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Faculty & Staff, 1/19/12

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Books

Paul Granello, Physical Activity and Educational Services, Wellness Counseling, (Prentice Hall, 2011).

Rebecca Kantor and David Fernie, Teaching and Learning, coedited Educating Toddlers to Teachers: Learning to See and Influence the School and Peer Cultures of Classrooms, (Hampton Press, 2011), with
Samara Madrid.

Grants

Keith Gooch, Biomedical Engineering, received $294,000 from a National Science Foundation grant for “Collaborative Proposal: Active and Passive Mechanical Environments Interact to Regulate Cellular Structure and Function,” to support research on how cells respond to changes in their mechanical and cellular
environments.

James Gregory, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, received a $150,000 Young Investigator Award from the Army Research Office for his research project, “Time-Varying Compressible Dynamic Stall Mechanisms Due to Freestream Mach Oscillations.” The study of compressible dynamic stall will help helicopter manufacturers design rotor blades that enable higher speed flight, and provide weight savings for next-generation helicopters.

Dee Jepsen, Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, received a $61,000 grant from USDA Smith Lever Special Needs for Emergency Planning and Preparedness Education for “Agritourism Enterprises.”

Gonul Kaletunc, Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, received a $499,953 grant from the USDA Agriculture and Food Research Initiative for “Enhanced Stability and Targeted Delivery of Microencapsulated Anthocyanins for Improved Food Quality and Human Health,” with Mark Failla, Education and Human Ecology Research Office, Derek Hansford, Biomedical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, and Monica Giusti, Food Science and Technology.

Giorgio Rizzoni, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Center for Automotive Research, received a $907,026 grant from the US Department of Energy Graduate Automotive Technology Education (GATE) Initiative Award program to fund projects to prepare a new generation of engineers to lead system integration projects in the following areas related to energy-efficient vehicles: efficient energy conversion, advanced energy storage, lightweight body and chassis systems and vehicle systems control, including vehicle-grid and vehicle-infrastructure connectivity.

Presentations

Charles Atkinson, Musicology, presented “Einstimmigkeit: Cradle of (Western) Musical Creativity,” for the international symposium “Monodien: Paradigmen instrumental begleiteten Sologesangs im Mittelalter und Barock,” Basel, Switzerland, under the aegis of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Dec. 1-3; and “The Anonymous Vaticanus in speculo,“ at the Institut für Musikforschung of the Universität Würzburg, Germany, Dec. 8.

Susan Bandy, Physical Activity and Educational Services, presented “Contemporary Literary Treatments of the Female Athlete: Vulnerability or Failure,” at the annual conference of the Sport Literature Association, University of Maine, Me., June 28.

Ada Demb, Educational Policy and Leadership, presented “Beginning Again in Mid-Career,” at the annual conference of the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA), Denver, Colo., Oct. 3.

Jonathan Fox, Consumer Sciences, gave the closing keynote address, “Helping Clients Turn Wealth into Utility,” at the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors core competency meetings, Columbus, July 21 and 22.

Belinda Gimbert, Educational Policy and Leadership, and Rebecca Parker, Project KNOTtT, presented “Integrating Technology for Professional Learning in Urban Schools,” at the National Summit on Great Teachers for Our City Schools, Denver, Colo., April 27-29.

Josh Hawley, Workforce Development and Education and Glenn School, presented “Strategic Human Resource Development Policy,” to the Human Resource Development faculty, Seoul National University, South Korea; and“Government’s Role in Competency Development for Human Resource Development,” at the Ministry of Labor 2011 HRD conference, Summer 2011.

Mo Yee Lee, Social Work, presented “Offering Integrative Health/Mental Health Practices in the Classroom: Increasing Access and Practice,” at the 15th Council on Social Work Education annual program meeting, Faculty Development Institute, Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 27-30, with S. Tebb, M. Napoli and P. Leung.

Dana Renga, French and Italian, gave two invited talks, “Mafia Movies: A Roundtable,” with 8 contributing authors of her edited volume, at the Calandra Institute, Queens College, Dec. 5; and “Mafia Woman in a Man’s World: Roberta Torre’s Angela,” at the CUNY Graduate Center, New York, Dec. 6.

