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ANNUAL REPORT ’05-06

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many college and unit accomplishments in support of our goals for 2005-06, we have selected some of the most noteworthy. Additional notes from our units highlight an impressive array of student, faculty, and staff achievements.

As we look back over the past year and forward to 2006-07, we hope you will agree that McMicken College continues to be a vibrant place of 21st-century learning and discovery—a very special place in which we can all take great pride.

Sincerely,

Karen L. Gould, DeanMcMicken College of Arts and Sciences

I am pleased to share with you the McMicken College annual report for 2005-06. In it you will nd a variety of statistical snapshots,

including comparative data on student enrollment, retention, graduation, major selection, and student diversity. Overviews of the college budget, external grants received, and our considerable fundraising successes over the past academic year are also included. We are fortunate indeed to have so many generous supporters of our efforts to enhance academic excellence at UC.

Last year our students, faculty, and staff engaged in numerous professional activities, special campus events, and exciting research projects. Among the

A Message from the Dean

Statistical Snapshot 2-7

UC|21 Status Report 8-15

Unit Activities 16-23

Awards & Achievements 24-27

Faculty Comings & Goings 28-29

Appendices 30-33

Contents

By Academic Program (top ve)

Fall ’05 Fall ’06

Psych 11.2% Psych 12.3%

Comm 9.5% Comm 11.2%

Biology 7.8% Biology 9%

English 6.2% English 4.9%

Poli Sci 4.1% Poli Sci 3.8%

Average ACT/SAT of Freshmen

ACT SAT

Fall ’05 22.16 1061.93

Fall ’06 22.82 1060.2

Arts & Sciences Majors

Fall ’05 Fall ’06

5,558 5,368(+117 double majors) (+159 double majors)

Total Instructional Full-Time Equivalent

Fall Winter Spring Total

’04-05 8,649 8,110 7,625 24,384’05-06 8,570 8,075 7,532 24,177

CAT Students Transferred/Admitted

Winter Spring Fall Total

2005 105 48 40 1932006 87 56 42 185

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Statistical Snapshot

Undergraduate Major & Full-Time Equivalent Enrollment*

*See additional details in Appendix I & II

The college continued its tradition of signifi cant service to the university by providing 39% of its baccalaureate instruction.

Changes in university and college admission requirements and recruiting eff orts have produced a .66 point increase in the average ACT of McMicken College’s incoming freshmen.

McMicken College Welcome Week

2005-06 Annual Report | 3 |

McMicken posted marked improvement in fall-to-fall freshman retention numbers during 2005-06.

In autumn quarter 2005, the freshman cohort was 1102; and of these students, 820 returned in autumn quarter 2006, producing a 74.4% retention rate. Mandatory advising is credited for impacting the increase, by familiarizing students with academic resources such as the math and writing centers.

Service to Other UC Colleges

Percentage of McMicken coursework taken by students in other colleges. (top ve)

’04-05 ’05-06

Engineering 52% Engineering 51%

Business 42% Business 39%

CECH 41% CECH 38%

Allied Health 36% Nursing 33%

Nursing 36% Allied Health 24%

Total M F WH BL HS AS AI OT UK

BA 623 254 369 495 75 5 9 4 16 19

556 203 353 432 70 11 16 3 14 10

BS 165 56 109 111 28 3 17 -- 2 4

123 60 63 83 20 4 9 -- 4 3

BSAB 65 26 39 48 12 1 1 1 1 1

72 24 48 48 19 -- 3 -- 2 --

BAGS 21 5 16 20 1 -- -- -- -- --

13 5 8 12 1 -- -- -- -- --

BIS 4 1 3 4 -- -- -- -- -- --

5 2 3 4 -- -- -- -- -- 1

Total 878 342 536 678 116 9 27 5 19 24

769 294 475 579 110 15 28 3 20 14

’04-05 ’05-06Degrees Conferred by Race & Gender

M: MaleF: FemaleWH: White BL: Black HS: Hispanic AS: Asian AI: American Indian OT: Other UK: Unknown

Freshmen Retention to Second Year

(First-time, full-time, degree-seeking freshmen returning as sophomores the following fall.)

Cohort % Returning

Fall ’02 68.5%

Fall ’03 72.0%

Fall ’04 70.9%

Fall ’05 74.4%



Graduate Enrollment*

Student Profi le

Under the guidance of the Graduate School, McMicken College has partnered with the Colleges of Engineering and Medicine to participate in the State of Ohio’s new Economic Growth Challenge program. This is a 10-year program that provides statewide investment and reallocation of funds for doctoral education in the STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics & Medicine) disciplines, rewarding doctoral programs that can attract excellent researchers, enhance economic growth and complement Ohio’s Third Frontier Project. The three colleges drafted a proposal for investment in STEMM that was ranked in the top tier in the fi rst-round competition. McMicken’s involvement includes contributions from Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics to research in nanotechnology, computational science, neuroscience, imaging and sensors, cancer and cardiopulmonary research.

Degrees Conferred by Division & Level

SS SCI Hum. Interdisc.

Master 40 54 40 19

82 55 61 0

Doct. 21 28 16 1

19 25 16 1

Tuition Payments

By Source ’04-05 % ’05-06 %

UGS $9,590,732 85 $10,046,742 84Tuition Remission $220,510 2 $253,893 2General Fund Aid $77,486 0.7 $293,042 3External Funds $370,679 3 $342,113 3Student Payments $968,053 9 $983,632 8

Grand Total $11,227,461 $11,919,422

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’04-05 ’05-06Total

Fall ’05 971

Fall ’06 922


External FundingResearch Grant Dollars by Source

* National Geographic Society, Beckman Foundation, Japan Foundation, American Council Learned Societies, Packard Foundation

Research Grant Dollars by Department

26% Biological Sciences

1% Women’s Studies

7% Psychology

21% Physics

3% Geology

1% Classics

32% Chemistry

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26% National Science Foundation

6% Department of Defense

3% Institute for Advanced Study

12% Other Government Agencies (Federal)

3% Other Government Agencies (State)

4% Private Foundations*

16% Department of Energy

Efforts by A&S faculty for the 2005-06 academic year paid off in a successful round of proposals, publications, awards, and honors.

One hundred and four faculty submitted 180 proposals, with 90 receiving grants, contracts and/or fellowships totaling $6,939,875.** This 50% success rate is much higher than the national average of 25% to 30%.

Eleven invention disclosures were submitted, from Chemistry, Physics and Math.

McMicken College faculty members published 33 books, gave more than 700 presentations and received more than 80 honors and awards. Publications saw a dramatic rise, going from close to 400 last year to 572.

** Data from SRS database plus fellowships to individual faculty and small research grant/contract awards through cost centers.

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1% Department of Education

3% EPA

5% USDA

1% Geography

7% Mathematical Sciences 1% Philosophy

Total Gifts

By Source Amount

Major Gis $1,193,913 (>$10,000) Cash & Pledges

Annual Giving $502,054

Planned Gis $4,078,940

Grand Total $5,774,907



20.7% Major Gifts (>$10,000)Cash & Pledges

8.7% Annual Giving

70.6% Planned Gifts

Thanks to alumni, faculty, emeriti and other friends, the college surpassed its fundraising goal by more than $1 million in private gifts during the 2006 fiscal year. The second “We’re All UC” campaign drew support from 221 McMicken faculty, staff and emeriti. Alumni made gifts totaling $105,000 in the college’s annual telefund campaign.

Twenty-two gifts ranging from $10,000 to $1,500,000 will support initiatives including memorial awards and professorships. We are grateful to everyone who made McMicken a philanthropic priority.

The McMicken development staff works closely with faculty, staff and UC Foundation team members to engage alumni and friends, including corporations and foundations. They strive to provide education on programs and priorities, matching funding needs with interests and desires. The development team, Pat Branam, Richard Friedman, Peggy Wolf and Nicole Whiting, will focus this year on funds for scholarships, the college’s top priority, along with department needs and special projects.

