Helen Armstrong is a designer and an educator based in Oxford, Ohio. She has an MA in English literature, an MA in Publications Design and an MFA in Graphic Design. Currently she is an assistant professor of graphic design at Miami University. In addition to teaching, Armstrong also works as principal and creative director of her company, Strong Design. Her design work—for such clients as Sage College of Albany, USInternetworking, and New College of Florida—has won regional and international awards. Her work has been included in numerous publications in the United States and the United Kingdom, including How International Design Annual, The Complete Typographer, The Typography Workbook and Design Elements. Her first book, Graphic Design Theory: Readings from the Field (Princeton Architectural Press), came out in spring 2009.

Contact Information:
Office: Art 124
Tel: 513-529-2900
Email: armstrh@muohio.edu

Michael Bailey-Van Kuren received a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University, a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara, and a PhD. in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. He is currently an Associate Professor of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at Miami University where he Is also an affiliate faculty member of Miami’s Interactive Media Studies Program and directs the Rapid Prototyping and Fabrication Lab. Michael utilizes his background in robotics and controls to design new mechatronic interfaces and devices for pediatric assistive technology. Current projects seek to design an immersive environment that will engage and motivate developmentally delayed children to perform routine therapy.

Contact Information:
Office: Engineering Building 56K
Tel: 513-529-0725
Email: baileym@muohio.edu

Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science
Princeton University, 2004 Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
University of Washington, 1995-1999

Academic Experience
1999-2004: Graduate Student, Princeton University
1997-1999: Teaching Assistant, University of Washington

Professional Experience
1998: Instructional Aide, University of Washington
1996-1999: Application Developer, Cerner Corporation

Professional Organizations
Phi Beta Kappa

Publications and Papers
Bo Brinkman and Moses Charikar, ” On the Impossibility of Dimension Reduction in L1,” in The Proceedings of the 44th Annual IEEE Symposium on the Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS), pp. 514-523, 2003, Invited to the Journal of the ACM.

Sanjeev Arora and Bo Brinkman, “A Randomized ONline Algorithm for Bandwidth Utilization,” in The Proceedings of the 13th Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA) pp. 535-539, 2002. Also to appear in the Journal of Scheduling.

Major Interest Areas
Analysis of algorithms, massive data sets, randomized algorithms, and approximation algorithms

Contact Information:
Office: 205D Benton
Tel: (513) 529-0354
Email: brinkmw@muohio.edu

Shira Chess has her PhD in Communication and Rhetoric from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Her dissertation work focused and a tension between productivity and play in games that are designed for and marketed to women audiences. She was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship through the Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women & Gender in the Arts & Media in Summer 2010. Her work has been featured in Bitch magazine, and the online journal Thirdspace, and she has forthcoming articles in Feminist Media Studies and Critical Studies in Media Communication. Shira has worked as a game designer at 1st Playable Productions. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Mass Communication, and an affiliate AIMS. More of her work can be found at http://www.shirachess.com.

Contact Information:
Office: Williams Hall 149
Tel: 513-529-3522
Email: chesss@muohio.edu

Seth Cluett (b. Troy, NY) is an artist, performer, and composer whose work ranges from photography and drawing to video, sound installation, concert music, and critical writing. His “subtle…seductive, immersive” (Artforum) sound work has been characterized as “rigorously focused and full of detail” (e/i) and “dramatic, powerful, and at one with nature” (The Wire). Exploring the territory between the auditory and other senses, Cluett’s works are marked by a detailed attention to perception and to sound’s role in the creation of a sense of place and the workings of memory. His research interests and critical writings investigate the history of the loudspeaker, the documentation of sound in art, archival practices for music and multimedia, circuit bending/hardware hacking, and architectural acoustics.

Cluett’s work has been shown and/or performed internationally at venues ranging from clean bright museums to dimly lit basements and dirty bars. He has created dance and theater works with DD Dorvillier/Human Future Dance Corp, Helene Lesterin/Atlas Dance, and Jen Mesch. His work is documented on Errant Bodies Press, Radical Matters, Sedimental, Crank Satori, BoxMedia, Stasisfield, Contour Editions, Winds Measure, and Wavelet Records.

Cluett has published articles for BYPASS, Shifter, Intransitive, The Open Space Magazine, Leonardo Music Journal, 306090, Earshot, and the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. He has been the recipient of grants and awards from Meet the Composer, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Naumberg Foundation, and the Malcolm Morse Foundation and holds a BM in music composition from the New England Conservatory of Music, an MFA in electronic art from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and is completing his doctorate in music composition at Princeton University where he is affiliate of the Center for Art and Cultural Policy Studies in the Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs. Cluett is on the faculty of the Music Department at Miami University where he teaches courses in music technology and directs the electronic music and recording studios.

