Deborah Fields (Instructional Technol-ogy and Learning Sciences), Connected play: tweens in a virtual world, MIT Press.

USU Faculty Academic Books Published in 2013 Books

Evelyn L. Funda (English), Weeds: A Farm Daughter’s Lament, Bison Books.

Ravi M. Gupta and Kenneth R. Valpay (History), The Bhāgavata Purāna: sacred text and living tradition, Utah State Uni-versity Press.

Roger Banner (Wildland Resources), James Bown ( Extension), Mindy Pratt (Wildland Resources), Chad Reid (Ex-tension) Wildflowers & Other Herbaceous Plants of Utah Rangelands: A Field Guide, Utah State University Press.

Shanan Ballam (English), Pretty Marrow, Negative Capability Press.

E. Helen Berry, co-author (Sociology, So-cial Work and Anthropology) Rural Aging in 21st Century America (Understanding Population Trends and Processes, Vol. 7), Springer.

Brock Dethier (English), 21 Genres and How to Write Them. Utah State University Press.

Patricia M. Gantt (English), Appalachia in the Classroom: teaching the region, Ohio University Press.

John Gilbert (Economics and Finance), Introduction to Numerical Simulation for Trade Theory and Policy. World Scientific Publishing.

Bonnie Glass-Coffin (Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology), Lessons in courage: Peruvian Shamanic wisdom for everyday life, Rainbow Ridge Books.

Keith Grant-Davie, co-author (English), Online Education 2.0: Evolving, Adapting and Reinventing Online Technical Commu-nication, Baywood Publishing Company.

Melody Graulich (English), Dirty words in Deadwood: literature and the postwestern, Columbia University Press.

Ravi Gupta (History), The Bhāgavata Purāna: sacred text and living tradition, Columbia University Press.

Rose Qingyang Hu (Electrical and Com-puter Engineering), Heterogeneous cellular networks, John Wiley & Sons.

Scott C. Hammond (Management), Les-sons of the lost: finding hope and resilience in work, life, and the wilderness, iUniverse.

Charlie Huenemann (Languages, Phi-losophy & Communication Studies) Spinoza’s radical theology: the metaphysics of the infinite, Acumen.

Vijay R. Kannan (Vijay Raghavan) (Man-agement), Strategic management in the 21st century, Praeger.

Joyce Kinkead (English) Evelyn Funda (English), Lynne S. McNeill (English), Farm: a multi-modal reader, Fountainhead Press.

Silvana Martini (Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Sciences), Sonocrystallization of fats, Springer.

Lynne S. McNeill (English ), Folklore rules Utah State University Press.

Robert S. McPherson (History), Under the eagle: Samuel Holiday, Navajo code talker, University of Oklahoma Press.

Robert L. Morgan (Special Education and Rehabilitation), Understanding and interpreting educational research, Guilford Press.

Kevin Olson (Music), Blues Improv, FJH Music Company Inc.

Research Award Winners AnnouncedIn the News

Corey Ransom (Plants, Soils and Climate), Weed Control in Natural Areas in the West-ern United States, University of California.

D. Ray Reutzel (Douglas Ray) (School of Teacher Education and Leadership), The essentials of teaching children to read: the teacher makes the difference, Guilford Press.

Lori A. Roggman (Family, Consumer and Human Development); Gina A. Cook & Vonda Jump Norman (Center for Persons with Disabilities); Mark Innocenti & Katie Christiansen (Family, Consumer and Human Development), Parenting inter-actions with children: checklist of observa-tions linked to outcomes: (PICCOLO (TM)) user’s guide, Paul H. Brookes Publishing Company.

William F. Shughart II (Economics and Finance), The Elgar Companion to Public Choice 2nd ed, Edward Elgar; The Oxford handbook of managerial economics, Oxford University Press.

John S. Seiter (Languages, Philosophy & Communication Studies) Persuasion, social influence, and compliance gaining, Pearson.

Ko-Yin Sung (Languages, Philosophy & Communication Studies), We speak Chinese, Intermediate 1, Peking Univesity Press.

Joshua J. Thoms (Languages, Philosophy & Communication Studies), Hybrid Lan-guage Teaching and Learning: Exploring Theoretical, Pedagogical and Curricular Is-sues (Issues in Language Program Direction, AAUSC 2012 volume). Heinle Cengage Learning.

Larry M. Walther (Accountancy),Principles of Accounting: Financial Account-ing, Principles of Accounting: Managerial Accounting & Principles of Accounting: Ta-bles of Brazil, principlesofaccounting.com.

Veronica Ward (Political Science) and Richard Sherlock* (Languages, Philoso-phy & Communication Studies), Religion and Terrorism: The Use of Violence in Abra-hamic Monotheism, Lexington Books.

The Faculty Author Exhibition during Research Week showcased all USU

faculty that had published within the last year, with three of the authors giving short talks to share their insights into the

process of writing a book.

Philip L. Barlow, Mormons and the Bible: The Places of the Latter Day Saints in American Religion, Oxford University Press.

Richard H. Walton (Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology), Practical cold case homicide investigations procedural manual CRC Press

The Office of Research and Graduate Studies is pleased to celebrate four indi-viduals who were honored at the annual Robbins Awards on April 19th. Those individuals are:

Greg Madden - Faculty Researcher of the YearJames Odei - Graduate Teacher of the YearTimor Galeev - Graduate Researcher of the YearDavid Baird - Undergraduate Researcher of the Year

In addition, eight other individuals, in addition to the D. Wynne Thorne Career Research Awardee and Outstanding Grad-uate Mentor of the Year, were honored as part of Research Week 2014 on April 7th. Please visit the USU RGS YouTube Channel to view videos highlighting their accomplishments!

We thank you for your support of the innovative, ground-breaking research being done at Utah State University, and we look forward to another phenomenal year!

-RGS Communications