The
Wright State University (WSU) College
of Science and
Mathematics (CoSM) continued to build on its strong foundation through making significant
gains across a wide range of areas in 2005. This report provides an overview of the
accomplishments, initiatives, and events of 2005 within the college. We look back on the year with considerable pride
in knowing the faculty, staff, students and administration continue to work
daily to advance the mission of the college.
Mission
The College
of Science and
Mathematics performs and promotes innovative research across disciplines and in
collaboration with local, regional and international communities. Faculty enthusiastically cultivate an
individualized learning environment designed to inspire lifelong learning and
prepare students for success. Prominent
researchers embrace the opportunity to work with graduate and undergraduate
students, while also exploring ways to share their passion for science and
mathematics with young students, thus inspiring a new generation of dynamic
scientists and mathematicians.
Last
year, our faculty and research associates published 243 papers and books, and presented at over 292 professional meetings and conferences. Our faculty gave invited
lectures at numerous universities including Stanford, Case Western Reserve and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Faculty served on 65 editorial advisory
boards.
Student
enrollment is growing at a steady pace. In the fall of 2005, we welcomed 1,700
students into our classes, compared to 1,556 in 2004. Our students are strong academically with an
overall GPA of 3.0; our student population is also increasingly diverse (61 %
women; 14 % minority).
In
addition to the university allocated funding, the college obtained in
$11,214,598 in research funding (17% of total university funding $64.4 million)
through 158 grants/contracts.
Construction
initiatives are moving full steam ahead with Bio III building going up as we
speak (web cam address), Brehm renovation underway and Oelman and BIO II plans
in the works.
This
annual report is a summary of our corporate effectiveness as scientists,
mathematicians and educators, and we appreciate your interest in sharing in our
success.
Michele
G. Wheatly, Ph.D., Dean, CoSM
Exploring Science: The Exploring Science program invites Miami Valley
classroom teachers to 
bring
their middle school science students to campus for a day of hands-on science activities.
Students participate in a variety of modules offered by WSU faculty, staff, and
graduate students, designed to get young students engaged in the fun
of science. In 2005, more than 800 students participated in this
event and more than half of these students reported on an evaluation that they
were more interested in science as a result of
this program.
Miami
Valley Tech Fest: CoSM faculty, staff and students interacted
with over 3000 visitors at the third
annual two-day science festival at Sinclair
Community College. Attendance
at this popular event has grown dramatically every year. Interactive displays
and activities showed students, parents and teachers from around the State the
excitement of hands-on science at WSU.
More information about Tech Fest can be found at this web site http://www.ascdayton.org/TechFest2006/
Trebuchet Competition: This unique event brings several hundred high
school students to the Nutter
Center for a wild and action-packed day. The
Trebuchet Competition requires students to work in teams and to call upon math,
physics and engineering principles to design a machine that will accurately
hurl a lightweight squash ball at a target. CoSM partnered with the College of Engineering
and Computer Science and participated in the planning, funding and
administration of this event. A photo
gallery from the 2006 event can be found at http://www.wright.edu/cosm/treb/
Take Our Daughters and Sons to
Work: The College was instrumental
in planning and implementing this university-wide event held in April. Nearly
150 youth came to work with a parent or mentor for th
e
day. CoSM faculty led special sessions for the visitors in Life Sciences,
Physics, Chemistry, and Statistics.
Green County Science Day: The first Greene County Science Day was held
in February 2006 in the WSU 
Student Union. The WSU Colleges of Science and
Mathematics & Engineering and Computer Science offered this event to
provide Greene County students with the opportunity to participate in a local science
fair. The event was very successful as
evidenced by the numerous comments from parents and students. The Greene County Science Day web site is http://www.wright.edu/cosm/gcsf/
Science Fair Judges: Over 50 CoSM faculty, staff and students
contributed a Saturday in March to serve as judges at the Miami Valley Science
and Engineering Fair at Central State University. WSU also contributed special
awards to worthy science projects.