Contact Information:
Office: 111 Presser Hall
Tel: 513-529-5084
Email: cluetts@muohio.edu

James Coyle received his M.A. (1995) and Ph.D. (1997) in Journalism (Advertising Studies) from the University of Missouri-Columbia. He currently holds a joint appointment in the Marketing Department and the Interactive Media Studies Program. From 1997 through the Spring semester of 2006, James taught at Baruch College, City University of New York.

His academic work has been published in several journals, including the Journal of Advertising, the Journal of Interactive Advertising, the Journal of Advertising Research, the Journal of Business Research, the Journal of Website Promotion, and the Journal of Current Issues and Research in Advertising. He has written a book chapter that appears in the Advertising and the World Wide Web, 2nd edition (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates), and a book titled Internet Resources and Services for International Marketing and Advertising: A Global Guide (Oryx Press, 2002). He was also the recipient of a $240,000 grant from the NASD Education Foundation in 2005. He used the grant money to develop an online guide, DollarsFromSense, to help prepare college-age youth to make wise financial investment decisions.

James’ research interests include how consumers process and share interactive and rich media content in commercial web sites, and the influence of consumer expectations on web site navigation experiences. He currently teaches E-Commerce and the Internet, and the Interactive Media Studies Practicum.

Contact Information:
Office Hours: By appointment
Office: Laws 210
Tel: 513-529-0483
Email: coylejr@muohio.edu

Sean C. Duncan is the C. Michael Armstrong Professor in Interactive Media within Miami’s School of Education, Health, and Society and Armstrong Institute for Interactive Media Studies.In his research, Dr. Duncan investigates games, learning, and literacy, with a focus on the productive learning and literacy implications of online communities devoted to gaming and game design. Focusing on uncovering elements of design thinking, collaborative learning, and critical media literacies, he identifies critical approaches for reshaping current American educational models while looking at games in particular as useful means to create spaces for informal learning.

In 2009, Dr. Duncan received his Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with a focus in Educational Communications and Technology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was an active member of the Games+Learning+Society research group. Previously, he was a student of cognitive psychology (M. A., 1997, Bowling Green State University), a technology industry professional, an interdisciplinary educator, and manager of web-based learning systems to support educator professional development (for Miami’s Project Dragonfly). He is a 1993 graduate of Miami University (B. Phil, Interdisciplinary Studies with a focus in Cognitive Science).

Courses Taught:
IMS211: An Introduction to Game Studies
IMS/EDP225: Games and Learning
IMS238: Narrative and Digital Technology

Contact Information:
Office: 400K McGuffey Hall
Phone: 513-529-4928
Email: sean.duncan@muohio.edu
Website: http://se4n.org/

Michael Todd Edwards is an associate professor in the Department of Teacher Education.  His primary professional duties involve the preparation and support of K-12 preservice and inservice mathematics teachers.  His research interests focus on instructional uses of technology, with particular interest in the use of dynamic geometry software and computer algebra systems in the teaching and learning of school mathematics.  Since 2001, Todd has authored over 30 peer-reviewed publications related to this work.  Todd has been a co-editor of the Ohio Journal of School Mathematics since 2008, is a co-founder of the GeoGebra Institute of Ohio (GIOhio, the first GeoGebra Institute in North America), and editor of the Midwest GeoGebra Journal.

Peg Faimon received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Indiana University and a Master of Fine Arts from Yale University, earning the Norman Ives Memorial Award. She is currently Co-Director of AIMS, Director of the Miami Design Collaborative and Professor of Graphic Design, and in July 2012 will transition to become the Chair of the Department of Art. She is also an affiliate faculty member of the Department of Architecture and Interior Design. She was named the Miami University School of Fine Arts Crossan Hayes Curry Distinguished Educator in 2000 and the Naus Family Faculty Scholar in 2008. In addition to teaching, Ms Faimon maintains a design consultancy and she has received national and international recognition for her design work.

Peg Faimon is also the author and designer of Design Alliance: Uniting Print and Web Design to Create a Total Brand Presence, and the co-author, with John Weigand, of The Nature of Design: How the Principles of Design Shape Our World – from Graphics and Architecture to Interiors and Products, both published in 2003 by HOW Design Books. Her third book entitled The Designer’s Guide to Business and Careers: How to Succeed on the Job or on Your Own, was published in June 2009 by HOW Design Books. At home, Peg shares her life with her children, Anna and Noah, and husband Don. They love to travel and spend time together.

Courses Taught:
IMS 440 Armstrong Interactive
Graphic Design coursework

Contact Information:
Office: 223 Hiestand Hall
Tel: 529-1407
Email: peg.faimon@muohio.edu

Jerry Gannod received the master’s (’94) and doctoral degrees (’98) in computer science from Michigan State University. His research and teaching interests fall in the areas of software engineering (especially reverse engineering), enterprise computing, digital humanities, applications for mobile platforms, and automated technologies for streamlining assessment of student learning. Dr. Gannod joined the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering in 2006 after spending several years at Arizona State University. Since joining Miami, he has served on the Liberal Education Council and was instrumental in the development the Miami’s software engineering program that was launched in 2009.

