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Ben McCorkle, English, Rhetorical Delivery as Technological Discourse: A Cross-Historical Study (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2012).

Martin Joseph Ponce, English, Beyond the Nation: Diasporic Filipino Literature and Queer Reading (New York: New York University Press, 2012).

Kevin Sweet, Human Genetics, Your Genes, Your Health and Personalised Medicine (UK: Nottingham University Press, 2012), with Ron Michaelis.

Grants

Elizabeth Klein, Health Behavior and Health Promotion, received an award from the Ohio Housing Finance Agency for a project titled “Health Impact Assessment: Alignment of Affordable Housing Physical Inspection Policies in Ohio.”

Ann McAlearney, Health Services Management and Policy, received an award from the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine for a study titled “Racial Disparities in the Quality of Prostate Cancer Care.”

Cynthia Sieck, Center of HOPES, received an award from Access Health for a study titled “Evaluation of Health Outcomes from the Access Health Program.”

Zhongtang Yu and Jeff Firkins, Animal Science, received a new grant from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, USDA for “Interactions of Ruminal Protozoa with Cellulolytic Bacteria, Methanogens and Hyperammonia-producing Bacteria: Impact on Methane Emission and Ammonia Excretion,” 2012-15.

Presentations

Randi Foraker, Epidemiology and Cardiology, presented “Cardiovascular Risk among Long-term Cancer Survivors,” James Cancer Hospital, Jan. 25.

Jamie Greene, City and Regional Planning, presented “Columbus Revealed,” at TEDxColumbus, Nov. 11.

Robert Hughes, Engish, presented “Rip Van Winkle’s Uncanny Landscapes,” at the Faculty Lecture Series, Ohio State Newark,  February 2012.

Bart Overly, Architecture, presented “Being 104: My Future Habit,” at TEDxColumbus, Nov. 11.

Tom Wickizer, Health Services Management and Policy, presented “Improving the Quality and Reducing Costs in Workers’ Compensation Health Care: A Population-Based Intervention Study,” at the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research 14th annual European Congress, Madrid, Spain, November 2011.

Publications

Rudolph Alexander Jr., Social Work, “Just Deserts and Life without Parole for Juveniles: An Iniquitous Law and Policy,” Forum on Public Policy, Vol. 2011, No. 3.

Kenneth Goings, African American and African Studies, and Eugene O’Connor, Ohio State University Press, “Black Athena before Black Athena: The Teaching of Greek and Latin at Black Colleges and Universities during the Nineteenth Century,” African Athena: New Agendas, eds. Daniel Orrells, Gurminder Bhambra and Tessa Roynon, (London: Oxford University Press, 2011).

Joseph Guada, Social Work, “How Family Factors Impact Psychosocial Functioning for African American Consumers with Schizophrenia,” Community Mental Health Journal, Vol. 48, pp. 45-55, with Maanse Hoe, Reta Floyd, Jack Barbour and John Brekke.

Glenn Hartz, Philosophy, “Leibniz’s Animals: Where Teleology Meets Mechanism,” Corporeal Substances and Machines of Nature in Leibniz, eds. J. Smith and O. Nachtomy, (New York, N.Y.: Springer, 2011), pp. 29-37.

Tim Jensen and Wendy Hesford, English, “Staging the Beijing Olympics: Intersecting Human Rights and Economic Development Narratives,” The Megarhetorics of Global Development, eds. Rebecca Dingo and J. Blake Scott, (Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012), pp. 121-46.

Lee Martin, English, “Light Opera,” Stories Wanting Only to Be Heard, eds. Stephen Corey, Douglas Carlson and Mindy Wilson, (Athens, Ga.: The University of Georgia Press, 2012), pp. 221-44.

Amy Sturm, Human Genetics, “Direct-to-Consumer Personal Genomic Testing: A Case Study and Practical Recommendations for ‘Genomic Counseling,’” Journal of the National Society of Genetic Counselors (April 2012).

Doug Sutton-Ramspeck, English, “Apples,” Poetry Daily, (Dec. 24), web; “Exhausted Morning,” “The Old Myths” and “The Smallness of Desire,” Roanoke Review, Vol. 36 (2011), pp. 11-14; “The Gift” and “Proof of Life,” Connecticut Review, Vol. 33, No. 2 (2011), pp. 28-9; “Field Guide at Dusk” and “Deposition,” Hunger Mountain, Vol. 16 (2011), pp. 33-4; “October Snow,” Valparaiso Poetry Review, Vol. 13, No. 1 (Fall/Winter 2011-12), web; and “Aporia,” “Calling Crows,” “Carnal Knowledge” and “Glossographer,” Barrow Street (Winter 2011-12), pp. 119-25.

