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Books

Brenda Jo Brueggemann, English, Deaf Subjects: Between Identities and Places (New York University Press, 2009).

John Burnham, History, Accident Prone: A History of Technology, Psychology and Misfits of the Machine Age (University of Chicago Press, 2009).

Jane Hathaway, History, published Osmanl M s r’ nda Hane Politikalar:  Kazda l lar n Yükseli i (Turkish translation of The Politics of Households in Ottoman Egypt: The Rise of the Qazda l s), trans. Nalan Özsoy (Istanbul: Türkiye Bankas Publications, 2009).

Grants

Stephen Shapiro, History, was awarded a Mershon Center Grant for his proposal “The Rise and Fall of Liberal Militarism: Political Culture and Defense Policy in Britain, 1842-1871.”

Eric Toman, Robyn Wilson, Roger Williams, Stan Gehrt, David Hix and Charles Goebel, Environment and Natural Resources, received $151,363 from the Joint Fire Sciences Program for “Fuel Treatments in Mixed-Pine Forests in the Great Lakes Region: A Comprehensive Guide to Planning and Implementation.”

Presentations

Jim Bennett, History, presented “The Once and Future Burghers: Social Memory and Civic Identity in Late Medieval St. Albans” at the Mid America Medieval Association’s meeting, Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 28.

Bharat Bhushan, Mechanical Engineering, presented “Nanotribology, Nanomechanics and Materials Characterization Studies and Applications to Bio/Nanotechnology and Biomimetics,” at the Biotechnical Functionalization of Renewable Polymeric Materials, sponsored by COST (a European cooperation in the field of scientific and technical research), Varna, Bulgaria, September 2008; and “Nanotribology and Nanomechanics of MEMS/NEMS and BioMEMS/BioNEMS Materials and Devices and Biomimetics,” at Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique, Paris, France,
October 2008.

Theodora Dragostinova, History, delivered an invited lecture, “Between Home and Homeland: Minority Rights and National Dilemmas across the Greek-Bulgarian Border” at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.,
Feb. 26.

Ryan Friedman, English, presented “The Two-Way Mirror: African American Films and the Transition to Sound,” Program in Film Studies Wexner Center Lecture, Columbus, April 29.

Ronald Hammond, Entomology, presented “Slugs: Their Biology and Management,” at the 2009 Mid-Atlantic Fruit & Vegetable Convention, Hershey, Pa., Feb. 3; “Managing Slugs in Corn and Soybean,” at the 2009 Northern Neck Crop Production Conference, Warsaw, Va., Feb. 5; and “Management of Field Crop Insects,” at the Conservation Tillage and Technology Conference, Ada, Feb. 27.

Bruce Maurer, Recreational Sports, presented “Don’t Be Left Behind - Learn the New NIRSA Rules and Mechanics for Your Autumn Flag or Touch Football Program” at the National Intramural Recreational Sports Association Conference, Charlotte, N.C., April 2.

Mineharu Nakayama, East Asian Languages and Literatures, presented “Nominative Case Marking and Verb  Inflection in L2 Grammar: Evidence from Japanese College Students’ Compositions” at the 2009 Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, March 14.

David Rigney, Materials Science and Engineering, A. Emge and S. Karthikeyan presented “The Effect of Sliding Velocity and Sliding Time on Nanocrystalline Tribolayer Development and Properties in Copper,” “Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Sliding in an Fe-Cu Tribopair System” and “A Simulation Study of the Mixing, Atomic Flow and Velocity Profiles of Crystalline Materials During Sliding” at the 17th International Conference on Wear of Materials, Las Vegas, Nev., April 19-23.

Sara Robinson, History, presented “State of the Field: Deaf History” on the State of the Field: Disability History Panel at the 2009 OAH meeting, Seattle, Wash., March 26-28.

Amanda Rodewald, Environment and Natural Resources, presented “Cerulean Warblers: From Ohio to Venezuela” at the Wildlife Diversity Conference, Columbus, March 4.

David Stebenne, History, presented “Analyzing the Results of the 2008 Elections,” sponsored by the Lifelong Learning Institute of Columbus State Community College at Dublin Friendship Village, Dublin, Nov. 13.

Andrew Vitz, Environment and Natural Resources, presented “Indigo Bunting: And Other Amazing Migratory Songbirds” at the Wildlife Diversity Conference 2009, Columbus, March 4.

