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Vol. 38, No. 18
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1-21-2009
By: Faculty and Staff, 1/22/09
Books
John Bennett, Avant Writing Collection/Rare Books & MSS Library, has published a book of poetry, Spitting Ddreams (Puhos, Finland/W. Hartford, Conn.: Blue Lion Books, 2009), 271 pages.
Andrew Grant-Thomas, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, Twenty-First Century Color Lines: Multiracial Change in Contemporary America (Temple University Press, 2008).
Grants
Anish Arora, Computer Science and Engineering, received a $78,000 grant from the Air Force Research Lab for “Decision Support for Persistent Layered Sensing.”
Patrick Fox, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science, received a $272,252 grant from the National Science Foundation’s Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry program for “The Integrity of Geosynthetic Elements of Waste Containment Barrier Systems Subject to Large Settlement and Seismic Loading,” with industry partner CETCO.
Margo Vreeburg Izzo, Nisonger Center, and Steve Rissing, Biological Sciences, received a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation for a five-year project, “Ohio’s STEM Ability Alliance: STEM Degrees and Careers for Ohioans with Disabilities.”
Carolyn Sommerich and Steven Lavender, Industrial, Welding and Systems Engineering, received a $50,000 grant from the Material Handling Industry of America to “Support the Creation of a Research Center that Develops and Evaluates Ergonomic Methods, Tools and Processes that Will Allow Distribution Center Workers to Work More Safely and Efficiently.”
Heather Tanner, History, was awarded the autumn 2008 National Science Foundation Grant for “R&D: The Development of Student Cohorts for the Enhancement of Mathematical Literacy in Under-Served Populations.”
Presentations
Hojjat Adeli, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science, presented “Innovative Information and Computing Technologies for Advancing the Construction Industry: From Construction Scheduling and Cost Optimization to Smart Structures of the Future” at the 25th International Conference on Information Technology in Construction, Santiago de Chile, Chile, July 15 and “Novel Computing for Intelligent Infrastructure” at the 12th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering and International Conference on Information Technology in Construction, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Oct. 15, and at the 1st International Conference on Seismic Retrofitting, Tabriz, Iran, Oct. 20.
Kevin Boyle, History, gave a lecture on the Sweet case to University of Michigan honors students and their parents, Ann Arbor, Mich., Nov. 14, and presented a paper on his current book project at the Vanderbilt University history seminar on violence, Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 17.
K. Bradham, E. Dayton, N. Basta and R. Lanno, Entomology, presented “Effect of Soil Properties on Metal Bioavailability and Toxicity,” SETAC 5th World Congress, Sydney, Australia, Aug. 3-7.
Mark Bullimore, Optometry, presented “The Relations Between Accommodative Lag, AC/A, Ratio and Progression of Myopia in an Adult Population,” at the American Academy of Optometry annual meeting in Anaheim, Calif., Oct. 22-25.
Heather Chandler, Optometry, presented, “The Impact of UV-Blocking Hydrogel Polymers on the Prevention UV-Induced Ophthalmic Damage,” at the American Academy of Optometry annual meeting in Anaheim, Calif., Oct. 22-25.
Karla Gengler-Nowak and Angela Huffman, Research Foundation, presented “American Heart Association – Grants@Heart,” Columbus, Jan. 6.
Kenneth Goings, African American and African Studies, presented, “Teaching the Forbidden Subjects: The Role of the Classics in African American Uplift and Resistance,” with Eugene O’Connor, University of Illinois, Chicago, Ill., Oct. 3, and “Black Athena before Black Athena: The Teaching of Greek and Latin at Historically Black Colleges during the Nineteenth Century,” with O’Connor as part of the conference “African Athena: Black Athena 20 Years on ...” University of Warwick, United Kingdom, Nov. 6-8.
M. Meuti, S. Jones and P. Curtis, Entomology, presented “The Effects of Dietary Nitrogen on Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation in the Eastern Subterranean Termite, Reticulitermes flavipes (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae),” Ohio Valley Entomological Society annual forum, Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 17.
Steve Neal, Agricultural Technical Institute, presented “Title III: Integrating Technology into the Learning Environment” at the Noel-Levitz Annual Conference for Title III and Title V, with Debra Hoover, Denver, Colo., Nov. 5.
Dhabaleswar Panda, Computer Science and Engineering and Biomedical Informatics, presented “Designing Next Generation Clusters with InfiniBand and 10GE/iWARP: Opportunities and Challenges” at IEEE Cluster 2008, Tsukuba, Japan, Sept. 30.
