The Ohio State University at Lima

Jackie Augustine, associate professor of Biology, took three undergraduates to the joint conference of the American Ornithological Society and the Society of Canadian Ornithologists in East Lansing, Mich., where she gave a talk during the general session. Two undergraduates, Stephanie Hemfling and Adnan Siddique, presented talks during the Undergraduate Symposium. Erin Place presented a poster.

Irina Boyadzhiev, senior lecturer in Mathematics, presented “GeoGebra – a Place for Diverse Applications and Explorations” at the 2017 GeoGebra Global Gathering in Linz, Austria. GeoGebra is a leading dynamic mathematics software for learning and teaching mathematics.

Charles Good, associate professor emeritus in Biology, presented "The first coal ball collection from the state of Ohio – 1949" at the Midcontinent Paleobotanical Colloquium in Ann Arbor.

Leah Herner-Patnode, associate professor of education

Trusty, A. & Herner-Patnode, L. (2017). Using Google Lit Trips for Better Student Comprehension. Presented at CREATE technology conference. Whitehouse, Ohio, United States (June, 2017).

Trusty, A. & Herner-Patnode, L. (2017). Enhance Comprehension using Google Lit Trips. Presented at Mazza Summer Conference. Findlay, Ohio, United States. (July 2017).

Herner-Patnode, L. & Lee, H.J. (2017). Preservice Teachers’ Knowledge and Application of Culturally Responsive Teaching Techniques in Mathematics Instruction. Paper presented at the 9th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies. July 3-5, 2017, Barcelona, Spain. Paper appears in EDULEARN17 Proceedings, p. 5381-5385. doi:10.21125/edulearn.2017.2218

Ivo Herzog, professor of mathematics, had two invited lectures on "Dubrovin-Puninski Rings" in the algebra seminars of Beijing Normal University and Nanjing Normal University in May.

He also had an invited talk on "The Model Theory of Modules over a Ring with Involution" at the Shanghai Model Theory Workshop in the Department of Philosophy at Fudan University in May.

Invited talk in Erice, Sicily, entitled "The Universal Quantum Logic of a Ring with Involution," in July.

Herzog collaborated with Hea-Jin Lee and others from the College of Education and Human Ecology and the College of Arts and Sciences on Algebra Ready, a year-long professional development opportunity for seventh and eighth grade math teachers and school district math coaches. More here.

Maria Ignatieva, professor of Theatre, was invited to chair the round table and convene the discussions at the National Convention of the American Society for the East European and East Asian Studies.

She also gave two lectures at the 2017 Lakeside Ohio Chautauqua Annual Lecture Series – "Manipulating Hearts and Minds: Russian TV in the Era of Putin" and "Why THEATRE? The 21st century Russians' Fascination with Theatre of All Genres and Styles."

Sabine Jeschonnek, professor of Physics, S. Jeschonnek and J. W. Van Orden, "Factorization Breaking of ATd for polarized deuteron targets in a relativistic framework," arXiv:1606.04072 [nucl-th], Phys. Rev. C 95, 044001 (2017).

Presented "The Great Recession (2007–2009) and GDP Fluctuations of US States" at the Second Workshop on Statistical Physics for Financial and Economic Networks at the NetSci 2017 conference in Indianapolis.

Mark Kleffner, professor of Earth Sciences

Invited talk for Geology Department at the University of Iowa entitled: “Case studies in the scientific method, aka my 38 years of research (so far) on Silurian conodonts and stratigraphy.”

Co-author on a paper accepted for presentation at a poster session at the Annual Geological Society of America meeting in Seattle: Danielsen, Erika M., Cramer, Bradley D. and Kleffner, Mark A. High-resolution chronostratigraphic correlation of Upper Homerian (Silurian) strata during the Mulde Event, Midcontinent, USA.

Co-author of a paper accepted for publication in Lethaia: N.E.B. McAdams, M.D. Schmitz, M.A. Kleffner, J. Verniers, T.R.A. Vandenbroucke, J.R. Ebert and B.D. Cramer. A new, high-precision CA-ID-TIMS date for the ‘Kalkberg’ K-bentonite (Judds Falls Bentonite). Sept. 16, 2017

Hea-Jin Lee, associate professor of Education.

Journal: Lee, H.J., Özgün-Koca, S. A., Meagher, M., & Edwards, M. T. (in press). Examining the Impact of a Framework to Support Prospective Secondary Teachers’ Transition from ‘Doer’ to ‘Teacher’ of Mathematics. Mathematics Teacher Education and Development (MTED)

Proceedings: Herner-Patnode, L. & Lee, H.J. (2017). Preservice Teachers’ Knowledge and Application of Culturally Responsive Teaching Techniques in Mathematics Instruction. Paper presented at the 9th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies. July 3-5, 2017, Barcelona, Spain. Paper appears in EDULEARN17 Proceedings, p. 5381-5385. doi:10.21125/edulearn.2017.2218

Lee, H.J., Boyadzhiev, I., & Kautz, J. (2017). Remediating lack of fractional knowledge. Paper presented at the Ohio Council of Teachers of Mathematics (OCTM) annual meeting. Oct. 19, 2017, Columbus.

Dan Matthews, assistant professor of Theatre.

“A Technical and Contextual Analysis of Scenography Through Sculptural Reproduction: Hofman and Tröster’s Hamlets,” abstract presented at a conference.

Ryan Norris, assistant professor of Biology

Norris RW; Upham NS; Downer HL. (2017, June). Converting fossil information into Bayesian priors for calibrating molecular clock analyses in rodents. American Society of Mammalogists. Moscow, Idaho.
Hannah Downer is a Lima undergraduate student who was a coauthor for this work.

