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Vol. 38, No. 18
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1-7-2009
By: Faculty and Staff, 1/8/09
Books
Ragavendra Baliga, College of Medicine, co-edited Practical Cardiology: Evaluation and Treatment of Common Cardiovascular Disorders.
Nancy Courtney, University Libraries, edited Academic Library Outreach: Beyond the Campus Walls (Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited, 2009).
Carole Fink, History, co-edited Ostpolitik, 1969-1974: European and Global Responses (Cambridge University Press, 2008).
Detlev Smaltz, College of Medicine, The Healthcare Information Technology Planning Fieldbook, co-author.
Elizabeth Weiser, English, Burke, War, Words: Rhetoricizing Dramatism, (University of South Carolina Press, 2008).
Grants
Gil Bohrer, Ecological Engineering, received a $424,899 grant from the US Department of Energy’s National Institute for Carbon and Climate Research for “Disturbance, Succession and Forest Carbon Dynamics: A Large-scale Experiment at the University of Michigan Biological Station” with Peter Curtis, Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, Chris Gough and Chris Vogel.
Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu and Yusu Wang, Computer Science and Engineering, received a $498,117 National Science Foundation Division of Biological Databases grant for their project “Similarity-based Indexing of Protein Sequence and Structure Databases.”
Ness Shroff and Prasun Sinha, Computer Science and Engineering, and Can Emre Koksal, Electrical and Computer Engineering, received a $500,000 National Science Foundation Networking Technology Systems – Network Ecosystems award for “A New Resource Management Paradigm for Sensor Networks with Energy Replacement.”
Andy Ward and Jon Witter, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, received a $640,000 USDA CSREES National Integrated Water Quality Program grant for “Watershed Scale Evaluations in a Tri-State Region of the Water Quality Benefits of Self-Forming and Two-Stage Channel Systems.”
Presentations
Hojjat Adeli, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science, presented “Advancing the Biological Realism of Neural Networks: A New Multiple Spiking Neural Network Model and Learning Algorithm with Applications in Epilepsy and Seizure Detection” at the IEEE Electro/Information Technology Conference, Iowa State University, May 19; “Chaos in the Brain: Chaos-Wavelet Models for EEG-Based Diagnosis of Neurological Disorders” at the Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conference, Chania, Crete, Greece, June 3; “Smart Structures and Building Automation in the 21st Century” at the 25th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction, Vilnius, Lithuania, June 27; and “Inventing the Future of Neurology: Integrated Wavelet-Chaos-Neural Network Models for Knowledge Discovery and Automated EEG-Based Diagnosis of Neurological Disorders” at the IEEE Information Reuse and Integration Conference, Las Vegas, Nev., July 13.
J. Beuerlein, E. Lentz, P. Paul, R. Hammond and D. Mills, Entomology, presented “Important Management Guidelines for Ohio Wheat Production” at the Crop Observation and Recommendation Network, Columbus, Sept. 8-16.
Mansel Blackford, History, presented “Fishing and Over Fishing, 1976-2006” at the Harvard Business School, Boston, Mass., Nov. 17.
Michelle Buckland, Optometry, presented “Investigation of Pattern Glare and Visual Stress,” at the American Academy of Optometry annual meeting in Anaheim, Calif., Oct. 22-25.
John Burnham, History and Psychiatry, presented “How Confirming the Obvious Can Raise Doubts and Questions: Citation Studies of International Communication in 20th-century Psychiatry,” at the History of Psychiatry and Psychology Seminar, British Psychological Society and University College, London Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, London, England, Dec. 1.
Simone Drake, African American and African Studies, presented “Re-Membering the South and Sexing the Difference in Craig Brewer’s Hustle and Flow and Kara Walker’s Antebellum Silhouettes,” University of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky., Nov. 10.
Claudio Gonzalez-Vega, Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, presented “Inclusive Microfinance” at the United Nations Development Program meeting, Asuncion, Paraguay, July 8; “The Role of Microfinance in Financial Systems Development” at the International Training Center of the International Labor Organization, Turin, Italy, Aug. 4-7; and “Systemic Risk and Lending Technologies” at the Bergamo Forum on Access to Financial Services: Expanding the Rural Frontier, University of Bergamo, Italy, Sept. 18-20.
Kathryn Magee, History, presented her paper “Aenon’s Vision: Wendat Diplomacy in the 1630s,” at the American Society for Ethnohistory, Eugene, Ore., Nov. 13.
