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Faculty-Staff, 8-13-09

Posted on | August 13, 2009 | 5,185 views |

Books

John Bennett, Avant Writing Collection/Rare Books & MSS Library, has published a book of poetry in Spanish, LA CUEVA PIRAMIDAL, La Habana, Cuba: Archivo Virtual Desliz, 2009.

Joseph Fiksel, Integrated Systems Engineering, Design for Environment, Second Edition: A Guide to Sustainable Product Development (McGraw-Hill, August 2009).

Grants

Keith Gooch, Biomedical Engineering, received a $136,000 National Institutes of Health four-year grant for “Title Cholesterol Regulation of Endothelial K Channels,” and with Samir Ghadiali and Richard Hart, Biomedical Engineering, was awarded a $424,999 National Science Foundation grant for “Biomechanical Regulation of Cellular Signaling and Organization.”

Wendy Hesford and Amy Shuman, English, and Ann Hamilton, Art, have been awarded a $10,000 Research and Creative Activity in the Arts and Humanities Grant and secured $10,000 in matching funds to host a conference entitled “Human Rights Representations in the Arts and Humanities.” The conference will be held mid-April 2010.

Brian Lower, Environment and Natural Resources, has been award $258,045 from the NSF Division of Earth Sciences, Geobiology and Low-temperature Geochemistry Program, for his project “Collaborative Research: Using Single-Molecule Force and Fluorescence Microscopy to Elucidate the Molecular Mechanism of Bioinspired Magnetite Synthesis in Magnetotactic Bacteria.”

Rajiv Ramnath and Jay Ramanathan, Computer Science and Engineering, received a $149,981 National Science Foundation grant for “Curriculum for Accelerated Services Engineering.”

Presentations

Lazarus Adua, Jeff Sharp and Justin Schupp, Human and Community Resource Development, presented “Energy Intensity and Chemical Usage in US Agricultural Production: Lessons for the Climate Change and Sustainability Discourses,” and Adua also presented “Examining the Human Dimensions of Climate Change: The Consequences of Efficiency Improvement versus Social Stratification on Residential Energy Consumption,” at the 72nd annual meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, Madison, Wis., June 30-Aug. 2.

Alcira Dueñas, History, presented “From El Cercado to Madrid: A Transatlantic Indian Network in Colonial Times” at the 2008 Conference of the American Society for Ethnohistory, Eugene, Ore., Nov. 14, and presented “The Limits and Possibilities of the ‘Republic of Indians,’” at the Ohio Latin Americanist Conference, Ohio University, Athens, Feb. 27.

Mark Headings, Agricultural Technical Institute, presented “Use of Concrete as an Alternative Building Material for Beehives,” at the 73rd annual meeting of the Georgia Entomological Society, Hiawassee, Ga., April 1-3.

David Huron, Music, presented “Why Do Listeners Enjoy Music that Makes Them Weep?” at the Library of Congress’ Whitall Pavilion as part of the Music and the Brain Lecture Series, Washington, DC, Dec. 5; and gave a keynote address, “Why is Rubato So Important? Empathy, Embodied Cognition and the Role of Animacy Cues in Music Performance,” at a Symposium on Performance and Analysis held at Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind., Feb. 20.

Matthew Lewis, ACCAD, presented “Casually Evolving Creative Technology Systems,” for the “Computational Creativity: An Interdisciplinary Approach” Dagstuhl Workshop, Wadern, Germany, July 12-17.

Maria Palazzi, Vita Berezina-Blackburn and Iuri Lioi, ACCAD, presented “Animation at the Center of Interdisciplinary Collaborations,” at the Kalamazoo Animation Festival International 2009 - Educators Conference, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 14.

Douglas Southgate, Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, presented “Settling Accounts for Petroleum Development in the Ecuadorian Amazon,” at the XXVIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 13; and “Broad Trends in the Global Food Economy,” at the FC Stone and Downes-O’Neill 6th Annual Market Outlook Conference, Chicago, Ill., June 18.

Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, History, presented “Rethinking Global Sisterhood: Peace Activism and Women’s Orientalism,” at the CIC Asian American Studies Workshop, Pennsylvania State University, Oct. 10-12; “Teaching in Context at Ohio State University” and “Becoming a Better Teacher,” sponsored by Faculty and Teaching Assistant Development and the OSU Academy of Teaching; and presented “How Asia Shaped America” to the Ohio State University Alumni Club of Hawaii at its annual meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii, Feb. 20.

