Douglas M. Andrews, associate professor of statistics, will present a paper titled “Modeling College Application and Matriculation Likelihood Using Logistic Regression Scoring” at the Joint Statistics Meetings in Toronto in August. At the conference, Andrews will also represent the regional chapter of the American Statistical Association at the Council of Chapters.

Linda Arena, professor of health, fitness and sport, discussed “Effective Player/Coach Feedback and Evaluation” and “Planning Practices That Maximize Performance” at the Ultimate Performance Coaching Seminar in Atlantic City, N.J., earlier this year. She was also the featured speaker for the Kentucky International Field Hockey Club’s Effective Coaching Methods Clinic in Louisville, Ky., April 25.

Kristin Cline, associate professor of chemistry, attended the 2004 Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry, March 8-9, in Chicago along with Jerilyn Vrabel ’05, who presented a poster titled “Effect of Covalently Attached Aromatic Carboxylic Acid Groups on Electron Transfer at Carbon Electrodes,” which was based on research with Cline.

Mimi Dixon, professor of English, received a 2004 Ohio Arts Council award for her creative nonfiction in the personal essays/memoir category.

Scott Dooley, assistant professor of art, was one of 125 artists chosen internationally to exhibit in the First Taiwan Ceramics Biennale at the Taipei County Yingge Ceramics Museum. His work was also selected for inclusion in the Materials Regional exhibition, June 4 - Sept. 25, at the South Bend Regional Museum of Art in Indiana.

Mark Ellison, assistant professor of chemistry, has published an article titled “Potential Barriers and Tunneling” in the Journal of Chemical Education. The article, along with two other articles by Ellison, will be included in the National Science Digital Library. Ellison has also been invited to chair a symposium at the American Chemical Society National Meeting in Philadelphia in August. Additionally, he was recently invited to speak to chemistry classes at Roger Williams University in Bristol, R.I., as part of its Math and Science Series.

Marcia J. Frost, assistant professor of economics, presented “Faculty Development and the Liberal Arts College Experience” for the American Center for Mongolian Studies and Mongolia Society at the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies. Frost was also selected as one of 12 participants from the United States for the University of Pittsburgh-sponsored Fulbright-Hays Group Project in Mongolia. In July, she will also lead eight faculty members in the Freeman Foundation-funded Silk Road tour as preparation for a new course.

During his sabbatical, George Hudson, professor of political science, studied the development of civil society in the Russian cities of Volgograd and Samara thanks to a grant from the International Research and Exchanges Board.

Rising Software, based in Victoria, Australia, will publish ear training software, designed by Professor of Music Daniel Kazez, programmed by Wittenberg High School Scholar Benjamin Kazez, based on an algorithm designed by Associate Professor of Statistics Douglas M. Andrews. The program was tested, and the results analyzed by Associate Professor of Psychology Mary Jo Zembar.

Thomas P. Martin, professor of health, fitness and sport, was quoted extensively in an article titled “Climb Every Mole Hill,” which appeared in the March 2004 issue of Outside magazine. The “Martin Classification of State Highpoint Difficulty” is used as a standard throughout the United States. Martin was also recognized for 1,250 hours of volunteer service by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Watercraft, at Confluence 2003.

Rochelle L. Millen, professor of religion, has published an article titled “Like Pebbles on the Seashore: J.B. Soloveitchik on Suffering” in Modern Judaism. In June, Millen again attended the Pastora Goldner Symposium on the Holocaust at Wroxton College in England, where she led a workshop and participated in a dramatic presentation. Millen will also present a workshop at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem at the Teaching the Holocaust Conference in August.

Robert Morris, professor emeritus of geology, has published an article titled “Paleoecologic Associations and Secondary Tiering of Cornulites on Crinoids and Bivalves in the Upper Ordovician (Cincinnatian) of Southwestern Ohio, Southeastern, Ind., and Northern, Ky.” in Palaios. He also recently published an article in Ohio Archaeologist titled “Artifacts from the Brothers Farm Collection, Knox County, Ind.”

