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Faculty & Staff, 9/24/09

Posted on | September 23, 2009 | 1,051 views |

Books
Terri Fisher, Psychology, OSU Mansfield, Current Directions in Human Sexuality and Intimate Relationships, New York: Allyn & Bacon (2010), with J. McNulty (ed.), and Speaking of Sexuality: Interdisciplinary Readings (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), with N.B. Moore and J.K. Davidson (eds.).

Susan Nittrouer, Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Early Development of Children with Hearing Loss, August 2009 (San Diego, Calif.: Plural Publishing).

Grants
Ronald Reano, Electrical and Computer  Engineering, received an Army Research Office Young Investigator Award of $50,000 a year for three years for the project “Electric-Field Sensor Array Technology,” in which he will explore 2-D optical arrays for imaging RF electric-fields using nonlinear integrated optics.

Jessica Winter, Biomedical Engineering, received a three-year, $300,000 National Science Foundation grant for “Brain Mimetic Materials for Cancer Cell Migration Studies” with co-principal investigator Atom Sarkar, Neurosurgery, to develop 3-D brain mimetics that will be used to study migration of glioblastoma multiforme cancer tumor cells in vitro; and a three-year, $313,433 National Science Foundation grant for “Fluorescent-Magnetic Nanomanipulators for Cytoskeletal Mechanical Investigations” with co-principal investigators Jeffrey Chalmers, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and Anthony Brown, Neuroscience, to develop a technique to manipulate the cytoskeleton using fluorescent-magnetic nanoparticles and explore the influence of applied force on migration of fibroblast wound healing cells.

Presentations
Jeff Agnoli, Office of Research, and Kristi Baker, Paul Matherny and Bob Scher, Office of Sponsored Programs, presented “Being a PI at OSU – Roles and Responsibilities,” Columbus, July 8.

John Burnham, History and Psychiatry, presented “The Historical Problem of Different Audiences for Psychoanalysis,” at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and the Institut fur Wissenschaft und Kunst conference, “Epistemic Vehicles in the Human Sciences,” Vienna, Austria, July 25.

Jill Clark, Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, presented “Drivers of US Peri-Urban Agricultural Adaptations: The Role of Place, Space and Scale,” at the 7th International Science Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, Bonn, Germany, April 26-30.

Michael Donovan and Tani Prestage, Office of Responsible Research Practices, presented “IRB Forms Help – Behavioral/Social Sciences,” Columbus, July 15.

Prabhat Gupta, Materials Science and Engineering, presented “Reflections on the Thermodynamics of Glass Transition and the Glassy State,” at the Pacific Rim Conference on Ceramic and Glass Technology, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, May 31-June 5.

Bette Hartschuh and Sue Woodruff, Office of Sponsored Programs, presented “PI Portal Overview,” Columbus, July 15.

Leila Heil, Music, presented a session “Strategies for Developing Tone in the Vocal Jazz Rehearsal,” at the 2009 American Choral Directors Association national conference, Oklahoma City, Okla., March 3-6.

Brian Hiestand, Adam McClintock and Tani Prestage, Office of Responsible Research Practices, presented “IRB process Workshop for Human Subjects Research,” Columbus, June 24.

Heather Inwood, East Asian Languages and Literatures, presented “For Better or For Worse? The Effects of the Media on Online Chinese Poetry,” to the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Reno, Nev., Oct.10, and “Cyber Folk? Multimedia Poetry in the Aftermath of the Sichuan Earthquake,” to the Association for Asian Studies, Chicago, Ill., March 28.

Jesus Lara, Landscape Architecture, presented “Learning from Abroad: Knowledge Transfer and Approaches to Sustainable Development,” at the British Columbia Land Summit 2009, “A Better Future Adapting to Change,” Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, May 20-22, and “Drawing on Architect Christopher Alexander’s Theory and Practice: Teaching Models, Building Case Studies and Conceptual Critiques” and “Community Participation and the Web: Visualizing a Sustainable Community in Moapa Valley, Nev.,” at the 40th Environmental Design and Research Association meeting, Kansas City, Mo., May 27-30.

Debra Moddelmog, English, presented “’Who’s Normal? What’s Normal?:’ An Approach to Teaching Hemingway’s The Garden of Eden,” at a roundtable on teaching The Garden of Eden, sponsored by The Hemingway Society, American Literature Association Conference, Boston, Mass., May 23.

Sean O’Sullivan, English, presented “Episode Five, or When Does a Narrative Become What It Is?”  at the International Conference on Narrative, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England, June 4.

Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Computer Science and Engineering, presented a keynote address “Mining and Management Tree Structured Data Efficiently,” at the International Workshop on High Performance Data Mining, Pisa, Italy, Dec. 15.

Cameron Thraen, Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, presented “Livestock Gross Margin – Dairy: The Good, Bad and Not-so-well Understood,” at the NCCC-134 Conference on Applied Commodity Price Analysis, Forecasting and Market Risk Management, St. Louis, Mo., April 20-21.

Publications
Scott Boden and Barb Kefalas, Office of Residence Life, “Knock, Knock. Whose House is it Anyway?” Association of College and University Housing Officers Talking Stick, Vol. 26, No. 6, p. 38.

Paul Denton, OSU Police Division, “Policing College Campuses: An Overview,” Ohio Police Chief (online), Spring/Summer 2009.

Mark Headings, Agricultural Technical Institute, “Morphological Similarity of Bean Extrafloral Nectaries Between and Within Species of the Genus Vigna,” The Ohio Journal of Science, Vol. 109, No. 1, p. A-9, March 2009.

L. Scott Lissner, University ADA Coordinator, authored a chapter “Access to Higher Education: The Spirit and the Letter of the Law,” NACADA (National Academic Advising Association) monograph Advising Students with Disabilities: Striving for Universal Success, 2nd edition, No. 10.

David Woods, Integrated Systems Engineering; Industrial, Interior and Visual Communication Design; Anesthesiology; and Speech and Hearing, “Cooperative Advocacy: A Strategy for Integrating Diverse Perspectives in Anomaly Response,” Computer Supported Cooperative Work: The Journal of Collaborative Computing, Vol. 18, No. 2 (2009), pp. 175-98, with J. Watts-Perotti; “Escaping Failures of Foresight,” Safety Science, Vol. 47, No. 4 (2009), pp. 498-501; “Resilience and Brittleness in the Offshore Helicopter Transportation System: Identification of Constraints and Sacrifice Decisions in Pilots’ Work,” Reliability Engineering & System Safety, Vol. 94 (2009), pp. 311-19, with J.O. Gomes,

P.V. Rodrigues de Carvalho, G. Huber and M. Borges; “See is Believing? The Effects of Real-Time Imaging on Decision-Making in a Simulated Incident Command Task,” International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2009), pp. 54-69, with John M. McGuirl and N.B. Sarter; and “Minding the Gaps: Creating Resilience in Health Care,” Advances in Patient Safety: New Directions and Alternative Approaches, Vol. 3 (2008), Performance and Tools (Rockville, Md.: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Publication No. 08-0034-3), K. Henriksen, et al (eds.), with C. Nemeth, R.L. Wears, E. Hollnagel and R.I. Cook.

Recognition
John Bennett, Avant Writing Collection/Rare Books & MSS Library, is the subject of an extensive article and interview about his work in the Chilean cultural journal Escaner Cultural, by Mexican poet and curator Cesar Espinosa.

Holly Dabelko-Schoeny, Social Work, is the 2009 recipient of the college’s Distinguished Recent Career Award. The award is presented to an alumnus who has graduated within the past 10 years and whose accomplishments exemplify outstanding professional achievements in one or more of the following areas: practice/clinical excellence, community development, advocacy, education or administration. Dabelko-Schoeny has devoted her career to the field of aging as a colleague, mentor, educator, and researcher with a focus on improving the quality of life for older adults and their caregivers.

Wayne Lawson, Art Education, received an award from the Chilean National Council for Culture and Arts for his outstanding cultural collaborations between Ohio and Chile on June 16 in Santiago, Chile.

Charles Massey, Art, was among five faculty members who received the 2009 Distinguished Undergraduate Research Mentor Awards from the Undergraduate Research Office, in recognition of their exceptional efforts on behalf of undergraduate researchers at Ohio State, Spring 2009.

Service
Richard Hart, Biomedical Engineering, was appointed secretary of the national Biomedical Engineering Society and to the executive committee for a two-year term.

Julie Higle, Integrated Systems Engineering, was elected to the Board of Trustees of the Institute of Industrial Engineers as the senior vice president for academics.

Russel Mikkelson, Music, conducted the Ohio Music Educators 13 Honor Band at Springboro High School, Springboro, Jan. 30-Feb. 1, and was the featured clinician at the Eastern Illinois University “Art of the Wind Band” conducting symposium, Charleston, Ill., Feb. 27- March 1.

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