Miami University

Lindsay Carpenter is the Assistant Director of Lifelong Learning, where programs like credit workshops and non-credit offerings are administered. Lifelong Learning has recently become a Passport Acceptance Agency. She received her undergraduate degree in Psychology and is completing her Master’s of Science in Family and Child Studies at Miami University. When not at work, Lindsay and her husband are kept very busy with their family, Andrew, who is four, Ethan, who is two, and Isabella who is due to arrive in January 2010.

Marlene Diers is the Assistant Director of Employee Health & Well-Being and joined Miami in October 2006. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Health from Ohio University and recently earned her Master of Education from Miami University. She is a Certified Health Education Specialist and has professional experience primarily in worksite wellness. Marlene was born and raised in Cincinnati, but spent three years living in Chicago, Illinois where she worked as a Health Promotion Manager. She relocated back to Cincinnati in April 2006 to be closer to family and friends. She enjoys spending time with her Weimaraner dog, Maddy, and also enjoys participating in running races for charitable causes.

Curator of the McGuffey Museum at Miami University in Oxford, OH, Stephen Gordon holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in history from Miami University.  Over the past thirty years, Stephen has worked in the cultural resource management profession.  A native of Ohio, Steve’s research interests include local and regional architecture, craft and building technology, especially vernacular buildings, barns and the study of regional material culture.

Sarah McNitt is a Study Abroad Advisor in the Office of International Education. She has been at Miami since 2005, after graduating from the University of Michigan with a master’s degree in Human-Computer Interaction. She also has a bachelor’s degree in French from Albion College and has studied, interned and taught in different parts of France. Outside of the office, she enjoys traveling, watching movies, baking, languages and learning useless trivia.

Karen O’Hara is employed by IT Services as a technical writer and the coordinator of the Knowledge Base (http://kb.muohio.edu). On the Hamilton campus, she teaches technical communication, serves as the liaison for part-time faculty, and is part of the Saturday Select hybrid course initiative. Karen received both her Masters in Technical and Scientific Communication and her Bachelors in Liberal Arts/Music from Miami.

Ted Pickerill is the Farmer School of Business’ Assistant Dean for Administration.  He has served at Miami University in various capacities since 1999, when he was assigned to Miami’s Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps Unit as his final tour in a twenty-year Naval career.  In addition to university administration, Ted has spent time in the classroom instructing courses in general business, organizational behavior, naval science and calculus.

Anne Schauer came to Miami in July of 2004 as Assistant Director for Research in the Office for the Advancement of Research and Scholarship (OARS). One of her primary responsibilities is to assist faculty and staff with the development and submission of grant proposals to external funding agencies to support their scholarly research and teaching activities. Prior to coming to Miami, she worked in Research Administration for over 12 years at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, the University of Cincinnati and at Bradley University in Peoria, IL. She received her M.A. in Human Service Administration from Bradley in 1998, and a B.A. in General Science and Art from Brandeis in 1979, with a 3-year stint in the Master of Architecture Program at the University of Texas at Austin between the two. When she is not engaged in grant-related activities, she can usually be found buried in one of several art projects involving painting, stained-glass or pottery. She also enjoys sewing, cooking and gardening, and try to get away with her wonderful husband on at least two camping-hiking trips each year.

Mark Walker joined the Recreational Sports staff in June 2006 as the Director of Network and Computer Services. He is a 2003 graduate of Miami with a B.S. in Computer Science, but has worked in various positions at Miami since age 16. He calls Oxford his home, with wife and son.