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Vol. 38, No. 18
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2-18-2009
By: Faculty and Staff, 2/19/09
Book
Charles Atkinson, Musicology, The Critical Nexus: Tone-System, Mode and Notation in Early Medieval Music, American Musicological Society Studies in Music (Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2009).
Grants
Yebo Li, 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.”
Raghu Machiraju, Computer Science and Engineering and Biomedical Informatics, received a $30,000 Department of Defense Small Business Technology Transfer award for “A Framework for Analyzing Unsteady Large-Scale Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulation Data” for a project in collaboration with Kitware and Mississippi State University.
Jeffrey Sutton, Mechanical Engineering, received the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award, which includes a $310,000 grant that will support his research investigating spatio-temporal characteristics of scalar mixing and dissipation processes in turbulent jets and flames. Sutton’s research will investigate the time-varying dynamics in turbulent flows and combustion environments using state-of-the-art high-speed imaging diagnostics.
Presentations
Jeff Agnoli, Kristy Baker, Bob Scher and Paul Matherny, Office of Research and Research Foundation, presented “Orientation to Research Administration at OSU,” Feb. 11.
Karla Gengler-Nowak, Research Foundation, presented “American Heart Association – Grants@Heart,” Columbus, Jan. 6.
Mark Headings and Shah Rahnema, Agricultural Technical Institute, presented “Levels of Insect Crude Protein and Minerals in Guano of Insectivorous Bats” at the 56th annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America, Reno, Nev., Nov. 16-19.
Vaughn Hovey, Management Sciences, presented “The Business of Procurement” to the Sourcing Interests Group Leadership Summit at Lake Las Vegas, Nev., Sept. 24.
Jesus Lara, Landscape Architecture, presented “Paisajes Sustentables: Panoramas de la teoría en diseño y planeamiento ambiental/Sustainable Landscapes: Overview of Theory in Design and Environmental Planning” at the IFLA-International Federation of Landscape Architects and CELA-Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture International Symposium on Landscape Architecture Education, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Medellin, Colombia,
Nov. 13-15.
A. Michel, R. Hammond and B. Eisley, Entomology, presented “Results of 2008 Western Bean Cutworm Trapping,” Crop Observation and Recommendation Network (C.O.R.N.), Columbus, Sept. 2-9 and Oct. 28-Nov. 4; and “2008 Summary and Status of First-Year Western Corn Rootworm,” with C. Young, C.O.R.N., Columbus, Oct. 28-Nov. 4.
Mario Miranda, Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, presented “Index Insurance: Its Importance and Its Impediments,” Bergamo Forum on Access to Financial Services: Expanding the Rural Frontier, University of Bergamo, Italy, Sept. 18-20.
Aimee Nielsen-Link, Research Foundation, presented “Cayuse424 Introduction,” Feb. 17.
Thomas Raasch, Optometry, presented “Computer-Assisted Vector Subjective Refraction,” at the American Academy of Optometry Annual Meeting, Anaheim, Calif., Oct. 22-25.
Heather Tanner, History, presented “Cyphers or Lords? The Inheriting Countesses of Boulogne and Ponthieu 1173-1250,” Haskins Society Conference, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, Nov. 7-9.
Deana Wilkinson, Human Development and Family Science, presented “Violence Prevention and Living Beyond the US Prison Process,” with Paul Bellair, Sociology, and William Goldsby at the Frank W. Hale Black Cultural Center, Columbus, Feb. 3.
Publications
Terry Barrett, Art Education, “Photographing the Ephemeral,” ChildArt: The Magazine of the International Child Art Foundation, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp 26-7.
Bharat Bhusan, Mechanical Engineering, “Biomimetic Hierarchical Structure for Self Cleaning,” Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 93, No. 9 (3 pp.) and Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology, Sept. 15, with K. Koch and Y. Jung; “Technique to Measure Contact Angle of Micro/Nanodroplets using Atomic Force Microscopy,” Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A, Vol. 26, No. 4,
pp. 777-82, and Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology,
July 14, with Jung; and “Nanotribology and Nanomechanics of AFM Probe-Based Data Recording Technology,” Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Vol. 20,
No. 36, p. 34, with K. Kwak and M. Palacio.
