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Vol. 38, No. 18
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3-4-2009
By: Faculty and Staff, 3/5/09
Books
Elsadig Elsheikh, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, Darfur: Domesticating Coloniality: The Failure of the Nation-state Model in Post-colonial Sudan, (VDM Verlag Dr. Müller: Dec. 12, 2008).
M.Y. Lee, Social Work, S.M. Ng, P. Leung and C. Chan, Integrative Body-Mind-Spirit Social Work: An Empirically Based Approach Toward Assessement and Treatment (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009).
Grants
Yebo Li, Food Agricultural, and Biological Engineering, received funding through the North Central Sun Grant Competitive Grant Program on Biomass Feedstock Logistics for his proposal “Strategies for Concurrent Wet Storage and Pretreatment of Corn Stover.”
Andrew Ward and Jon Witter, Food, 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.”
Bruce Weide, Computer Science and Engineering, and Harvey Friedman, Mathematics, Music, Philosophy and Computer Science and Engineering, received a $75,000 National Science Foundation grant for “Collaborative Research: Logical Support for Formal Verification” and a $232,591 National Science Foundation grant for “Collaborative Research: Continuing Progress Toward Verified Software.”
Ji-Cheng Zhao, Materials Science and Engineering, received a $1.1 million US Department of Energy grant for “Aluminoborane Compounds for On-Board Vehicular Hydrogen Storage” and a $1.2 million US Department of Energy grant for “Lightweight Intermetallics for Hydrogen Storage.”
Presentations
Theodora Dragostinova, History, delivered an invited talk entitled “Is a Voluntary Population Exchange Possible? The Emigration of Minorities between Bulgaria and Greece, 1919-25” at the Hellenic Studies Program of Yale University, Nov. 20; and presented “On ‘Strategic Frontiers:’ Debating the Borders of the Post-World War Two Balkans” at the annual convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 22.
Dorota Grejner-Brzezinska, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science, and Charles Toth, Center for Mapping, both leaders of the Satellite Positioning and Inertial Navigation (SPIN) Laboratory, presented their work on a personal navigator as a success story featured by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency during the agency’s Academic Research Program Symposium in Washington, DC, at the National Academy of Sciences Keck Center, Sept. 9-12.
Linda Harlow, French and Italian, presented “Listening-to-Write: Using Music in a Post-Process Writing Era,” at the American Association of Teachers of French Annual Conference, Liège, Belgium, July 2008.
N. Kleczewski, D. Herms and P. Bonello, Entomology, presented “Linking Models of Resource-based Tradeoffs in Trees: An Assessment of Growth, Defense, Carbon Allocation Patterns and Potential Ectomycorrhizal Regulation in Paper Birch,” The American Phytopathological Society Centennial Meeting, Minneapolis, Minn., Jul. 30; and “Potential Regulation of Ectomycorrhizae by Paper Birch in Response to Soil Type and Fertilization: Linking the Growth Differentiation Balance Hypothesis, Optimal Plasticity and Carbon Allocation Models,” Ecological Society of America annual meeting, Milwaukee, Wis., Aug. 3-8.
Robert Kraut, Philosophy, presented “Playing and Saying: The Language of Jazz Performance” at Morehead State University, Morehead, Ky., Oct. 24.
Marjean Kulp, College of Optometry, presented “Detection of Significant Refractive Error with Suresight, Retinomax, and Non-Cycloplegic Retinoscopy” and “Effectiveness of Placebo Vision Therapy for Maintaining Masking in a Clinical Trial,” at the American Academy of Optometry annual meeting, Anaheim, Calif., Oct. 22-25.
Dennis Minahen, French and Italian, presented the paper “Revolutionary Verlaine: Unmasking the Erotics of Gender,” at the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 18, and also chaired the session “Colonial Encounters II.”
Richard Morman, University Police, presented “Threat Assessment in a Campus Environment” at the Ohio Campus Law Enforcement Association annual seminar, Cincinnati, Feb. 20.
Kristen Mosier, Research Foundation, presented “Cayuse424 Practice Lab,” Columbus, Feb. 25.
Brian Roe and Steven Wu, Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, presented “Do Selfish Types Mimic Cooperators? Evidence from Experimental Labor Markets,” Washington State University, Pullman, Wash., Oct. 10.