Dr. Gannod has received external grants from NASA and the National Science Foundation, including a 2002 Career award for his work in high-integrity software product lines. Dr. Gannod has authored or co-authored over 60 refereed journal and conference papers including a paper awarded one of the best paper awards at the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Web Services. He has served on program and organizing committees for several conferences and was the 2009 General Chair for the IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Contact Information:
Office: 205W Benton Hall
Tel: 513-529-0346
Mobile: 513-593-9803
Email: gannodg@muohio.edu

Information Services Librarian (Assistant Librarian)B.Phil., Miami University (2005); M.L.S., Indiana University (2006).
Interests: Podcasting, Web Publishing

Selected Professional Activities:
2009 Conference Planning Committee, Academic Library Association of Ohio.

Contact Information:
Office: King Library 205
Tel: 513-529-0190
Email: gibsonke@muohio.edu

Lindsay Grace is a teacher, software developer and designer. He earned the Masters of Science in Computer Information Systems and the Bachelor of Arts in English, both from Northwestern University. He also completed the Master of Fine Arts at the University of Illinois’ Electronic Visualization Laboratory. He has served industry as an independent consultant, web designer, software developer, entrepreneur, business analyst and writer. Lindsay has a joint position between Miami University’s Armstrong Institute for Interactive Media Studies and the School of Fine Arts. His research areas include human-computer interaction, creative and critical gameplay, and web design. He writes regularly about interactive media design and education.

Contact Information:
Office: Center for Performing Arts, Room 104
Tel: 513-529-2203
Email: gracel@muohio.edu

Humanities Librarian (Assistant Librarian)
B.A., University of Missouri-Columbia (2003); M.A./M.L.S., Indiana University (2005).

Selected Professional Activities:
Hartsell-Gundy, Arianne, and Eric Resnis. Using Discovery-Based Learning to Engage Students with Information Literacy. ACRL Instruction Section’s Discussion Group.
ALA Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, July 9-14, 2009. “Questioning Wikiality: Partnering with Faculty to Move Students Beyond Wikipedia.”
Georgia Conference On Information Literacy (Savannah, GA; October 5-6, 2007).
Participant in ACRL Institute for Information Literacy National Immersion Program (Winnipeg, CA; August 5-10, 2007).

Contact Information:
Office: King Library 210Tel: 513-529-8494
Email: hartsea@muohio.edu

Eric Hodgson’s primary research relates to human spatial ability, including spatial memory, perception, reference frames, landmark use, and navigation. Because this work often includes the construction and use of virtual environments for people to navigate within, he also conducts applied research related to immersive virtual reality and motion tracking. Most recently, this work has involved developing Redirected Walking techniques to expand the navigable area available for simulations.

Teaching Interests
Spatial cognition, navigation, wayfinding, general cognition, memory, perception, statistics, research methods, human-computer interaction, virtual reality, computer programming, 3D modeling, motion capture, interactive graphics, non-photorealistic rendering

Contact Information:
Office Hours: By Appointment
Office: 236 Psychology
Tel: 513-529-2401
Email: eric.hodgson@muohio.edu

Mr. Humphries is a visual artist and designer focusing on translating one media form to another. The creative work takes the form of watercolor drawings, carved wooden slabs, automatic poems, and multi-layered sounds. The subject of these studies are the desert southwest, a personal narrative coded in a tragic greek myth, and indigenous plant life. Currently directing graphic media at Miami University within the School of Fine Arts and living nearly off of the “food-grid” in urban Cincinnati, John has worked as a designer of architecture and other environments; including entertainment design in the US and Asia and recently awarded the Texas Society of Architect Studio Honor Award for watercolour drawings extending the relationship of drawing, representation, and building. Dissemination of creative works has been through several exhibitions, panel member as design reviewer, and presentations at national conferences. Among these were an exhibition and presentation at Hochschule in Rosenheim Germany, many presentations of work at the National Conference on the Beginning Design student, and a forthcoming presentation and exhibition at the Interior Design Educators Council for work allied with The National Creative Research Award for images related to the artists personal narrative titled: “of mud, Earth, or Nothing”.

Education
M. Arch University of Texas, Arlington
B.S. University of Texas, Arlington

Contact Information:
Office: Alumni Hall 101
Tel: 513-529-7210
Email: humphrjm@muohio.edu

Jeff June’s professional experiences include founding companies in diverse industries including life science, biotechnology, digital media, information technology, retail and real estate.

He is very passionate about his latest venture, Ischemia Care, and is inspired by working with a community of neurologists, investors, regulatory and legal professionals; that believe in creating a better future and change the world for the better.