Pre-med Forum: This event is for high school students who are
interested in a career as a physician, pharmacist or dentist. The forum
included presentations by several individuals in the CoSM, the WSU School of
Medicine, WSU admissions and others departments. In addition, Wright State
pre-med, pre-dental and medical students commented on their experiences and
education and answered questions. The second annual event was held on President’s
Day in February of 2006 and attracted more than 100 people to campus.
Art/Science: The Photography
of David Goldes: The Wright State University
Art Galleries hosted “Art/Science: The Photography of David Goldes,” in September.
Initially educated as a scientist,
Goldes earned an M.A. in Molecular Genetics from Harvard University. He also
earned an M.F.A. in photography from the State University of New York at Buffalo. The exhibition was sponsored by the Office
of the Provost, College of Liberal Arts, College of Science and Mathematics and
College of Engineering and Computer Science.
Third Annual CoSM Awards and
Recognition Ceremony: Students were
recognized by the college for academic excellence and faculty/graduate teaching
awards were presented. Various departmental awards were distributed as well.
Dr. Noel Nussbaum, Neuroscience, Cell Biology, and Physiology, was recognized
for 40 years of service to WSU and the College with a commemorative chair.
“Creationism,
Intelligent Design, Evolution—What Should We Teach?” Eugenie C. Scott, Ph.D., discussed the
scientific, educational, historical, legal, religious, and social aspects of
this debate. Students, parents, teachers, and administrators will learn how to
address questions and concerns about these thought-provoking topics.
The author of Evolution vs. Creationism:
An Introduction, Dr. Scott is executive director of the National Center for
Science Education, a nonprofit organization based in Oakland, California, that
works to educate the press and public about the creationism and evolution
controversy and to promote rigorous science education. A former university
professor, Dr. Scott has brought her insights as both a researcher and an
activist to the creationism/evolution debate for over 20 years.
Proctor & Gamble
Lectureship: The
Department of Chemistry was honored to have Professor 
Craig
J. Hawker, Director of the Materials Research Laboratory at the University of California
– Santa Barbara, as this year’s speaker in the Procter & Gamble Lectureship
series. His talk was titled “Commercial
Exploitation of Nanostructures: Studies at the Interface of Organic and
Materials Chemistry.” Professor Hawker
is the author or coauthor of approximately 200 scientific articles and 30
patents. He is currently one of the editors of the Journal of Polymer Science:
Part A: Polymer Chemistry in addition to serving on the editorial boards of a
number of other journals.
Partab T. Varandani Memorial
Lecture: Nobel Laureate Paul C. Lauterbur,
Ph.D., Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
spoke to an overflow crowd in the Fred White Center on the development of
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).
Ronald Mallett, Ph.D.
:
Is time travel possible? One of the
leading experts on this subject, University of Connecticut physics professor
Ronald Mallett, Ph.D., spoke to students, faculty, staff and visitors on the
possibilities of time travel in a talk on “A Brief History of Time Travel.” His work on time travel has been featured
worldwide in such publications as New Scientist, the Boston Globe, Pravda, the
Wall Street Journal and Astronomy magazine, plus on Japanese and German
television and The Learning Channel. He is currently completing a non-fiction
book The Time Traveler.
Presidential Appointee: President
George W. Bush appointed Delores Etter as Assistant Secretary of 
the
Navy. Dr. Etter received her bachelor's and master's degrees from Wright State University.
Dr Etter received the 2002 Outstanding Alumni Award from Wright State University.
Fellow:
Wright State professor Robert Ritzi,
Ph.D. named a fellow of the Geological Society of America.
Appointed: Dr. Allen Burton has been appointed to a
National Research Council Committee on Sediment Dredging at Superfund
Megasites. Congress has asked the NRC to produce a report by 
the
end of 2006. He also was appointed to
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Science Advisory Board (SAB) for a
three year term. The SAB was established in 1978 to
"provide independent advice and peer review on the scientific and
technical aspects of environmental problems and issues as requested by the EPA
Administrator or by the Congress".