Michael Reagon, assistant professor of Biology

Co-author on a paper that was published in June: Huang, Zhongyun, et al. "All roads lead to weediness: Patterns of genomic divergence reveal extensive recurrent weedy rice origins from South Asian Oryza." Molecular Ecology 26.12 (2017): 3151-3167.

Presented a poster at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America in Portland, Oregon in August: "Role of evolved herbicide resistance in range expansion of Palmer amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri) into Ohio."

Tariq Rizvi, professor of Mathematics

Gave invited colloquium research talks at Cairo University, Egypt, and Al-Azhar University, Egypt and chaired sessions.

Gave invited plenary talks at International Conference on Algebra and its Applications, Aligarh, India, and at International Conference on Differential Geometry and Algebra at JMI, New Delhi, India, and chaired sessions.

"Endoprime modules and their direct sums," Gangyong Lee and S. Tariq Rizvi, Journal of Algebra and Its Applications 29 Aug 2017. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219498818501554

John Snyder, professor of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

Snyder, J.R. (2017). Engaging Students as Future Stakeholders to Improve the Health of the Community: A Case Study. Access: The Journal of the National Association of Branch Campus Administrators, 2(1), Article 3. Retrieved from http://www.nabca.net/accesshome.html

Nancy Stephani, lecturer in Social Work, is a regular contributor to the “Mental Health Moments” column in the Findlay Courier. Her most recent topics include the opiate epidemic and ACE scores.

Doug Sutton-Ramspeck, associate professor of English, has had numerous poems and short stories appear in Fourteen Hills, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Cortland Review, Cimarron Review, and Chautauqua. A short story appeared in Green Hills Literary Lantern

Here are the two most significant poems.
“Winter Sky.” Story. Georgia Review, vol. 71.1, 2017, pp. 155-165.

“Nomads.” Poem. Kenyon Review Online, March 1, 2017. Accessed 6 March 2017.

He also gave a poetry reading over the summer in Chicago, for RHINO READS.

With Beth Sutton-Ramspeck, associate professor of English, he co-authored a review of the poetry book Afterland by Mai Der Vang in the Los Angeles Review.

Virginia Tompkins, associate professor of Psychology

Tompkins, V., Bengochea, A., & Nicol, S., & Justice, L. M. (in press). Mothers’ inferential input and children’s language skills. Reading Research Quarterly.

Tompkins, V., Logan, J. A. R., Blosser, D., & Duffy, K. (2017). Child language and parent discipline mediates the relation between false belief understanding and family income. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 158, 1-18.

Farrar, M. J., Benigno, J., & Tompkins, V. (2017). Are there different pathways to explicit false belief understanding: General language and complementation in typical and atypical populations. Cognitive Development, 43, 49-66.

Tompkins, V. (2017, April). Theory of Mind and Story Comprehension in Preschoolers. Poster session presented at the biannual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Austin, Texas.

Tompkins, V., Benigno, J., Lee, B., & Gornichec-Wright, B. (2017, April). Parents' Mental State Talk and Children's Theory of Mind: A Meta-Analysis. Poster session presented at the biannual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Austin, Texas.

Ed Valentine, professor of art, was part of a three-person inaugural exhibition at a newly opened gallery in Bushwick, Queens, NY, called Envoy Event Space.

He has had painting in two different invitational exhibitions in New York City. One was part of the Hudson Guild Gallery show “Me, My Selfie and I: Contemporary Self-Portraits.” The other was part of the 8th Annual Tibet Fund Gala hosted by Richard Gere.

Margaret Young, associate professor of Music

M. Young, C. Stephens-Himonides, & M. Hilley. “Time after Time: A Look at Music Majors’ Experiences in Group Piano Classes.” Poster presented at National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy in Lombard, IL (July, 2017). The poster won the best professional research poster award.

M. Young & J. Botes. "How to be an Effective and Productive Juggler: Investigating the Varied Paths towards Tenure as a Pianist." Poster presented at National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy in Lombard, IL (July, 2017).

M. Young & C. Stephens-Himonides. “Exploring Global Keyboard Education Trends.” Poster presented at Research in Music Education Conference. Bath Spa University, United Kingdom (April, 2017).

M. Young, C. Stephens-Himonides, & M. Hilley. “A Closer Look at Collegiate Group Piano Programs.” Paper presentation at Music Teacher’s National Association National Conference, Baltimore, MD (March 2017).

“C4-Modules,” Communications in Algebra 45(4) (2017), 1727-1740.

“D4-Modules,” Journal of Algebra and its Applications. Vol. 16, No. 5 (2017) 1750166 (25 pages).

“Rings whose cyclics are D3-modules,” Journal of Algebra and its Applications, Vol. 16, No. 8 (2017) 1750184 (15 pages).

“Simple-Direct-Modules,” Communications in Algebra 45(8) (2017), 3643-3652.

“Corrigendum to Simple-Direct-Modules”, Communications In Algebra, published online March 8th, 2017.
“When R is a testing module for projectivity?” Journal of Algebra 484 (2017), 198-206.

“Utumi Modules”, Communications In Algebra, Published online June 15th, 2017.

“Rings all of whose right ideals are U-modules”, Communications In Algebra, appeared online August 17, 2017.

Invited Talks on "Utumi Modules"
Capital Normal University, Beijing, China, May 3, 2017.

Invited Plenary Speaker, the International Algebra workshop, Anhui Normal University, Anhui, China, May 6th, 2017.

Invited Plenary Speaker, the International Algebra workshop, Jiangxi Normal University, Jiangxi, China, May 12th, 2017.

Invited talk, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, May 20, 2017.

Invited talk, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, May 21st, 2017.

Invited talk, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China, May 22nd, 2017.