Bo Wu, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science, presented “Object Detection from Hyperspectral/Multispectral and Multi-Platform Remote-Sensing Imagery by the Integration of Biologically and Geometrically Inspired Approaches,” co-authors Yuan Zhou, Lin Yan, Jiangye Yuan and Rongxing (Ron) Li, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science, and Deliang (Leon) Wang, Computer Science and Engineering, at the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 2009 Annual Conference, Baltimore, Md., March 9-13.

Publications

B. Rita Alevriadou, Biomedical Engineering and Internal Medicine, “Mitochondria-derived Reactive Oxygen Species Mediate Heme Oxygenase-1 Expression in Sheared Endothelial Cells,” Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Vol. 329, No. 1 (2009), pp. 94-101, with Z. Han, S. Varadharaj, R.J. Giedt, J.L. Zweier and H.H. Szeto; and “Application of Multiphase Computational Fluid Dynamics to Analyze Monocyte Adhesion,” Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 37, No. 8 (2009), pp. 1516-33, with R.W. Lyczkowski, M. Horner, C.B. Panchal and S.G. Shroff.

Andrea Serrani, Electrical and Computer Engineering, “Adaptive Robust Output Regulation of Uncertain Linear Periodic Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 54, No. 2 (2009), pp. 266-78, co-author Z. Zhang; “Nonlinear Robust Adaptive Control of Flexible Air-breathing Hypersonic Vehicles,” AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, Vol. 32, No. 2 (March-April 2009), co-authors L. Fiorentini, M. Bolender and D. Doman; and “Adaptive Feedforward Disturbance Rejection in Nonlinear Systems,” Systems & Control Letters, Vol. 58, No. 7 (July 2009), pp. 576-83, co-author S. Messineo.

Karen Spierling, History, “Honor and Subjection in the Lord: Paul and the Family in the Reformation,” in R. Ward Holder, ed., A Companion to Paul in the Reformation (Leiden: Brill, 2009),
pp. 467-501.

Doug Stutton-Ramspeck, English, “Midnight Pilgrimage,” Georgetown Review, Vol. 10, No. 1, p. 57; “Saturday Night, Drunk but Sobering,” Southern Indiana Review, Vol. 15, No. 2, p. 22; and “Washing the Corpse with Rilke” and “Waxmyrtle Alchemy,” Edgz, Vol. 16, pp. 42 and 81.

Recognition

Bruce Henniss, Music, played extra and made a recording of Richard Strauss’ Alpine Symphony with the Pittsburgh Symphony, and he also gave a recital and master class at Michigan State University for their annual Horn Day in November. He played extra with the Cincinnati Symphony on Mahler’s 1st Symphony with Music Director Paavo Jarvi, Jan. 13-18.

Prabhat Gupta, Materials Science and Engineering, received the Morey Award from the Glass and Optical Materials Division of the American Ceramic Society for his outstanding contributions in the areas of glass structure, glass transition, phase separation and the strength of glass fibers.

Matt Hazard, Theatre, voluntarily and successfully completed a rigorous program of study and examinations to become an ETCP Certified Theatre Electrician. The Entertainment Technician Certification Program focuses on disciplines that directly affect the health and safety of crews, performers and audiences, April 2009.

Karen Hutzel, Art Education, received the Faculty Award for Excellence in Community-Based Scholarship, at the annual event of the Ohio State’s Service Learning Initiative. Hutzel received the award for developing four service learning courses in just three years, which has resulted in ongoing partnerships with the University District and Weinland Park neighborhoods, collaborative art pieces for the community and a growing body of scholarly publications contributing to the field of service learning.

Alisa McMahon, Graduate Programs Office, Fisher College of Business, was selected as the recipient of the Fisher Staff Excellence Award. Nominations were submitted by graduate students at the college.

Alan Price, ACCAD/Design, participated in the opening installation of his 3D interactive model of the ancient calendar site in Chaco Canyon, N.M., May 13. “The Sun Dagger Explorer” is now part of the Space Frontiers exhibit at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Albuquerque, N.M.

Linda Stone, Medicine, has received the College of Medicine’s Lifetime Achievement Award, the first Ohio State faculty member to receive the award.

Service

Stu Zweben, Computer Science and Engineering, has been named chair of the Accreditation Council of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, ABET, for a one-year term effective August 2009.

Danielle Pyun, East Asian Languages and Literatures, served on the Board of Directors of AATK (American Association for Teachers of Korean) for 2008-09 and reviewed grant proposals for the Korean Foundation and AATK Teaching Fellow Grant, April 2009.

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