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Books

John Rakovan (professor of mineralogy and geochemistry), Gloria Staebler and Donald Dallaire (eds.): Apatite - The Great Pretender. Mineral Monographs. Lithographie, LLC. Denver, 2013. 

Andrew Hebard (assistant professor of English): The Poetics of Sovereignty in American Literature, 1885-1910. Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Grants

Patrick Dowling and Reza Akhtar, mathematics, $149,243 from the National Science Foundation for "Summer Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (SUMSRI)." 

Michael Woodlin, educational psychology, $6,000  additional award from the Talawanda School District for "Talawanda School District Support of EDP Graduate Assistant."

Presentations

Thomas Dutton, architecture and interior design, was invited to present a keynote talk at the Association of Architectural Educators Conference at Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, England, April 3-5.  

Fauzia E. Ahmed has been appointed as a visiting scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). Ahmed is an assistant professor of sociology & gerontology and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Miami University. She will present lectures and seminars during 2012-2013 at Harvard. Ahmed joined Miami in 2008.

Ahmed received this invitation after she presented her most recent grant proposal submission to the National Science Foundation (NSF), “Changing Low-Income Men: Masculinity Studies and Capability Theory,”  at a Harvard conference in 2012.

Publications

Steven Paul Lansky (English) released an audio novel, "Jack Acid," on psychedelic culture and mental illness. (2013)

Nicholas Teets (former undergaduate), Shu-Xia Yi, research scholar, Richard Lee, zoology, and David Denlinger, Ohio State University: ""Calcium signaling mediates cold sensing in insect tissues."  PNAS, June 2013.

Recognitions

Andrea Ridilla, music, has been invited to perform at the Monteverdi Oboe Festival (http://www.conservatoriobolzano.it/cms-01.00/articolo.asp?IDcms=3057&p=7&s=303&) May 10-11 in Bolzano, Italy. She was invited to represent the Loree Company of Paris. She is the only American soloist and will perform in four concerts during the festival. 

Andrea Ridilla and Ricardo Averbach, music, were invited artists-in-residence with the Pacific Symphony in Vladivostok, Russia from March 22- April 7. The trip was initiated and sponsored by the U.S. State Department and the U.S. Consulate in Vladivostok. Ridilla was both soloist and Principal Oboe in 2 subscription concerts and Averbach conducted the Orchestra.

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