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Faculty & Staff, 2/04/10

Posted on | February 3, 2010 | 1,256 views |

Book
John Bennett, Avant Writing Collection/Rare Books & MSS Library, has published a new online book of poetry, T ICK TICK TIC K (Finland and Connecticut: Chalkeditions, 2010). Free download at chalkeditions.co.cc.

Grants
Dawn Anderson-Butcher, Social Work, and Al Neff, Education and Human Ecology, were awarded a grant from the Ohio Department of Education to develop capacities in school districts and county councils across Ohio, especially in relation to their adoption, implementation and evaluation of the Family and Civic Engagement priorities outlined in House Bill 1.

Margaret Graham, Nursing, received one of seven Global Research Awards for Nicotine Dependence (GRAND) with support from Pfizer. The $100,000 grant will fund her project, “Web-based Smoking Cessation for Women: A Pilot Study.” Graham’s project is a randomized trial of Web-based audio counseling for smoking cessation in 100 female smokers.

Paul Sivilotti, Computer Science and Engineering, received a $33,523 award from the Ohio Department of Transportation for the development and integration of ODOT’s geological hazard management system in collaboration with the University of Akron.

Barbara Wyslouzil, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Chemistry, received a $180,000 National Science Foundation Chemistry grant for “Nanodroplet Aerosols: Nucleation Rates and Structure.”

Presentations
Chadwick Allen, English, presented “Siting Earthworks in Allison Hedge Coke’s Blood Run,” was chair and discussant for the panel “Indigenous Textualities,” presented “Rethinking Indigenous-Settler Mediation: Harry D.B. Dansey Between Worlds,” and chaired for the panel “An Indigenous 1950s,” at the Native American and Indigenous Studies conference, Minneapolis, Minn., May 23.

Nick Breyfogle, History, presented “On Shaky Ground: Earthquakes and Environmental Thought in Russian History,” “The Russian Conquest of Siberia, 16th-17th cc” and “The Future of Graduate Training in Eurasian History,” at Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., Sept. 14-15; and spoke to the board of directors of the Ohio Environmental Council on the department’s new environmental history program and the history of Lake Baikal, Columbus, Sept. 19.

Donna Guy, History, presented “Write to Me Argentina: Children and La Patria,” at the Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies, Santa Fe, N.M., March 4-6; was invited by Alpha Psi Lambda to facilitate a discussion of Cesar Chavez, his life as a civil rights leader, and current immigrant labor issues, Columbus, April 8; held a workshop on how to identify sexual violence at Archer Hall, Columbus, April 29; and led two history workshops for the 2nd OSU Arts and Humanities Day for 8th Graders, Columbus, May 1.

Scott Levi, History, presented “Mercantile Connections between India and Central Asia in the Early Modern Era,” at the UCLA Center for India and South Asia and Central Asia Initiative, Los Angeles, Calif., March 9.

Emily Patterson, Health Information Management and Systems, along with A.L. Russ, R.L. Wears, A. Miller, L. Militello,
S. Anders and B.T. Karsh participated in the discussion panel “Medical Informatics: What Contributions can Human Factors Make?” at the Human Factors & Ergonomics Society 53rd annual meeting, San Antonio, Texas, Oct. 19-23.

Jim Sanders III, Art Education, conducted an Open Seminar at Northern Illinois University’s Division of Art Education on the intersection of LGBT and Arts Administration, DeKalb, Ill., March 4.

Patricia Stuhr, Art Education, presented “The Role of Casinos Gaming Industry in the Development and Protection of Native American Traditional Crafts in Wisconsin,” at the symposium Handicraft Creates Wealth – The Protection and Development of Traditional Handicraft, at Shangdong University of Art and Design, Jinan, China, Sept. 9-10.

J. Marshall Unger, East Asian Languages and Literatures, delivered “Borrowing Nouns as Verb Roots: The Case of Korean and Japanese,” at the conference Verbal Morphology and the Historical Comparison of the Trans-Eurasian Languages, the Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz, Germany, Sept. 4; “Some Remarks on Hankul Transcriptions of Middle Japanese,” at the inaugural symposium of the Hwunmin chengum Society, Seoul National University, Korea, Oct. 9; and “Origins of the Japanese and Korean Languages: Divergence and Contact,” at the Edwin O. Reischauer Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.,
Nov. 21.

Carl Zulauf, Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, delivered the Tweeten Lecture titled “The New Farm Program: A Look at the History, Provisions and Impacts of ACRE,” Columbus, February 2009.

Publications
G.S. Bauldoff, Nursing, “Cardiovascular Consequences of Pulmonary Hypertension,” with T. Housten-Harris and D.R. Nunley, Nursing Clinics of North America, Vol. 43 (2008), pp. 17-36; and “Implementation of Handheld Devices,” with B. Kirkpatrick, D.J. Sheets and B. Mays, Nursing, and C. Curran, Nurse Educator, Vol. 33, No. 6 (2008), pp. 244-48.