For information on how you can become involved or make a gift, please contact Pat Branam, assistant dean for advancement, at (513) 556-0435 or [email protected].

Gifts of $10,000 or More

• I.A. Barnett Memorial Fund in Mathematical Sciences

• Jean Chimsky Poetry Prize Fund• Friends of Women’s Studies• e Zane L. Miller Fellowship in

American City History• Chemistry Discretionary Fund• Research Fund in Geology• Merke Travel Fund• World Languages and Culture

Discretionary Fund• Clarence Lubin Memorial Fund• Mary Jane Toepfer Memorial Award• Henry R. Winkler Scholarship in History• Romance Languages and Literature Fund• Von Rosenstiel Modern European

History Endowment Fund• Mary Linn White Scholarship

in Journalism

College Advancement

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63% Faculty Salaries

8% Staff Salaries

2% Student Salaries

24% Benefi ts2% Operating

1% CITS & Postage

Faculty & Staff Full-Time, Tenure Track 345

Full-Time, Non-Tenure Track Field Service, Research 56

AAUP Adjuncts 11

Other Part-Time Faculty* 235

Staff , Full-Time & Part-Time 124

Graduate Allocations

Graduate Assistantships $4,440,194Bene ts $244,211

Total $4,684,405

University Graduate Scholarships $10,481,359

Instructional Technology Allocations

(Allocations for computer labs, lab equipment and lab supplies for students)

Information Technology & Instructional Equipment $1,325,221

College Budgets

Reductions & Increases

Permanent Reductions $694,200

Permanent Increases $199,500Faculty Positions $124,500Technician Positions $75,000

A&S General Funds Budget Summary

Faculty Salaries $30,424,761Staff Salaries $3,997,874Student Salaries $1,085,023Bene ts $11,324,608

Total $46,832,266

Operating $861,249CITS & Postage $450,800

Total $1,312,049

Grand Total $48,144,315

As part of structural changes in the University of Cincinnati budget, McMicken College has been assigned a budget reduction of $2.8 million, to be implemented over the 2006-07 and 2007-08 academic years.

To meet our reduction targets, the college has developed a responsible fi nancial strategy that is not without pain, but which protects our core teaching and research missions. This balancing act includes fi nding new ways to operate and be more effi cient as the college and university continue the move toward a more performance-based budgeting system.

*2005-06 - 4 quarter headcount; for prior years, only fall count given


I. Place Students at the Center

Our mission to create a student-centered experience at McMicken goes beyond the core academic needs of a growing, diverse student population. We are furthering that goal by boosting degree requirements to align with national standards; adding advisers and tutors to address individual needs and help students choose majors; and expanding creative teaching opportunities by embracing digital technology.

Status Report on UC|21: ’05-06 Accomplishments

Carol Tonge Mack advises in the Center for Exploratory Studies.

• Expanded implementation of the college’s online general education program by off ering 53 sections of general education courses, covering 22 diff erent course titles from 10 diff erent departments. Among online off erings either already available or in development are a number of courses such as: Writing for Business, Issues in Medicine and the Humanities, Politics of Human Rights, Math for Early Childhood Educators, Introduction to Geology and Cultural Anthropology.

• Changed degree requirements, including credit hour and residency requirements, to bring them in line with national trends and standards.

• Advanced teaching through digital technology with podcast courses. Seven departments—Anthropology, Communication, Chemistry, English, German, Psychology and Geology—were part of the initial podcast experiment.

• Added four new academic advisers focused on helping students choose majors and providing individual attention. ey hold joint appointments with the Offi ce of Undergraduate Aff airs and Center for Exploratory Studies.

• Assessed success of Center for Exploratory Studies advising staff through Student Satisfaction Survey, with very positive results. e center, whose staff members each won awards this year, placed in the 90th percentile in friendly and helpful staff , useful and accurate information, recommendations and overall positive experience.

• Set up a new tutoring program for introductory Economics courses. e free service, established through the undergraduate Economics Society, is available daily at scheduled hours.

Psychology students were among the fi rst to engage in

podcast courses.

• Posted university-wide ranking of 12th for Chemistry department in securing external research funding. e department ranked third on West Campus.

• Boosted ranking for the Geology department’s graduate program in paleontology, rated seventh-best in the nation by U.S. News and World Report and moving up from ninth in the previous rankings.

• Recruited ve faculty members in the Biology, Chemistry and Women’s Studies departments, supporting targeted research initiatives and external funding opportunities.

• Named six faculty members as the rst Ta Center Fellows. ey presented a May research symposium on topics studied for a year outside their departments.

• Initiated a partnership between McMicken College, the departments of Biology, Geology, Geography and Environmental Studies and the Cincinnati Nature Center (CNC) to create e Cincinnati Center for Field Studies, a eld station for research and education on natural ecosystems and environmental change. CCFS received a planning grant gi from Mrs. Martha

Tuttle, a grant to CNC from the Greater Cincinnati Foundation to provide a multi-purpose classroom and a promised grant to CNC.

• Spearheaded development of the UC Institute for Computational Sciences Faculty with faculty from Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Biology, and colleagues in Engineering and Medicine.

• Researched medically relevant sensors and environmental and homeland security-oriented sensors through e Center for Chemical Sensors and Biosensors, created within the Chemistry Department by a Doctoral Investment Award. e center’s work led to multiple research collaborations across the university in partnership with local industries.

• Continued discussions on the deployment of a university-wide eff ort designed to facilitate the reporting of faculty research activities and scholarly accomplishments. e tool allows electronic access, administration and searching of faculty pro les via a Web-based interface. In addition, it is capable of generating reports relevant to managers and other internal audiences.


II. Grow Our Research Excellence

We are enhancing the quality, depth and reach of our research excellence throughout the college, with tangible results on short- and long-term goals already in sight. Eff orts range from hiring faculty members in targeted areas to collaborative eff orts with colleagues and the community to boost research opportunities, reporting and funding.


The Chemistry Department ranked third on West Campus in securing external research funding and 12th campus-wide.

• Reviewed and revised undergraduate residency requirements and total credit hour requirements, to bring requirements in line with national norms and facilitate timely graduation.

• Hired tenure-track faculty positions and eld service faculty in African American Studies, Communication, Economics, English, History, Mathematical Sciences, Organizational Leadership, Psychology and Spanish to meet enrollment needs and encourage cultural competency and informed citizenship.

• Expanded rst-year curricular experience off erings, with 62 percent of the entering cohort participating in the program. Ninety percent of McMicken Freshman Seminars are taught by full-time faculty, with close to universal participation anticipated in 2006-07.

• Introduced new certi cate programs in European Studies, Italian Language and Culture and Arabic Language and Culture.

• Began off ering a certi cate program in Public Relations, open to all Communication majors.


III. Achieve Academic Excellence

We continue to bolster academic excellence by revising undergraduate residency requirements and total credit hour requirements; adding certifi cate programs complementing a liberal arts education; making tenure-track and fi eld service hires in core areas encouraging cultural competency; and expanding fi rst-year experience off erings.


First-year students compare notes during Welcome Week.

Four faculty positions were added in Mathematical Sciences.

• Continued development of the Cincinnati Center for Field Studies, a partnership between UC and the Cincinnati Nature Center, through the Biology, Geography and Geology departments and the Center for Environmental Studies. e college hired an executive director to lead the new eld station.

• Teamed, through Joseph Caruso, Chemistry, and Agilent Technologies, to create the Cincinnati/Agilent Technologies Metallomics Center of the Americas. is one-of-a-kind center will pursue advances in the characterization of metals in biomolecules such as proteins.

• Began pilot interdisciplinary capstone courses with integrated reality learning in support of the Strengthening Our Core UC|21 proposal. e rst pilot involved Journalism and College of Social Work. A $100,000 grant was received from Mayerson Foundation to support ICL capstones.

