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Vol. 38, No. 18
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2-4-2009
By: Faculty and Staff, 2/5/09
Books
John Gibbs, Psychology, Moral Development and Reality: Beyond the Theories of Kohlberg and Hoffman (2nd ed., Pearson Allyn & Bacon, 2009).
Lindsey Parker, History, published “The Women of Kendall Green: Coeducation at Gallaudet, 1860-1910” in A Fair Chance in the Race of Life: The Role of Gallaudet University in Deaf History, eds. Brian Greenwald and John Vickrey Van Cleve (Gallaudet University Press, December 2008).
Grants
Ali Keyhani, Electrical and Computer Engineering, received a three-year, $550,000 grant from the US Department of Energy for “Control of Distributed Generation with High Penetration of Photovoltaics Systems,” with industry partners EMTEC, Emerson Network Power, Liebert Corp. and Hull and Associates.
Stephen Lee, Biomedical Engineering, received a grant of $113,000 from the National Science Foundation for “Development of AlGaN Biosensor Sensitive in Physiological Saline,” with co-investigators Leonard Brillson and Wu Lu, Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Giorgio Rizzoni, Mechanical Engineering, received a $249,861 grant from the National Science Foundation GOALI, or Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry, program for “Model-Based System Fault Diagnosis and Prognosis – Passive Robustness and Aging Prediction – Application to Automotive Electrical Systems,” with industry partner General Motors.
Presentations
Terry Barrett, Art Education, presented “Interpreting Art,” Academy of Film and Television, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Jan. 12.
Philip Brown, History, presented the 4th Faculty and Lecturers’ Invitational Lecture, “Confronting Natural Disasters on the Echigo Plain: Historical Perspectives,” College of Engineering, Nihon University, Koriyama, Japan, Oct. 31.
J. Cardina, C. Herms, D. Herms, K. Knight and A. Smith, Entomology, presented “Invasive Plant Infestations in Forest Communities Impacted by Emerald Ash Borer (Agrilus planipennis),” Ecological Society of America annual meeting, Milwaukee, Wis., Aug. 3-8.
David Cressy, History, presented “Social Dramas at Early Stuart Oxford and Cambridge,” and “Pamphlets in the Reign of Charles I,” Claremont Graduate University, Nov. 10-11.
Tim Haab, Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, presented “A Framework for Assessing the Biocomplexity of Materials Use” with Jun-Ki Choi and Bhavik Bakshi, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, which won the First Place Award in the research poster competition at the International Input-Output Conference, Seville, Spain, July 9-11, and presented “Temporal Insensitivity of Willingness to Pay and Implied Discount Rates,” Columbus, Oct. 23.
Margo Vreeburg Izzo, Nisonger Center, presented “Preparing Teachers for UDL Implementation: Lessons from Research to Practice,” Council for Exceptional Children’s annual conference, Boston, Mass., April 3.
Lisa Jones, College of Optometry, presented “Visual Activity Before and After the Onset of Childhood Myopia,” at the American Academy of Optometry annual meeting, Anaheim, Calif., Oct. 22-25.
S. Jones, Entomology, presented “Don’t Let the Bed Bugs Bite!” Farm Science Review, London, Ohio, Sept. 18; “Ohio Wood-destroying Insect Inspection Program,” ODA training session for Category 12 licensing, Reynoldsburg, Sept. 23; “Re-emergence of Bed Bugs in the United States/Ohio,” Northeast District, Ohio Environmental Health Association Education Conference, Canton, Oct. 9; and “Bed Bugs Basics,” Franklin County Public Health Bed Bug Summit, Columbus, Oct. 29.
B. Lehman, Teaching and Learning, presented “Involuntary Shifts: Children’s Literature and Global Human Displacements,” at the National Council of Teachers of English 98th annual convention, San Antonio, Texas, Nov. 21.
Paul Matherny, Research Foundation, presented “ePA-005 Training Lab,” Columbus, Jan. 14, and “PI Portal Overview,” Columbus, Jan. 20.
B. Mohan, M. Lee, B. Thyer and P. Allen, Social Work, presented a panel session in the values and ethics track: “The Publication Ethic: Issues and Answers,” 2008 Annual Program Meeting, Council of Social Work Education, Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 30-Nov. 2.
Aimee Nielsen-Link and Heather Cairney, Research Foundation, presented “Cayuse424 Practice Lab,” Columbus, Dec. 4.
Daniel Noonan, University Archives, presented “R[e]volutions in Archives and IT Collaboration” at the Society of American Archivists’ annual conference, San Francisco, Calif., Aug. 28-30.