He is also very passionate about education, previously serving as a professor/ chair in an entrepreneurship program and working with all levels of education in the community. He has returned to Miami University in Fall 2010 to teach IMS 333, which is the entrepreneurship class in the Armstrong Interactive Media Studies Program.

He has also founded a separate life science research company, Gerard Biotech, which has built a distribution channel into 600+ medical research facilities (hospitals, academic, government).

Interests
Creation of new ventures, education (all levels), digital and mobile technology, biotechnology.

Contact Information:
Tel: 513-529-1637
Email: junejg@muohio.edu

For over ten years, Artie worked in the interactive industry as a designer, developer, project manager, user researcher and product manager. His work included digital solutions for a diverse set of firms including toy maker Hasbro, Inc., Cincinnati Children’s Hospital’s innovative Bioinformatics Research Center, Graeter’s Ice Cream, Aplia Learning and Thomson Publishing/Cengage Learning. Through leading inter-disciplinary teams in the creation of digital products and platforms, Artie saw the positive transformative effect interactive media can have across all disciplines.

This experience fuels a passion for engaging with diverse students in exploring and coming to grips with the ramifications of interactive media in their field of pursuit. His current research, design, development and consulting work also explores this transformative effect.

Artie earned his Bachelors in Science in digital design from the University of Cincinnati. His work has been presented at the TED 2011 conference, earned awards from ID Magazine and Macromedia and published was in the book Type in Motion 2. Before joining AIMS, Artie taught part time in DAAP at the University of Cincinnati for eight years. He is currently pursuing his Masters in Interaction Design and Game Development at the Savannah College of Art and Design. He consults for firms making the transition from traditional media to interactive media. At home, Artie partners with his wife Lisa (also a designer) in raising their two rambunctious, but wonderful, young boys.

Marc Loy is a trainer and media specialist in Cincinnati, OH. He received his B.S. in Computer Science from the USC (the west coast one) and his M.S. from UW-Madison. When he’s not working with digital video and DVDs, he’s programming in Java-land. (In the interest of full disclosure, he does vacation in iOS-world.) He can still be found teaching the odd Perl and Java course out in Corporate America, but even on the road he’ll have his MacBook Pro and a video project with him.

Heidi McKee is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Miami University and an affiliate faculty member with the Armstrong Institute for Interactive Media Studies. Her teaching and research interests include computer and technological literacies, multimodal and digital rhetorics, composition pedagogies (including teaching and learning online), qualitative research methodologies, and ethical research practices.

Her work has appeared in numerous journals, including College Composition and Communication, Computers and Composition, Pedagogy, and The Community LIteracy Journal. With Dànielle Nicole DeVoss, she co-edited Digital Writing Research: Technologies, Methodologies, and Ethical Issues (winner of the Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award for best book in the field in 2007). With DeVoss and Dickie Selfe, she is co-editing Technological Ecologies and Sustainability. Her current primary writing project is a book manuscript, Internet Research Ethics: A Rhetorical, Case-Based Approach, co-researched and co-written with James Porter.

Heidi serves on Miami’s human subjects institutional review board. She co-chairs the Qualitative Research Network, which meets each year at the Conference on College Composition and Communication. She serves on the ethics committee for the Association of Internet Researchers. I also served for two years as the co-founder and coordinator of Miami’s Digital Writing Collaborative.

Contact Information:
Office: Bachelor Hall 364
Tel:513-529-2635
Email:mckeeha@muohio.edu

User Experience Librarian (Assistant Librarian)
B.A., The Ohio State University (2003); M.S.L.I.S, Simmons College (2007).
Section Taught: IMS 201 MW 3:30 – 4:45
Interests: CSS, Web Publishing, Web 2.0

Selected Professional Activities:
Michel, Jason Paul. “Golf Pencils or Cell Phones: Sending Main Entries, Call Numbers, and Locations via SMS to Users’ Cell Phones” [poster session]. Academic Library Association of Ohio Annual Conference (Wilmington, OH; Oct. 24, 2008).

Contact Information:
Office: King Library 303
Tel: 513-529-3935
Email:micheljp@muohio.edu
AIM:jabbysmash
Yahoo: jasonpaulmichel

Head of Digital Initiatives and Associate Librarian
B.B., Western Illinois University (1991);M.S., Western Illinois University (1993); MSLIS; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1995)
Section Taught: IMS201 M 6-8:30
Interests: Digital Libraries, Open Content, Geospatial Information, Web Development

As the Head of Digital Initiatives for the Miami University Libraries, John Millard provides leadership to a team of librarians and staff with expertise in web application programming, digital libraries, database design, interface development, metadata, digital imaging, and rights management to develop freely available digital collections based on the Libraries’ unique resources.