• Provided signi cant course-based planning and writing services to three Cincinnati nonpro ts through the Department of English’s program in Professional Writing and Editing. ey off ered a complete redesign of

the Web site for the Cincinnati Youth Collaborative; a promotional plan, media kit and Web site redesign for Public Allies; and a Web site and other informational/promotional materials redesign for the Global Center of Greater Cincinnati.

• Took an active role in Showcase 2006, a major event providing a comprehensive view of the transformational impact of the university. A&S faculty contributed to demonstrations, exhibits, posters and panel discussions centered on all aspects of the university’s educational, research and community service missions.

• Developed collaborative agreements to bring graduate students from Norway and Turkey to Economics and Political Science programs.

• Deepened our research, teaching and faculty and student exchange linkages with a select number of Chinese institutions as Dean Gould joined a group of UC deans for a two-week tour of 11 major Chinese universities in six cities. As a result, McMicken College has undertaken a series of collaborative activities with Shandong University in Jinan, Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China, and Xi’an International Studies University.


IV. Forge Key Relationships and Partnerships

We build on key partnerships at every level, across the university and local and global community, to promote rewarding learning experiences and fruitful collaborations. These partners are vital in supporting and furthering educational, research and community-service goals.


Attila Kilinc, Geology, discusses a department display in Showcase 2006.

Dean Karen Gould was part of a group traveling to China for a tour of major Chinese universities.


V. Establish A Sense of Place

We recognize the educational and emotional value of a sense of belonging and strong ties to the university and community. We strive to help world language and international students make those connections, through inviting accommodations and social outlets for visiting scholars and faculty, as well as UC’s fi rst language-immersion residence, one of only a handful nationwide.

• Opened Ta House at Stratford Heights, housing six visiting scholars and six UC Ta graduate students, in September 2005. Humanities research funding from McMicken helped rent the space. In tandem with Ta House, the Charles Phelps Ta Research Center on the h oor of French Hall-West houses a Fellows Suite, bringing together six UC faculty and three visiting scholars in a multidisciplinary work environment.

• Opened the university’s rst language-immersion residence, Valentine House, to 22 undergraduate students in September 2005. e residence off ers 24/7 life and learning in Spanish or French. Seed funding of $100,000 was provided by Margaret Valentine. e library was dedicated on Feb. 14 in honor of the late Kornel Huvo, professor emeritus and former Romance Languages and Literatures department head.

• Created and promoted programming to ensure that the new Language Resource Center becomes a destination point for students of world languages and international students. Eff orts included establishing a rotating schedule of world TV broadcasts, a Web site to advertise programming and multi-language viewing of World Cup. e center boasts 20 computers with special keyboards for non-Roman alphabets (Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew, Arabic and Russian) and three large at-panel TV screens able to show lms or tune in to more than 100 international TV channels.

• Strengthened relations with alumni through McMicken Magazine, expanded circulation of college annual report and expanded involvement in UC Alumni Association activities.

• Developed recommendations through Council of Heads for a college dialogue on the creation of a college-wide Reappointment, Promotion and Tenure Committee.


Taft House at Stratford Heights

• Raised $5.7 million in private support between July 1, 2005, and June 30, 2006.

• Continued development of speci c fundraising plans for each unit of the college, including a major donor prospect list for each. By June 2006, most A&S departments were individually cultivating prospects from a key donor list, with the goal of soliciting major gi s in FY 2007 or 2008.

• Distributed and analyzed the monthly report on regional business activity for the Institute of Supply Management through the Department of Economics’ Applied Economics Research Institute (AERI). AERI, selected by the Cincinnati Purchasing

Managers for the task, is one of approximately 12 sites in the U.S. preparing monthly reports.

• Launched e Center for Integrated Homeland Security and Crisis Management (CIHSCM), through the Department of Political Science, to provide services and research support to public and private organizations. Planned projects include a December 2006 conference on critical infrastructure protection, funded by the Charles Phelps Ta Research Center and sponsored by an array of federal and state organizations, and in spring 2007, the rst in a series of annual seminars devoted to security-related topics.

VI. Create Opportunity

We address the complex and crucial aspects of McMicken’s mission on a local and global level. Work varies from crafting fundraising plans and donor development for specifi c departments to taking a leadership role in the region’s economic future and its security.



Howard Tolley, Political Science

Major goals for McMicken College include:

I. Place Students at the Center• Restructure the process by which

college and departmental scholarships are awarded, to make more eff ective use of scholarship funds.

• Continue to add online course off erings, to facilitate online undergraduate degree programs university-wide as well as off er students exibility in completing degrees.

• Modify advising processes to better meet student needs. Improve graduation and scholarship application processes, transfer student orientation and registration, placement testing and the appeal process.

• Provide curricular support for development of baccalaureate degrees by the College of Applied Science to meet the needs of students with technical associate degrees.

• Work with university administration to increase the college’s share of instructional technology fee, in order to recognize our service mission to the university.

II. Grow our Research Excellence• Participate with the Colleges of

Engineering and Medicine in the second round of the Ohio Innovation Incentive competition, to build on rst-round success.

• Launch a Computational Sciences Institute that builds on faculty research strengths in multiple units to bring together researchers, develop an integrated investment plan and develop new interdisciplinary degree and certi cate programs.

• Launch the Cincinnati Center for Field Studies in partnership with

the Cincinnati Nature Center. is partnership will develop a eld station devoted to environmental research and education in the city’s urban-suburban-rural landscape.

• Advance research strength in medicinal chemistry to explore new drug-delivery technologies, new drug candidates and analytical strategies for pharmacogenetics and metabolomics.

• Promote activities of college-affi liated research centers and institutes, including Ta Research Center; Center for Cognition, Action and Perception; the Institute for Nanotechnology; and the Center for Sensors and Biosensors.

• Complete donor-supported hiring of tenure-track faculty in Ohio archaeology, classical archaeology, political economy, creative writing and Spanish.

III. Achieve Academic Excellence• Launch the School of World Languages

and Cultures to enhance study of foreign languages and cultures, promote faculty research, increase study abroad and promote global awareness.

• Move undergraduate degree program in neuroscience through university and state degree authorization processes.

• Work with the graduate school and provost’s offi ce to more fully integrate graduate and undergraduate review processes. Use review results to evaluate program strengths and weaknesses, determine viability of select graduate programs and take appropriate action.

• Initiate university-wide conversation to develop an interdisciplinary plan

Status Report on UC|21: ’06-07 Goals


Biology student Richard Bechtel examines a specimen in

invertebrate zoology lab.

for ethics education that includes curricula in business, legal, medical and research ethics.

• Hire UC|21 positions in Communication, Mathematics and Spanish to strengthen foundational disciplines and core mission.

• Continue review of college distribution requirements as the appropriate foundation of a 21st-century liberal arts education.

IV. Forge Key Partnerships • Deepen partnerships with Shandong

University, Sun Yat Sen University and other universities as part of UC-China Initiative, to promote research linkages and faculty and student exchanges.

• Work with UC International to establish collaborative agreements with foreign universities and governments to bring more international students to the college.

• Initiate more interdisciplinary, community-based Integrated Core Learning capstone pilots.

• Partner with Agilent Technologies to launch the Metallomics Center for the Americas to provide state-of-the-art instrumentation for research on biological interactions of metal compounds in environmental and biomedical research.

• Promote interuniversity partnerships, including the Women’s Studies North American exchange program and the European Studies project for exchanges with European universities.

V. Establish a Sense of Place • Advance college-wide dialogue on the

need for a college RPT committee.

• Redesign the college Web site to enhance functionality and provide clearer access to information.

• Create a college task force to formulate recruiting and retention strategies aimed at increasing diversity in faculty and staff hiring.

• Work with the university’s space-planning committees to ensure appropriate space for Psychology and Communication as Teachers/Dyer renovation project moves forward.

• Advance college and university fund-raising and reallocation to renovate instructional science labs in Rieveschl Hall for Biology and Chemistry.

