Vol. 38, No. 18

3-8-2006
By: onCampus staff

Faculty and staff 3/2/06

POLICY - onCampus reminds faculty and staff to submit their recent achievements and accolades for inclusion in the Faculty & Staff column, which appears regularly in the newspaper. Categories include Appointments, Books, Grants, Patents, Presentations, Publications, Recognitions and Service. Forward your entries to oncampusfacstaff@osu.edu.edu. You may also fax to 292-1861, but electronic submission is preferred.

Appointment
Sharon Feinblatt joined WOSU Public Media as the director of community outreach and development.

Book
Duane Roller, Greek and Latin, Through the Pillars of Herakles: Greco-Roman Exploration of the Atlantic (London: Routledge, 2006).

Patent
Paul R. Berger, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics, "Method of Producing Organic Light-Emissive Devices," United States Patent No. 6,878,297, issued April 12, 2005, co-inventor was Stephen Karl Heeks.

Presentations
Ola Ahlqvist, Geography, presented "Using Semantic Similarity Metrics to Uncover Category and Land Cover Change" at the First International Conference on "GeoSpatial Semantics," Mexico City, Nov. 29-30, 2005.
Paul R. Berger, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics, presented
"Si-based Resonant Interband Tunnel Diode with Cutoff Frequency Over 20 GHz and Estimated Peak Current Density of 218 kA/cm2," co-authors were Sung-Yong Chung, Si-Young Park, Niu Jin, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ronghua Yu, Physics, and Phillip E. Thompson, and "Monolithic Si/SiGe HBT-RITD Circuit with Controllable Negative Differential Resistance For Voltage Controlled Oscillator Applications," co-authors were Sung-Yong Chung, Si-Young Park, Jeffrey Daulton, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ronghua Yu, Physics, and Phillip E. Thompson, both at the International Semiconductor Device Research Symposium, Bethesda, Md., Dec. 7-9, 2005.
Nina Berman, Comparative Studies and Germanic Languages and Literatures, presented "World Literature or Literatures of the World?" at the Modern Language Association Convention, Washington, D.C., Dec. 27-30, 2005.
Justin Brown and Stan Gehrt, Environment and Natural Resources, presented "Identification of Predators at Canada Goose Nests in an Urban Environment" at the 46th Ohio Fish and Wildlife Conference, Columbus, Feb. 3.
William Childs, History, presented "Duchamp's Nude: Refractions on the State of Modern U.S. and Business History" at the College of Humanities' 3rd Inaugural Lecture of the academic year, Jan. 10.
Carol Fink, History, presented "The World Jewish Congress and the League of Nations, 1933-1939" on the panel "European Minorities and the International Community in the Twentieth Century" at the American Historical Association, Philadelphia, Jan. 8.
Stan Gehrt, Environment and Natural Resources, presented "Mysteries of Urban Wildlife: The Next Frontier for Conservation?" as the keynote address at the
46th Ohio Fish and Wildlife Conference, Columbus, Feb. 3, 2006.
A.R. Grubh and L.R. Williams, Environment and Natural Resources, presented "Stream Macroinvertebrate Response to the Absence of Fish Predators: An Experimental Study Using Enclosures" at the Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Grand Rapids, Mich., November 2005,
co-presenter was J.D. Hudson III.
Susan Hartmann, History, presented "Rethinking the Waves Metaphor in Writing the History of the Women's Movement in the United States" at the American Historical Association Meeting, Philadelphia, Jan. 5-8.
David Hermann, English, organized and chaired "Language Theory and the Cognitive Sciences" and "Basic Elements of Narrative: Foundations for Interdisciplinary Research on Stories" at the Modern Language Association Convention, Washington, D.C., Dec. 29, 2005.
Kyle Herrman, Environment and Natural Resources, presented "Transport and Removal of Nitrate in Agricultural Headwater Streams" at the 2006 Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service National Water Conference, San Antonio, Feb. 5-9.
Kathryn Holmes, Environment and Natural Resources, "Linking Land Use Characteristics and Water Quality for Targeted Watershed Management and Restoration" at the 2006 Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service National Water Conference, San Antonio, Feb. 5-9.
Neal Hooker and Wenjing Shang, Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, presented "Using Consumer Information to Improve Recalls" at the Battelle/John Glenn Institute Policy Day, Columbus, Feb. 7.
Diana Jackson, LearningWork Connection, Center for Learning Excellence, presented "Common Measures and Youth Program Design" at the 6th Annual Youth Development Symposium, Chicago, Nov. 16, 2005, co-presenter was Darcie Milazzo.
A. Johnson and J.F. Copenhaver, Teaching and Learning, Mansfield, presented "Recognizing Inquiry in Literary Response and Democratic Conversations" at the United Kingdom Literacy Association, University of Bath, Bath, July 2005.
Robin Judd, History, presented "Moral, Clean Men of the Jewish Faith: Jewish Rituals and Their Male Practitioners" at the Jewish Masculinities in Germany,
San Diego, December 2005; and chaired "Imagining 19th Century European Jewish Culture" at the Association for Jewish Studies Conference, Washington, D.C., December 2005.
Mitchell Koritha, English, presented "When All Your Safe Spaces are Small, Theatrical Spaces: Gwendolyn Brooks' Maud Martha" at the Modern Language Association Convention, Washington, D.C., Dec. 28-30, 2005.
Barbara Lehman, Teaching and Learning, Mansfield, presented "Issues of Teacher Interest and Access to Multicultural and Global Children's Books" at the 2005 National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention, Pittsburgh, Nov. 20, 2005.
William Mitsch, Environment and Natural Resources, presented "Restoration of the World's Wetlands" at the International Symposium on Wetland Restoration 2006, Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan, Jan. 27-29.
Jack Nasar, City and Regional Planning, gave the keynote address "Meaning Matters: Planning for Design: Planning Appearances" at the 1st International Symposium on Environment, Behaviour and Society, People in Place in People, Sydney, Australia, Feb. 9-11.
Dorothy Noyes, English, served on the panel "Rabelaisian Cultural Practices: Bakhtin in Mesoamerica" at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., Dec. 1, 2005.
S. Sayan and A. Tekin-Koru, Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, presented "Cyclical Properties of Workers' Remittances: The Cases of Turkey and Mexico Compared" at the 31st Annual Meeting of the Middle East Economic Association (held in conjunction with Allied Social Science Associations), Boston, Jan. 6-8; and the "Impact of Rich Countries' Polices on Poverty: Perspectives from the Developing World" at the 7th Annual Conference of the Global Development Network, St. Petersburg, Russia, Jan. 22-23.
Dan Shustack and Amanda Rodewald, Environment and Natural Resources, presented poster "Attenuated Nesting Seasons in Urban Forests: An Overlooked Consequence of Urbanization?" at the 46th Ohio Fish and Wildlife Conference, Columbus, Feb 3.

