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Faculty & Staff, 1/21/10

Posted on | January 20, 2010 | 1,545 views |

Books
John Bennett, Avant Writing Collection/Rare Books & MSS Library, published a chapbook of poetry in Spanish, La Vista Gancha (Columbus: Luna Bisonte Prods., 2010).

Erin Greenwald, History, wrote a chapter “To Strike a Balance: New Orleans’ Free Colored Community and the Diplomacy of William Charles Cole Claiborne” in Nexus of Empire: Negotiating Loyalty and Identity in the Revolutionary Borderlands, 1760s-1820s, eds. Gene Allen Smith and Sylvia Hilton (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010), pp. 113-39.

Jesus Lara, Landscape Architecture, wrote a chapter, “Sustainable Phoenix: Lessons from the Dutch Model,” in Visualizing Sustainable Planning (Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009) by Gerhard Steinebach, Subhrajit Guhathakurta and Hans Hagen.

Grants
Karen Ahijevych, Nursing, has been awarded a $412,000 grant by the National Institute of Drug Abuse for “Bitter Taste Phenotype as a Risk Factor of Oral Nicotine Replacement Non-adherence.” The broad objective of this exploratory experiment is to generate data on the interaction of bitter taste phenotype and use of oral nicotine replacement therapy during smoking abstinence.

Shaurya Prakash, Mechanical Engineering, received a $3,665 National Science Foundation Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems grant for “SGER: A Microscale Impedance Measurement System for Nanofluidics.”

P. Sadayappan, Computer Science and Engineering, received a $468,492 National Science Foundation Information and Intelligent Systems grant for “Collaborative Research: An Environment for High-Productivity High-Performance Computing using GPUs/Accelerators.”

Kevin Tavin, Art Education, received a $3,000 grant from the Colleges of the Arts and Humanities for his book proposal, Visual Culture Pedagogy: International and Cross Cultural Pedagogy.

Fernando Teixeira, Electrical and Computer Engineering, received a $269,231 National Science Foundation Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems grant for “New Physics-Based Inverse-Scattering Techniques For Ultrawideband Distributed Sensing.”

Presentations
Simone Drake, African American & African Studies, participated in the Podcast, “Crisis in the Village?: The Morehouse Dress Code,” with Mark Anthony Neal, David Ikard and Jeffrey McCune Jr., Oct. 26 (the podcast is posted at newblackman.blogspot.com); and presented “Racial Democracy, Propaganda and the Transhemispheric Imagination in Danzy Senna’s Caucasia,” at the American Studies Association’s annual conference, Washington, DC, Nov. 5-8.

Cynthia Fontanella and Danielle Hiance, Social Work, presented “Suicidal Adolescent Inpatients at Risk for Early Readmission: The Effect of Psychotropic Medication Changes and Polypharmacy,” with Jeffrey Bridge and John Campo, at the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry’s 56th annual meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, Oct. 27-Nov. 1.

Fred Hitzhusen, Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, presented “Inventory and Economic Potential of Biomass for Energy in Ohio,” at the Green Energy Central Ohio workshop at Columbus State Community College, March 28; and “Renewable Energy Options, Problems and Potential” at the Adult Forum, Overbrook Presbyterian Church, Columbus, March 29.

David Huron, Music, presented “Why Do Listeners Enjoy Music that Makes Them Weep?” as part of the Music and the Brain Lecture Series at the Library of Congress’ Whitall Pavilion, Washington, DC, Dec. 5, 2008. The lecture was in conjunction with his then-newly released book, Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation; presented “Many Musical Worlds: Globalization and the Society of Difference,” at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, Jan. 15, 2009; and “Describing Music, Interpreting Music, Explaining Music,” University of North Carolina, Greensboro, N.C., Jan. 29, 2009.

Sharell Mikesell and Jean Schelhorn, Office of Research, presented “Inventions, IP and Industry: The Ins and Outs of Industry Collaboration and Commercialization,” Columbus, Nov. 3.