• Reorganize staff duties where appropriate to achieve greater effi ciency by serving multiple units; proceed with unit consolidation in select areas.

VI. Create Opportunity• Work with university and UC

Foundation on fundraising eff orts to advance the Social and Behavioral Sciences Center project.

• Promote expansion of college-wide scholarships promoting recruitment and retention eff orts.

• Promote development eff orts for endowed chairs and graduate fellowships in targeted areas.

• Fundraise for major college initiatives, including the Cincinnati Center for Field Studies, the School of World Languages and Cultures and the Institute for Computational Sciences.

• Work with the Cra ing the Class task force to ensure that we retain and increase our signi cant minority enrollments.


History doctoral student Priyanka Srivastava

John Brackett, African &African American Studies

African & African American Studies

e department marked its 35th anniversary in April with a celebration at Ta Research Center. Events were planned to complement goals of understanding the interplay of forces that help structure the existence of black people and research exploration bene cial to students and the communities in which they live.

Highlights of the 35th anniversary celebration included a lecture by John H. McClendon, associate professor of African American Studies and American Culture at Bates College. His lecture on “Categories, Critique, Curriculum and Community: Revisiting African American Studies” examined various categories of African American Studies, the critiques they direct at the academy and the world at large, ways to structure an African American Studies curriculum and the relationship of the black community to African American Studies as the 21st century progresses.

AnthropologyMartha Rees was part of the initial podcast-lecture experiment.

Web-based courses were designed for six introductory courses.

Faculty carried out eld research in ve countries and three states in the U.S.: Lynne Schepartz, biological anthropology eld research in Albania and Greece; Vernon Scarborough, eld research in Belize and Guatemala; Alan Sullivan, archaeological eld research in Arizona; Martha Rees, cultural research in Atlanta, Cincinnati, and Oaxaca, Mexico; and

Jeff rey Jacobson, medical anthropology research in Cincinnati.

Graduate students traveled in Belize, Albania, Mexico, Arizona and Ohio for research.

Asian Studies e number of majors increased considerably, with seven majors graduating this academic year. Five graduated with high honors, and ve were also double majors in International Aff airs, Political Science and History. irteen students received the undergraduate certi cate, including students from international co-op (5), history (2), biology (1), education (2), business (1), engineering (1) and art history (1).

e program co-sponsored a model APEC (Asia Paci c Economic Cooperation) summit for high school students in February 2006. More than 130 students from eight Cincinnati-area high schools participated, along with 50 UC students.

Biological SciencesTotal extramural support was $1.788 million. New grants were received by Dennis Grogan (NSF), Elke Buschbeck (NSF CAREER), eresa Culley (USDA), Ron Debry (NIJ), Ron Debry (USA-Israel National Science Foundation) and Edna Kaneshiro (second-year NIH). NSF REU supplements were awarded to Dennis Grogan, George Uetz and Mike Polak.

Request for a new major in Neuroscience was completed in collaboration with the Departments of Psychology and Philosophy and submitted to Undergraduate Council for review.


Unit Activities

Vernon Scarborough, Anthropology

Chemistry e department ranked 12th at the university and third on West campus in securing total external funding.

Active grants and contracts were raised to a cumulative total of more than $7 million, through research grants for eresa Reineke, James Mack, Jim Mark, Brian Halsall and William Heineman.

Two new non-major chemistry survey courses were created for next academic year. Jon Briener developed the “Chemistry and Society” lecture and lab sequence for education majors, and Allan Pinhas, a “Forensic Chemistry” one-quarter lecture for non-majors. Additionally, Apryll Stalcup helped develop a new co-op/internship option for undergraduates, Chem 498, to provide increased “real-world” opportunities for students prior to graduation.

ClassicsGetzel Cohen, Jack Davis, Kathleen Lynch and Gisela Walberg obtained $127,000 in outside grants (mainly from PHI and INSTAP) for archaeological projects in Albania, Greece and Turkey.

e department hosted the third Papyrological Summer Institute (a er Yale and Berkeley) in July-August 2005. William Johnson organized an international conference on literacy in the ancient world in April 2006.

John Wallrodt led the department in digitizing its slide collection of ancient artifacts and monuments this year and made

it available for local use through its Web site, helping make the department a world leader in the application of technology to archaeological research and teaching.

CommunicationCharter membership was granted in the Public Relations Student Society of America organization (PRSSA). In its rst year, the chapter has more than 100 members and is directed by Maribeth Metzler. It also has more than 100 students enrolled in its Public Relations Certi cate Program.

e newly formed Forensics Team was coached by Wendy Larcher. e team, sponsored by the department, competed in 10 events nationwide in its rst year.

Adoption of the theme “Communicating rough Community Engagement” highlighted involvement, through research, service and teaching, in the greater Cincinnati community and the region. A ne example was the Alternative Spring Break trip taken by M.J. Woeste and Maribeth Metzler. ey used the break to take seven students to work in rural Kentucky, repairing and improving homes for the Christian Appalachian Project. ey replaced windows, insulated, did roo ng and siding work, and made kitchen and bathroom installations and replacements in Berea, Ky.

e department implemented technological advancement in a number of ways this year, podcasting course lectures and teaching courses online.


Brian Halsall, Chemistry, examines an entry in the REU poster presentation.

James Mack, Chemistry, advises undergraduate research students.

Economics e Applied Economics Research Institute, under the leadership of omas Zinn, assumed responsibility for publishing and analyzing the monthly Institute for Supply Management Purchasing Managers Survey for the Greater Cincinnati area. e Center is also involved in numerous community outreach activities: preparing Regional Perspectives on Economic Progress for the Business Investment Trend Committee of the Cincinnati USA Regional Partnership; working with the Greater Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber of Commerce Minority Business Accelerator; and assisting the Greater Cincinnati Hispanic Chamber of Commerce through a study of the Hispanic contributions to the regional economy.

e undergraduate Economics Society set up a new Tutoring Program for academically challenged students of introductory Economics courses. e free tutoring service is available daily at scheduled hours. In response to strong demand, the program will be expanded next year.

A paid internship arrangement was made for a graduate student with the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. e graduate student conducts research on the economy of the Cincinnati area, which then becomes part of the Federal Reserve Bank’s forecast for the U.S. economy.

English & Comparative Literature e annual winter Ropes Lecture Series on the topic “Shakespeare’s Past and Present” featured lectures and panel

discussions by Stephen Greenblatt, Richard Howard, Hugh Grady, Orson Scott Card and Linda Charnes.

e second biennial Emerging Writers Festival featured novelists Aimee Bender, Judy Budnitz, Sam Lipsyte and Nicholas Montemarano. Readings were hosted for ction writers Julian Barnes, Chang-rae Lee and Writer-in-Residence Margot Livesey.

e George Elliston Poetry Foundation sponsored an ambitious series of readings by visiting poets, including Elliston Poet-in-Residence Molly Peacock. Other visiting poets included Murray Bodo, Beth Gylys, Marilyn Chin, Peter Cooley, Sarah Arvio and John Koethe.

Environmental Studies e Center received funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for the second year in a row from the People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) program. e student design competition focused on research to nd sustainable solutions to environmental challenges. Focus of the research and design project was examining approaches to remove nutrients from wastewater in developing nations for re-use in agriculture to increase food security in Africa. e project culminated in a trip to Washington DC for the National Sustainable Design Expo and Competition, where the team of seven students presented the project “Capturing Nutrients from the Waste-Stream: Scalable Approaches to Increase Food Security and Environmental Sustainability in Developing Economies.”

Carla Chifos (School of Planning) and Cinnamon Carlarne received an


Unit Activities

Roger Selya, Geography

Interdisciplinary Grant award from the University Research Council titled “Innovative Models of Sustainable Land Management Regimes for Integrated Heritage Protection Areas.” Carlarne also received a URC research award for a project comparing EU and US approaches to climate change.

