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Guoqing Li, Chinese Studies Librarian

January 18, 2012

When is the Chinese New Year celebrated?

Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival, begins on the first day of the first month in the traditional Chinese calendar and ends with
the Lantern Festival, which is on the 15th day. Because the Chinese calendar is lunisolar, the Chinese New Year is often referred to as the “Lunar New Year.”

For 2012, the festival begins on Jan. 23.

Chinese New Year is considered a major holiday for the Chinese and observed in a number of countries and territories where a sizable Chinese population resides. In mainland China, the public holiday is seven days in total, including New Year’s Eve, the first two days and two weekends.

The Chinese communities in Columbus have celebrated this holiday for many years. Chinese Culture Link and Ohio Contemporary Chinese School along with more than 10 other organizations successfully had their fourth Ohio Chinese Festival at Westerville Central High School on Feb. 12. It was a family-friendly event with many forms of high-quality Chinese art performances, cultural exhibitions and demonstrations.

The 2012 Ohio Chinese Festival will be held at the same place on Feb. 4. The Chinese Students and Scholars Society at OSU also will have its 2012 Chinese Spring Festival Celebration Party on Jan. 21.

Why is this an important celebration in Chinese culture?

Chinese New Year is the most important social and economic holiday for the Chinese. Traditionally, the holiday was a time to honor household and heavenly deities as well as ancestors. It also was a time to bring family together for feasting.

Even with the popular adoption in China of the Western calendar in 1912, the Chinese continue to celebrate the traditional Chinese New Year, although in a shorter version with a new name — the Spring Festival.

Younger generations of Chinese now observe the holiday in a very different manner from their ancestors. For some young people, the holiday has evolved from an opportunity to renew family ties to a chance for relaxation from work.

What are some traditional practices of the Chinese New Year?

It is full of rich and colorful activities. Starting from the 23rd day of the previous lunar month, every family does a thorough house cleaning and purchases enough food for the festival period. Also, new clothes must be bought, especially for children.

Red scrolls with complementary poetic couplets are pasted at every gate. The Chinese character “Fu” is pasted on the center of the door and paper-cut pictures adorn windows.

Then there is the Chinese New Year’s Eve, a day when Chinese families gather for their annual reunion dinner, also known as Chú Xī or “Eve of the Passing Year.” Regarded as the most exciting event, especially to children during the festival, firecrackers are set off to bid farewell to the past year and welcome the New Year.

The indispensable food served during spring festival is the dumplings (Jiaozi).

On the first day of the festival in ancient times, younger people had to salute the elderly by kowtowing; today they salute them by offering good wishes. During the holiday period, people also pay New Year visits to their relatives and friends as a special way to express good wishes.

Chandran Kalyanam, Clinical Psychiatry

January 18, 2012

Chandran Kalyanam is an assistant professor of Clinical Psychiatry and the medical director, Electroconvulsive Therapy.

What are your five favorite books and why?

Among many favorites, these come to mind now:

My Antonia by Willa Cather. I enjoyed the story itself, the writing style and learning about the Plains states in yesteryear. If I knew that my then-girlfriend did not share my view of this fine book, she might not have become my wife.

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. The power of his magnum opus and the metaphor of “invisibility” still amaze me. Attesting to his skill as a writer, Ellison accomplished a significant feat in keeping the narrator anonymous throughout this substantial book.

Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy. I love Hardy’s ability to develop characters and immerse the reader into the setting. When Somerset Maugham read Tess, he concluded that he must marry a milkmaid.

Swami and Friends by R.K. Narayan. No one has portrayed traditional South Indian life in such a gentle, witty and engaging manner. Thank God that Graham Greene saw Narayan’s promise and advocated a wider publication.

Burmese Days by George Orwell. Although Animal Farm and 1984 are more popular, this book deserves attention. Orwell was unique in championing the individual facing larger oppressive systems, including imperialism and Big Brother.