University
Awards: Steven Higgins, Ph.D., assistant
professor of Chemistry, received the 2005 President’s Award for Excellence in
Early Career Achievement.
National Award Winner: Alex
Gutmanm a Wright State University junior math major, received a $10,000 Texas
Instruments Demana-Waits Scholarship for his academic excellence while also competing
on the university’s cross country team.
Outstanding Alumni: Marc D. Porter, Ph.D., professor of chemistry
at Iowa State University and a 1977 
and 1980 Wright State University graduate, was
the 2006 Outstanding Alumni Award winner from the College of Science and
Mathematics. One of his Wright State
professors considers Porter “one of the most talented, energetic, and
stimulating students the Department of Chemistry has ever had.”
Young Investigators Award: Lindsey Mayo, PhD, assistant professor of
radiation oncology and pharmacology at the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case
Western Reserve University, has received a Young Investigators Award from the
General Motors Cancer Research Scholars (GMCRS) Program for his work involving
a network of tumor suppressor proteins and an oncoprotein. Dr. Mayo earned his undergraduate degree in
Life Science from Indiana State University and his doctorate in Biomedical
Sciences from Wright State University.
Invited: Jeff
Smigelski was invited to spend 18 days with scientists on the research vessel
Thompson that explored undersea volcanoes in the Pacific Ocean. He served as a
camera operator for an unmanned robotic submersible exploring black smoker
chimneys on the ocean floor. His
all-expenses-paid trip off the coast of Washington became possible after
Deborah Kelley, Ph.D, one of the world’s leading experts on seafloor
hydrothermal systems and geobiological processes, presented a lecture on the
black smoker chimneys last spring at Wright State. Kelley, a faculty member at
the University of Washington’s School of Oceanography and Astrobiology, talked
about these vent fields in the ocean floor and the life forms that exist in
such a hostile environment. Smigelski
expressed an interest in this research field, and the result was his invitation
to the Northwest.
Appointed: Dan E.
Krane, Ph.D., an associate professor of biology, was appointed by the governor
of Virginia to a panel of scientists charged with overseeing the state’s crime
lab. The founder of Forensic
Bioinformatics in Fairborn, Krane is known worldwide as an expert on DNA
analysis. He joins 12 other scientists named to the Virginia panel. Widely recognized as one of the best labs in
the country, the Virginia DNA testing lab headquartered in Richmond currently is
under scrutiny following what Krane called “one of the two or three greatest
scandals a U.S. DNA testing lab has known.”
Anniversary: The 25th anniversary of the WSU Biomedical
Sciences Ph.D. Program was celebrated in October. Alumni and current and past faculty attended
the weekend’s activities on campus. Alumni awards were presented to David James,
Ph.D., for contributions to academic research, Bill Ralston, Ph.D., for
industry research and development and Tamara Chelette, Ph.D., for her work with
private and governmental research and regulatory organizations. In addition, a
mentor honor was presented to WSU faculty member Michael Leffak, Ph.D., and a
special citation was awarded to William Gardier, Ph.D., the first director of
the program.
Awarded: Wayne Carmichael, director of the
environmental sciences Ph.D. program and professor of biological sciences,
recently received the Fourth Annual International Education Award. The International Education Award recognizes
the successful efforts of members of the university community in expanding
global awareness and international understanding on campus and in the
surrounding communities. It also highlights innovations in curriculum development,
the operation of study abroad activities and the provision of services to
students and scholars.
Annual Dessert with Deans:
This event was held to promote giving to
the Campus Scholarship and Innovation Campaign in both the CoSM and the College
of Liberal Arts. Faculty and staff from the two colleges engage in a friendly
competition to see which college can raise the most money and achieve the
highest participation rate. This well
attended event is the culmination of the campaign and the competition.