Geography e inaugural lecture of the Annual Howard A. Staff ord Lecture in Economic Geography was presented May 18. Featured speaker was Susan Hanson of the School of Geography, Clark University.

A new EGIS (Exploratory GIS) lab was opened to complement GIS instructional labs.

Field-based weather monitoring stations were expanded by placing four HOBO® weather station data loggers and smart sensors in additional locations.

A video-editing facility was established to assist in editing eld interviews.

GeologyIn the new 2006 rankings of graduate programs published by U.S. News and World Report, the graduate program in paleontology was ranked seventh-best in the nation, moving up from ninth in 2005.

Lewis Owen and Craig Dietsch initiated a new, highly successful three-week eld course to the Himalaya last September. Fi een people took part, including faculty, undergraduate and graduate students and alumni.

Faculty continued to receive external funding from a diverse set of sources, including NSF, NASA, the American Chemical Society (Petroleum Research Fund), the American Water Works Association, the Comer Science and Education Foundation and the Calico Early Man Site Archaeological Project. Of particular note were new NSF grants to Lewis Owen, to investigate the human and geological consequences of the October 2005 Pakistani earthquake, and to Tom Algeo, to study the stable isotope geochemistry of Devonian black shales.

German StudiesFunding was again received from the Max Kade Foundation in New York City and will support a visiting professor and a graduate student fellowship for 2006-07.

For the rst time, an online language course was off ered for students whose co-op schedule required their absence from UC.

More than 500 high-school students of German from the Tristate area attended German Day 2006. Students and their teachers spent the day at UC involved in competitions ranging from poetry readings to extemporaneous speaking.

HistoryDepartment members served as information resources in radio and television interviews, for newspaper and other print media outlets, and delivered eight public talks before Cincinnati groups and organizations.

e department continued to sponsor publication of a major regional historical


Craig Dietsch & Lewis Owen, Geology, in the Himalaya.

Local high school students at German Day 2006.

journal, Ohio Valley History, and jointly sponsors a lecture series with the Cincinnati Museum Center.

Judaic StudiesMark A. Raider was hired as department head and Jewish Foundation Endowed Chair of the Department of Judaic Studies. Raider was both chairman of Judaic Studies and founding director of the Center of Jewish Studies at his previous post, State University of New York at Albany.

A Library for Judaic Studies was dedicated in honor of Assistant Professor Elka Klein (1965-2005). e suite will serve as a hub for majors to read, debate and study with each other.

John Brolley was honored by the Offi ce of Ethnic Programs and Services and the Darwin T. Turner Scholars Program at this year’s Jerome Jackson Breakfast of Champions.

Gila Safran Naveh received a Faculty Development Grant NYU and Brandeis Study “Jewish Presence on American Screen,” to develop a new course on lm. She also received a summer NEH focus grant for the study of Europe and received e George C. Barbour Award for Promoting Good Faculty-Student Relations.

Latin American Studies e program graduated six minors and co-sponsored a visit by renowned author Arturo Arias as part of Hispanic Heritage Month. Arias read from his books to a large audience at the Tangeman University Center eater, autographed books and

met with graduate students from the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures.

Armando Romero received the Latino Book Award 2005 for “La rueda de Chicago,” best adventure novel, given by the Latino Literacy Now, New York Book Expo, 2005.

Mathematical Sciences ree new major grants from the National Science Foundation were announced. Don French received a three-year grant to study “Identi cation of Ion Channel Distributions in Olfactory Cilia by Mathematical Modeling” with Steve Kleene of the Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology, and Anatomy. Wlodek Bryc received a three-year grant to study “Classical and Noncommutative Processes.” Ken Meyer received a grant to sponsor the annual Midwest Dynamical Systems Seminar for the next three years.

Nages Shanmugalingam organized one of the rst Ta Research Seminars on “Geometric Analysis,” with visiting scholars from Finland, Ireland and Japan leading the seminars in the three diff erent quarters.

Organizational Leadership e center hosted the rst Masters of Art in Labor and Employee Relations, (MA LER), networking meeting to bring together program alums and current students. Alums shared their experiences in nding HR positions and off ered advice and suggestions to current students seeking employment in the eld.


Unit Activities

John Brolley, Judaic Studies

Dennis O’Neill, Economics and Asian Studies, and Robert

Faaborg, Philosophy, at the A&S Awards Dinner.


Forty- ve new students were admitted to the MA LER program, which graduated 23 students.

In Donna Chrobot-Mason’s Research Methods class, students worked with the director of the training department at Great American Insurance to design training evaluation instruments. e students presented their ndings in March 2006.

e University of Cincinnati student chapter of Society for Human Resource Management again earned national recognition as recipient of the Superior Merit Award. ere were 123 entries out of 430 student chapters.

PhilosophyPhD students continued to excel. During 2005-06, six students gave a total of 15 presentations at major professional conferences; one published a research article in a major philosophy journal and served as the University Research Council Distinguished Dissertation Fellow; and another won the university-wide Graduate Teaching Excellence award.

In the recent Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index compiled by Academic Analytics LLC, which compares faculty publications, journal citations and awards and honors in speci c disciplines across major U.S. universities, the UC Philosophy Department’s overall score was rst among surveyed Philosophy departments.

e department sponsored its annual Colloquium, three Ta lectures, and one dozen talks in the Visiting Speakers series. ese events brought to the UC

campus philosophers and scientists from such major universities as Baylor College of Medicine, the London School of Economics and Dartmouth College.

PhysicsMichael Sitko received a $77,000 grant from NASA’s Astrophysics Data Program for the project titled, “ e Environments and Evolution of Young Stars and Planetary Systems: Improving the Dating of the Nearest Herbig Ae Stars.” Sitko, who serves on the Board of Trustees of the Cincinnati Observatory Center, was also awarded time on the Spitzer Space Telescope, the Hubble Space Telescope, the Gemini North 8-meter telescope and NASA’s Infrared Telescope Facility. His work was mentioned in the May 6, 2006, issue of Science News.

e department presented “Physics for the 21st Century,” a one-day program for high school students, in September 2005.

Political Science e Ta Departmental Enhancement grant, in its second year, led to new initiatives for Homeland and Security Studies. ese included the rst graduates of the security studies certi cate and rst course off ering for the new Center for Emergency Management.

George Bishop’s book, “ e Illusion of Public Opinion: Fact and Artifact in American Public Opinion Polls” (2005), was selected as one of 682 outstanding titles identi ed by Choice, selected from a pool of nearly 7,000 titles.

George Bishop, Political Science, signs a copy of his book, “The Illusion of Public Opinion: Fact and Artifact in American Public Opinion Polls,” for a student.

PsychologyFaculty had a remarkable showing at the A&S Awards Dinner, winning the research award (Gerry Matthews), the teaching award (Kenneth Ghee) and the adjunct teaching award (the late James Short). In addition, Michelle Paludi was named a distinguished alumna.

Laura Nabors and her students worked in public schools in Cincinnati and Columbus as representatives of the University of Cincinnati and the Big Brothers Big Sisters Program tutoring children with learning diffi culties. Students completed journals to relate their community experiences with knowledge they were gaining in the classroom. Nabors and rst-year graduate students provided counseling at the GLAD House program, serving children whose parents experience diffi culty with substance abuse.

e department was selected as a summer 2006 host for one of the American Psychological Association’s (APA) most prestigious events, an Advanced Training Institute. ATI’s are hosted annually nationwide at prominent research institutions, with 2006 locations including UC, Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Virginia.

Romance Languages & LiteraturesValentine House opened for 22 undergraduate residents (11 each in French and Spanish) and three graduate student advisers on Sept. 1, 2005, and completed a very successful rst year. On Feb. 14, 2006, the library was dedicated in honor of the late Professor Emeritus and former Department Head, Kornel Huvos. e dedication was attended by his widow, Mrs. Anna Huvos, and his son, Dr. Christopher Huvos.

