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onCampus--Ohio State's faculty/staff news

Vol. 38, No. 18


2-16-2006
By: onCampus staff

Faculty and staff 2/16/06

Appointment
Creighton Freeman was appointed curator of the C.A. Triplehorn Insect Collection.

Books
John Bennett, Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, portfolio of visual poetry prints, Ro, (Columbus/Ft. Collins: Luna Bisonte Prods/Avantacular Press, 2005), co-author is Andrew Topel; and chapbook, Lap Gun Cut (Columbus: Luna Bisonte Prods, 2006), co-author is F.A. Nettelbeck.

Grants
Bruce Allen, P. Charles Goebel and Rebecca Sharitz, Environmental and Natural Resources, $49,500 National Park Service grant for "Long-Term Effects of Wind Disturbance on the Old-Growth Forests and Lianas of the Congaree National Park."
Robert Gates, Virginie Bouchard, Lance Williams, Brian Slater and Jerry Bigham, Environmental and Natural Resources, $63,100 CONSOL Energy grant for "Analysis of Alternatives for Restoring a Coal Slurry Impoundment and Refuse Pile at the Meigs Mine No. 31 Site: Assessment of Current Wildlife Utilization and Potential for Wildlife Habitat Development."
Rattan Lal, Environmental and Natural Resources, $70,000 University of California/Los Alamos National Laboratory grant for the Terrestrial Carbon Sequestration Project "Soil Carbon Dynamics Under Biofuel Plantations."
Amanda Rodewald, Environmental and Natural Resources, $30,800 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service grant for "Cooperative Cerulean Warbler Forest Management Project."
Serdar Savan, Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, Global Development Network's research competition grant to investigate the effects on workers' remittance receipts of economic developments and policies in host countries, co-PI is Ayca Tekin-Koru.