C. Rice, V. Bouchard, S. Frey and R. Schultz, Environment and Natural Resources, presented “Examining the Effects of Plant Diversity and Community Composition on Soil Oxidation-Reduction Potential in Wetlands” at the 8th INTECOL Wetland Meeting, Cuiaba, Brazil, July 21-25.
Ness Shroff, Computer Science and Engineering, gave a distinguished invited talk, “Cross-layer Design for Wireless Networks,” at the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, Aug. 3-7.
Publications
Franco Barchiesi, African American and African Studies, “Wage Labor, Precarious Employment and Social Inclusion in the Making of South Africa’s Postapartheid Transition,” African Studies Review, Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 119-40.
Bharat Bhushan, Mechanical Engineering, “Capillary Effects and Instabilities in Nanocontacts,” Ultramicroscopy, Vol. 108, No. 10, pp. 1181-85, with M. Nosonovsky; “Do Hierarchical Mechanisms of Superhydrophobicity Lead to Self-Organized Criticality?” Scripta Materialia, Vol. 59, No. 9, pp. 941-44, with Nosonovsky; and “Nanostructures for Superhydrophobicity and Low Adhesion,” Soft Matter, Vol. 4, No. 9, pp. 1799-1804, with K. Koch and Y.C. Jung.
Z. Cheng, E. McCoy, D. Gardener and P. Grewal, Entomology, “Nutrient Run-Off From Lawns Established on Subsoil or Topsoil: A Preliminary Report,” OLCA Newsletter, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 15-9.
D. Denlinger and R. Lee Jr., Entomology, “A Midge that Lives in Antarctica,” eds. S. Tanaka, T. Kotaki and K. Tanaka, Insect Adaptations to Environmental Adversity, (Tokai University Press), pp. 16-26.
Rattan Lal, Environment and Natural Resources, “Promise and Limitations of Soils to Minimize Climate Change,” Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, Vol. 63, No. 4 (2008), pp. 113A-118A; “Soil Carbon Stocks Under Present and Future Climate with Specific Reference to European Ecoregions,” Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems, Vol. 81, No. 2 (2008), pp. 113-127; and “Black and Buried Carbons’ Impacts on Soil Quality and Ecosystem Services,” Soil & Tillage Research, Vol. 99, No. 1 (2008), pp. 1-3.
Edward Riedinger, History, “Kubitschek, [President] Juscelino” and “Kubitschek, Marcia,” Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture, 2nd ed., 5 vols. (Detroit: Gale Cengage, 2008). “Angolan Rebels Invade Shaba Province,” “Democracy Returns to Brazil” and “U.N. Security Council Brokers Peace in Mozambique,” Great Events from History: The Twentieth Century, 1971-2000, 6 vols. (Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 2008). Review of Cowboy in Caracas: A North American’s Memoir of Venezuela’s Democratic Revolution by Charles Hardy (Willimantic, Connecticut: Curbstone Press, 2007) in Multicultural Review (Spring 2008).
Recognition
The American Burn Association (ABA) Burn Center Verification Committee has verified the OSU Medical Center’s Burn Center as an adult burn center, recognizing the center for its commitment to excellence and providing quality burn care for its patients. The review was conducted by the ABA and the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma. Under the direction of Sidney Miller, who also is president of the ABA, the burn center is the only adult burn treatment center in central Ohio, providing inpatient and outpatient care for burn wounds, complex burn management and serious skin conditions.
Matthew Exline, Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, has been named president of the Ohio Chapter of the Society of Critical Care Medicine.
Alan Litsky, Orthopaedics and Biomedical Engineering, was recently elected as a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biomedical Engineering.
David Nunley, Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, has been selected to a fellowship in the Society of Critical Care Medicine and will be inducted at SCCM’s upcoming annual conference in Nashville, Tenn.
Atanas Rountev, Computer Science and Engineering, with Guoqing Xu, received an Association for Computing Machinery SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award for “Precise Memory Leak Detection for Java Software using Container Profiling” at the 30th International Conference on Software Engineering, Leipzig, Germany, May 14.
Mohammad Samimy, Mechanical Engineering, has been named a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Service
Jane Amidon, Landscape Architecture, presented and chaired the competition jury at the International Symposium on Garden Architecture 2008, Langenlois, Austria, Sept. 26-27, and co-moderated the Second Wave of Modernism in Landscape Architecture in America, Chicago, Nov. 13-14, which she had co-developed with the Cultural Landscape Foundation.
Ozeas Costa Jr.,
Continuing Education, OSU Mansfield, is the OSU representative in the Advisory Council of the Mohican River Watershed Management Plan. The Mohican River is the 12th largest river in Ohio and one of the most well-known rivers in the state.
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