Imogene Bolls, adjunct professor emeritus, recently published Advice for the Climb: Poems. The collection, part of the Midwest Poets Series, is published by Bottom Dog Press in association with Firelands College.

E. Leonard Brown, professor emeritus of geography, presented a paper titled “From Development to Disaster Relief: The Impact of Hurricane Mitch on P.R.R., Honduras” at the Third World Studies conference, Oct. 7-9.

Dave Finster, professor of chemistry and department chair, spent a week in Australia in June where he served as a representative from Wittenberg on a familiarity tour sponsored by the Institute for the International Education of Students. While there, Finster visited the Australian National University in Canberra and the University of Adelaide where he learned about the similarities and differences in the Australian and American higher education systems. Both universities, Finster learned, are eager to accept American students on study-abroad programs.

Markus Kruse, webmaster and adjunct instructor, was invited to be a symposium panel member at the Art at the Millennium II conference in Washington, D.C., Oct. 2. The conference examined the relationship between electronic media and the visual arts.

Jim Noyes, professor of computer science, was invited to participate in the Summer Institute for Advanced Computation. This one-week workshop addressed important new techniques for parallel processing and scientific visualization. It was sponsored by the Ohio Board of Regents and held at Wright State University, Aug. 22-28.

Terry Otten, professor of English, has published two pieces. The first is an essay in The South Carolina Review titled “Tragic Rhythm in Arthur Miller’s Broken Glass,” and the other is a long article in Texas Studies in Literature and Language titled “Death of a Salesman at 50 — Still ‘Coming Home to Roost.’”

Oxford University Press has just released a publication co-edited by Jerry G. Pankhurst, professor of sociology. The book, also edited by Sharon K. Houseknecht, is titled Family, Religion and Social Change in Diverse Societies. The book includes an introductory essay that Pankhurst co-authored with Houseknecht and an essay he co-authored with Belarusian sociologist, Andrei Vardomatskii, titled “Belarus on the Cusp of Change: The Relationship Between Religion and Family in a Newly Open Religious Market.” In addition, Pankhurst presented a paper, co-authored with Houseknect, titled “Religion and Motherhood Orientation in Nine Societies: The Influence of Religious Market Diversity, Religious Homogeneity, and Religious Culture,” at the Association for the Sociology of Religion in Chicago.

Tammy Proctor, assistant professor of history, spent 10 weeks this summer in Britain doing archival research for an article titled “The Nameless Club: Women and Espionage during the Great War.” Her research was made possible by a Wittenberg Faculty Research Fund Board grant. While in Britain, Proctor also took a weeklong break from research to participate in a summer study course on the industrial city at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. This teaching-enrichment activity was funded by an ELCA grant.

Don Reed, associate professor of philosophy, spent three weeks this summer conducting research at the Harvard University Archives. He has been working with the Lawrence Kohlberg Papers since 1995 to prepare a biography of Kohlberg. Reed also spent two days in London, Ontario, in July interviewing Charles Levine, a former colleague of Kohlberg who worked with Kohlberg on two of his most important late publications. In 1996-97, Reed was a Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities working full time on the Kohlberg biography.

Steven Reynolds, professor of theatre and dance, directed Marvin’s Room by Scott McPherson for the Wittenberg Community Actors’ Summer Theatre on July 22-24 in Chakeres Memorial Theatre.

Stephen R. Smith, associate professor of anthropology, has published a chapter titled “Land of the Rising Son? Domestic Organization Ancestor Worship and Economic Change in Japan” in the book, Family, Religion and Social Change of Diverse Societies, co-edited by Jerry G. Pankhurst, professor of sociology.

Carmen Trisler, assistant professor of education, was named Honorary BREEF Professor of Global Environmental Education” for her teaching at the Bahamian Reef Environmental Education Foundation’s Summer Institute. This year, the institute brought 30 Bahamian teachers together from all of the family islands for a two-week course in environmental education, including global climate change, island ecosystems and coral reef conservation. Trisler also taught Entomology for Teachers and a graduate course in Aquatic Entomology at Lake Erie’s Stone Laboratory, Ohio’s oldest freshwater field station and one of the few places where courses like this are taught.

Catherine Waggoner, assistant professor of theatre and dance, recently presented a paper titled “Prime Time Politics: The Appropriation of Generation X and Third Wave Feminism in Friends and Ally McBeal” at the Western States Communication Association convention in Vancouver, British Columbia. She also chaired a program during the convention.