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2-6-2008 Faculty & Staff, 2/7/08
John Bennett, Rare Books & MSS Library, “JOIKER” (Roanoke, Va.: Vugg Books, 2007).
Tim Berra, Biological Sciences, “Freshwater Fish Distribution” (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007). Robert Burns, Engineering Experiment Station, “Regulatory Policies for Electricity Outages: A Systems Approach” (Columbus: National Regulatory Research Institute, 2007). Fred Hitzhusen, Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, edited “Economic Valuation of River Systems” (Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007). Jackie Loversidge, Educational Policy and Leadership, “Government Regulation: Parallel and Powerful,” a chapter in “Health Policy and Politics: A Nurse’s Guide” (2007). Grants Marcelo Dapino, Mechanical Engineering, received the 2007 Honda Initiation Grant for $50,000 from the Honda Research Institute to further his project “Adaptive Seat Belt System Using Smart Material Technologies.”
Yun Zhi Wang, Michael Mills and Peter Anderson, Materials Science and Engineering, received a $750,000 grant from NASA Glenn for “A Microstructure-Based Approach to Develop New High Temperature Shape Memory Alloys.” Presentations Jeff Agnoli, Research, Bob Scher, Kristy Baker, Maria Soliman and Paul Matherny, Research Foundation, presented “Orientation to Research Administration at OSU” to faculty and administrative research staff, Columbus, Oct. 16.
Chris Anderson, Outreach and Engagement, Heather Allen, James Beatty, Jennifer Johnson and Anne McCoy, Mathematical and Physical Sciences and Marymegan Daly, Biological Sciences, presented “Working with the National Science Foundation,” Columbus, Oct. 22. Daniel Avorgbedor, Music and African American and African Studies, presented “Sacred Spaces in Secular Places: Popular Culture, Commodification and Dialectics of the Sacred and Secular in Contemporary African American Christian Music and Dance” at a national symposium on Black Religion and Spirituality in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities, Michigan State University, Nov. 7-9; “Belief, Memory and Cultural Autonomy: Performance Traditions in the Contemporary Ghanaian Church” at the National Symposium on Music and Missions in Africa, Wheaton College, Ill., Sept. 21-23; “Situating the Uprooted: Dynamics and New Contexts of Learning Ewe Music and Dance – The Urban Evidence” and chaired a panel titled “Interpreting Ewe Music and Dance: Contemporary Challenges” at the 52nd annual meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Columbus, Oct. 24-28. Tim Berra, Biological Sciences, presented “Chasing Nurseryfish and Avoiding Crocodiles in Northern Australia,” Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Ga., Oct. 25; “Teaching Evolution to Creationist Students” and “Charles Darwin: The Man. 1809-1882” at the annual meeting of Southeastern Association for Science Teaching, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Ga., Oct. 27. Jerry Bigham, Environment and Natural Resources, presented “The Role of Sulfite to Sulfate Conversion in FGD Gypsum Based Soil Amendments” at the Agricultural and Industrial Uses of FGD Gypsum Workshop, Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 23-24. Jill Clark, Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, presented “The Geography of U.S. Peri-Urban Agricultural Adaptation” at the Transatlantic Land Use Conference, Washington, D.C., Sept. 24-26; “Supporting Agriculture through Zoning” at the OPC Cleveland Planning and Zoning Workshop, Nov. 9; “Preserving Resources and Property Rights: Transfer of Development Rights” at the Summit on Sustainability and the Environment, Columbus, Nov. 13. Ozeas Costa Jr., Earth Sciences, presented “Geographic Information Systems (GIS) as a Method of Identifying and Mapping Food Access Within Downtown Antigonish, N.S.” and “Using the Concept of Food Deserts to Assess Community Access to Healthy Foods in Antogonish, N.S.” with A. McGregor, C. Johnson, C. Cameron and L. Wadsworth at the second conference of the Atlantic Network for Prevention Research, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, July 4-6. Michael Donovan, Responsible Research Practices, presented “How to Prepare an IRB Submission for Social/Behavioral Sciences Research,” Columbus, Oct. 19. Amy Dudley and Bette Hartschuh, Research Foundation, presented “ePA-005 Training Lab” to the campus community, Columbus, Sept. 12. Fred Hitzhusen, Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, presented “Overview of Cellulosic Feed Stock Potential in Ohio” at the Ohio Farm Federation, Oct. 18; “Energy Portfolio: What Production and Conservation Options and How Do We Decide?” at the Vice Presidents Outlook Meeting, Agricultural Administration Auditorium, Columbus, Oct. 29; “Economic Metrics for Valuing Environment and Natural Resources” at the School of Environment and Natural Resources, Columbus, Nov. 8; “Economic Assessment