Funkhouser reception: Through a generous contribution by Dr. James
Funkhouser, the Funkhouser Self-Starter award was established. A reception was held to honor Dr. Funkhouser
and allow his many friends and associates to express their appreciation for his
leadership and support of the medical profession.
CoSM Advisory Board: A
prestigious group of community leaders and alumni from around the country were
chosen to serve as the College of Science and Mathematics Advisory Board. The board meets three times each academic
year to have a dialogue with college leadership on matters important to the
college and community.
Annual CoSM Cookout: The
cookout was held to express the college’s appreciation to everyone who
participated in to the annual Campus Scholarship and Innovation campaign.
Scholarship recipients were invited to attend and had the opportunity to meet
those who funded their scholarships.
CoSM Employee Longevity Lunch:
Dean Wheatly hosted a lunch for CoSM
employees celebrating 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 and 35 years of services to the
University.
Other
events: CoSM faculty and staff hosted a table of
alumni and friends at the long running Madrigal Dinner in December in the WSU
Student Union. The third annual CoSM
Raider Basketball & Mexican Fiesta dinner drew nearly 150 alumni, faculty
and staff gather for a pre-game dinner followed by an exciting basketball game
in the Nutter Center. CoSM staff and
alumni also participated in the annual WSU Alumni Association golf outing.
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Biological Sciences
Chemistry Summary
Geological Sciences
Mathematics and Statistics
Neuroscience, Cell Biology, and Physiology
Physics Summary
Psychology Summary
Statistical Consulting Center
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Faculty
Highlights
Department faculty published or had in press a total of 22
journal papers or book chapters, and gave 30 national, international or local
presentations and invited talks.
Dr.’s Alter, Berberich, Organisciak, Paliy and Prochaska
were invited to participate in or chair symposia.
Dr.’s Alter and Paietta are Ad Hoc reviewers for the
National Science Foundation.
Dr. Berberich is an Ad Hoc reviewer for the National Cancer
Institute (NIH) and the International Research Foundation.
Dr. Leffak is an Ad Hoc reviewer for the Israel Cancer
Research Foundation and serves as a regular member of a NIH review panel.
Dr. Paietta served as an Ad Hoc reviewer for the Council for
Earth and Life Sciences, Dutch Research Council.
Dr. Kadakia is an Associate member for the American
Association for Cancer Research and continues to serve on the Miami Valley
Association for Women in Science.
Dr. Organisciak serves as an elected trustee in Biochemistry
and Molecular Biology for the Association for Research in Vision and
Ophthalmology and as a Board Member for the Academy of Medicine, SOM, the
Sinclair Community College Biotechnology Consortium, and the Ohio BRTT project
on Age Related Macular Degeneration.
Dr. Berberich serves as vice president for the WSU chapter
of the National Scientific Association of Sigma Xi and Dr. Prochaska serves as
Secretary/Treasurer.
Dr. Prochaska is co-chair of the American Heart Association
Ohio Valley-Southern Consortium peer review study section and serves on the
Board of Directors for the Miami Valley American Heart Association. He also
serves as the Treasurer of the Bioenergetics subgroup of the Biophysical Society.
Awards
to Faculty, Staff, Students
Dr.
Michael Leffak received the first ever “Mentoring Award” from the Biomedical
Sciences Ph.D. program.
Shere
Meyers and Teresa Cvetkov were recognized as 2005 Outstanding Graduate Student
Awardees in the Biomedical Sciences Program. Their mentors are Dr. Leffak and
Dr. Prochaska, respectively.
Outreach
Programs
Drs. Alter and Organisciak gave talks for the Café
Scientifique program of the Montgomery County Park District.
Dr. Alter continues to serve as a judge for the high school
science fair program and the Destination Imagination, technology/science
competition.
Biological Sciences
Faculty
Highlights
Thirty
refereed journal articles were written by the faculty in Biological Science.
More
than 50 presentations and invited talks were given locally, nationally and internationally
Drs.
Baird, Carmichael, Goldstein, Krane and Vadeboncoeur were invited to participate
in or chair professional symposia.