Carol Ormand, visiting assistant professor of geology, participated in the “Teaching Structural Geology in the 21st Century” workshop, cosponsored by the National Science Foundation and the National Association of Geoscience Teachers. She also presented a talk titled “Three-Dimensional Geometry and Strain of
the Baraboo Syncline: Kinematic Implications” at the 50th Annual Institute on Lake Superior Geology meeting.

Matthew J. Smith, assistant professor of communication, presented a paper at the Eastern Communication Association convention in Boston titled “Trimming the Fat in Network News Telecasts: How Visual Decapitation Perpetuates ‘Other’ Status for Overweight People.”

James Noyes, professor of computer science, Nancy Saks, associate professor of computer science, and Brian Shelburne, associate professor of computer science, attended the 35th Special
Interest Group Computer Science EducationTechnical Symposium on Computer Education, March 3-7, in Norfolk, Va.

On March 26 - 27, Barbara Ashton, professor of mathematics, Bill Higgins, associate professor of mathematics, Sarah Hodel, visiting instructor of mathematics, Al Stickney, professor of mathematics, and Brian Shelburne, associate professor of computer science, attended a meeting of the Ohio Section of the Mathematical Association of America at the University of Cincinnati where Shelburne presented a talk titled “The Five Quadrable Lunes.”

Carol Young, associate professor of management, is working with Steve Levy of the California State University at San Bernardino on a new textbook titled Organizational Behavior: Essential Questions, Issues and Practices. The co-authors also had an article titled “Phaedrus: An Inquiry into Motivation” accepted by the Journal of Management Education.

Jim Welch, assistant professor of biology and Kathy Reinsel, assistant professor of biology, accompanied Jessie Ebie ’04 and Adrianna Zito ’04 to the Benthic Ecology Meeting in Mobile, Ala., in March. While there, Welch and Zito presented a poster based on their two-year research collaboration titled “Effects of Summer Upwelling on Transport of brachyuran megalopae on Florida’s Atlantic Coast.”

Dave Mason, professor of biology, Cathy Pederson, associate professor of biology and Jim Welch, assistant professor of biology, attended the Annual Meeting of the Ohio Academy of Science along with seniors Kristy Arnoczky, Greg Luerman, Lisa Stewart and Adrianna Zito, and junior Josh Benoit. The students presented six posters of research conducted with Wittenberg biology faculty.

Michael Zaleha, assistant professor of geology, presented a paper at the Geological Society of America’s Annual Meeting in Seattle, Wash., titled “Sevier Orogenesis and Nonmarine Basin Filling: Implications of New Stratigraphic Correlations of Lower Cretaceous Strata throughout Wyoming.” His manuscript, “Hyperconcentrated Flows and Gastroliths: Sedimentology of Diamictites and Wackes of the Upper Cloverly Formation, Lower Cretaceous, Wyoming, U.S.A.,” has also been accepted by the Journal of Sedimentary Research.

Molly Wood, assistant professor of history, presented a paper titled “Introducing Mexican Women to the U.S. Public: Travel Writing, Social History and Gender, 1839-1914” at the Latin American Identities Conference at the University of Calgary. She also attended the inaugural Women’s and Gender Historians of the Midwest conference at Loyola University-Chicago in June as part of the program committee.

Bin Yu, associate professor of political science, recently published a chapter in a Palgrave volume, “Peace and Security Across the Taiwan Strait,” a chapter in a United States Naval War College Press volume, “Strategic Surprise?” and two articles in the journal, Comparative Connections, “Presidential Politicking and Proactive Posturing” and “Living With Normalcy.” He also presented at the U.S.-South Korean Security Dialogue in Maui, Hawaii, and at a conference on Asian civil-military relations sponsored by the Center for Naval Analysis in Alexandria, Va.