Unit Activities


Left to Right: Gerry Matthews, Steve Howe, and Kenneth Ghee

of the Psychology Department at the A&S Awards Dinner.

Michelle Paludi, Distinguished Alumna

Undergraduate Certi cates in European Studies, Italian Language and Culture and Arabic Language and Culture were approved by Arts and Sciences faculty and are available to all students.

Under the auspices of the department and in collaboration with faculty from other A&S departments, an undergraduate certi cate in Middle Eastern Studies has been approved by Undergraduate Council. It will be considered for approval by the College in Fall 2006.

SociologyDavid J. Maume received a $195,000 grant from NSF for “Nonstandard Schedules and the Work and Family Lives of Retail Food Workers.” Sarah Beth Estes is a co-PI on the grant.

Rhys Williams was elected Section Chair of the ASA Section on Collective Behavior/Social Movements. He also was an invited critic in two author-meets-critic sessions at professional meetings; the rst was on Christian Smith’s “Soul Searching” at the Society for the Scienti c Study of Religion; the second was a session on Francesca Polletta’s “Freedom is an Endless Meeting” at the American Sociological Association annual meeting.

Kelly Moore was elected Section Chair of the ASA Section on Science, Knowledge and Technology.

Women’s StudiesUnder continuing FIPSE funding this year ($62,364) for the North American Women’s Studies student and faculty exchange program, seven graduate students have studied or will soon study at partner institutions in Canada and Mexico. Also through that funding, three faculty members (Anne Sisson Runyan, Michelle Rowley and Olga Sanmiguel-Valderrama) lectured at the York University Summer Institute that Women’s Studies co-organized on “Women’s Human Rights, Citizenships, and Identities in a North American Context” in June 2006 in Toronto, Canada.

Ta and/or Friends of Women’s Studies research and travel grants were awarded to Deb Meem (most notably $56,000 from Ta for library resources), Chris Cuomo, Lisa Hogeland, Michelle Gibson and Olga Sanmiguel-Valderrama.

e department was selected to be a major host of the June 2008 National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference in Cincinnati.


Left to right: The late Anna Huvos, Dean Karen Gould and Dean Victoria Montavon of University Libraries at the Valentine House library dedication.

Highlighted Faculty Grants, Contracts, & Fellowships


Peter Chiu, Psychology, was awarded a research grant from the National Institutes of Health.

Michael J. Baldwin, Suri Iyer, James Mack and Pearl Tsang, Chemistry, received 2005 Summer Faculty Research Fellowships from the University Research Council.

eresa Culley, Biology, received a $325,000 grant from the United States Department of Agriculture for research she hopes will help deter a potential American menace, wild pear trees.

Wendy Eisner and Kenneth Hinkel, Geology, along with Chris Cuomo, Philosophy, received a grant from the National Science Foundation on “Connecting Indigenous Knowledge to Landscape Process Research, Arctic Coastal Plain of Alaska.” e award was for $250,000 for a three-year period, 2006-2009.

Jack Davis, Classics, received a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship to support his research in 2007.

Don French, Mathematics, and Steve Kleene, College of Medicine, were awarded a three-year $168,638 NSF grant for their proposal titled “Identi cation of Ion Channel Distributions in Olfactory Cilia by Mathematical Modeling.”

Jenefer Robinson, Philosophy, received a $34,000 fellowship to the Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah for her research on emotion theory.

James Mack, Chemistry, received a $312,000 CAREER Award for “Utilization of Mechanochemistry for Solvent Waste Reduction” from the National Science Foundation.

H. Brian Halsall and William R. Heineman, Chemistry, received a

Jenefer Robinson, Philosophy

Awards & Achievements

Wendy Eisner, Kenneth Hinkel and Chris Cuomo conducted fi eld

research in Alaska.


University of Dayton Research Institute sub-contract on a Department of Army grant for “Immunomagnetic Separation Based Sample Concentration and Bioagent Detection for Drinking Water.”

Suri Iyer, Chemistry, is a co-PI on the recently awarded $175,000 grant titled “Integration of Nanoscale Science and Engineering into Undergraduate Curricula” from the National Science Foundation.

Edna Kaneshiro, Biology, was awarded a $1.4 million grant from NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for her project, “Sterol Metabolism in Pneumocystis.”

Lin Liu, Geography, received faculty development and alignment grants totaling $16,000 for his joint research with Dr. Li Xia of Sun Yat-sen University on modeling urban land use changes using GIS and remote sensing.

James E. Mark, Chemistry, received a Special Creativity Funding Extension from the National Science Foundation. He will receive $156,000 in additional funding for each of two additional years for his project, “Some Modern Aspects of Elastomer Science and Technology.”

Gerald Matthews, Psychology, was awarded a research grant from Procter & Gamble.

eresa Reineke, Chemistry, received a $275,000 grant for “Development of Novel Synthetic DNA Carriers for NF-kB Blockade in the Myocardium” from the Beckman Foundation. is research grant is in addition to her award as a Beckman Young Investigator.

Alan Sullivan, Anthropology, and Bob Frohn, Geography, received a grant of $40,000 from the National Park Service for their proposal, “Testing the Regional Reliability of Spectral Signatures of Archaeological Phenomena.”

William Heineman, Chemistry, and doctoral student Maojun Gong

Faculty Positions of Distinction


Awards & Achievements

Faculty Honors & Awards

John Bickle, Philosophy, served as President of the UC chapter of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Honor Society.

Kathy Gutzwiller and Peter van Minnen, Classics, became editors of, respectively, the monograph series published by the American Philological Society and of the Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists.

Barry Maynard, Geology, was elected Chair of the Earth Sciences Panel, National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences.

Kelly Moore, Sociology, was elected Section Chair of the ASA Section on Science, Knowledge and Technology.

Rhys Williams, Sociology, was elected Section Chair of the ASA Section on Collective Behavior/Social Movements.

Katharina Gerstenberger, German Studies; Robert Skipper, Philosophy; Julian Wuerth, Philosophy; Edward Ross Dickinson, History; Rhys Williams, Sociology; and Wendy Kline, History, were named the first Taft Fellows.

Bruce S. Ault, Chemistry, was named for a 2006 Faculty Senate University Service Award.Elke Buschbeck, Biology, received an National Science Foundation CAREER Award. She will receive $805,000 over ve years for her proposal, “CAREER: Function and Evolution of a Novel, Fundamentally Different Visual System in Dytiscid Diving Beetle Larvae.”Cynthia Berryman-Fink, Communication, received the UC Pan Hellenic Council Professor of the Year award. Carlton Brett, Geology, was awarded a Humboldt Fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. e international fellowship permits Brett to engage in a long-term collaboration with European colleagues.Madeleine Briskin, Geology, received the 2006 Woman of the Year Award from Cincinnati Women in Excellence & Spirit Together, CWEST.Virginia Quarterly Review, one of the nation’s foremost literary journals, awarded Brock Clarke, English, the 2005 Emily Balch Prize for his short story, “e Ghosts We Love.” e work appears in his collection, “Carrying the Torch,” which won the 2005 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Short Fiction. Stephen Depoe and Maribeth Metzler, Communication, won the National Communication Association Article of the Year Award from the Organizational Communication Division for their research in environmental communication.