What is the last book you’ve bought?

A Billion Wicked Thoughts by Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam. A fascinating book about desire and sexuality, based on actual data from the Internet. An excellent companion to Christopher Ryan’s Sex at Dawn, also an academically informed book about the history of sex.

What “important book” have you not read and why haven’t you read it?

From the 20th century, I would love to take on the triumvirate thick books of Joyce’s Ulysses, Musil’s The Man Without Qualities and Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past. I lack that leisure of mind and time right now.

What classic novel disappointed you?

I am highly indebted to Pierre Ryckmans (pen name, Simon Leys) who observed rightly that reading for pleasure should be for pleasure and not all books are for all people. That gave me permission to abandon books that just don’t work for me now, contrasting mandated reading for class. I loved many books that I read in class, but not all.

Faculty & Staff, 1/19/12

January 18, 2012

Books

Paul Granello, Physical Activity and Educational Services, Wellness Counseling, (Prentice Hall, 2011).

Rebecca Kantor and David Fernie, Teaching and Learning, coedited Educating Toddlers to Teachers: Learning to See and Influence the School and Peer Cultures of Classrooms, (Hampton Press, 2011), with
Samara Madrid.

Grants

Keith Gooch, Biomedical Engineering, received $294,000 from a National Science Foundation grant for “Collaborative Proposal: Active and Passive Mechanical Environments Interact to Regulate Cellular Structure and Function,” to support research on how cells respond to changes in their mechanical and cellular
environments.

James Gregory, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, received a $150,000 Young Investigator Award from the Army Research Office for his research project, “Time-Varying Compressible Dynamic Stall Mechanisms Due to Freestream Mach Oscillations.” The study of compressible dynamic stall will help helicopter manufacturers design rotor blades that enable higher speed flight, and provide weight savings for next-generation helicopters.

Dee Jepsen, Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, received a $61,000 grant from USDA Smith Lever Special Needs for Emergency Planning and Preparedness Education for “Agritourism Enterprises.”

Gonul Kaletunc, Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, received a $499,953 grant from the USDA Agriculture and Food Research Initiative for “Enhanced Stability and Targeted Delivery of Microencapsulated Anthocyanins for Improved Food Quality and Human Health,” with Mark Failla, Education and Human Ecology Research Office, Derek Hansford, Biomedical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, and Monica Giusti, Food Science and Technology.

Giorgio Rizzoni, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Center for Automotive Research, received a $907,026 grant from the US Department of Energy Graduate Automotive Technology Education (GATE) Initiative Award program to fund projects to prepare a new generation of engineers to lead system integration projects in the following areas related to energy-efficient vehicles: efficient energy conversion, advanced energy storage, lightweight body and chassis systems and vehicle systems control, including vehicle-grid and vehicle-infrastructure connectivity.

Presentations

Charles Atkinson, Musicology, presented “Einstimmigkeit: Cradle of (Western) Musical Creativity,” for the international symposium “Monodien: Paradigmen instrumental begleiteten Sologesangs im Mittelalter und Barock,” Basel, Switzerland, under the aegis of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Dec. 1-3; and “The Anonymous Vaticanus in speculo,“ at the Institut für Musikforschung of the Universität Würzburg, Germany, Dec. 8.

Susan Bandy, Physical Activity and Educational Services, presented “Contemporary Literary Treatments of the Female Athlete: Vulnerability or Failure,” at the annual conference of the Sport Literature Association, University of Maine, Me., June 28.

Ada Demb, Educational Policy and Leadership, presented “Beginning Again in Mid-Career,” at the annual conference of the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA), Denver, Colo., Oct. 3.

Jonathan Fox, Consumer Sciences, gave the closing keynote address, “Helping Clients Turn Wealth into Utility,” at the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors core competency meetings, Columbus, July 21 and 22.