Selected Professional Activities:
Millard, J. and Gibson K. (2010) “Teaching in the Cloud: Replacing Monolithic Course Management with Web 2.0″ Innovate! (Ohio State University, May 23, 2010).

Millard, J. (2008) “Digital Imaging Best Practices in the Humanities.” Workshop presentation at the NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship) Summer Institute. Oxford, OH

Wright, D. and Millard J. (2004) “The Matthew Prior Project: An Electronic Database of his Correspondence.” Paper presented at the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Annual Conference, Boston, MA

Millard, J. and Sessions, J. (2004) “Collaborating directly with Research Faculty to build a Digital Library for Satellite Remote Sensing: The Ohioview Model.” Paper presented at the American Library Association Annual Meeting, Science and Technology Section Research Forum, June 2004.

Selected Grants:
Millard, J.; Tzoc, E. and Jody Perkins (2010) “Enhancing Access to Newspaper Collections in DSpace.” State Library of Ohio LSTA ($10,000)

Millard, J. (2004) “VisualOhio: Implementing a Visual interface to online remote sensing data inventories.” NASA Glenn Research Center through Ohio Aerospace Institute ($15,000)

Millard, J.; Munru-Stasiuk, M. et al (2003) “OhioView Virtual University Program in Remote Sensing.” Ohio Board of Regents. ($30,000)

Millard, J. (2000) “Building and Enhancing an OhioView Geospatial Digital Library for K-12, Higher Education and the General Public.” NASA Glenn Research Center ($105,000)

Contact Information:
Office: King Library 303
Tel: 513-529-6789
Email: millarj@muohio.edu
Web: http://www.edfu.org/

Jason Palmeri (PhD Ohio State, 2007) is an Assistant Professor in English and an affiliate faculty member with the Armstrong Institute for Interactive Media Studies. His research and teaching interests include digital rhetoric, new media activism, convergence culture, video/multimedia composing, and writing pedagogy. He is the current coordinator of the digital writing collaborative in the English Department. He regularly teaches IMS 224 “Digital Writing and Rhetoric” and IMS 171 “Humanities and Technology.”

Contact Information:
Office: Bachelor Hall 356
Tel: 513-529-7110
Email: palmerjr@muohio.edu
AIM: jasonplameri367

samantha perkins is currently visiting faculty in the graphic design program in the Department of Art. She’s been accused of lacking focus, as she has redefined her career many times over the course of a 15 year professional timeframe. Her experience includes architectural design, freelance print and web design, and environmental graphic design, as well as teaching in architecture, interior design and graphic design.

In addition to teaching at Miami, she is pursuing her master’s in graphic design at the Academy of Art University, and has recently started work on her thesis in human behavior, context and their potential influences on wayfinding design.

Contact Information:
Office: Art Building 124
Tel: 513-529-2900
Email: perkinsj@muohio.edu

Glenn Platt received his Bachelor of Arts (with departmental honors) from University of Florida and his MS and PhD from Carnegie Mellon University, graduating in 1993.

He is currently the C. Michael Armstrong Chair, Professor of Marketing and has been Director of the Interactive Media Studies Program (and AIMS) since 2000. Glenn is President Emeritus of the International Digital Media and Arts Association. Glenn, along with his colleague Prof. Lage, coined the phrase “inverted classroom” with a 2000 seminal work outlining the benefits of using technology to move active learning into the classroom and lecture outside of class. He has won the School of Business Teaching Effectiveness Award, the Associated Student Government Effective Educator Award, and the University’s Knox Award for Teaching.

Besides directing AIMS, Glenn teaches the Social Media Marketing, Internet/Digital Marketing, and the IMS/AI capstone consulting course. He consults in areas of Social Media, Internet Marketing and eCommerce.

Contact Information:
Office: 2045 FSB
Tel:513-529-2808
Mobile:513-593-6505
Email: glenn.platt@muohio.edu

Jim Porter (PhD, University of Detroit, 1982) holds a joint appointment as a Professor in IMS and in English. His areas of research and teaching include digital rhetoric and composition theory, technical and business communication, and ethics and methodology for Internet research. Overall, his research focuses on the question of how writing/communication are changed by/within digital media — in terms of production processes (how we write), products (the objects we produce), instruction (how we teach it), and methodology (how we conduct research studies). Porter is a member of the Composition/Rhetoric faculty and also serves as Director of College Composition.

Porter has published three scholarly books on digital research, ethics, and methodology, including, most recently, The Ethics of Internet Research, with Heidi McKee (Peter Lang, 2010). His co-authored online textbook — Professional Writing Online (Pearson, 2001; 3rd edition, 2008) — was one of the first fully online technical communication textbooks. Recent publications include: “Recovering Delivery for Digital Rhetoric and Human-Computer Interaction” (in the journal Computers & Composition, 2009); “Rhetoric in(as) a Digital Economy” (in the collection Rhetorics and Technologies: New Directions in Communication, University of South Carolina Press, 2010); and, with Heidi McKee, “Legal and Regulatory Issues for Technical Communicators Conducting Global Internet Research” (forthcoming in the journal Technical Communication).