At the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 53rd annual meeting, San Antonio, Texas, Oct. 19-23, the following lectures were given: “Application of a Participatory Methodology for Investigating Personal Fall Arrest System Usage in the Construction Industry,” Carolyn Sommerich and Steven Lavender, Integrated Systems Engineering, with D. Liu and E. Sanders; “Comparative Study of Computer Usage Patterns and Prevalence of Musculoskeletal Symptoms Among College Students,” Sommerich, K.N. Cooper and N.H. Campbell; “Dynamic Load Moment Exposure and Spine Function Impairment,” William Marras, Lavender and Sue Ferguson, Integrated Systems Engineering, with R.E. Splittstoesser and G. Yang; “How Panoramic Visualization Can Support Human Supervision of Intelligent Surveillance,” David Woods, Integrated Systems Engineering, and James Davis, Computer Science and Engineering, with A.M. Morison; “Human Factors Issues in the Design of Super-Dense Operations Airspace,” Philip Smith and Amy Spencer, Integrated Systems Engineering, with A. Andre, M. Evans, and J. Krozel; “Identifying Safe Load Moment Exposures for the Back,” Lavender, Marras, Ferguson and Pete Schabo, Integrated Systems Engineering, with R.E. Splittstoesser and G. Yang; “Is There a Lateral Transfer Distance that Minimizes the Twisting and Lateral Bending Motions of the Spine During Box Transfers?” Lavender and M. Johnson; “Musculoskeletal Disorder Risk associated with Auto Rotation Angle during an Assembly Task,” Ferguson, Marras, Gary Allread and Greg Knapik, Integrated Systems Engineering, with K.A. Vandlen, Splittstoesser and Yang; “Understanding Coordination Challenges in Urban Firefighting: A Study of Critical Incident Reports,” Martin Voshell, Integrated Systems Engineering, with M. Branlat, L. Fern and S. Trent.

Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, History, screened “Washing Dishes: A Mid-Life Contemplation,” a digital narrative at the OSU Story Telling Festival and Global Story Box Launch, Columbus, June 3; presented “Journeys toward Peace: Thich Nhat Hanh, the American Peace Movement and the Construction of Political Authenticity,” at the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations annual meeting, Falls Church, Va., June 27; and gave talks about her research and teaching for the Honors Orientation, the Program in Arts and Humanities Development and the TELR Research on Research programs, Columbus, July 2009.

Publications
Katherine Burkman, English, has an original monologue, “My First Pedicure” in a collection entitled MOTHER/DAUGHTER MONOLOGUES: URGENT MATURITY, International Center for Women Playwrights, pp. 100-3.

Elizabeth Hewitt, English, “The Authentic Fictional Letters of Charles Brockden Brown,”  Letters and Cultural Transformations in the United States, 1760-1860, eds. Theresa Strouth Gaul and Sharon Harris. (Ashgate, 2009).

Mary Juhas, Engineering, “Women in Materials Science Committee: Advancing the Future of TMS and MSE,” Journal of Materials, Vol. 61, No. 10 (2009), p. 9.

Stuart Lishan, English, “Winter Count, 1964,” Literature: The Human Experience, 10th ed. (New York: Bedford/ St. Martins, 2010), eds. Richard Abcarian, Marvin Klotz and Samuel Cohen, pp. 1075-77.

Emily Patterson, Health Information Management and Systems, “Evaluation of a Physician Informatics Tool to Improve Patient Handoffs,” Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Vol. 16 (2009), pp. 509-15, with M.E. Flanagan, R.M. Frankel and B.N. Doebbeling.

Brian Roe and Timothy Haab, Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, “Financial and Psychological Risk Attitudes Associated with Two Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in the Nicotine Receptor (CHRNA4) Gene,” with Michael Tilley, Howard Gu, David Beversdorf and Wolfgang Sadee, PLoS ONE, Vol. 4, No. 8.

B.J. Warren, Nursing, and D. Antai-Otong, “The Client with Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders,” Psychiatric Nursing: Biological and Behavioral Concepts, 2nd ed. (Clifton Park, NJ: Thomson Delmar Learning), pp. 383-409, ed. D. Antai-Otong.

Recognition
Dennis Cannon, Art Education, was selected as “2009 Outstanding Arts Educator by the Ohio Art Education Association.

Robert Ladislas Derr, Art, had his work exhibited in “Playing the City,” curated by Matthias Ulrich at the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfort, Germany, April 20-May 6.

Thelma Patrick, Nursing, received the American Organization of Nurse Executives’ Best Paper Award for the abstract “Better VLBW Infant Outcomes in Nursing Magnet Hospitals,” presented at the 2009 International Nursing Administration Research Conference.

Service
Katherine Borst Jones, Music, was guest artist for the Luther College Dorian Festival. She presented a master class for Luther College flute students, conducted the Dorian Festival Flute Choir in performances, performed “Silhouettes” by OSU graduate Roger Cichy with the Luther College Concert Band and gave clinics for band directors, Decorah, Iowa, Feb. 28-March 2; and performed the first movement of Concert for Flute and Wind Orchestra by Michael Mower with the Kent State Stark Concert Band and gave a clinic for the Tuslaw High School Band, Massillon, May 2009.

Koritha Mitchell, English, has been appointed chair of the 2010 Errol Hill Award Committee, which identifies the best book in Black Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies for the American Society for Theatre Research.

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