Publications

David Benfield, Food Animal Health Research Program and Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, “Chapter 24: Porcine Adenoviruses,” with Richard Hesse, pp. 392-95, and “Chapter 31: Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus (Porcine Arterivirus),” with. S. Zimmerman, D.A. Benfield, S.A. Dee, M.P. Murtaugh, T. Stadejek, G.W. Stevenson and M. Torremorell, pp.461-86, Diseases of Swine, Tenth Edition, Eds. J.J. Zimmerman et al., (John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2012).

Tim Berra, Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, “Low Genetic Diversity in Nurseryfish, Kurtus gulliveri (Perciformes: Kurtidae) and an Appraisal of Its Breeding System Using Microsatellite Loci,” The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Vol. 27 (2011), pp. 179-88, with J.A. Sommer, C. Li, J. Brozek, M.L. Bessert and G. Orti.

Terri Fisher, Psychology, “Sex on the Brain?: An Examination of Frequency of Sexual Cognitions as a Function of Gender, Erotophilia and Social Desirability,” Journal of Sex Research, Vol. 29 (2012) pp. 69-77, with Z.T. Moore and M. Pittenger.

Joseph Fiksel, Center for Resilience and Research and Integrated Systems Engineering, wrote “What is Sustainability?” on the National Association of Environmental Health and Safety Management website.

Charles Klopp, French and Italian, “Spazi femminili, spazi maschili, e spazi infantili nel Conservatorio di Santa Teresa di Romano Bilenchi,” Guida, Patrizia and Giovanna Scianatico, Eds. Saggi di letteratura italiana, (Lecce, Italy: PensaMultimedia, 2011) , pp. 253-61.

Rongxing (Ron) Li, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science, presented “LASOIS: Enhancing the Spatial Orientation Capabilities of Astronauts on the Lunar Surface,” at the 8th symposium on the Role of the Vestibular Organs in Space Exploration, Houston, Texas, April 8-10; and “Development of a Lunar Astronaut Spatial Orientation and Information System,” and the 18th IAA Humans in Space Symposium, Houston, Texas, April 11-15, both with Alper Yilmaz, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science, and Shaojun He, Boris Skopljak, Xuelian Meng, Jinwei Jiang, M.S. Banks and C. Oman.

Mark Partridge, Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, recently released a policy brief, “The Economic Value of Shale Natural Gas in Ohio.” Various news sources reference the study including The Plain Dealer, Dayton Daily News, Youngstown Vindicator, and a headline story by the Columbus Dispatch, with Amanda Weinstein.

Aaron Zimmerman, Optometry, “Optimizing Vision for Athletes: Performance and Protection,” Refractive Eyecare, Vol.15, No. 11 (November 2011), pp. 5-7.

Recognition

Jill Clark, Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, received the College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Staff Advisory Council Innovation Award.

Susan Robb Jones, Educational Policy and Leadership, is the recipient of the University of Maryland’s College of Education Award for Outstanding Scholar, which honors UM alumni who have made significant contributions to published research in their field.

Danielle Marx-Scouras, French and Italian, was elected to a five-year term (2012-2017) on the executive committee of the Division on Twentieth-Century French Literature of the Modern Language Association.

Usha Menon, Nursing, has joined the Ohio State College of Nursing as vice dean and professor. Menon most recently held an appointment at the College of Nursing and Health Innovation at Arizona State University where she was the Pamela Kidd Distinguished Researcher Professor, co-director of the T32: Training in Health Disparities Science program, and former director of the Southwest Consortium for Health Promotion and Behavior Change.

Jared Miner, Exercise Science, received a first place for his dissertation poster, “Family Medicine Physician Views of Physical Activity and Exercise Counseling and Prescription; Responsibilities and Barriers,” at the American Academy of Family Physicians meeting, September 2011.

John Volakis, ElectroScience Laboratory, received the 2011 Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator Award from the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society. Volakis was commended for exemplary contributions as a teacher and mentor, and for advancing electromagnetic technology.

Jin Wang, Electrical and Computer Engineering, received the 2011 IEEE Power Electronics Society Richard M. Bass Outstanding Young Power Electronics Engineer Award.

Service

Becky Cornett, Medical Center, has been selected to chair the planning committee for the Changing Healthcare Landscape Summit of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), the scientific and professional association for over 160,000 members. Cornett has also been appointed chair of the Quality and Compliance Committee and a member of the Board of Directors Executive Committee of Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio.

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