Drs.
Carmichael, Cipollini, Goldstein, Krane, Vadeboncoeur, and Van’t Hof served as
members of granting agency study sections, including American Heart
Association, Environmental Protection Agency, and National Science Foundation.
Eight
faculty members hold offices in twenty-three national professional organizations.
Dr.
Goldstein co-led a group of 20 medical and pre-medical students to Brazil for a
course on “translational physiology,” the interacting contributions of
laboratory research and clinical medicine.
Dr.
Dan Krane was a court-appointed expert in the areas of molecular biology,
forensic DNA testing, bioinformatics and population genetics. He also organized
the third annual “Expert Forum on The Science of DNA Profiling,” attended by
nationally recognized scientific experts and attorneys and approved for
continuing legal education credit by the Supreme Courts of 42 states.
Dr. John Stireman had his research (PNAS paper) featured by
several media organizations and mention
of it appeared online, in print, and/or on the radio in: The New York Times,
National Geographic, Scientific American, Science online, Science and
Development online, and the BBC
Dr.
Thomas Van’t Hof was widely quoted in national and international media on the
potential spread of avian flu by migratory birds.
Awards
to Faculty, Staff, Students
Dr. Roberta Pohlman received the WSU Award for Innovative
Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Technology, and was also named WSU Honors
Teacher of the Year.
Dr. Wayne Carmichael was recipient of the WSU Center for
International Education’s award for outstanding contribution to international
education.
Kristin Watts, a Biology major, was Wright State’s Student
Employee of the Year.
Andy Diller, an honors student in Biology, received WSU’s
Distinguished Senior Leader Award.
Gwyn Boehringer, a Biology student in the Environmental
Sciences PhD Program, won the Rhonda and Paul Sipp Wetland Research Award from
the Ohio Center for Wetland and River Restoration.
Outreach
Programs
Dr.
Jim Amon edited and contributed to “The Spotted Turtle,” newsletter for Beaver
Creek Wetland Association.
Dr. Scott Baird organized the Dayton Evolution Group.
Dr. Wayne Carmichael provided advice to high school students
for their science fair projects.
Dr. David
Goldstein spoke on Intelligent Design and evolution to Temple Beth Jacob, Dayton.
Dr. Barbara
Hull served on the Board of Directors, Admissions Committee, Honor Seminars of
Metropolitan Dayton
Dr. James Runkle participated in initial ecosystem
management review of Kirkmont, a Presbyterian church camp in Ohio
Dr. Stephanie Smith hosted representatives from Battelle
Memorial Institute (Columbus, OH) to give a seminar to graduate students about
opportunities in contract research.
Dr. John Stireman participated in education about insect
diversity through the Earthwatch foundation
Marcia Wendeln coordinated workshops for “Take Our Daughters
to Work Day,” Science Fair 101, and Tech Fest.
Student
Clubs and Activities
Biology
Club activities included “academic” meetings (e.g., presentations from faculty
and
others on topics such as department research and careers in life sciences) and
service activities (e.g. promoting recycling, maintaining trails), as well as
social activities.
Chemistry Summary
Faculty Highlights
Nineteen refereed journal articles were written by the
faculty in Chemistry. Forty
presentations and invited talks were given locally, nationally and
internationally (Czech Republic, Italy).
Dr. Roger Gilpin was an Associate Editor for the Journal of
Chromatographic Science.
Dr. Paul Seybold was on the Editorial Advisory Board of both
Chemistry & Biodiversity and Current Computer-Aided Drug Design. Further, he was on the Advisory Board for the
Ohio Molecular Computational and Simulation Network.
Dr. Kenneth Turnbull was a scientific editor & Control
Board member of ARKIVOC (an electronic journal) and a volume editor for
Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry-III.
Dr. Kenneth Turnbull was a member of the U.S. Civilian Research and
Development Foundation (CRDF) – Chemistry review panel.
