Dr. Funk joined the University in 1995. For the past 15 years, she has been investigating the relationships between exposure to violent video games and children’s behavior and personality. Funk and Dr. Robert Elliott, UT professor of psychology, developed two scales to assess children’s and adolescents’ attitudes toward violence that have been used in several research projects. Currently, she and Dr. Christine Fox, UT associate professor of foundations of education, are finalizing the development of a scale to measure empathy in children.

“Jeanne’s work will benefit society in many ways,” wrote one nominator. “It will assist our children to be less violent and aggressive and as a result will lower aggression and violence in our society.”

Funk has received continuous funding in training grants from the Ohio Department of Mental Health for years. She has published more than 40 refereed journal papers. In 2000, she testified before the Senate Commerce Committee on the impact of interactive violence on children. Her expertise on violent video games has led to interviews with The New York Times, the Associated Press, Time Magazine, Consumer Reports and ABC’s “Primetime.”

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Dr. Martyn has been teaching at UT since 1980. Her research focuses on legal ethics and bioethics. She co-wrote a casebook, Traversing the Ethical Minefield: Problems, Laws and Professional Responsibility (2004) and two other books, Red Flags: A Lawyer’s Handbook on Legal Ethics and The Law Governing Lawyers: National Rules, Standards and Statutes, which are due out this year.

“Her scholarship manages to blend the theoretical with an approach that also makes her work accessible to non-academic lawyers. In her 30 years of law teaching, she has published one casebook, two forthcoming book manuscripts, four book chapters, 27 law review articles and four reviews,” noted one nominator. “Professor Martyn’s research has had major identifiable impact on the development of the law both in the area of legal ethics and in the field of health care law.”

Martyn has served on two national commissions that have created templates for state lawyer professional codes and the entire law that governs lawyer conduct. She is a member of the Ohio Supreme Court’s Task Force on the Rules of Professional Conduct, charged with the responsibility of redrafting Ohio’s state lawyer code. Her work in bioethics includes two Supreme Court briefs filed in right-to-die cases.

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Dr. Murray joined the UT faculty in 1994. His research examines the economic and demographic history of the United States, continental Europe and Southeast Asia, integrating economics and history in the study of health, education and labor markets in the past.

“Since receiving his PhD in 1992, Murray has published 31 articles in refereed journals, six book chapters and reference entries, and 13 book reviews,” wrote one nominator. “Google indicates that Murray’s publications have appeared on syllabuses of courses in English, economics, history, public health and sociology departments at such universities as Ohio State, Toronto, Warwick (UK), Johns Hopkins and Washington (Seattle)."

Murray and Dr. Ruth Herndon, UT professor of history, received $125,000 from the Spencer Foundation in Chicago to fund conferences that will lead to the publication of their edited book, Children Bound to Labor in Early America. He also received a $71,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute for Child Development and Health, Human Learning and Learning Disabilities Program and used the funds to write three articles. He is the associate editor of the journal Social Science History.

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Dr. Wall has been at UT since 1991. She is the director of the College of Pharmacy Honors Program. The immunologist and biochemist began her research with the initial characterization of the murine analog of CD4, the lymphocyte protein known as the receptor for HIV. Since 1989, Wall has studied the function of the immune system in the autoimmune disease myasthenia gravis, a chronic neuromuscular disease characterized by skeletal muscle weakness.

“This is seminal work. She has continued to challenge herself with pressing questions in the forefront of immunology research and recently showed that cytokines worsen myasthenia gravis,” wrote one nominator. “This was clearly an unexpected finding, which has resulted in a change in the attitude toward the role of cytokines in antibody mediated autoimmune diseases in general.”

While at UT, Wall has received consistent funding from the National Institutes of Health, including a six-year $500,000 grant in 1999. She has received more than $1 million in federal funding for her work and has published 29 papers on numerous biological subjects.

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