Bob McMahon, History, gave invited lectures at West Virginia University and the British Studies Center at the University of Texas on Dean Acheson and US foreign relations, the subject of his forthcoming book, Nov. 10 and 14.
Giorgio Rizzoni, Mechanical Engineering, and Vincenzo Marano, Center for Automotive Research, presented “Energy and Economic Evaluation of PHEVs and Their Interaction with Renewable Energy Sources and the Power Grid” at the IEEE International Conference on Vehicular Electronics and Safety, Columbus,
Sept. 22-24.
Carl Zulauf, Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, presented, “Commodity Program Impacts on Midwest Producers,” 2008 Farm Bill Education Conference, Kansas City, Mo., July 8; “2008 Farm Bill,” annual field day of Southwest Ohio Corn Growers, Washington Courthouse, Aug. 13; and “2008 Farm Bill – Focus on ACRE (Average Crop Revenue Election),” seminar hosted by USDA Economists Group, Washington, DC, Oct. 3.
Publications
Kenneth Andrien, History, “The Spanish Atlantic System,” Atlantic History: A Critical Appraisal, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), eds. Jack Greene and Philip Morgan, pp. 55-79.
Bharat Bhushan, Mechanical Engineering, “Adhesion and Friction of Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube Sliding Against Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube,” Physical Review B, Vol. 77, No. 16, p. 12 and Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology (May 2008), with X. Ling, C. Hierold and A. Jungen; “Adhesion and Friction between Individual Carbon Nanotubes Measured Using Force-versus-Distance Curves in Atomic Force Microscopy,” Physical Review B, Vol. 78, No. 4, p. 9 and Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology (August 2008), with Ling; and “Nanotribology of Carbon Nanotubes,” Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Vol. 20, No. 36, p. 14.
Z. Cheng, D. Richmond, S. Salminen and P. Grewal, Entomology, “Effectiveness of Professional and Do-it-Yourself Approaches to Lawn Care: A Survey of Home Lawns,” TurfNews (September 2008), pp. 1-2.
R. Hammond, D. Stinner and M. Sulc, Entomology, “Evaluation of Glandular-Haired, Potato Leafhopper Resistance Alfalfa for Organic Farming Systems,” Information Bulletin, Organic Farming Research Foundation, No. 16. (Fall 2008); and “Review of Genera of the Tribe Sparasionini (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea, Scelionidae), and Description of Two New Genera from the New World,” with
N. Johnson, L. Masner and L. Musetti, American Museum Novitates, Vol. 3629, pp. 1-24.
Steven Lower, Environment and Natural Resources, “The Pedagogical Genealogy of Terrance J. Beveridge – A Legacy of Bonds,” Geobiology, Vol. 6, No. 3 (2008), pp. 242-4.
David Steigerwald, History, “Did the Protestant Ethic Disappear: The Virtue of Thrift on the Cusp of Affluence,” Enterprise and Society 9 (December 2008), pp. 788-815.
Recognitions
James Bennett, History, was awarded a Presidential Fellowship by the Graduate School.
Patrick Fox, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science, has received a 2008 Excellent Paper Award from the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics for his paper “Model for Large Strain Consolidation by Centrifuge,” International Journal of Geomechanics, ASCE, Vol. 5, No. 4 (2005), pp. 267-75, co-writeen with Jangguen Lee and Tong Qiu.
Gerald Frankel, Materials Science and Engineering, received the T.P. Hoar Prize from the UK Institute of Corrosion for the best paper, “In Situ Observation of Intergranular Stress Corrosion Cracking in AA2024-T3 under Constant Load Conditions,” published in Corrosion Science, Vol. 49 (2007), p. 147, with Stanislav Iosif Rokhlin, Welding and Systems Engineering, Xiaodong Liu and
B. Zoofan.
Service
Charles Atkinson, Musicology, completed his term as the 36th president of the American Musicological Society at the society’s annual meeting, held in Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 5-9.
Glenn Kranking, History, has accepted a tenure-track position in European and Scandinavian history at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minn., beginning
Sept. 1, 2009.
Eric Whiteside, OSU Police Division, has been appointed to serve on a panel of law enforcement personnel and representatives of other agencies that frequently interact with police officers to develop a survey to be used in the Task Analysis and the process by which it will be conducted.
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