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Masha Alley, TA Coordinator, Slavic Studies
Richard Blatti
In addition to his duties as music director and conductor of the OSU Symphonic Band, Professor Richard Blatti supervises all aspects of the conducting curricula and the administration of all university ensembles for the School of Music. Professor Blatti has twice received The Ohio State University School of Music Distinguished Teaching Award, and in 2007, was one of only ten OSU Faculty honored with the Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching. As guest conductor, clinician and adjudicator, Blatti has been invited to 36 states, five Canadian provinces, and six other countries, including the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, France, Belgium, Australia, and China. Prior to his appointment at OSU, Professor Blatti was Director of Instrumental Music at Albion College in Michigan. During his tenure there he was twice selected the outstanding Faculty Member of the Year, and was awarded two grants in support of his research on rehearsal techniques and conducting pedagogy. Blatti also served as Director of Bands and Music Department Chair at York Community High School in Elmhurst, Illinois. He is in constant demand as a guest conductor, clinician, adjudicator, and lecturer and is completing his work on a new conducting pedagogy handbook, Teaching Conducting.Alexis Collier
Alexis Collier has been committed to teaching and learning endeavors since joining the faculty in the Department of Psychology in 1976. She has taught both graduate and undergraduate courses, including those designed to promote student development of independent research proposals and projects in integrative honors and laboratory courses. She coordinated the Department‚s General Psychology 100 Instructional Program for fifteen years. In this later capacity, along with colleague Bob Arkin, she developed training programs for departmental graduate teaching associates which resulted in a University Departmental Award for Exemplary Graduate Teaching Associate Programs in 2004. She was also the recipient of the OSU Department of Psychology Distinguished Teaching Award in 2000. Her research has been in the areas of learning, motivation, and memory with an integrating theme on age-dependent considerations in assessing cognitive and memorial processes. She has served as a grant review panel member for the National Institute of Mental Health and consulting editor for the American Psychological Association's Journal Supplement Abstract Service. In administrative capacities she has received the Schoen Leadership Award, was selected as a participant in the Bryn Mawr Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration, served as a Provost Faculty Fellow 1998-1999, and coordinated assessment across the Colleges of the Arts and Sciences 2004-2007. She currently coordinates outcomes assessment activities university-wide as part of ongoing institutional initiatives to enhance the teaching and learning environment. She received her B.S. in psychology with distinction from Virginia Tech in 1973, and her Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of Washington in 1976 specializing in learning and motivation.Hope C. Dawson, TA Coordinator, Linguisitics
Laura Deeter
Laura Deeter received her Ph. D. from Ohio State in 2002 in Horticulture. She teachescourses in woody and herbaceous plant identification, landscape design, landscape construction, perennial production, and outdoor gardening. Also, she is responsible for teaching many of these same courses online as part of a new outreach program.
Joseph Donnermeyer
Joseph F. Donnermeyer was a winner of the OSU Alumni Association Award forDistinguished Teaching in 2004, and currently serves as the chair of the
Executive Council for the OSU Academy of Teaching. He is a professor in the
Rural Sociology program, Department of Human and Community Resource
Development, where he is mostly a criminologist but maintains a second line
of research on social and cultural change among the Amish.
He is the author/co-author of 7 books and over 100 journal articles and book
chapters, including several on the scholarship of teaching and learning. He
was the editor of volume 2 of "Talking and Teaching," and is lead editor for
volume 3. TAT is a volume of essays about great teaching sponsored
by the OSU Academy of Teaching and published annually.
Five Minutes of Fame
10-12 presentations are chosen from a pool of proposals by a review committee. These presentations represent exemplary work done in educational and/or information technology across diverse fields.Liv Gjestvang
Liv Gjestvang has worked with the Digital Union as Coordinator of events andeducation for the past two years. She brings a commitment to outreach work,
both within the University and in the larger community. She is part of OSU's
Digital Storytelling team and is also a video artist who has taught video
production to youth and adults in Columbus, Chicago and New York City. She
currently runs Youth Video OUTreach, a program that teaches gay and lesbian
youth to use digital media to tell their stories.
Robert Griffiths
Robert Griffiths earned his BA in Communication from Denison University and his MA and Ph.D. from Ohio State's School of Communication. His graduate work focused on interactive media effects, as well as technology use in group settings. He is an eLearning Consultant in TELR (Technology Enhanced Learning and Research) helping the university community incorporate technology into lesson plans and research, such as utilizing a course management system, wikis, virtual environments (Second Life), and others.Brian Joseph
Brian D. Joseph holds a Ph. D. in Linguistics from Harvard University(1978). He has been at OSU since 1979, and is currently Distinguished
University Professor of Linguistics and the Kenneth E. Naylor
Professor of South Slavic Linguistics. A specialist in historical
linguistics and language change, he has focused his scholarly
attention largely on the history of Greek from ancient times up
through the contemporary period, in terms of both the internal
developments the language has undergone and the external influences
from neighboring languages in the Balkans. He teaches classes at all
levels, from Freshman Seminars to Graduate Seminars, in his areas of
specialization but also in general linguistics and Sanskrit. He won
the Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award in 1995 and has been active in
the Ohio Academy of Teaching ever since, serving on the Executive
Council for three years, including one year as chair of the Council.
Kathryn Plank
Kathryn Plank is the associate director of Faculty & TA Development and anadjunct assistant professor in the School of Educational Policy &
Leadership. She joined Ohio State after several years at Penn State, where
she was associate director of the Center for Excellence in Learning &
Teaching and an affiliate assistant professor of English. Her interests
include assessment, teaching with technology, gender issues in higher
education, and literature and medicine.
The Ohio State Digital Storytelling Team
a cross-campus partnership involved in promoting and teaching digital storytelling to the Ohio State community:Karen Diaz, Instruction Librarian, University Libraries
Anne Fields, Subject Specialist for English, University Libraries
Cindy Gray, Senior Visual Designer, TELR
Marsha Lovett
Dr. Marsha Lovett is Associate Director for Faculty Development at the Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence and Associate Research Professor in the Department of Psychology, both at Carnegie Mellon University. She has written numerous research articles on how students learn and how instructional interventions can enhance student learning. Dr. Lovett’s research interests include instructional technologies that help students learn to solve problems, methods that enhance students’ learning strategies, and the application of learning theory to teaching practice.Jackie Miller
Dr. Jackie Miller is a statistics education specialist and auxiliary associate professor in the Department of Statistics. She earned both a BA and BS in mathematics and statistics at Miami University, along with an MS in statistics and a PhD in statistics education from The Ohio State University. Dr. Miller is active in the national statistics education community and does as much service as possible at Ohio State. When not at school, she enjoys a regular life (despite what her students might think), including keeping up with her many dogs!
Ron Solomon first glimpsed the beauty of mathematics thanks to his high
school geometry teacher, Blossom Backal. He earned a B.S. at Queens
College in New York City, and a Ph.D. in mathematics at Yale University in
1971 under the supervision of Walter Feit. His research area is finite
group theory. He joined the faculty at O.S.U. in 1975, and has been here
ever since, except for visiting appointments at Oxford University, Rutgers
University, and the Institute for Advanced Studies. In 1997 he received
an Ohio State Distinguished Teaching Award, and in 2006, he received the Levi
L. Conant Prize of the American Mathematical Society for his expository
paper, "A brief history of the classification of the finite simple
groups." He is the proud father of two sons, Ari and Michael, and is
blessed with a loving wife, Rose.