Belinda Gimbert, Educational Policy and Leadership, and Rebecca Parker, Project KNOTtT, presented “Integrating Technology for Professional Learning in Urban Schools,” at the National Summit on Great Teachers for Our City Schools, Denver, Colo., April 27-29.

Josh Hawley, Workforce Development and Education and Glenn School, presented “Strategic Human Resource Development Policy,” to the Human Resource Development faculty, Seoul National University, South Korea; and“Government’s Role in Competency Development for Human Resource Development,” at the Ministry of Labor 2011 HRD conference, Summer 2011.

Mo Yee Lee, Social Work, presented “Offering Integrative Health/Mental Health Practices in the Classroom: Increasing Access and Practice,” at the 15th Council on Social Work Education annual program meeting, Faculty Development Institute, Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 27-30, with S. Tebb, M. Napoli and P. Leung.

Dana Renga, French and Italian, gave two invited talks, “Mafia Movies: A Roundtable,” with 8 contributing authors of her edited volume, at the Calandra Institute, Queens College, Dec. 5; and “Mafia Woman in a Man’s World: Roberta Torre’s Angela,” at the CUNY Graduate Center, New York, Dec. 6.

Publications

David Benfield, Food Animal Health Research Program and Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, “Chapter 24: Porcine Adenoviruses,” with Richard Hesse, pp. 392-95, and “Chapter 31: Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus (Porcine Arterivirus),” with. S. Zimmerman, D.A. Benfield, S.A. Dee, M.P. Murtaugh, T. Stadejek, G.W. Stevenson and M. Torremorell, pp.461-86, Diseases of Swine, Tenth Edition, Eds. J.J. Zimmerman et al., (John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2012).

Tim Berra, Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, “Low Genetic Diversity in Nurseryfish, Kurtus gulliveri (Perciformes: Kurtidae) and an Appraisal of Its Breeding System Using Microsatellite Loci,” The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Vol. 27 (2011), pp. 179-88, with J.A. Sommer, C. Li, J. Brozek, M.L. Bessert and G. Orti.

Terri Fisher, Psychology, “Sex on the Brain?: An Examination of Frequency of Sexual Cognitions as a Function of Gender, Erotophilia and Social Desirability,” Journal of Sex Research, Vol. 29 (2012) pp. 69-77, with Z.T. Moore and M. Pittenger.

Joseph Fiksel, Center for Resilience and Research and Integrated Systems Engineering, wrote “What is Sustainability?” on the National Association of Environmental Health and Safety Management website.

Charles Klopp, French and Italian, “Spazi femminili, spazi maschili, e spazi infantili nel Conservatorio di Santa Teresa di Romano Bilenchi,” Guida, Patrizia and Giovanna Scianatico, Eds. Saggi di letteratura italiana, (Lecce, Italy: PensaMultimedia, 2011) , pp. 253-61.

Rongxing (Ron) Li, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science, presented “LASOIS: Enhancing the Spatial Orientation Capabilities of Astronauts on the Lunar Surface,” at the 8th symposium on the Role of the Vestibular Organs in Space Exploration, Houston, Texas, April 8-10; and “Development of a Lunar Astronaut Spatial Orientation and Information System,” and the 18th IAA Humans in Space Symposium, Houston, Texas, April 11-15, both with Alper Yilmaz, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science, and Shaojun He, Boris Skopljak, Xuelian Meng, Jinwei Jiang, M.S. Banks and C. Oman.

Mark Partridge, Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, recently released a policy brief, “The Economic Value of Shale Natural Gas in Ohio.” Various news sources reference the study including The Plain Dealer, Dayton Daily News, Youngstown Vindicator, and a headline story by the Columbus Dispatch, with Amanda Weinstein.

Aaron Zimmerman, Optometry, “Optimizing Vision for Athletes: Performance and Protection,” Refractive Eyecare, Vol.15, No. 11 (November 2011), pp. 5-7.

Recognition

Jill Clark, Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, received the College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Staff Advisory Council Innovation Award.

