This volume is an outcomeof invited lecturesdelivered at the Ring Theory Section of the 23rd Ohio State-DenisonConferencein May 1996. It also contains articles by some invited mathematicianswho could not attend the conference. These peer-refereedarticles showcasethe latest developmentsand trends in classicalRing Theory, highlighting the cro- fertilization of new techniquesand ideaswith the existing ones. Providing a wide variety of methodologies,this volume should be valuable both to graduatestudentsas well as to specialistsin Ring Theory. We would like to thank our colleagueswho investeda lot of their time to make the conferencea great success. In particular, our thanks go to ProfessorsTom Dowling, Dan Sanders,SurinderSehgal,Ron Solomonand Sergio R. L6pez-Permouthfor their help. The financial support for the Conference,provided by the Departmentof Mathematics,The Ohio State University, and MathematicsResearchInstitute, Columbus, is gratefully acknowleged. Many thanksgo to Dean Violet I. Meek for her commitment to the promotion of researchby her continuousencouragement of such efforts and for providing financial support from the Lima campusof The Ohio StateUniversity. We havereceivedimmensecooperationfrom all the refereeswho, meticulouslyand in a very short time, provided us with their reports in spite of their busy schedules. We expressour sincerethanks to all of them. Finally, we thank Ms. Cindy White for her excellent job in typing parts of this volume. We are pleasedto dedicatethis volume to ProfessorBruno J. Miiller on the occasionof his retirementfor his many contributionsto the Theory of Rings and Modules. As this volume was going to presswe have learned that ProfessorCarl Faith is retiring this year.

Inhalt
Kasch Modules.- Compactness in Categories and Interpretations.- A Ring of Morita Context in Which Each Right Ideal is Weakly Self-injective.- Splitting Theorems and a Problem of Müller.- Decompositions of D1 Modules.- Right Cones in Groups.- On Extensions of Regular Rings of Finite Index by Central Elements.- Intersections of Modules.- Minimal Cogenerators Over Osofsky and Camillo Rings.- Uniform Modules Over Goldie Prime Serial Rings.- Co-Versus Contravariant Finiteness of Categories of Representations.- Monomials and the Lexicographic Order.- Rings Over Which Direct Sums of CS Modules Are CS.- Exchange Properties and the Total.- Local Bijective Gabriel Correspondence and Torsion Theoretic FBN Rings.- Normalizing Extensions and the Second Layer Condition.- Generators of Subgroups of Finite Index in GLm (?G).- Weak Relative Injective M-Subgenerated Modules.- Direct Product and Power Series Formations Over 2-Primal Rings.- Localization in Noetherian Rings.- Projective Dimension of Ideals in Von Neumann Regular Rings.- Homological Properties of Color Lie Superalgebras.- Indecomposable Modules Over Artinian Right Serial Rings.- Nonsingular Extending Modules.- Right Hereditary, Right Perfect Rings Are Semiprimary.- On the Endomorphism Ring of a Discrete Module: A Theorem of F. Kasch.- Nonsingular Rings with Finite Type Dimension.