of Ohio Biomass for Energy” at the OCDC Renewable Energy Conference, Piketon, Nov. 14. James Moore III, Physical Activity and Educational Services, presented “Young, Gifted, Black and Male: An Examination of School, Social, Psychological and Cultural Factors” at the Up Where We Belong: Accelerating African-American Male Student Achievement Conference, Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 13-14. Jack Nasar, City and Regional Planning, presented “Assessing Building Performance of Design and Planning Schools: Lessons Learned” at the American Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference, Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 18-21. Aimee Nielsen-Link, Research Foundation, presented “Cayuse 424 Introduction” to the campus community, Columbus, Sept. 10, Oct. 3, Nov. 28 and Dec. 5; with Erin Scott, Sept. 5; and with Kristin Mosier, Sept. 6 and Oct. 18. Nitin Padture, Materials Science and Engineering, presented “Novel Concepts in 1-D, 2-D and 3-D Functional and Structural Nanoceramics: Nanowires, Nanotubes, Thin Film and Nanocomposites” at the Materials Science and Technology Conference, Detroit, Mich., Sept. 18. Tony Pasquarello, Philosophy, presented “A 20th Century Pops Retrospective” at the First Congregational Church, Mansfield, Nov. 4. Sarah Starr, Research Foundation, presented “Research Funding Opportunities” to the campus community, Columbus, Sept. 18, Oct. 10, Oct. 17 and Nov. 28. Publications Bhavik Bakshi, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, “Toward Bayesian Chemometrics: A Tutorial on Some Recent Advances” with H. Chen, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and Prem Goel, Statistics, Analytica Chimica Acta, Vol. 602 (2007), pp. 1-16; “Enhancing Life Cycle Inventories via Reconciliation with the Laws of Thermodynamics” with Jorge Hau and H.S. Yi, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Industrial Ecology, Vol. 11, No. 4 (2007), pp. 1-21; “Bayesian Estimation via Sequential Monte Carlo Sampling: Constrained Dynamic Systems” with W.S. Chen, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Lixin Lang, Goel and S. Ungarala, Statistics, Automatica, Vol. 43 (2007), pp. 1615-22; “Rectification of Multiscale Data with Application to Life Cycle Inventories,” AIChE Journal, Vol. 53, No. 4 (2007), pp. 876-90; and “Industrial and Ecological Cumulative Exergy Consumption of the United States via the 1997 Input-Output Benchmark Model,” with Nandan Ukidwe, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Energy, Vol. 32 (2007), pp. 1560-92.
Ozeas Costa Jr., Earth Sciences, “Coastal Nutrification in Brazil: A Review of the Role of Nutrient Excess on Coral Reef Demise” with M. Nimmo and M. Attrill, Journal of South American Earth Sciences, Vol. 10, Vol. 2 (2007). Qussai Marashdeh and L.S. Fan, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, “Some Comments on ‘Spatial Imaging with 3D Capacitance Measurements,’” Measurement Science and Technology, Vol. 18 (2007), pp. 3665-7. John Volakis, Electrical and Computer Engineering, “Multi-Objective Optimal Antenna Design Based on Volumetric Material Optimization” with S. Koulouridis and Dimitrios Psychoudakis, ElectroScience Lab, IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat., Vol. 55, No. 3 (2007), pp. 594-603; “Miniature Antennas & Arrays Embedded within Magnetic Photonic Crystals and Other Novel Materials” with Kubilay Sertel, ElectroScience Lab, and C.C. Chen, Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Journal, Vol. 22, No. 1 (2007), pp. 22-30; “Hybrid S-Parameters for Transmission Line Networks with Linear/Nonlinear Load Terminations Subject to Arbitrary Excitations” with Yakup Bayram, ElectroScience Lab, IEEE Microwave Theory & Techniques, Vol. 55, No. 5 (2007), pp. 941-50; and “A Doubly Periodic Volume-Surface Integral Equation Formulation for Modeling Metamaterials” with B. Unser, Electrical and Computer Engineering, IET Proceedings, Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation, Vol. 1, No.1 (2007), pp. 150-7. Recognitions DeLiang Wang, Computer Science and Engineering, received the 2005 IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks Journal Outstanding Paper Award for “The Time Dimension for Scene Analysis,” Vol. 16, pp.1401-26.
Service Bill Horrigan, media arts director of the Wexner Center, is one of three advisers helping to organize the 2008 Whitney Biennial in New York City, March 4-22.
David Lee, Computer Science and Engineering, has been named chair of the executive and steering committees of the International Conference of Network Protocols.
Suvrajeet Sen, Industrial, Welding and Systems Engineering, organized the National Science Foundation workshop on “CDI: Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation,” Seattle, Wash., Nov. 3; organized the Energy Systems Modeling Symposium with Joseph Fiksel, Ohio State University, Dec. 3.
Compiled by KIM BURDETT
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