Michael Rowland, Dentistry, presented “Views and Perceptions of Adult Educators Regarding Ethical Dilemmas and Issues of Academic Integrity in the Adult Education Classroom” at the American Association of Adult and Continuing Educators Conference, Denver, Colo., Nov. 11-14.
Sarah Starr, Research Foundation, presented “Research Funding Opportunities for Faculty,” Columbus, March 4.
J. Marshall Unger, East Asian Languages and Literatures, presented “Borrowing Nouns as Verb Roots: The Case of Korean and Japanese” at the conference Verbal Morphology and the Historical Comparison of the Trans-Eurasian Languages, the Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz, Germany, Sept. 4; “Some Remarks on Hankul Transcriptions of Middle Japanese” at the inaugural symposium of the Hwunmin cengum Society, Seoul National University, Korea, Oct. 9; and “Origins of the Japanese and Korean Languages: Divergence and Contact” at the Edwin O. Reischauer Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 21.
Publications
Gil Bohrer, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science, “Understanding Strategies for Seed Dispersal by Wind under Contrasting Atmospheric Conditions,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Vol. 105, No. 49, pp. 19084-89, with co-authors S. Joseph Wright, Ana Trakhtenbrot, Matteo Detto, Gabriel Katul, Nir Horvitz, Helene Muller-Landau, Frank Jones and Ran Nathan; and “Movement Ecology of Migration in Turkey Vultures,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Vol. 105, No. 49, pp. 19102-07, with co-authors J.T. Mandel, K.L. Bildstein and D.W. Winkler.
Marjorie Chan, East Asian Languages and Literatures, (guest editor) Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, Vol. 43, No. 2 (2008); and (editor, with Hana Kang) Proceedings of the 20th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-20), 2 Volumes (2008).
Susan Delagrange, English, OSU Mansfield, “Wunderkammer, Cornell and the Visual Canon of Arrangement,” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy, Vol. 13.2 (2009).
Chankook Kim and Rosanne Fortner, Environment and Natural Resources, “Great Lakes Scientists’ Perspectives on K-12 Education Collaboration,” Journal of Great Lakes Research, Vol. 34, No. 1 (2008), pp. 98-108.
David Sanson, Philosophy, co-authored “The Early Arabic Liar: The Liar Paradox in the Islamic World from the Mid-Ninth to the Mid-Thirteenth Centuries CE,” Vivarium, January 2009.
Recognition
Anish Arora, Computer Science and Engineering, has been named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for his contributions to scalability and stabilization of networks of sensors and computers.
Steve Clinton, Hematology/Oncology and Human Nutrition, was named an American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow for distinguished contributions to cancer research, nutrition and pharmaceutical agents on etiology, prevention and therapy of genitourinary cancers.
Jane Hathaway, History, was awarded the Turkish Studies Association’s 2008 M. Fuat Koprulu Book Prize for her book The Arab Lands under Ottoman Rule, 1516-1800, at the TSA’s business meeting, in conjunction with the Middle East Studies Association Conference, Washington, DC, Nov. 23.
Bryan Martin, Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy and Sleep Medicine, was recently presented the Legion of Merit by the US Department of the Army for his dedicated service. Bryan is a retired colonel of the Medical Corps and is board certified in allergy, immunology and internal medicine.
Service
Mark Failla, Education and Human Ecology, Todd Guttman, Research Compliance, Michael Lairmore, Veterinary Medicine, Michael Mitchell, Legal Affairs, and Ann Moffat, Research Foundation, were panelists on the Academic Leader Development Curriculum, Columbus, Feb. 25.
Donna Guy, History, spent a week in Alexandria, Va., judging Javitz Fellowships for the Department of Education.
Thomas Rosol, Special Assistant to the Vice President for Research in Technology Licensing and Commercialization and professor of Veterinary Biosciences, has been elected to serve on the seven-member Executive Committee of the National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education and Economics Advisory Board (NAREEEAB), which provides advice to the Secretary of Agriculture, US Congress and land-grant colleges and universities on top priorities and policies for food and agricultural research, education, extension and economics. Rosol also serves as the chair of the Committee on Invasive Species.
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