Bharat Bhushan, Mechanical Engineering, “Lotus-like Biomimetic Hierarchical Structures Developed by the Self-Assembly of Tubular Plant Waxes,” Langmuir, Vol. 25, No. 3 (2009), pp. 1659-66, co-authors Jung, Koch and A. Niemietz; “Self-Cleaning Efficiency of Artificial Superhydrophobic Surfaces,” Langmuir, Vol. 25, No. 5 (2009), pp. 3240-48, co-authors Jung and Koch; “Self-Healing of Voids in the Wax Coating on Plant Surfaces,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, Vol. 367, No. 1894 (2009), pp. 1673-88, co-authors Koch, H.-J. Eniskat and Barthlott; “Thermodynamics of Surface Degradation, Self-Organization and Self-Healing For Biomimetic Surfaces,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, Vol. 367, No. 1893, pp. 1607-27 (2009), co-author Nosonovsky; and “Scanning Spreading Resistance Characterization of Aged Li-ion Batteries using Atomic Force Microscopy,” Scripta Materialia, Vol. 60, No. 11 (2009), pp. 933-36, co-authors S.C. Nagpure, Mechanical Engineering, Suresh Babu, Materials Science and Engineering, and Giorgio Rizzoni, Mechanical Engineering.

Sebastian Knowles, English, “Finnegans Wake for Dummies,” James Joyce Quarterly 46, No. 1 (Fall 2008), pp. 97-112; and wrote the foreword in Joyce, Medicine and Modernity by Vike Martina Plock (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010), pp. ix-x.

Alan Randall, Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, “We Already Have Risk Management – Do We Really Need the Precautionary Principle?” International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics Vol. 3, No. 1 (2009), pp. 39-74.

Basant Rimal and Rattan Lal, Environment and Natural Resources, “Soil and Carbon Losses from Five Different Land Management Areas under Simulated Rainfall,” Soil & Tillage Research, Vol. 106, No. 1 (2009), pp. 62-70.

Recognition
Terry Barrett, Art Education, had an article “Why is That Art? Aesthetics and Criticism in Contemporary Art” reviewed in the Spanish journal EXIT Book Revista Semestral De Libos de Arte Y Cultura Visual (2009).

James Cowan, Chemistry, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). Europe’s largest organization for advancing the chemical sciences, the RSC has an international network of members. Membership requirements are rigorous; only those who have made significant contributions to their field are eligible for Fellow status.

John Lenhart, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science, received a National Science Foundation CAREER award of $400,234 for his proposal “Natural Organic Matter Mediated Processes in the Subsurface: Heavy Metal Adsorption and Nanoparticle Migration.” His research will examine specific details of how natural organic matter acids of environmental significance influence the fate of lead and nanoparticulate iron oxides in soil and ground water systems.

Jack Nasar, City and Regional Planning, has been selected for the Environmental Design Research Association Achievement Award for Designing for Designers: Lessons Learned from Schools of Architectures (Fairchild Publications: 2007), a book he co-authored with Wolfgang F.E. Preiser and Tom Fisher.

Maria Palazzi, ACCAD, and Norah Zuniga-Shaw, Dance, won Best in Category-Interactive and Judges Choice awards (out of 350 entries) in the “Columbus Society of Communicating Arts – Creative Best 2009” competition for the Synchronous Objects project (synchronousobjects.osu.edu). Synchronous Objects also was chosen by a jury as Winner in the Communication Arts 2010 Interactive Annual Competition and as a Finalist in the AdobeMAX 2009 Awards in the Education Category.

Service
Robert Gillespie, Music, was the School of Music Lyceum Series speaker at Baylor University, Waco, Texas, and conducted the Colorado All-State Philharmonic Orchestra, February 2009; and conducted the 25th Anniversary Celebration Concert of the founding of the Columbus Symphony Chamber Strings Youth Orchestra, Columbus, and worked with teachers in orchestras in Philadelphia and Long Island, N.Y., May 2009.

Harvey Graff, English, co-edited Understanding Literacy in its Historical Contexts: Socio-Cultural History and the Legacy of Egil Johansson (Lund, Sweden: Nordic Academic Press, 2009), with Alison Mackinnon, Bengt Sandin and Ian Winchester and coordinated the conference in Sweden that led to this volume.

Don Stenta, Educational Policy and Leadership and John Glenn School of Public Affairs, led a roundtable discussion about learning communities on college campuses that can teach students about leadership and civic engagement, at the 10th annual International Leadership Association, Prague, Czech Republic, Nov. 7-10.

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