Susan Robb Jones, Educational Policy and Leadership, is the recipient of the University of Maryland’s College of Education Award for Outstanding Scholar, which honors UM alumni who have made significant contributions to published research in their field.

Danielle Marx-Scouras, French and Italian, was elected to a five-year term (2012-2017) on the executive committee of the Division on Twentieth-Century French Literature of the Modern Language Association.

Usha Menon, Nursing, has joined the Ohio State College of Nursing as vice dean and professor. Menon most recently held an appointment at the College of Nursing and Health Innovation at Arizona State University where she was the Pamela Kidd Distinguished Researcher Professor, co-director of the T32: Training in Health Disparities Science program, and former director of the Southwest Consortium for Health Promotion and Behavior Change.

Jared Miner, Exercise Science, received a first place for his dissertation poster, “Family Medicine Physician Views of Physical Activity and Exercise Counseling and Prescription; Responsibilities and Barriers,” at the American Academy of Family Physicians meeting, September 2011.

John Volakis, ElectroScience Laboratory, received the 2011 Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator Award from the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society. Volakis was commended for exemplary contributions as a teacher and mentor, and for advancing electromagnetic technology.

Jin Wang, Electrical and Computer Engineering, received the 2011 IEEE Power Electronics Society Richard M. Bass Outstanding Young Power Electronics Engineer Award.

Service

Becky Cornett, Medical Center, has been selected to chair the planning committee for the Changing Healthcare Landscape Summit of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), the scientific and professional association for over 160,000 members. Cornett has also been appointed chair of the Quality and Compliance Committee and a member of the Board of Directors Executive Committee of Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio.

Faculty & Staff, 1/5/12

January 4, 2012

Books

Ben McCorkle, English, Rhetorical Delivery as Technological Discourse: A Cross-Historical Study (Carbondale and Edwardsville, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 2012).

Kathryn Plank, University Center for the Advancement of Teaching, Across the Disciplines, Across the Academy (Sterling, Va.: Stylus Publishing, 2011).

Grants

Jill Clark, Agricultural Environmental and Development Economics and Center for Farmland Policy Innovation, has been awarded six grants to support community-based agricultural economic development planning projects in Ohio.

Belinda Gimbert, Educational Policy and Leadership, and Rebecca Parker, Center on Education and Training for Employment, were awarded a $10.3 million federal grant for KNOTtT 3.0 to prepare 1,100 college graduates and professionals to teach in high-need schools.

Traci Lepicki and Robert Mahlman, Center on Education and Training for Employment, received $23,064 to continue the Adult Basic Literacy Education Link (ABLELink) online conversion. The ABLELink site offers support and resources for individuals in post-secondary education, training and employment.

Carol Miller, Family and Consumer Sciences, OSU Extension, Top of Ohio, received $4,000 from the Marriage Resource Center of the Miami Valley project to provide money management education.

Presentations

Doug Haddix, Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism, presented hands-on Microsoft Access database training, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tenn., Oct. 21-23; and “Social Media for Journalists” and “Web for Watchdogs,” at Ryerson University, Toronto, during a Better Watchdog Workshop by Investigative Reporters and Editors, Nov. 5.

Sarah-Grace Heller, French and Italian,  presented “Georges Bernanos’ Journal d’un curé de campagne in its Contexts,” for the Friday Morning Series, St. Thomas More Newman Center, Nov. 4.

Rosemarie Jackson, International Affairs, presented “Exchange Visitor Advising Dilemmas” and “Changes in H-1B Regulations,” at the NAFSA: Association of International Educators regional conference, Louisville, Ky., Nov. 7.

Tomas Koontz, Environment and Natural Resources, presented “Top-down and Bottom-up Collaboration: Implementing Collaborative Watershed Management in Lower Saxony and Ohio,” at the symposium “The Limits of Collaborative Approaches to Environmental Governance: A Critical and Comparative Analysis,” the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Brisbane, Australia, via Skype, Dec. 19.