Deana Wilkinson, Human Development and Family Science, and Paul Bellair, Sociology, presented “Violence Prevention and Living Beyond the US Prison Process,” at the Frank W. Hale Black Cultural Center, Columbus, Feb. 3.

Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, History, presented “Eldridge Cleaver Goes to Pyongyang, Hanoi and Peking: Third World Internationalism and Radical Orientalism during the Viet Nam Era,” and led a student leadership and activism workshop at Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y., April 8.

Publications

John Burnham, History and Psychiatry, “What Happened ‘After Freud Left?’” The General Psychologist, pp. 15-17, Spring 2009.

Ronald Hammond, Entomology, with S. Kang and M. Milan, “Soybean Aphid Resistance in PI 243540 is Controlled by a Single Dominant Gene,” Crop Sci, Vol. 48, pp. 1744-48.

David Herman, English, “Beyond Voice and Vision: Cognitive Grammar and Focalization Theory,” Point of View, Perspective, Focalization: Modeling Mediacy, pp. 119-42, eds. Peter Hühn, Wolf Schmid and Jörg Schönert, Berlin (Walter de Gruyter, 2009).

Michael Mills, Materials Science and Engineering, “The Intermediate Temperature Deformation of Ni-Base Superalloys: Importance of Reordering,” JOM, the Journal of the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society, Vol. 61, No. 2, pp. 42-48, co-authors Libor Kovarik and Ray Unocic, Materials Science and Engineering, with Ju Li.

Debra Moddelmog, English, “‘We Live in a Country Where Nothing Makes Any Difference:’ The Queer Sensibility of A Farewell to Arms,” The Hemingway Review, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 7-24.

Chris Otter, History, “Perception, Standardization and Closure: The Case of Artificial Illumination,” History of Technology, Vol. 28, pp. 75-100.

Doug Stutton-Ramspeck, English, “Accustomed Hour” and “Apologia for Marriage,” Yalobusha Review, Vol. 14, pp. 93-4; “Bright Snake,” Valparaiso Poetry Review, Vol. 10, No. 2; “Carapace,” The Briar Cliff Review, Vol. 21, pp. 89; “Coming Home” and “Maps,” Willard & Maple, Vol. 13, pp. 65-6 and 161-2.

R. Swab, Li Zhang and William Mitsch, Environment and Natural Resources, “Effect of Hydrologic Restoration and Lonicera Maackii Removal on Herbaceous Understory Vegetation in a Bottomland Hardwood Forest,” Restoration Ecology, Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 453-63.

James Unger, East Asian Languages and Literatures, “Two Japanese Vegetable Names Borrowed from Korean,” Korean Linguistics, Vol. 14, pp. 223-9.

Andreá Williams, English, “Let the Good Work Go On,” Review of Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins: Black Daughter of the Revolution, by Lois Brown, Women’s Review of Books, Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 25-7.

Recognitions

Karen Ahijevych, Nursing, was named a Senior Scientist by the Midwest Nursing Research Society.

Ragavendra Baliga, Internal Medicine, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, May 15.

Michael Benedict, History, delivered the bi-annual Distinguished Historian address “Constitutional Politics in the Gilded Age” at the annual luncheon of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era at the OAH convention in Seattle, Wash., March 27.

Robin Judd, History, is the 2009 recipient of the Columbus Jewish Federation’s Therese Stern Kahn and William V. Kahn Young Leadership Award.

Jeffrey Kipnis, Architecture, has been awarded an Academy Award in Architecture from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, along with a $7,500 prize.

Charles Toth, Center for Mapping, received the 2009 Fairchild Photogrammetric Award, the highest professional achievement award of the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.

Rusty Wilson, Information Specialist, will be awarded the Vikelas Plaque by the International Society of Olympic Historians for long-term dedication to the Olympic movement at the Vancouver Olympic Winter Games in February 2010.

Rama Yedavalli, Aerospace Engineering, received a Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Science’s Department of Aerospace Engineering.

Service

Alan Beyerchen, History, appeared with Paul Reitter, German, on WOSU’s Open Line, hosted by Fred Andrle on April 21, Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Harvey Graff, English, participated in the Twentieth Anniversary Symposium of the Advanced Studies, Department of Child Studies as the guest of the University of Linkoping, Sweden, April 23-24.

Sidney Miller, Burn Center, was elected president of the American Burn Association, where he will begin his term in 2010.

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