Dr. Daniel Bombick served on the American Chemical
Society/Analytical Division Awards committee.
Dr. Steven Higgins organized the “Advances in experimental
and theoretical methods for characterization of mineral-fluid interfaces”
Symposium held at the 2005 V.M. Goldschmidt Conference in Idaho, U.S.A.
Dr. Daniel Ketcha was the Workshop Co-Organizer for the National
Science Foundation Workshop in the Chemical Sciences titled “Solid Phase
Synthesis and Combinatorial Chemistry” held at Miami University.
Awards to Faculty, Staff, Students
Both Dr David Dolson and Dr.
Suzanne Lunsford received CoSM Outstanding Teaching Awards.
Dr. Paul Seybold was named
an External Fellow of the Center for the Study of Biological Complexity at Virginia
Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.
Dr. Steven Higgins was awarded a Wright State
University Presidential Early Achievement Award.
Eleven students were recognized with external and internal
awards:
Candace Beach and Angie Sellers - Third Place
Undergraduate Poster at the Kentuckiana Student Research Meeting
Laura Bedrossian
– American Institute of Chemistry Award
Brian Brumfield – HyperCube Scholar Award &
Outstanding Chemistry Graduate Student
Shingirai Chirisa – Outstanding Chemistry Graduate
Teaching Assistant
Stephanie Cooke – Outstanding Chemistry Graduate
Teaching Assistant
Pragathi Kadiri –
Outstanding Chemistry Graduate Teaching Assistant
Sridevi Kaiti - Best Graduate Poster award at the
Dayton ACS Patterson Awards meeting
Zara Rhone –
CRC Outstanding Freshman Chemistry Student Award
Laura Sennet – Outstanding Chemistry Graduate
Teaching Assistant
Ben Southerland
- 2004 Patterson Award winner (outstanding Chemistry junior) &
Analytical Chemistry Award
Outreach Programs
Dr. Steven Higgins acted as a science Olympiad coach for Tower
Heights Middle School, Centerville.
Dr. Suzanne Lunsford directed teachers around the greater Cincinnati
and Dayton, Ohio area with chemistry lessons that were inquiry-based. In addition, with Ed Pitzer (M.S. student),
Dr. Lunsford presented “Adventures in Chemistry; A Crime Scene Investigation
Mystery” at the WSU Exploring Science event.
The Chemistry Demonstrations Program, led by Profs. Emeriti
Rubin Battino and John Fortman, with the assistance of Andrea Burns, students,
and staff, reaches roughly 7500- 8000 high school, junior high, and grade
school students each year with multiple presentations in December and
March. It is, so far as we can
determine, the largest chemistry outreach program in the nation (and possibly
the world). Students are shown
demonstrations of exciting chemical phenomena, with a lively dialog of
information and humor.
Student Clubs and Activities
The Chemistry Club was a highly active student
organization. Its activities included
30-minute meetings every other week, a monthly calendar available to all
students, presentations of posters at scientific meetings, field trips to
chemical companies, an active Demo Team that presented shows to area elementary
schools; plus assorted volunteer and social events.
Geological Sciences
Faculty Highlights
Seven articles were published in refereed journals by
department faculty. There were 38
presentations given at local to international meetings.
Dr. Burton was a keynote speaker at the Australasian Society
of Ecotoxicology meeting in Melbourne, Australia, followed by 2 invited talks
in Sydney (CSIRO) and Adelaide (Adelaide University). He was elected Vice President of the World
Council of the Society of Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry. He was appointed to the National Research
Council’s Committee on Dredging Effectiveness at Superfund Mega-Sites and to
the Science Advisory Board of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on
Ecological Effects and Processes. He
served on the Editorial Board of two journals.
Dr. Burton became interim-chair of the Geological Sciences Department in
October.
Dr. Barton presented an invited lecture at Columbia University’s
Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory and served as a Trustee of the Hubbard Brook
Research Foundation in Hanover NH.