Mo Yee Lee, Social Work, presented “Offering Integrative Health/Mental Health Practices in the Classroom: Increasing Access and Practice,” with S. Tebb, M. Napoli and P. Leung, and “Re-envisioning Curriculum in the Context of 2008 EPAS: A Community Collaborative Approach,” with Tom Gregoire, Tamara Davis, Jennie Babcock and Lisa Durham, Social Work,  at the 15th annual Council on Social Work Education annual program meeting, Faculty Development Institute, Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 27-30.

Eric McConnell, Environment and Natural Resources, presented ”The Economic Impact of Ohio’s Forest Products Industry” and ”Asian Longhorned Beetle Basics,” at the Ohio Valley Lumber Drying Association Fall Meeting, Clarksville, Ind., Nov. 17.

Richard Morman, University Police, presented on best security practices for large stadiums, at the US Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance “Campus Security Roundtable.” Law Enforcement administrators from 10 universities that have large stadiums were invited to attend the roundtable.

Mark Partridge, Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, presented “Dwindling US Internal Migration: Evidence of a Spatial Equilibrium?” at the Rochester Institute of Technology, N.Y., Oct. 27.

David Rigney, Materials Science and Engineering, presented “Tribomaterial – a Key to Understanding and Controlling Friction and Wear,” at Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, Oct. 24, at the international Tribology Conference, ITC 2011, Hiroshima, Japan, Oct. 31 and at the Institute for Metals Research, Shenyang, China, Nov. 7; “Tribochemistry and Tribomaterial”, at Tribochemistry Hagi 2011, Hagi, Japan, Oct. 26; “Comparisons of the Results of Experiments and MD Simulations of Sliding,” at the Tribology Simulation Symposium, ITC 2011, Hiroshima, Japan, Nov. 1; and was invited to speak on behalf of the international participants of ITC 2011 at an all-conference gathering on Nov. 2.

Brian Roe, Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, presented “Comparing the Risk Attitudes of US and German Farmers,” with Greg Howard, at the 2011 European Association of Agricultural Economists Congress, Zurich, Switzerland, Aug. 31.

Roger Williams, Environment and Natural Resources, presented an invited paper entitled ”Feasibility of Using Plantations, Logging Residues and Wood Wastes for Bioenergy – Cost and Scale Considerations,” at the BIT’s 1st annual World Congress on Environmental Bio-Technology, Dalian World EXPO Center, China, Oct. 19-22.

Carl Zulauf, Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, was a presenter at the Farm Foundation Forum, at the National Press Club, Washington, DC, Oct. 11.

Publications

John Bowzer, Konrad Dabrowski, Marta Jaroszewska, Kyle Ware and Karolina Kwasek, Environment and Natural Resources, “Evaluation of the Viability and Growth of Walleye Embryos and Larvae after Antiviral Iodine Treatment,” North American Journal of Aquaculture,
Vol. 73, No. 4 (2011), pp. 383-92.

J.T. Campbell, T.M. Koontz and J.E. Bonnell, Environment and Natural Resources, “Does Collaboration Promote Grass-roots Behavior Change? Farmer Adoption of Best Management Practices in Two Watersheds,” Society and Natural Resources, Vol. 24, No. 11 (2011), pp. 1127-41.

Becky Cornett and Tina Latimer, Medical Center, “Managing Hospital Readmissions:  An Overview of the Issues,” Journal of Health Care Compliance, Vol. 13, No. 6,  pp. 5-14.

Charles Klopp, French and Italian,  “Workshops of Creation, Filthy and Not: Collodi’s Pinocchio and Shelley’s Frankenstein,” Pinocchio, Puppets and Modernity: The Mechanical Body, ed. Katia Pizzi (London: Routledge, 2011), pp. 63-73.