Contact Information:
Office: Bachelor Hall 356A
email: porterje@muohio.edu
twitter: http://twitter.com/reachjim
web: http://www.units.muohio.edu/english/People/Faculty/I_P/PorterJames.html

Information Literacy Coordinator (Assistant Librarian)
B.A., College of Wooster (2001); M.L.I.S., Kent State University (2002); M.E.S., Miami University (2004).
Section Taught: Not teaching this semester
Office: Brill Science Library 208
Interests: Graphics, Web Design

Selected Professional Activities:
Resnis, Eric; Yu, Jen-chien. “Smart Searching: An Easily Customizable Subject-Specific Online.” Information Literacy Programs in the Digital Age: Educating College and University Students Online. (Chicago : Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), forthcoming).

Resnis, Eric; Sekyere, Kwabena; Withers, Rob; Yu, Jen-chien. “We Don’t Make the Rules: Developing User-Centered an Academic Integrity Tutorial for First Year Students.” HighEdWebDev Annual Conference (Rochester, NY; October 1, 2007).

Resnis, Eric. “First Year Engineering Students Invading the Library: Integrating Collaboration, Outreach, and Information Literacy.” (Poster Session) 2006 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference (Chicago, IL; June, 2006).

Resnis, Eric; Yu, Jen-chien. “Whose Tutorial is it Anyway? Applying User-Centered Design in Developing Web-Based Information Literacy Tutorials.” Ohio Digital Commons For Education 2006 Conference (Columbus, OH; March 6, 2006).

Contact Information:
Office: King Library 208
Tel:513-529-7205
Email:eric.resnis@muohio.edu

Social Sciences Librarian (Assistant Librarian)
B.A., SUNY-Albany (1996); M.A., Indiana University (2000); M.L.S., Indiana University (2004).
Section Taught: Not Teaching This Semester
Office: King Library 206
Interests: Statistical Data, Usability Testing, Web Design, Web 2.0

Selected Professional Activities:
Revelle, Andy. “Towards a Tagged Future: Folksonomies in the Academic Library” [poster session]. Academic Library Association of Ohio Annual Conference (Wilmington, OH; Oct. 24, 2008).

Resnis, Eric; Revelle, Andy. Faculty/Librarian Partnerships for Enhancing Student Learning.” AAC&U Sharing Responsibility for Essential Learning Outcomes (Savannah, GA; November 2, 2007).

Contact Information:
Office: King Library 206
Tel: 513-529-6231
Email: revellaa@muohio.edu

Geoff Riggle received his Bachelor of Science in art education from Ball State University, Muncie, IN, and his Master of Fine Arts in metalsmithing and jewelry design from Miami University, Oxford, OH. While entering graduate studies in metalsmithing and jewelry design, his research grew to encompass a much broader range of mediums. His current body of work utilizes synthetic materials, a wide range of cutting-edge industrial technologies, and a variety of hardware, software, and language environments to create sculptural jewelry, interactive installations, and sculptural robotics.

Inspired from life’s events, dilemmas, and day-to-day interactions, Riggle’s work is an exposé of a continuously reflective dialogue. By combining jeweler’s skills with both precious and non-precious materials, his current research explores and celebrates relationships, growth, progression, and the human spirit. Through the use of metaphorical constructs in conjunction with sacred archetypes and form, he poetically points to a symbiotic awareness of our world and lives.

Due to his breadth of artistic research, Riggle has a growing national and international exhibition record. He has exhibited his creative works in a number of exhibitions including the Ohio Craft Museum’s annual traveling Best Of exhibitions since 2009.  Since 2006 his jewelry objects have been featured in a number of printed exhibitions and catalogues including 500 Plastic Jewelry Designs: A Groundbreaking Survey of a Modern Material (Lark Books, Division of Sterling Publishing Company, 2009).

Head, Information and Applied Technologies (Associate Librarian)
B.S., University of Pittsburgh (1990); M.S.L.I.S., University of Pittsburgh (1994).
Section Taught: IMS201 MW 2:00 – 3:15
Interests: Digital Video, Evaluating Information, Invisible Web

Selected Professional Activities:
Santucci, Lisa. “The Missing Link: Writing Centers in Academic Libraries.” Academic Library Association of Ohio Annual Conference (Wilmington, OH; Oct. 24, 2008).

Santucci, Lisa. “The Center for Information Management: Not that Common.” Information Commons Institute: LACUNY (New York City, NY; May, 19, 2006).