John Drury, English, won the prestigious Paris Review Prize in Poetry for “e Refugee Camp,” his book-length sequence of poems.Mary Fox, Biology, received the 2006 Honors Scholars’ Teaching Award.Michael Griffith, English, received the Cleanth Brooks Prize in Nonction from the Southern Review. At its 18th Biennial Conference in St. Louis, the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS) named Dean Karen L. Gould the 2005 recipient of its highest honor, the Donner Medal. Gould’s “Writing in the Feminine” was named one of the 30 most notable books in the eld of Canadian Studies by the editorial board of the International Journal of Canadian Studies.William R. Heineman, Chemistry, received a UC|21 President’s Excellence Award. Heineman volunteered to chair an ad hoc committee in the chemistry department that reviewed the graduate program and revised requirements in light of UC|21, and served on committees for the UC|21 goal related to research excellence. He also was selected an ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Alternate Councilor.Lowanne Jones, Romance Languages and Literatures, was awarded one of the rst UC|21 President’s Excellence Award for contributions toward the UC|21 goals. Her efforts include work leading to the creation of a state-of-the-art Language Resource Center.James Mack, Chemistry, received a $312,000 CAREER Award for “Utilization


Student Awards & AchievementsDaisy-Malloy Hamburg, Chemistry, received an American Chemical Society Pfi zer Graduate Travel Award and was named UC Graduate Student of the Year by the Graduate Student Association.

Dave Hernandez and Katie Swinford, Classics, won Fulbright Fellowships.

Josh Bell, English, published his fi rst book of poetry, “No Planets Strike,” with the University of Nebraska Press.

Sophia Kartsonis, English, won this year’s Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize for her book of poems, “Intaglio.” It will be published by Kent State University Press.

Jessica Moss, Geography, became the fi rst UC McNair scholar to be admitted to a PhD program.

Doug Hogue was awarded a fellowship to participate in the Mathematics Advanced Study Seminar at Penn State in fall ’06. He returns to UC in January 2007.

Emily Iobst was elected graduate student of the year by the Cincinnati Society of Child Clinical Psychologists.

of Mechanochemistry for Solvent Waste Reduction” from the National Science Foundation.Allison Hughes-Maldonado, Romance Languages and Literatures, received the UC|21 President’s Excellence Award for Outstanding Adjunct Faculty.Laura Nabors, Psychology, was named a fellow by a second division of the American Psychological Association.Jenefer Robinson, Philosophy, won the 2006 University of Cincinnati Rieveschl Award for Scholarly or Creative Excellence.Michelle Rodino-Colocino, Communication, was awarded the Emerging Scholar distinction by the Critical/Cultural Studies Division of the National Communication Association.Gila Safran Naveh, Judaic Studies, received e George C. Barbour Award for Promoting Good Faculty-Student Relations.Paula Shear, Psychology, along with a student, Krista Medina, was awarded the

Nelson Butters prize for the best research publication in neuropsychology, awarded annually by the National Academy of Neuropsychology.Estel D. Sprague, Chemistry, earned the 2006 UC Emerging Entrepreneur Award.For her career-spanning accomplishments, e Central States Communication Association (CSCA) honored Judith S. Trent, Communication, with their 2006 Hall of Fame Award. Anne Sisson Runyan, Women’s Studies, was awarded the Society for Women in International Political Economy Mentor Award at the International Studies Association Annual Meeting and was recognized as a Leading Woman of Cincinnati in the category of Education.Joel Warm, Psychology, received the Paul M. Fitts Education Award from the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society at its national meeting in September 2005.

Bruce Ault, Chemistry, at McMicken College Welcome Week


Faculty Comings & Goings

Promotions & Tenure (eff ective 9/1/06)

Promotion Academic Unit

Philip Argyres Professor PhysicsJintai Ding Professor Mathematical SciencesWayne Durrill Professor HistoryWendy Eisner Associate Professor with Tenure Geography & Women’s StudiesTamar Heller Associate Professor with Tenure EnglishTodd Herzog Associate Professor with Tenure German StudiesRonald Hundemer Field Service Associate Professor EnglishJohn Kalubi Field Service Associate Professor African & African Am. StudiesJennifer Malat Associate Professor with Tenure SociologyDinshaw Mistry Associate Professor with Tenure Political ScienceLaura Nabors Associate Professor with Tenure PsychologyKenneth Petren Associate Professor with Tenure Biological SciencesGeoff rey Plank Professor History omas Polger Associate Professor with Tenure PhilosophyAnne Runyan Professor Women’s StudiesJames Schiff Associate Professor with Tenure EnglishPaula Shear Professor PsychologyPurcell Taylor Professor PsychologyGiao Tran Associate Professor with Tenure PsychologyWilliam Zipfel Field Service Associate Professor EnglishHeather Zoller Associate Professor with Tenure Communication

William N. Dember, Psychology professor emeritus. Dember, a Yale graduate who earned his PhD at University of Michigan, came to UC in 1959. He supervised more than 63 master’s theses and 100 doctoral dissertations during his 47-year UC career. Author of seven books, in 1960 Dember wrote “Psychology of Perception,” the dominant text in the fi eld for 20 years. He was head of the Department of Psychology from 1968-1976 and Dean of the McMicken College of Arts and Sciences from 1981-1986. A distinguished research professor, Dember was a past winner of the Rieveschl Award for scientifi c excellence.

Harold Fishbein, Psychology professor from 1964-2005, earned his bachelor’s degree in philosophy at the University of Illinois and doctorate in clinical psychology from University of Pennsylvania. Fishbein completed a one-year post-doctoral fellowship at Indiana University before taking his fi rst and only job, in the UC Department of Psychology. A Fellow of the American Psychological Association, he wrote three books, including the award-winning “Peer Prejudice and Discrimination.”

In Memoriam

William Dember was head of the Department of Psychology

from 1968-1976 and Dean of the McMicken College of Arts

and Sciences from 1981-1986.


New Faculty (effective 9/1/05)

Retired Faculty (effective 9/1/06)

Title Academic Unit

Richard Day Professor ChemistryCharles Groetsch Professor Mathematical SciencesRhoda Halperin Professor AnthropologyAndrew Villalon Professor Romance Languages & Lit.Fu-Chun Zhang Professor Physics

Dale Jones, Physics professor emeritus. Jones began work in McMicken College of Arts and Sciences on Sept. 1, 1953, and retired in 1994. He earned his bachelor’s degree in physics at UC in 1948 and his PhD in physics from Washington University in 1953.

Al Salvato, English adjunct and media adviser for the UC student newspaper, the News Record, spent many years as a reporter and copy editor for the Cincinnati and Kentucky Post newspapers. Salvato, who taught journalism at UC and Northern Kentucky University, had been a stringer for the New York Times and adviser for UC’s chapter of Society of Professional Journalists. A one-time runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize, Salvato had advised the UC newspaper for five years at the time of his death.

Gola James Short, field service assistant professor of psychology, served in many UC departments over the years. The Kentucky native earned his bachelor’s degree in psychology at Berea College and began his teaching career as a graduate student at UC. Short, who created an intensive course allowing students to complete Social Psychology I and II in one quarter, received a doctorate in social psychology at UC in 1997. He died a day before he was to receive the 2006 McMicken Dean’s Award for Distinguished Adjunct Performance.

Title Academic Unit

Frederick Cadora Field Service Professor Romance Languages & Lit.Noriko Fujioka-Ito Assistant Professor Asian StudiesJames Knippling Field Service Assistant Professor EnglishNuria Lopez-Ortega Field Service Assistant Professor Romance Languages & Lit.omas Lorman Field Service Assistant Professor HistoryKelly Moore Assistant Professor SociologyMolly Oberlin Field Service Assistant Professor EnglishCynthia Ris Field Service Assistant Professor English Noris Rodriguez Field Service Assistant Professor Romance Languages & Lit.Teri Rysz Field Service Assistant Professor Mathematical SciencesMary Schuster Field Service Instructor Mathematical SciencesMichael Sheehy Assistant Professor EnglishHeather Smith Field Service Assistant Professor EnglishSeongho Song Assistant Professor Mathematical SciencesPaul Sontag Field Service Instructor Mathematical SciencesNikki Taylor Assistant Professor HistoryNoriko Tsurui Field Service Instructor Asian StudiesNicasio Urbina Associate Professor with Tenure Romance Languages & Lit.Jenny Wohlfarth Field Service Assistant Professor English

