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Alyssa O'Brien

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William O'Grady

William O'Grady teaches linguistics at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and is the author of several scholarly books. His research focuses on syntactic theory, language acquisition, and Korean.

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Dan O'Hair

Dan O'Hair is dean of the University of Kentucky College of Communications and Information Studies. He is past Presidential Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Oklahoma and past president of the National Communication Association.  He is coauthor or coeditor of fifteen communication texts and scholarly volumes and has published more than eighty research articles and chapters in dozens of communication, psychology, and health journals and books.  He is a frequent presenter at national and international communication conferences, is on the editorial boards of various journals, and has served on numerous committees and task forces for regional and national communication associations.

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Peggy O'Neill

Peggy O’Neill’s scholarship focuses on writing assessment theory and practice as well as writing program administration and the disciplinarily of composition and rhetoric. Her work has appeared in journals such as College Composition and Communication, Composition Studies, and the Journal of Writing Assessment as well as several edited collections. She has edited or coedited four books and more recently coauthored two: A Guide to College Writing Assessment (with Cindy Moore and Brian Huot), and Reframing Writing Assessment to Improve Teaching and Learning (with Linda Adler-Kassner). O’Neill also serves on the editorial board of several journals. She is an associate professor and director of composition in the writing department at Loyola University Maryland.

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Lee Odell

Lee Odell is professor of composition in the Department of Language, Literature, and Communication at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In addition to teaching rhetoric and writing, writing for classroom and career, research in composition, and related courses, he has also directed the department's off-campus MS program in Technical Communication and a summer workshop, the Technical Writers' Institute. He is editor, with Charles Cooper, of Evaluating Writing, and with D. Goswami, of Writing in Non-Academic Settings. The author of over fifty published articles and book chapters, Odell has served as a consultant to numerous colleges, universities, and other organizations over the past thirty years. In 1986, he was the chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, and in 1980 he received the NCTE's Braddock award for the article "Teachers of Composition and Needed Research in Discourse Theory."

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George Odian

George Odian is a tried and true New Yorker, born in Manhattan and educated in its public schools, including Stuyvesant High School. He graduated from The City College with a B.S. in chemistry. After a brief work interlude, George entered Columbia University for graduate studies in organic chemistry, earning M.S. and Ph. D. degrees. He then worked as a research chemist for 5 years, first at the Thiokol Chemical Company in New Jersey, where he synthesized solid rocket propellants, and subsequently at Radiation Applications Incorporated in Long Island City, where he studied the use of radiation to modify the properties of plastics for use as components of space satellites and in water-desalination processes. George returned to Columbia University in 1964 to teach and conduct research in polymer and radiation chemistry. In 1968, he joined the chemistry faculty at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York, and has been engaged in undergraduate and graduate education there for three decades. He is the author of more than 60 research papers in the area of polymer chemistry and of a textbook titled Principles of Polymerization, now in its fourth edition, which translates in Chinese, French, Korean, and Russian. George has a son, Michael, who is an equine veterinarian practicing in Maryland. Along with chemistry and photography, one of George’s greatest passions is baseball. He has been an avid New York Yankees fan for more than five decades.

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Walter E. Oliu

Walter E. Oliu served as chief of the Publishing Services Branch at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, where he managed the agency’s printing, graphics, editing, and publishing programs. He also developed the public-access standards for and managed daily operations of the agency’s public Web site.  He has taught at Miami University of Ohio, Slippery Rock State University, and as an adjunct faculty member at Montgomery College and George Mason University.  His books include Writing That Works,  Tenth Edition  (reprinted chapters appear in Kevin J. Harty’s Strategies for Business and Technical Writing, Fifth Edition, , and Brenda D. Smith and Laura C. Headley’s The Lifelong Reader, Second Edition); The Handbook of Technical Writing, Ninth Edition; The Business Writer’s Handbook, Ninth eEdition (Fortune and Book-of-the-Month Club selections); The Business Writer’s Companion, Sixth Edition; The Technical Writer’s Companion, Third Edition; Writing from A-Z, Fifth Edition; and The Professional Writer.

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Martha Olney

Martha L. Olney is Adjunct Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches large enrollment courses in principles, intermediate macro, and U.S. economic history, plus seminars in the economics of discrimination and in pedagogy.  She received her BS from the University of Redlands and her PhD from UC Berkeley.  Previously she taught at University of Massachusetts. Amherst, and at Stanford University.  Honored several times for her excellence in teaching, Olney was chosen as a Great Teacher in Economics by the Stavros Center for Economic Education (2006), and is the recipient of Distinguished Teaching Awards from UMass Amherst (1991) and UC Berkeley (2003), and the Economics History Association’s Hughes Prize for Excellence in Teaching (1997).  Olney is the coauthor with J. Bradford DeLong of Macroeconomics and the author of Economics as a Second Language.  Her research focuses on consumer spending and indebtedness in the early twentieth century.  She is also the author of Buy Now, Pay Later: Advertising, Credit, and Consumer Durbles in the 1920s, and several economic history articles. 

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Gordon H. Orians

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Christina Ortmeier-Hooper

Christina Ortmeier-Hooper is a doctoral candidate in Composition Studies at the University of New Hampshire, where she teaches first-year composition, ESL, advanced composition, technical writing, and teacher education courses. Her research interests include second-language writing, teacher education, and immigrant literacy. She has also published in TESOL Journal and has presented her work at CCCC, NCTE, and TESOL. Her dissertation follows the experiences of five U.S. resident second-language writers in public high schools. The study explores students’ complex responses to their identities as second-language writers and the social influences that play a role in their approaches to academic writing.

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Arnold Ostebee

Arnold Ostebee is Assistant Provost and Professor of Mathematics at St. Olaf's College.

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Jeff Ousborne

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