Margo Vreeburg Izzo, Nisonger Center, Alexa Murray, Ohio Resource Center for Mathematics, Science and Reading, and Jeanne Novak, “The Faculty Perspective on Universal Design for Learning,” Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, Vol. 21, No. 2 (2008), pp. 60-72.
Charles Klopp, French and Italian, “L’odeporica euristica e sentimentale di Mario Tobino,” Terre di mare: nautica, viaggi e incontri dall’antichità all’epoca moderna, ed. Daniela Rapattoni, Pisa: Fabrizio Serra, 2008, pp. 51-6.
K. Lorenz, R. Lal and M. Shipitalo, Environment and Natural Resources, “Chemical Stabilization of Organic Carbon Pools in Particle Size Fractions in No-Till and Meadow Soils,” Biology and Fertility of Soils, Vol. 44, No. 8, pp. 1043-51.
M. Nakayama, East Asian Languages and Literatures, “Japanese EFL Learners’ Skills Improvement and the Length of Study Abroad Programs,” Ars Linguistica, Vol. 15, pp. 54-64, with N. Yoshimura, and “Japanese Health Sciences Doctoral Students in a Study Abroad Context,” Journal of International Relations and Comparative Culture, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 151-61, with N. Yoshimura.
Carl Zulauf, Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, with Michael Dicks and Jeffrey Vitale, “ACRE (Average Crop Revenue Election) Farm Program: Provisions, Policy Background and Farm Decision Analysis,” Choices, Vol. 23, Issue 3 (2008), pp. 29-35.
Recognition
Hilary Apfelstadt, Music, conducted the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in a live nationwide broadcast of “Music and the Spoken Word,” Salt Lake City, Utah, Feb. 1.
Boris Mityagin and Alexander Dynin, Mathematics, were commended for their work in a mathematical outreach program for high school students in Soviet Russia. This historical article appeared in the Russian-language newspaper Vesti, published in Israel, Jan. 8.
Robert Norton, Center on Education and Training for Employment (retired), received the Joel Magisos Exceptional Service Award for his long-term individual achievement in support of IVETA (International Vocational Education and Training Association).
Alan Price, Design and the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design, traveled to Linz, Austria, in December to participate in the grand re-opening exhibition at the Ars Electronica Center. His work will be permanently installed in a virtual environment system called “Deep Space,” which is a new addition to the center. The high resolution stereoscopic 3D projection spans a two-story high wall and floor with user interaction through touch screens and motion tracking.
Julie Flowers, University Hospital East, Wendy King, Medicine, Mary McRury, OSUMC Shared Services, and Jennifer Davis, Joan Doehrel and Lisa Woodyard, University Hospital, received the December Values in Action award, presented to faculty and staff who exemplify the values of the OSU Medical Center. The VIA is a co-worker nominated award.
Service
Joel Johnson, Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been selected to be on the Science Definition Team of the Soil Moisture Active Passive NASA satellite mission. The Soil Moisture Active Passive mission is one of four recommended by the US National Research Council Committee on Earth Science and Applications from Space for launch in the 2010-13 time frame.
Alan Litsky, Orthopaedics and Biomedical Engineering, was recently appointed to the editorial boards of the Journal of Dental Biomechanics and Veterinary Comparative Orthopaedics and Traumatology. Litsky also serves as secretary-treasurer of the Society for Biomaterials.
Abdel Mohammad, Geriatric Dentistry, was invited to be an external evaluator on curriculum and accreditation of the Suez Canal University, Faculty of Dentistry, Egypt, Dec. 17-24.
Vince O’Brien, Athletics and Allied Medical Professions, was elected president of the Ohio Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy and Athletic Training Board. This will be his second year as Joint Board president, who oversees the regulation of OT, PT and AT practice in Ohio.
Edward Riedinger, History, reviewed Amazon Martyr: The Life of Sister Dorothy Stang by Roseanne Murphy (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2007); Americanos: Latin America’s Struggle for Independence by John Charles Chasteen, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008); Cultures of the Lusophone Black Atlantic, eds. Nancy Naro, Roger Sansi-Roca and David Treece (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007); and Lines in the Sand: Nationalism and Identity on the Peruvian-Chilean Frontier by William Skuban (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007) in Multicultural Review (Summer 2008).
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