Presentations
Tim Berra, Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, Mansfield, presented "Chasing Nurseryfish and Avoiding Crocodiles in Northern Australia" at the Comparative Genomics Group, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Nov. 2, 2005; and "Charles Darwin: The Man 1809-1882" at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, Dec. 7, 2005.
J.F. Buckley, English, presented "Tactical Sexuality as Pedagogical Strategy" at the 2005 National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention, Pittsburgh, Nov. 18, 2005.
Cynthia Callahan, English, presented "Orphancy, Adoption, and the Burden of Racial Ambiguity in William Faulkner's Light in August" at the Adoption and Culture Conference, Tampa, Nov. 18, 2005; and "Queering the Adoption Memoir: Dan Savage's The Kid: What Happened When My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant" at the Modern Language Association, Washington, D.C., Dec. 28, 2005.
L.A. Canas, Entomology, presented "Efficacy of Shuttle and Celero for Control of Greenhouse Pests" at the Arysta Life Sciences Meeting, Jacksonville, Fla., Oct. 19, 2005; and "Insect Management in Greenhouses" at the Washington County Extension Meeting, Marietta, Oct. 27, 2005.
S. Cobey, Entomology, presented "Bee Breeding andÊInsemination Workshop" at the Programa de Assessoria Psico-pedagogica Institutional, Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia Agropecuaria and Fondo Tecnologio Argentina, Tandil and San Rafael, Argentina, Nov. 8-18, 2005.
J.F. Copenhaver-Johnson, Teaching and Learning, Mansfield, presented "Teacher Education for Social Justice: The Presence of Homophobia in Fieldwork" and "Exploring Teacher Resistance to Multicultural Education: What Do Teachers Fear?" at the National Council of Teachers of English, Pittsburgh, Nov. 18-19, 2005.
S. Czesny, Environmental and Natural Resources, presented "Essential Fatty Acids in Dynamic Food Webs - Yellow Perch Females Are What They Eat and Their Offspring Pay for It" at the 135th annual meeting of the American Fisheries Society in Anchorage, Alaska, Sept. 11-15, 2005.
D.L. Denlinger, Entomology, presented "Antarctica and Its Insect: The Crawl of the Midges" at Pennsylvania State University, Nov. 11, 2005.
Alan Farmer, English, presented "'If You Haue the Truth': Ben Jonson and the Caroline News Trade" at the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, San Antonio, Texas, Dec. 3, 2005.
Alan Gallay, History, provided commentary and final summation for "Mapping the Shatter Zone: The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and the Southeastern Indians" at the American Society for Ethnohistory annual meeting, Santa Fe, N.M., Nov. 16-20, 2005.
Jacques Rinchard, Environmental and Natural Resources, presented "Inter-Individual Variability in Lake Erie Walleye Sperm Quality" at the 135th annual meeting of the American Fisheries Society in Anchorage, Alaska, Sept. 11-15, 2005, co-authors are Jason Van Tassel, Elizabeth Marshall and Roy Stein, Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, and Konrad Dabrowski, Animal Sciences.
John Sheridan, Dentistry, participated on panel discussion with the Dalai Lama at Invesigating the Mind 2005: The Science and Clinical Applications of Meditation, Washington, D.C., Nov. 9, 2005.
T. Smith, J.F. Copenhaver-Johnson and J. Webb, Teaching and Learning, Mansfield, presented "Employing Inquiry to Help Deliver the Dream: Using Multicultural Inquiry Portfolios" at the National Association for Multicultural Education, Atlanta, Nov. 10, 2005.
Kyle Ware, Environmental and Natural Resources, presented "Gamete Viability and Vitamin B1 in Eggs of Lake Erie Walleye" at the 135th annual meeting of the American Fisheries Society in Anchorage, Alaska, Sept. 11-15, 2005, co-authors are Jason Van Tassel, Elizabeth Marshall and Roy Stein, Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, and Konrad Dabrowski, Animal Sciences.
L.R. Williams, Environmental and Natural Resources, presented "Evaluating the Potential for a Rainbow Trout Fishery in Apple Creek" at the Meeting of the Clear Creek Chapter Trout Unlimited, Wooster, Ohio, November 2005; "Disturbances, Extreme Events, and the Structure of Stream Communities" at the Water Management Association of Ohio Conference, Columbus, 2005; and "Biological Monitoring of Headwater Streams: Lessons from Ohio and Future Directions" at the Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Grand Rapids, Mich., November 2005, co-authors are M.A. Schrecengost, D.K. Hersha and M.G. Williams, Environmental and Natural Resources.

