Douglas M. Andrews, associate professor of statistics, will lead a session on assessing the effectiveness of active learning strategies and multimedia technology in statistics education at the annual international statistics conference held in Baltimore in mid-August.

Imogene Bolls, adjunct professor of English, will have her third collection of poems, titled Advice for the Climb, published next fall by Firelands Writing Center/Bowling Green State University in its Midwest Writers Series. Bolls’ poem, “In Retrospect: Oedipus to the Sphinx,” appears in Orpheus & Company: Contemporary Poems on Greek Mythology, published this year by University Press of New England. The poem, which first appeared in The Georgia Review, opens the section on “Oedipus.” Bolls also has a poem, “Walk to the Upper Pasture,” included in the newly published memoir, Celebrating the Coyote, by Barbara Waters.

E. Leonard Brown, professor emeritus of geography, co-authored “Environmental Assessment for the Construction of Housing in the Municipality of Concepcion Sur, Santa Barbara, Honduras.” The report was prepared for El Programa de Reconstruccion Rural of La Buena Fe, Honduras, and World Accord of Canada. It is the first stage of a housing project to assist families impacted by Hurricane Mitch.

Charles Chatfield, H. Orth Hirt Chair and professor of history, traveled to The Hague to attend sessions of an international conference on peace sponsored by the UN. It is the first international conference specifically on peace since the 1945 UN conference, and it marks the centenary of the First Hague Peace Conference, from which the world court, international commitment to pacific resolution of international conflict, and much of the 20th-century movement for peace and internationalism derives. Chatfield also chaired a panel session on transnational social movements and global politics, which he organized for the Peace History Society (international), at a smaller conference sponsored by activist and academic organizations during the inter-nation UN conference.

Dave Finster, professor of chemistry and department chair, has passed an exam given by the National Registry of Clinical Chemistry that has designated him as a Certified Chemical Hygiene Officer (CHO). Finster has been the CHO at Wittenberg for three years, a position that the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration requires. The CHO oversees all laboratory safety issues at the university.

Robert Davis, associate professor of English, has published two articles on the literature of the Civil War in the Walt Whitman Encyclopedia, edited by Donald Kummings and J.R. LeMaster. He also gave a lecture on his recent book on Whitman to the faculty at Cleveland State University and attended conferences on teaching at Wright State University and Bard College. Davis has continued his research on the Beat Generation writers and designed a new course for prospective teachers called “Writing for Teachers.”

James Humphries, associate professor of theatre and dance, has received a citation for outstanding artistic achievement from a national panel of judges for his set design for The Skin of Our Teeth, which he did for Texas A&M’s entry in the American College Theatre Festival last winter.

Ralph Lenz, associate professor of geography, gave a lecture on point pattern analysis to graduate students in geography at the University of Indonesia in Jarkarta.

April Lindner, visiting assistant professor of English, delivered a paper on the poet X. J. Kennedy at the fifth annual Exploring Form and Narrative conference at West Chester University.

Olga Medvedkov, professor of geography, presented a paper titled “Moscow: A Geo-Demographic Analysis” at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Honolulu. She also co-authored the chapter “Turning Points and Trends in Russia’s Urbanization” with Yuri Medvedkov of The Ohio State University in the book Population Under Duress: The Geodemography of Post-Soviet Russia, edited by George Demko and Grigory Ioffe.

Alan McEvoy, professor of sociology, has published an article titled “The Relevance of Theory to the Safe Schools Movement.” The article appears in the May 1999 journal Education and Urban Society.

A volume recently published by Greenwood Press titled The Death of God Movement and the Holocaust: Radical Theology Encounters the Shoah, edited by Stephen R. Hayes and John K. Roth, contains a chapter authored by two Wittenberg faculty members. Rochelle L. Millen, associate professor of religion, and Timothy A. Bennett, associate professor of languages and department chair, contributed the essay titled “Christians and Pharisees: Jewish Responses to Radical Theology.” In addition, Millen, who serves as a contributing editor of the Menorah Review, has published an essay in the Spring/Summer 1999 issue of that journal. The essay discusses Vienna and the Jews, 1867-1938: A Critical History by Steven Beller and The Making of the Jewish Middle Class: Women, Family and Identity in Imperial Germany by Marion A. Kaplan. Millen has also authored “The Garden of Innocence? Nietzsche’s Psychology of Woman” in a recently published volume titled Nietzsche and Depth Psychology, and she gave the keynote address titled “Remembrance, Responsibility, Reconciliation: Reflections on Memory and History” at the unveiling and dedication service of Alfred Tibor’s sculpture “Promise of Life.” The sculpture is a memorial to the Holocaust and a focal point for studying and learning at Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Columbus, Ohio.

Paul W. Miller, professor emeritus of English, presented a paper titled “Blanche Roosevelt (1853-98): An Early Midwestern Expatriate Opera Singer and Novelist” at the Popular Culture conference in San Diego. He also presented a paper on Ohio authors in the Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Vol. 1: The Authors, at the Culture of the Ohio Frontier conference in Cleveland. Among the authors included in the edition, which will be published this fall, are Sherwood Anderson, recipient of an honorary degree from Wittenberg in 1927, and Toni Morrison, winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Judith O’Connor, assistant provost for off-campus programs, recently participated in the first Global International Internship Conference. The conference, held in Mazatlan, Mexico, brought members of the academic community from around the world together to share experiences, discuss needs and explore resources for development of international internships.

Sunita Reddy, visiting instructor of geography, presented a paper with Curt Holder of Augustana College titled “The Politics of Biosphere Reserves in Guatemala” at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Honolulu.

Kenneth Scheffel, associate professor of music and director of the opera studio, has been elected president of the state chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing for 1999-2001. He is currently serving as vice president of this professional group and acts as its representative at the association’s regional meetings. This is the only professional organization for singing teachers throughout North America.

Jim Swindler, professor of philosophy and department chair, continues to serve as editor of Southwest Philosophy Review and saw the winter 1999 issue through to publication.Steven Winteregg, adjunct associate professor of music, had his ballet An American Cinderella performed in New Jersey and Connecticut in May 1999. A new CD containing his chamber works for the French horn was released nationally on May 1, 1999 on the Equilibrium label. The title of the CD is Flights of Imagination.

Steven Winteregg, adjunct associate professor of music, had his ballet An American Cinderella performed in New Jersey and Connecticut in May 1999. A new CD containing his chamber works for the French horn was released nationally on May 1, 1999 on the Equilibrium label. The title of the CD is Flights of Imagination.