eInside Recognition
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Professional Activities
Lala Hajibayova, School of Library and Information Science, and W. Buente presented "The Colors of Digital World" at the iConference Workshop on Exploring Gender, Race and Sexuality with Social Media in Newport Beach, California, in March 2015.
Alberta De Capito, Department of Psychological Sciences, Kent State University at Trumbull, received a professional development award for nontenure-track faculty. The award provided De Capito with the opportunity to attend the 37th annual conference sponsored by the National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology.
Paul Sherman, School of Library and Information Science, presented "Ethnography at the Speed of Business" at the User Experience Akron Meetup Group in Akron, Ohio, on Feb. 18, 2015.
Rebecca Meehan, School of Library and Information Science, John Gachago and John Ritter, presented a webinar titled "Introduction to HL-7" and "HER Functional Model" at the Health Informatics HI Pulse on Feb. 19, 2015.
Publications
Kiersten F. Latham, School of Library and Information Science, authored "Lumping, Splitting and the Integration of Museum Studies with LIS," in Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, Vol. 56, Issue 2, (2015).
Web link: http://dpi-journals.com/index.php/JELIS/article/view/531
Katherine Springer Amey, Geography/Geology, authored “Revised Predictive Model for Successful Introduction of Native Ohio Brook Trout (Salvelinus Fontinalis) in Select Streams in Geauga and Lake Counties, Ohio,” in The Ohio Journal of Science, Dr. Jeffrey McKee and Dr. Michele Morrone, Eds., Vol. 114, Issue 2, (2014): 19-26.
Summary: Eight cold-water streams in Lake and Geauga counties in Ohio were evaluated in order to develop a new predictive model to assess future sites for the introduction of threatened native Ohio Brook Trout (Salvelinus fontinalis).
Web link: http://library.osu.edu/ojs/index.php/OJS/article/view/4433/3823
John Hoornbeek, Department of Health Policy and Management, authored "The Impacts of Local Health Department Consolidation on Public Health Expenditures: Evidence from Ohio" in the American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 105, Issue S2, (2015): S174-S180.
Summary: Hoornbeek and colleagues examined the effects of local health department consolidations on administrative expenditures in Ohio, identifying both financial benefits and public health service improvements.
Web link: http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2014.302450
Additional comments: The American Journal of Public Health is the most prestigious, peer-reviewed journal in the field and has been identified as one of the most influential journals in biology and medicine over the last 100 years. Funding for this work was provided through the Ohio Research Association for Public Health Improvement by the Practice Based Research Network National Coordinating Center at the University of Kentucky and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Peter C. Kratcoski, professor emeritus in the Department of Sociology, authored a section of a book, "Sharon L. Kennedy, Ohio Supreme Court Justice" in Trends in the Judiciary Volume Two, 1st Ed., (Boca Raton, Florida: CRCPress/ Taylor and Francis Group) David Lowe and Dilip K. Das, Eds. (2015), 201-217.
Summary: The candid responses of Sharon L. Kennedy, Ohio Supreme Court Justice, reveal how her prior professional work experience assist her in assessing cases that come before the Ohio Supreme Court
Web link: http://www.taylorandfrancis.com
Additional comments: Justice Kennedy was a police officer, practicing attorney and domestic relations court judge before assuming the position of Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court.