Publications
Paul R. Berger, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics, "RF Performance and Modeling of Si/SiGe Resonant Interband Tunneling Diodes," IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Vol. 52 (October 2005), pp. 2129-2135, co-authors were Niu Jin, Sung-Yong Chung, Sandro Di Giacomo, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ronghua Yu, Physics, and Phillip E. Thompson.
J.F. Buckley and V. Mollie, English, Mansfield, "Teaching Queer-Inclusive English Language Arts," Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, Vol. 49,
No. 3 (2005), pp. 202-212.
David Cressy, History, "Remembrancers of the Revolution: Histories and Historiographies of the 1640s," Special Issue of the Huntington Library Quarterly, The Uses of History in Early Modern England, Vol. 68, No. 1-2 (2005), pp. 257-268.
B.K. Hale, D.A. Herms, R.C. Hansen, T.P. Clausen and D.A. Arnold, Entomology, "Effects of Drought Stress and Nutrient Availability on Dry Matter Allocation, Phenolic Glycosides and Rapid Induced Resistance of Poplar to Two Lymantriid Defoliators," Journal of Chemical Ecology, Vol. 31 (2005), pp. 2601-2620.
Stephen Hall, History, "Revisiting the Tragic Era and the Nadir: Interrogating Individual and Collective African American Lives in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era," Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Vol. 4 (2005), pp. 409-415.
David Herman, English, "Narrative: Cognitive Approaches," Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd ed., Vol. 8, eds. Keith Brown et al., volume editor is Catherine Emmott (Oxford: Elsevier Publishers, 2006), pp. 452-59.
Wendy Hesford, English, review, "Rhetorical Memory, Political Theater, and the Traumatic Present," "Eyes of the Heart: A Play in Two Acts" and "Photographs from S-21," Transformations, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 104-117.
Stephen Kern, History, "The Impact of Quantum Theory on Causal Understanding," Historically Speaking: The Bulletin of The Historical Society (November/December 2005).
K. Lorenz and R. Lal, Environment and Natural Resources, "The Depth Distribution of Soil Organic Carbon in Relation to Land Use and Management and the Potential of Carbon Sequestration in Subsoil Horizons," Advances in Agronomy, Vol. 88 (2005), pp. 35-66.
Ben McCorkle, English, "Harbingers of the Printed Page: Nineteenth-Century Theories of Delivery as Remediation," Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Vol. 35, No. 4 (2005), pp. 25-49; "So Be the News Already! A Review of We the Media: Grassroots Journalism By the People, For the People," Currents in Electronic Literacy, Vol. 9 (Fall 2005), www.cwrl.utexas.edu/currents/fall05/mccorkle.html.
James Moore III, Physical Activity and Educational Services, guest co-editor, Teachers College Record Special Issue on the Educational Situation of African American Boys and Men, Vol. 108, No. 2 (February 2006) and wrote "A Qualitative Investigation of African American Males' Career Trajectory in Engineering: Implications for Teachers, School Counselors and Parents" and "African American Males in Education: Endangered or Ignored?" co-author is Jerlando F.L. Jackson.
S. Sayan and M. Jelassi, Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, "Implications of Unequal Rates of Population Growth for Trade: An Overlapping Generations-General Equilibrium Analysis Within the Heckscher-Ohlin Framework," Middle East Technical University Studies in Development,
Vol. 32, No. 2 (December 2005), pp. 391-408.

Recognitions
Jack Nasar, City and Regional Planning, was selected as a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners and will be inducted at a ceremony at the National Planning Conference, San Antonio, April 22.
Margaret Newell, History, was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for "Race Frontiers: Indian Slavery in Colonial New England," 2006.
Chan Park, East Asian Languages and Literatures, was awarded the Republic of Korea's Civil Merit Medal of Honor for her work in promoting Korean studies and culture in America at a ceremony at the Korean Consulate, Chicago, Jan. 5.
Alan Randall, Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, has been invited to present the opening plenary address at the 50th Anniversary Conference of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society and will be inducted as a Distinguished Fellow.

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