rocking Horse Center, an enhanced pediatric care clinic for at-risk children and youth opening later this spring in Springfield.

Donald Busarow, professor of music, served as organ and choral clinician at the Worship & Music Clinic sponsored by Augsburg Publishing House at Trinity Seminary, Columbus, earlier this year. He also presented a festival of his hymn arrangements at Trinity Lutheran Church, Houston, Texas.

William Buscemi, professor of political science, will be presenting a paper titled “Teaching Numbers in the Introductory Course” at the Midwest Political Science meeting in April. Buscemi previously presented a paper at the American Political Science Association meeting in Boston. The paper was titled “The Politics of Teaching: Henry Giroux and Paulo Friere.” Buscemi also published an article titled “Numbers? Borrinnggg!,” in PS: Political Science and Politics.

Charles Chatfield, professor of history, chaired a panel session on “Transnational Social Movements and Global Politics” at the 113th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 10.

Richard Flickinger will co-present a paper with Stephen Bennett of the University of Cincinnati and Donley Studlar of West Virginia University at the biennial meeting of the European Community Studies Association in June. The paper is titled “The Economic Role of Government and the EU and Turnout in European Elections.”

George Hudson, professor of political science, and Dr. Olga Medvedkov, professor of geography, started a new Moscow class this semester. About 12 students from the class are planning to go to Moscow for two weeks at the end of the semester to apply what they have learned.

Mary Ellen Jones, associate professor of English and director of American studies, has published a book titled Daily Life on the 19th Century American Frontier.

Thomas P. Martin, professor of health, fitness and sport, has published an article titled “Highpointing - Summiting United States Highpoints for Fun, Fitness, Friends, Focus, and Folly” in World Leisure and Recreation. He also presented a paper on this topic in February at the Midwest District convention of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance in Huntington, WV.

Alan W. McEvoy, professor of sociology, and Jeff Brookings, professor of psychology and department chair, along with Debbie Rollo of the Rape Crisis Center in Tulsa, Okla., have published a book titled If He is Raped: A Guidebook for Parents, Partners, Spouses and Friends. The book aims to help family and friends understand how a male victim sees himself in the world after a male sexual assault, and it offers guidelines on how to help the male victim cope.

Rochelle L. Millen, associate professor of religion, presented a paper titled “Social Attitudes Disguised as Halakhah: ‘zila milta,’ ‘ein havrutan naah,’ ‘kevod hatsibbur,’” at the annual meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies in Boston. She also served as co-chair of the Women’s Caucus breakfast of the American Jewish Society.

Robert W. Morris, professor of geology, has published his paper titled “Prehistoric Knobbed Pestles from Ohio - Part II” in the fall 1998 edition of Ohio Archaeologist.

James L. Noyes, professor of computer science, led a “Birds of a Feather” session at the Association for Computer Machinery’s annual Computer Science Education Conference in New Orleans. Titled “Teaching Undergraduate Computational Science,” the session explored some effective techniques for bringing a topic that has traditionally been taught only at the graduate level down to the undergraduate level.

Terry Otten, professor of English, has published his commissioned essay titled “Transfiguring the Narrative - Beloved from Melodrama to Tragedy” in the new anthology, Critical Essays on Toni Morrison’s Beloved.

Don Reed, associate professor of philosophy, was interviewed, along with two Harvard psychologists, on NPR’s “All Things Considered” in January. Reed related the philosophy of Lawrence Kohlberg to the Clinton Senate trial. USA Today and WJR Radio in Detroit also interviewed him. In addition, Reed attended the 24th annual conference of the Association for Moral Education, this year at Dartmouth College, and presented a paper titled “Families in Kohlberg’s Pre-1970 Social Psychology.” He also gave invited comments on three papers at a symposium titled “Socio-cultural Approaches to Moral Education.” Reed also attended meetings of the International Executive Board of the AME, of which he has been a member since 1995.

Staci Rhine, assistant professor of political science, Richard Flickinger, professor of political science, and Stephen Bennett of the University of Cincinnati, have co-authored a forthcoming article in the prestigious British Journal of Political Science. The article compares political discussion in Britain and the United States. Rhine also will be co-presenting a paper with Flickinger and Linda and Stephen Bennett at the April Midwest Political Science meeting in Chicago. The paper is titled “Video Malaise Revisited: The Impact of Americans’ Exposure to Mass Media on Attitudes toward Government and Public Officials in the 1980s and 1990s.”

John Young, instructor of political science, is currently working on his Ph.D. dissertation, which will examine the role of city councils in downtown economic development in Cleveland and Baltimore.