Santucci, Lisa; Withers, Rob. “Information Literacy isn’t Enough: Why Librarians Need to Think Outside the Box.” (Ann Arbor, MI: Pierian Press, 2005) 39-44.

Grants:
Santucci, Lisa E.; Withers, Robert E. “e-Learn.” Ohio Board of Regents Grant ($38,000; 2003).

Contact Information:
Office: King Library 208
Tel: 513-529-1747
Email santucle@muohio.edu

Contact Information:
Office: 2045 FSB
Tel:513-529-1637
Email: kate.schulte@muohio.edu

Melissa earned her master’s and doctoral degrees from The Ohio State University in 1997 and 2002. Schulz did postdoctoral work at Ohio State in reading recovery. She joined Miami in 2007 after teaching at the University of Cincinnati. Her research focuses on literacy acquisition of students who are English language learners, as well as understanding and enhancing the relationships between families, teachers, and school communities. She co-edited and authored two chapters in the book Literacy for Diverse Learners: Finding Common Ground in Today’s Classrooms. She recently wrote a chapter in the book Home-School Connections in a Multicultural Society: Learning from and with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Families. Some of her published works ap­pear in TESOL Quarterly, The Journal of Bal­anced Reading Instruction, Early Childhood Education Journal, and Literacy Teaching and Learning: An International Journal of Early Reading and Writing. She teaches un­dergraduate and graduate literacy courses in teacher education.

Judith A. Sessions earned a B.A. from Central Florida University, M.S. in Library Science from Florida State University, a certificate in Information Systems from George Washington University, and certificate in Management Change from American University.

Since 1998, she has served Miami as Dean and University Librarian. Among her accomplishments are the planning and implementation of integrated library automation, efforts to establish OhioLINK, a statewide consortium for licensing electronic products and providing document delivery, a series of renovation projects, and participation in national surveys which benchmark library services. Dean Sessions has chaired the Distance Learning Committee, Technology Fee Committee, and First in 2009 Subcommittee on Academic Integrity, University’s Assessment Subcommittee of the President’s Multicultural Council, and served on other committees including the IT Strategic Advisory council and Computer Policy Committee.

Dean Sessions earned a Distinguished Service Award from the American Library Association  and Miami’s Distinguished Service Award.

Previous appointments include: University Librarian (California State University at Chico); Assistant University Librarian for Administrative Services and Acting Head of Technical Services (George Washington University); Planning and Systems Librarian (George Washington University); Library Director (Mount Vernon College).

Dean Sessions has published articles in journals including Performance Management and Metrics, Library Hi Tech, and the Wilson Library Bulletin.

Bob Setlock holds a clinical faculty position in the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering (MME).  He has worked there for the past six years and currently serves as Assistant Chair and Chief Departmental Advisor.  Prior to joining Miami, Bob had an engineering career that spanned over 20 years and included both government, and industrial experience.

Bob’s primary focus is on working with first year students by creating and implementing their introductory engineering courses, often referred to as engineering “cornerstone courses”.  Toward that end, he strives to make their cornerstone experience inspiring, relevant, and valuable, by including a mixture of engineering design content along with important lessons intended to enhance each student’s academic success throughout their time at school.  His areas of research interest include studying and documenting the factors that effect students’ decisions to pursue technical areas of study and the factors that affect their ultimate success once they start.  Bob’s goal is to see every student who enters his class persevere with success and graduate with an engineering degree four years later.  He is also responsible for coordinating the MME K-12 STEM outreach effort.

Bob’s work with AIMS involves exploring innovative approaches to idea development and design in a richly interdisciplinary environment.

Contact Information:

Office: Engineering Building 56F

Tel: 513-529-0720

Email: setlocrj@muohio.edu

Ted Smith has been in the interactive media industry since leaving his post-doc at MIT. He most recently co-founded and served as President of MedTrackAlert.com which was acquired by Health Central in 2008 where he works today on analytics and advanced user engagement programs. He also serves as a Senior Research Fellow for the Armstrong Interactive Media Studies program with a focus on social media as it intersects with consumer media and marketing.
His formal education is in Cognitive Science with both a MA and Ph.D. in Cognitive Science. He designed and managed a virtual environment experiment which flew onboard the Space Shuttle Columbia in 1998. He has one patent in real-time 3-D visualization applications in learning.
He greatly enjoys civic involvement and has spent countless hours applying social network analysis approaches to fundraising initiatives for the Obama For America 2008 campaign and more recently he has served as a volunteer evaluator for the federal Open Government initiative.

Interests:
Online advertising, social media, search marketing, online fundraising, science literacy, behavioral economics, cognitive neuroscience

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Psychology Librarian (Assistant Librarian)
B.A., Quincy University (2001); M.L.S., University at Buffalo (2006)

Selected Professional Activities:
Sullivan, Elizabeth; Hartsell-Gundy, Arianne; Thornley, Amy. “Ninging It.” Internet Librarian 2010 (Monterey, CA; October 25, 2010).