Matt Roberts, Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, presented “Biofuels in the 21st Century” at the South Dakota Banker’s Association Advanced Lending School, Spearfish, SD, June 24, and “Trends in Agriculture” at the Nationwide Agribusiness’ Agricultural Policyholder’s Conference, Columbus, July 30.
Brent Sohngen, Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, presented a Stone Lab lecture, “Threats, Impacts, Adaptation and Opportunities for the Great Lakes Related to Climate Change,” Put-in-Bay, July 24.
Herb Weisberg, Political Science, and David Stebenne, History, presented “Our Future Political Landscape and What Happened in the Election of 2008” at Congregation Beth Tikvah, Worthington, Jan. 11.
Jennifer Yucel, Research Compliance, presented “Export Controls,” Ohio State University, Columbus, Dec. 8.
Publications
C. Anderson and W. Mitsch, Environment and Natural Resources, “The Influence of Flood Connectivity on Bottomland Forest Productivity in Central Ohio, USA,” Ohio J. Science, Vol. 108, No. 2, pp. 2-8.
Bharat Bhushan, Mechanical Engineering, “A Nanoscale Friction Investigation during the Manipulation of Nanoparticles in Controlled Environments,” Nanotechnology, Vol. 19, No. 31, p. 5, co-author Manuel Palacio, Mechanical Engineering; “Nanorheology and Boundary Slip in Confined Liquids using Atomic Force Microscopy,” Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Vol. 20, No. 31, p. 11, with A. Maali; “Diversity of Structure, Morphology and Wetting of Plant Surfaces,” Soft Matter, Vol. 4, No. 10, pp. 1943-63, with K. Koch and W. Barthlott; and “Energy Transitions in Superhydrophobicity: Low Adhesion, Easy Flow and Bouncing,” Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Vol. 20, No. 39, p. 6, with M. Nosonovsky.
Gil Bohrer, Ecological Engineering, “Intergenic and Genic Sequence Lengths have Opposite Relationships with Respect to Gene Expression,” PloS ONE, Vol. 11, pp. e3670:1-10, with Juliette Colinas, Scot Schmidler, Borislav Iordanov and Philip Benfey.
J. Herbert and D. Horn, Entomology, “Effect of Ant Attendance by Monomorium minimum (Buckley) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) on Predation and Parasitism of the Soybean Aphid Aphis glycines Matsumura (Hemiptera: Aphididae),” Environmental Entomology, Vol. 37, pp. 1258-63.
Barbara Lehman, Teaching and Learning, OSU Mansfield, “Children’s Literature in a Testing Time,” Language Arts, No. 86 (2009), pp. 196-200.
Peter Mansoor, History, “How to Leave Iraq – Intact,” The New York Times,
Nov. 23.
Michael Rowland and Kanokraj Srisukho, Dentistry, “Dental Students’ and Faculty Members’ Perceptions of Incivility in the Classroom,” Journal of Dental Education, Vol. 73, No. 1 (2009), pp. 119-126.
Recognition
Parwinder Grewal, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, with co-authors Shabeg Briar, Ganpati Jagdale and Zhiqiang Cheng, Environmental Science, Casey Hoy, OARDC, and Sally Miller, Plant Pathology, won the Best Paper in the Terrestrial Invertebrate Category award from the journal Environmental Bioindicators for his article “Indicative Value of Nematode Food Web Indices and Trophic Group Abundance in Differentiating Habitats with a Gradient of Anthropogenic Impact.”
Judson Jeffries, African American and African Studies, was interviewed by The Columbus Dispatch, The Irish Times (Ireland), The Washington Independent, USA Today and Black Entertainment Television about the 2008 presidential election.
Daren Knoell, Pharmacy, Internal Medicine and Medical Pharmacology, has received the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Pharmacy Alumni Association Early Career Achievement Award. Knoell is a 1989 graduate of the UNMC College of Pharmacy and was chosen based on his professional experience and scientific expertise that includes National Institutes of Health-supported studies.
Mo Yee Lee, Social Work, received the 2008 Insoo Kim Berg Award for Innovative Research and Application of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, at the 2008 Conference on Solution Focused Practices, Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Association, Austin, Texas, Nov. 12-15.
Service
Ozeas Costa Jr., Continuing Education, OSU Mansfield, organized the first Family Science Night at Mifflin Elementary School on Dec. 18 with the assistance of Cub Scout Pack 138.
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