THREE HUBER FACULTY FELLOWS NAMED AT OSU

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COLUMBUS - Three members of The Ohio State University College of Social and Behavioral Sciences faculty have been named Joan N. Huber Faculty Fellows.

The three - Mari Riess Jones of COLUMBUS (43212), professor of psychology; Ellen S. Mosley-Thompson of COLUMBUS (43214), professor of geography; and Catherine E. Ross of COLUMBUS (43215), professor of sociology - will each receive an annual cash award of $5,000 for three years to further their research.

The fellowship program recognizes outstanding scholarly achievements of college faculty who are not already Eminent Scholars, chairpersons, Distinguished University Professors or Distinguished Scholars. The fellowships are named in honor of Huber, who served as dean of the college from 1984 to 1992 and as senior vice president for academic affairs and provost until her 1993 retirement.

"The Huber Fellows are continuing the strong tradition of scholarship exemplified by Joan Huber," said Randall B. Ripley, dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. "They are also excellent teachers and serve the university and their discipline in multiple ways. They are a vital part of what allows Ohio State to contribute so much to the people of Ohio, the nation and the world."

Jones joined the university faculty in 1968 after receiving her doctorate from the University of Massachusetts. Her research focuses on the dynamic aspects of auditory attentions, perception and memory. Considered one of the most important theoretical contributors to the field of auditory attention, Jones had received numerous professional recognitions and awards, including fellowship in the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Mosley-Thompson received her doctorate from Ohio State in 1979 and assumed a full-time research position with the university's Byrd Polar Research Center that same year. She joined the geography faculty in 1990 while retaining her research position at the Byrd Center. Her work is directed at understanding the Earth's climate over the last 500,000 years through careful analysis of chemical and physical properties preserved in ice cores. She has been recognized by the National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council and National Science Foundation, among other professional organizations, and has served as president of the Atmospheric Sciences Section of the American Geophysical Union and chair of NASA's Universities Space Research Scientific Advisory Board. She played a leading role in forming the U.S. Global Change Research Program, now a $1.8 billion multi-agency effort.

Ross joined the sociology faculty in 1993 from the University of Illinois. Her research takes a social epidemiological approach to the unequal distribution of physical and psychological well-being by looking at socio-economic status, ethnicity, work, gender and family, and the mediating processes that link social structure and individual well-being. Since receiving her doctorate from Yale in 1980, she has published more than 75 scientific journal articles and co-authored a book, Social Causes of Psychological Distress, with an Ohio State colleague John Mirowsky. She has received grants from the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute on Aging and the National Science Foundation, among others, and she is one of the few sociologists to serve on the National Institute of Mental Health Task Force on Basic Behavioral Science.