In Memoriam


Student Profi le

Undergraduate Major Enrollment & Degrees Conferred by Primary Program

Enrollment* Degrees Conferred

Department Fall ’05 Fall ’06 ’04-05 ’05-06African & African American Studies 19 (3) 15 (5) 5 3Anthropology 69 (1) 79 (1) 26 9Asian Studies 18 (12) 20 (12) 0 7Biological Sciences 417 (6) 481 (9) 63 67Business Economics 72 (1) 62 (2) 21 12Chemistry 140 (1) 167 (2) 25 16Classic Civilization 9 10 1 2Classics 11 (2) 11 (2) 1 1Communication 519 600 (5) 168 138Economics 53 (5) 62 (4) 18 15English 330 (6) 261 (5) 84 65Environmental Studies 30 (1) 47 (2) 5 4French 21 (3) 20 (5) 3 4Geography 28 (3) 38 (4) 7 9Geology 20 (3) 35 (3) 7 3German Studies 17 (3) 16 (7) 9 3History 202 (3) 198 (9) 36 36Interdisciplinary Studies (BMS, FAM, INTR) 27 (2) 20 (1) 4 5International Aff airs 85 (6) 82 (8) 13 17Journalism** N/A 146 (13) N/A 8Judaic Studies 9 (2) 4 (2) 2 4Latin American Studies 2 (3) 5 (1) 0 2Linguistics 5 15 2 1Mathematical Sciences 71 (5) 80 (5) 11 4Organizational Leadership 134 (3) 172 (8) 15 18Personnel & Industrial Relations 35 (1) 45 (3) 10 5Philosophy 36 (2) 41 (4) 15 7Physics 41 (3) 42 (2) 2 2Political Science 213 (9) 202 (10) 31 39Psychology 603 (5) 659 (3) 125 100Sociology 98 89 (3) 33 21Spanish 82 (9) 65 (11) 15 22Pre-Transfer (DAAP, PBA, PENG, PSW, PPHR) 707 (10) 550 N/A N/AUndecided/Exploratory 1,204 928 N/A N/AWomen’s Studies 9 (3) 25 (8) 4 2Total Continuing Core Programs 5,336 (116) 5,292 (159) 761 769Total Discontinued CECE Programs 210 (1) 70 131 118Unknown 12 6 2 0Grand Total 5,558 (117) 5,368 (159) 894 887

Appendix I

N/A = Not Applicable

* () indicates double majors within McMicken College. Total majors in each program is the sum of the two numbers.

** New program introduced in 2005-06.

Senior Geology student Deirdre McCartney

Service to Other UC Colleges (Instructional FTEs for Non-A&S Majors)

(# and % of credit hours taken in home college vs. McMicken College)

Home College McMicken College

College Served Cr. FTEs % Cr. FTEs %

Allied Health 13,374 892 52 9,266 618 3631,383 2,092 67 11,225 748 24

Applied Science 49,873 3,325 78 9,975 665 1648,399 3,227 58 5,990 399 10

Business 36,942 2,463 48 32,339 2,156 4240,517 2,701 49 32,168 2,145 39

CAT 13,077 872 65 5,454 367 2719,609 1,307 65 7,908 527 26

CCM 23,253 1,550 70 8,339 556 2524,080 1,605 67 9,459 631 26

CECH 36,067 2,405 49 29,834 1,989 4142,066 2,804 51 31,060 2,071 38

DAAP 50,324 3,355 74 14,575 972 2158,090 3,873 73 18,024 1,202 23

Engineering 32,005 2,134 43 39,109 2,607 5234,907 2,327 45 39,311 2,621 51

Nursing 13,917 928 55 9,134 609 3617,464 1,164 58 9,988 666 33

University College* 309 21 2 13,861 924 71-- -- -- 4,346 290 72

Non-matriculated -- -- -- 7,029 468 63-- -- -- 9,334 622 64


Appendix II

* University College Legacy Students

’04-05 ’05-06

Communication student William Smith makes a presentation.


Graduate Enrollment & Degrees Conferred by Academic Unit

Enrollment Degrees Conferred

2005 2006 ’04-05 ’05-06 ’04-05 ’05-06Department Fall Fall Master’s Master’s PhD PhDAnthropology 22 22 5 3 N/A N/ABiological Sciences 48 38 10 12 3 5Chemistry 107 106 7 9 13 10Classics 49 50 3 7 2 2Communication 27 24 8 9 N/A N/AEconomics 29 31 12 14 0 0English 92 84 11 23 5 4Geography 29 34 2 4 4 2Geology 36 34 2 5 1 1German Studies 28 24 4 4 0 1History 45 46 12 8 3 1Interdisciplinary 6 5 0 0 1 1Mathematical Sciences 77 80 28 26 5 1Organizational Leadership (LER) 72 53 15 29 N/A N/APhilosophy 27 22 1 3 1 3Physics 64 60 7 3 6 8Political Science 35 46 3 3 5 3Psychology 72 71 7 13 12 14Romance Languages & Literatures 40 35 9 9 5 5Sociology 38 36 3 7 0 0Teaching Science* N/A 1 N/A N/A N/A N/AWomen’s Studies 24 20 4 7 N/A N/A

Grand Total 967 922 153 198 66 61

Appendix III

Graduates move their tassels to the left to signify their

academic transition.

N/A = Not Applicable*New program introduced in 2005-06.

Appendix IV

Total M F WH BL HS AS AI OT UK

MA 84 27 57 51 1 4 8 -- 4 16

114 46 68 64 5 3 12 2 4 24

MALER 15 3 12 11 3 -- -- -- -- 1

29 8 21 18 2 2 4 1 -- 2

MAT 9 7 2 8 -- -- -- -- -- 1

11 6 5 9 1 -- -- -- -- 1

MS 45 28 17 16 2 1 19 -- -- 7

44 20 24 20 1 1 14 -- 1 7

PhD 66 32 34 41 2 2 5 -- -- 16

61 34 27 27 3 2 12 -- 8 9

Total 219 97 122 127 8 7 32 -- 4 41

259 114 145 138 12 8 42 3 13 43

M: MaleF: FemaleWH: White BL: Black HS: Hispanic AS: Asian AI: American Indian OT: Other UK: Unknown

Graduate Degrees Conferred by Race & Gender

Graduate Enrollment Demographics

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100

Other/Unknown

By Source ’04-05 % ’05-06 %

International 299 27 283 27Majority 574 52 535 51Minority 81 7 80 8Other/Unknown 143 13 150 14

Grand Total 1,097 1,048

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300

400

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’04-05’05-06

Int’l Majority Minority

’04-05

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A doctoral graduate participates in the hooding ceremony.

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Art Director/Editor Jessica Donovan

Designer Melanie Cannon

Writer & Copy Editor Britt Kennerly

Data Compilation Joan Fisher

Contributors Gisela Escoe, Chris McCord and George Uetz

Photo CreditsCover: Melanie Cannon, UC Photographic ServicesInside Cover: UC Photographic ServicesContents: Melanie Cannon, UC Photographic Servicespg. 2 Melanie Cannonpgs. 3, 4 & 7 UC Photographic Servicespg. 8 Jessica Donovan, UC Photographic Servicespg. 9 UC Photographic Services

pg. 10 Melanie Cannon, UC Photographic Servicespg. 11 Melanie Cannon, China - courtesy of Karen Gouldpg. 12 Melanie Cannonpgs. 13-15 UC Photographic Servicespg. 16 Melanie Cannon, UC Photographic Servicespg. 17 Melanie Cannonpg. 18 UC Photographic Servicespg. 19 Himalaya - courtesy of Lewis Owen, Melanie Cannonpg. 20 UC Photographic Services, Melanie Cannonpg. 21 Melanie Cannonpgs. 22-23 UC Photographic Servicespgs. 24 UC Photographic Services, Alaska - courtesy of Wendy Eisnerpg. 25 UC Photographic Servicespg. 27 Melanie Cannonpg. 28 William Dember - courtesy of the Psychology Departmentpgs. 30-33 UC Photographic Services

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