Publications
Yigit Akin, History, "New Sources, New Perspectives: A Contribution to the Early Republican Labor History," Tarih ve Toplum-Yeni Yakla mlar (History and Society-New Perspectives), Vol. 2 (Autumn 2005), pp. 73-111; and "Not Just a Game: Kayseri vs. Sivas Football Disaster," Soccer and Disaster: International Perspectives, eds. Paul Darby, Martin Johnes and Gavin Mellor (London: Routledge, 2005), pp. 95-108.
B.P. Allen, R.R. Sharitz and P.C. Goebel, Environmental and Natural Resources, "Twelve Years Post-Hurricane Liana Dynamics in an Old-Growth Southeastern Floodplain Forest," Forest Ecology and Management, Vol. 218 (2005), pp. 259-269.
C.J. Anderson, Environmental and Natural Resources, "Temporal and Spatial Development of Surface Soil Conditions in Two Created Riverine Marshes," Journal of Environmental Quality, Vol. 34 (2005), pp. 2072-2081, co-authors are W.J. Mitsch and R.W. Nairn, Environmental and Natural Resources; and "Effect of Pulsing on Macrophyte Productivity and Nutrient Uptake: A Wetland Experiment,"ÊAmerican Midland Naturalist, Vol. 154 (2005), pp. 305-319.
John Bennett, Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, Lost and Found Times, "John M. Bennett: Tapt og Funnet," Audiatur: Katalog for Ny Poesi (Bergen, Norway: Norli Galleriet, 2005).
Hannibal Hamlin, English, review of Shakespeare's The Tempest at the Stratford Festival of Canada (July 7), Shakespeare, Vol. 1, No. 2 (December 2005), pp. 207-12; and review of John Donne's Essays in Divinity, ed. Anthony Raspa, Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 58, No. 4 (Winter 2005), pp. 1449-51.
Jane Hathaway, History, "The Forgotten Province: A Prelude to the Ottoman Era in Yemen," Mamluks and Ottomans: Studies in Honor of Michael Winter, eds. David Wasserstein and Ami Ayalon (Routledge, 2005), pp. 195-205.
W.J. Mitsch, Environmental and Natural Resources, editor, "Wetland Creation, Restoration, and Conservation: The State of the Science," Special Issue of Ecological Engineering, Vol. 24 (2005), pp. 243-418.
Dorothy Noyes, English, "Buried Treasure or Fairytale Verismo? Framing Sicilian Women's Stories," Marvels and Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies, Vol. 19 (2005), pp. 331-343, http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/marvels_and_tales/v019/19.2noyes.html.
Geoffrey Parker, History, "Od Domu Ora sSiego do Domu Bush—w: Czterysta lat 'Rewolucji ilitarnej' (From the House of Orange to the House of Bush: 400 Years of Military Revolutions)," Special Issue in Memory of Antoni Maczak, Pregl d Historyczny, Vol. 96 (2005), pp. 217- 43.
Mark Rankin, English, Religious Orthodoxy and Dissent in Early Modern England (Columbus: The Ohio State University Libraries, 2005.)
Dale Van Kley, History, "On the Religious Origins of the French Revolution," The Origins of the French Revolution, ed. Peter R. Campbell (Basingstoke and New York: PalgraveMacmillan, 2005), pp. 160-190, and notes pp. 325-8.
L.R. Williams and A.E.L. Morris, Environmental and Natural Resources, book review, "The Ecology and Management of Wood in World Rivers," Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, Vol. 134 (2005), pp. 1366-1367.

Recognitions
David Brewer, English, was awarded a fellowship for "The Work of Attribution in the Age of Anonymous Publication" from the National Endowment for the Humanities, 2006-07.
Stephen Conn, History, won the 2005 Pioneer America Society, Allen Noble Award for the best edited book in the field of North American material culture for Building the Nation: Americans Write About Their Architecture, Their Cities and Their Landscape (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003).
Carter Findley, History, was elected an Honorary Member of the Turkish Academy of Science.
Mark Grimsley, History, received a Cliopatria Award in the category of Best Individual Blog for "Blog Them out of the Stone Age" from the American Historical Association meeting's round table session, "Were All the World A Blog: History Bloggers and History Blogging."
Wendy S. Hesford, Engish, received the Modern Language Association's 2005 Florence Howe Award for "Kairos and the Geopolitics of Global Sex Work and Video Advocacy," Just Advocacy: Women's Human Rights, Transnational Feminisms, and the Politics of Representation, eds. Wendy Hesford and Wendy Kozol (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2005).
Glenn Kranking, History, received the 2006 Malmberg Scholarship to conduct dissertation research in Sweden from the American Swedish Institute and will be the honored guest at the ASI Second Annual Malmberg Award Banquet in April.
Rattan Lal, Environment and Natural Resources, has been voted president-elect of the Soil Science Society of America.
John Maass, History, was named one of the History News Network's "Breaking News" editors.
Jack Nasar, City and Regional Planning, received the Environmental Design Research Association Career Achievement Award and will receive the award at a ceremony in Atlanta in May.

Service
Tony Pasquarello, Philosophy, Mansfield, emeritus, wrote the program notes on the music of Rachmaninoff and Holst for the opening anniversary concert of the Mansfield Symphony Orchestra, Oct. 1, 2005.


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