Jon Singer, emergency medicine, was named an outstanding reviewer for Academic Emergency Medicine for 1995. He was also inducted as a Fellow in the American College of Emergency Physicians. He presented three lectures, "Pediatric Dermatology," "Pediatric Visual Diagnosis," and "Intraosseous Infusion Lab," at the American College of Emergency Physicians Scientific Assembly in New Orleans last September.

James Hughes, English, was elected to the board of trustees of the Ohioana Library Association.

Roger Glaser, School of Medicine, participated in National Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Week as an honored guest of the Hampstead Centre for Rehabilitation (HCR) in Adelaide, South Australia, in mid-November. He led two roundtable discussions and presented two seminars at HCR, before conducting grand rounds at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. As the keynote speaker at the annual meeting of the Fellows of the Australian Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine, Glaser spoke on "Athletic Conditioning for Non-Athletes and People with Physical Disabilities."

Gary Nieder and Jane Scott, anatomy, with Grace Breyley, interdisciplinary teaching labs, presented "Quicktime VR: a Practical Use of Virtual Reality in Gross Anatomy Instruction," at November's annual meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges in San Francisco. Scott also presented "Do Students with Good Critical Thinking Skills Feel Curricular Innovations Facilitate Their Learning," and was a panelist for a discussion on "Copyright Issues for Medical Educators: Teaching Basic Science in the Electronic Age."

Frank Nagy, anatomy, also made a presentation at the annual meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges on "Beyond Vesalius," the interactive computer program to teach cross-sectional anatomy that he developed with Gary Nieder.

John Pearson, anatomy, and Jay Dean, physiology and biophysics, presented "Medical Neuroscience: Integration of Basic and Clinical Science, Physical Examination and Problem-solving in a Total Immersion Format" at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience last November in Washington, D.C. Pearson also made a presentation with Grace Breyley, interdisciplinary teaching labs, on "Interactive Software Development for Integrated Medical Neuroscience Education."

Wm. Cameron Chumlea, Shumei Guo and Roger Siervogel, community health, received a four-year grant for $702,856 from the National Institutes of Health to study multifrequency impedance and body composition. Chumlea and Guo, with Bruno Vellas, had their chapter on assessment of protein-calorie nutrition published in Nutritional Management of Renal Disease. Guo gave a presentation on "Changes of Blood Pressure from 8 to 22 years in Relation to BMI Measures and Maturity Levels: A Longitudinal Data Analysis" to the Dayton Chapter of the American Statistical Association in November. She also received a five-year grant for $223,097 from the National Institutes of Health to study the divergence of blood pressure in African American girls and white girls.

Marshall Kapp, community health, had his article, "Physical Restraint Use in Critical Care: Legal Issues," published in the American Association of Critical Care Nurses' Clinical Issues journal.

Charles Derry, theatre arts, recently returned from the annual conference of the Ohio Theatre Alliance,

James Brandeberry, engineering and computer science, received a silver medal for his white baco noir, one of six wines he entered in competition at the annual meeting of the American Wine Society at Hilton Head in November.

Ronald A. Kremer, accountancy, Lake Campus, recently made two presentations on Wright State's accounting programs to high school students at the Tri-Star Career Compact in Celina.

Marjorie E. Baker, social work, has been named to the board of trustees of Mary Scott Nursing Center. She presented a poster at the National Association of Social Workers' annual conference last November titled "Service Needs and Usage: A Look at Racial Differences among Aging Americans." Her article, "Service Needs, Usage and Delivery: A Look at the Imbalance for African American Elderly," was published in the inaugural issue of the refereed Journal of Poverty: Innovations on Social, Political and Economic Inequalities.

Betty Yung, SOPP, was invited to Washington, D.C., last November, by the Centers for Disease Control to testify in a federal progress review of achievements toward the national health goals related to violence. Her presentation, "Community Interventions for a Safe America," centered around the Positive Adolescent Choices Training (PACT) program.

Tom Fyffe, physical plant, was recognized by United Way of the Greater Dayton Area in December for his service as a 1996 loaned executive during their last fund-raising campaign.

Gary M. Onady, School of Medicine, former national president of the Medicine-Pediatrics Program Directors Association, will serve on its executive committee through next September. His article, "Med-Peds Training," was published in the winter edition of the AMSA Primary Care Quarterly. He also had an article titled "Med-Peds: Three Decades of the Generic Primary Care Physician," published in Academic Medicine. The Annals of Internal Medicine published his letter regarding internal medicine and family medicine training.

Colleen Finegan-Stoll and Ronald G. Helms, education and human services, gave a presentation on "Mentoring Disadvantaged Urban Gifted Students," at the December meeting of the International Division for Early Childhood Education of the Council for Exceptional Children held in Phoenix, AZ. In November, they made two presentations to the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) in Washington, D.C.: "Curriculum Integration: Future Problem Solving," and "Community Resources; National Problem Solving Model." Helms has been appointed chair of the NCSS social education committee. Finegan-Stoll and Helms also presented "Collaboration on the Seven Seas," to the Federation for Exceptional Children in Cincinnati in November.

Timothy Janz, School of Medicine, presented "Pulmonary Infections," at the American College of Emergency Physicians Essential Topics in Emergency Medicine meeting in Minneapolis in October. He presented "Cardiology I and III" at the American College of Emergency Physicians review course in Columbus in October.

Leslie Wolf, School of Medicine, presented "Toxicology I, II, and III," at the American College of Emergency Physicians review course in Columbus last October.

James Olson, School of Medicine, presented a poster to the 26th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Washington, D.C., last November. Guang-ze Li, research associate, also presented a poster which was co-authored with Olson.

Joe Mingo, Government and Military Relations, has been appointed to the Fairborn Area Chamber of Commerce board of directors as Wright State's representative.