Sullivan, Elizabeth; Millard, John. “Re-purposing and Rethinking Social Networking in the Learning Environment.” SALT Interactive Technologies Conference (Arlington, VA; August 20, 2010).

Revelle, Andrew; Gibson, Katie; Sullivan, Elizabeth. “Coping with Cuts: Reimagining Reference Services In a Trying Budgetary Climate.” ALAO 35th Annual Conference (Wilmington, OH; October 30, 2009).

Course Taught: IMS 201

Contact Information:
Office: King Library 209
Tel: 513.529.0506
Email: sullive4@muohio.edu

Amy Thornley is the Education Librarian at Miami University and serves as adjunct faculty in the Department of Interactive Media Studies.

Contact Information:
Office: 19 King Library
Tel: 513-529-3340
Email: amy.thornley@muohio.edu

Jacob Tonski is a pragmatic optimist whose work explores dynamic balance.

A self-adjusting platform makes everyone the same height, probing ideas of equality and the origins of power. A larger-than-life top spins about the room, wobbling through themes of pleasure, danger, youth and decay.

These and other human-scale objects, both amusing and threatening, find an uncanny identity between toys and tools. The forces of time and gravity serve in these works as foils for those things we are powerless to direct in our lives, and with which we must instead dance and negotiate.

Tonski holds an MFA from the Design | Media Arts department at UCLA. He studied computer science at Brown University and worked as a Technical Director at Pixar Animation Studios. He has lived in Berkeley, Barcelona, Los Angeles, Paris and Providence, grew up in West Virginia, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Art and Interactive Media Studies at Miami University of Ohio.

Contact Information:
Office: 222 Hiestand Hall
Tel: 513-529-1557
Mobile: 510-206-9183
Email: jetonski@muohio.edu
Website: http://www.jacobtonski.com

John Weigand is Professor and Chair in the Department of Architecture and Interior Design at Miami University (Ohio). He earned architectural degrees at Miami and at the University of Illinois and worked professionally in Chicago from 1980 to 1991, prior to teaching. At Miami, Weigand developed the BFA in Interior Design (1995) and directed the BFA program until 2006. He remains active in national interior architecture initiatives. He is a current member of the Council for Interior Design Accreditation (CIDA) Board of Directors, has served on the IIDA Strategic Planning Committee, co-chaired the 2003 Body of Knowledge Conference in Washington DC, and has participated in numerous national programs addressing collaborative design education and practice.

Weigand chaired the 2006 Interior Design Educator Council (IDEC) white paper committee on Graduate Education (Journal of Interior Design, 2007). He is author of The Nature of Design, an interdisciplinary text on design fundamentals, which received the AIGA Award of Merit in 2004, and is a contributor to Schools that Learn (Senge, 2000). In 2001, he was awarded the NCARB Prize for creative integration of practice and education in the academy, for his work with collaborative, internet-based design. Weigand is also the 1999 winner of Miami’s Crossan Hayes Curry “Effective Educator Award.”

Assistant to the Dean and University Librarian (Associate Librarian)
B.A., College of Wooster (1989); M.A., University of North Carolina (1995); M.L.S., North Carolina Central University (1995).
Section Taught: TTh 12:30 – 1:45
Office: King Library 225
Interests: Graphics Editing, Invisible Web, Web Development

Selected Professional Activities:
Casson, Robert D.; Shrimplin, Aaron K., Withers, Rob. “Understanding Usage Patterns of Library Web Sites with Google Analytics.” Academic Library Association of Ohio Annual Conference (Columbus, OH; October 26, 2007).

Casson, Robert D.; Shrimplin, Aaron K.; Withers, Rob “Open Source Software fo r Libraries: Creating Subject and Course Specific Resources in the Libraries’ Web Site and the University’s Portal.” Computers in Libraries (Washington , D.C.; March 24, 2006).

Casson, Robert D.; Shrimplin, Aaron K.; Withers, Robert E. “Narrowcasting to Faculty and Students: Creating an Efficient ‘Research by Subject’ Page” E-JASL: The Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship 6, no. 3 (Winter 2005)

Santucci, Lisa; Withers, Rob. “Information Literacy is Not Enough: Why Librarians Need to Think Outside the Box.” (Ann Arbor, MI: Pierian Press, 2005) 39-44.

Grants:
Santucci, Lisa E.; Withers, Robert E. “e-Learn.” Ohio Board of Regents Grant ($38,000; 2003).

Research support for “Be Miami: An Infrastructure for Cultivating a Responsible and Intellectual College Life.” ($72,000; 2007).

Contact Information:
Office: King Library 219
Tel: 513-529-9556
Email: witherre@muohio.edu
AIM: witherre
Yahoo: witherre