Recognition

Kramer Akli, Physics, is one of the recipients of the 2012 AFOSR Young Investigator Award. This program is open to American scientists and engineers who received a PhD in the last five years and have demonstrated exceptional ability and promise for conducting basic research. The award provides support for research over a five-year period. Akli will use his AFOSR support for his research on the generation of intense x-rays from peta-watt class laser systems.

Hassan Aly, Economics, was recently elected as one of seven new members to the Board of Trustees for The Economic Research Forum, a regional network dedicated to promoting exemplary economic research to contribute to sustainable development in Iran and Turkey.

Sarah Anderson, Epidemiology, was quoted in the Ohio State Alumni Magazine, January/February 2012 issue, for her research on mother/child relationships and obesity.

Michael Bisesi, Environmental Health Sciences, received an award from the Union County Health Department for “Child Injury Action Group.”

Stan Gehrt, Environment and Natural Resources and Wildlife Extension Specialist, had research highlighted on the PBS Nature program, Raccoon Nation, Feb. 8.

Brett Kordenbrock, Landscape Architecture, is one of five winners of the ACSA Archive100 Being Resourceful competition, which seeks ideas and projects that use design not only to sustain environmental systems but to encourage health and productivity between all natural systems, including people. Kordenbrock’s proposal focused on the Pickaway Power Plant.

Jin-Fa Lee, Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been named as a 2012 Distinguished Scholar Award recipient. The award honors six faculty members who demonstrate exceptional achievements in their fields. Recipients of the award receive a $20,000 research grant and a $3,000 honorarium to pursue their scholarly activity. Lee’s research includes electromagnetic field theories, antennas, numerical methods and their applications to computational electromagnetics, analyses of numerical methods, fast finite element methods, fast integral equation methods, hybrid methods, domain decomposition methods and multi-physics simulations and modeling.

Karen Lewis, Architecture, and students from her winter architecture studio have been recognized in the Van Alen Institute’s “Life at the Speed of Rail” competition. The competition — a multimedia ideas competition that addresses the cultural, environmental and economic impact of a new US rail network — awarded 10 winning entries and honorable mentions that will be discussed and exhibited at several museums throughout the country this summer. Lewis’ two winning submissions —“Switch Space,” and “Health Corridor”— focused on the “3C” high-speed rail network, a controversial proposal to connect Cincinnati, Columbus and Cleveland with passenger rail.

Robert Livesey, Architecture, has been awarded the AIA Ohio 2010 Gold Medal Award, the highest honor that AIA Ohio can bestow on an individual. It is conferred by the AIA Ohio Board of Directors in recognition of exemplary efforts and significant accomplishments.

Wendy Panero and Cayman Unterborn, Earth Sciences, were featured in the Huffington Post for their “Diamond Planets” research. Unterborn presented their findings at the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, Calif., December 2011.

Sharon Schweikhart, Health Services Management and Policy, was selected to become chair-elect of the Association of University Programs in Health Administration and will begin her term in June 2012.

Ronald Solomon, Mathematics, received the 2012 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition for “The Classification of Finite Simple Groups: Groups of Characteristics 2-type,” Mathematical Monographs and Surveys, Vol. 172, (Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society, 2011), with Michael Aschbacher, Richard Lyons and Steve Smith.

Lisa Tilder and Stephen Turk, Architecture, received the 2010-11 ACSA/AIA Housing Design Education Award and the 2010-11 ACSA Collaborative Practice Honorable Mention for their work on the Pod Home, a sustainable house and a flexible living “pod” that could be transported to various sites for a range of needs.

Cynthia Tyson, Teaching and Learning, and James Moore III, Physical Activity and Educational Services, have been named to the 2011 Who’s Who in Black Columbus.

Joe Wheaton, Physical Activity and Educational Services, and Terrell Strayhorn, Educational Policy and Leadership, have been accepted into the President and Provost’s Leadership Institute for senior faculty.

Deanna Wilkinson, Human Development and Family Science, was named Woman of the Year by the I’m Every Woman Expo National Expansion, a movement in Detroit, Chicago, Columbus and Los Angeles, August 2011.

Service

Jay Kandampully, Consumer Sciences, was a panelist for the IBM Smarter Planet University Skills Tour, Columbus, October 2011.

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