Dr. Carney had several presentations locally and nationally
regarding Oakes Quarry, a local geological resource for research and
educational programs.
Dr. Dominic was invited to conduct sediment flume
experiments at Binghamton University in England on a joint project with Dr.
John Bridge. He also is Associate Editor for the Journal of Sedimentary
Research.
Dr. Ritzi was guest editor for an issue of Geosphere titled
“Modeling Flow and Reactive Transport in Physical and Chemical Heterogeneity”.
Dr. Slattery continued to establish a strong science
education program with presentations at national meetings in Salt Lake City and
San Francisco and web publications.
Awards to Faculty and
Students
Dr. Robert Ritzi was elected a Fellow of the Geological
Society of America based on his research contributions.
Student Clubs and
Activities
Sigma Gamma Epsilon Honor Society and the American Institute
of Professional Geologists were active throughout the year participating in a
variety of events and sponsoring scholarships:
·
AIPG Annual Dinner
·
Quarterly Adopt a Highway Cleanup
·
Earth Science Week
·
Movie Night, Book Sale, and Booth Awareness at
campus events, TechFesh and the Children’s Water Festival
·
Teaching in local schools and judging at science
fairs
·
Field trips
·
Ronald McDonald Penny Drive
·
SGE/AIPG Annual Senior Banquet
·
Tarr Award and Field Camp Scholarships
Mathematics and Statistics
Faculty Highlights
Twenty-three refereed publications and book chapters were
written by department faculty.
Thirty-four presentations and invited talks were made at locations
around the world. The department hosted
twenty-two mathematics and statistics colloquia by regional, national and
international scholars.
Various faculty members served on journal editorial boards,
including Dr. K. T. Arasu for Designs,
Codes and Cryptography; Dr. Harry Khamis for the Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography, for Computer Methods and
Programs in Biomedicine, for the International
Journal of Statistical Sciences, and for the Journal of Modern and Applied Statistical Methods; Dr. Steen
Pedersen for the Far East Journal of
Mathematical Sciences; Dr. Munsup Seoh for InterStat; Dr. Thaddeus Tarpey for The American Statistician; and Dr. Dan Voss for the Journal of Statistics and Applications.
Dr. Ann Farrell was appointed to a 3-year term on Ohio’s
Science and Mathematics Education Policy Advisory Council, to advise the
governor, chancellor and superintendent of public instruction.
Awards to Faculty,
Staff and Students
Dr. K. T. Arasu was the recipient of the Wright State
University Trustees’ Award for Faculty Excellence, the highest faculty award
given by the university, honoring those who serve as the most outstanding of
role models for all faculty.
Dr. Qingbo Huang was an invited member of the Mathematical
Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley.
Dr. Makarand Ratnaparkhi was awarded professional
development leave for the 2005-2006 academic year, visiting the University of
Pune, India, the Violin Academy, Pune, India, and Miami University, Oxford,
Ohio, to study and collaborate on modeling in microfinance, modeling and
longitudinal study of Indian classical music, studying lead-time bias and
length bias in survival analysis for cancer studies, and studying shrinkage estimation
problems.
Drs. Ann Farrell and Susann Mathews continue as Teaching
Fellows in Ohio, two of 18 awarded by the Ohio Board of Regents for
2004-2006.
Mary Alspaugh was a recipient of the President’s Award for
Excellence in Leadership.
Undergraduate major Alex Gutman was a recipient of a 2005
Texas Instruments Demana-Waits Scholarship.
Undergraduate major Micah Fuerst was a University Honors
Scholar.
Ishwari Dhakal and David Powder received the Graduate
Student Excellence Awards in Applied Statistics and in Mathematics,
respectively.
Outreach Programs
Dr. Ann Farrell is a member of the Educator Standards
Writing Team for the Ohio Department of Education.
Dr. Susann Mathews is of member of the “P-6 Specialist
Endorsement Standards for Mathematics” Lead Writing Team.
Dr Terry McKee gave an Hon