Richard Meyer, Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, emeritus,  “Subsidies as an Instrument in Agricultural Finance: A Review,” a joint discussion paper with The World Bank, German Federal Ministry Of Economic Cooperation And Development, Food And Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, German Agency For International Cooperation, International Fund For Agriculture Development and the United Nations Capital Development Fund,
June 2011.

Stan Thompson, Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics,  “Structural Change in European Calf Markets: Decoupling and the Blue Tongue Disease,” European Review of Agricultural Economics (2011), with Rico Ihle and Bernhard Brummer.

Roger Williams and Yuhua Tao, Environment and Natural Resources, “A Carbon Management Diagram for Oak-Hickory Forests in Southern Ohio,” Northern Journal of Applied Forestry, Vol. 28, No. 3 (2011), pp. 161-65.

Recognition

Martha Belury, Human Nutrition, was recognized in the Ohio State Alumni Magazine November-December 2011, for her role as co-author of a study that suggests that omega-3 reduces anxiety and inflammation, particularly in elderly and people at high risk for certain diseases.

Evelina Guirado Caceres, Center for Microbial Interface Biology, received a renewal for the Senior Research Training Fellowship award for her work titled “Looking for New Targets of Attack on an Old Dangerous Bug,” from the American Lung Association Research Awards Nationwide, 2011-12.

Janet Ciccone, Education and Human Ecology Advancement, received a Gold award and Honorable Mention for “Success for All Readers” and “No More Food Fights” at the 2011 MarCom international competition.

Harvey Graff, English, was a guest of the students and faculty in the School of Urban and Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Arlington, Dec. 5-6. He participated in several events organized around his 2008 book, The Dallas Myth: The Making and Unmaking of an American City, the urban programs’ and graduate students’ book of the year.

Elena Irwin, Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, has been appointed to the National Research Council Committee on Needs and Research Requirements for Land-Change Modeling.

Gemma McLuckie, Education and Human Ecology Advancement, received a Gold Award for “Peer Pressure” at the 2011 MarCom international competition.

Doug Southgate, Agricultral, Environmental and Development Economics, will serve as co-director of Ohio’s developing shale energy industry OSU Subsurface Energy Resource Center.

Michael Brandl, Fisher College of Business

January 4, 2012

What is the payroll tax?

In December 2010, President Obama signed the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization and Job Creation Act, which extended for one year the reduction in FICA payroll tax that began under the American Reform and Recovery Act of 2009, also known as “the stimulus bill.” Are you confused yet? You are not alone.

Here is the basic idea: The FICA tax (Federal Insurance Contribution Act) is a federal tax imposed on payrolls in order to fund Social Security and Medicare. Up until 2009, employers paid a tax of 6.2 percent of gross income on about the first $100,000 of income, while employees also paid a tax of 6.2 percent subject to the same cap. Funding of Medicare works the same way — employers paid a tax of 1.45 percent on income paid and employees also pay a tax of 1.45 percent, but there is on cap on Medicare earnings.

What is the use of a payroll tax in the economy?

The 2009 act temporarily reduced the employee Social Security tax rate to 4.2 percent down from the 6.2 percent rate. The goal of reducing the payroll tax paid by employees was to give employees more after-tax or tax-home pay. It was hoped that households would use this “extra” income to buy more goods and services and thus help to invigorate a morbid economy. Remember consumer spending makes up roughly 70 percent of the US economy — thus getting consumers to spend more is seen as an important step in getting the economy moving again.

But the temporary payroll tax reduction was set to expire at the end of the year unless it was extended by Congress and signed by the president. After a bitter partisan battle, the reduction has now been extended for another two months, setting up another round of debate in Congress at the end of February.

What are the disagreements over the use of a payroll tax?

The basic disagreement is over how to “pay” for the payroll tax reduction and how long it would last. The Senate wanted to pay for a one-year extension in the payroll tax cut by imposing a 1.9 percent surtax on incomes more than $1 million and increased fees on mortgages backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The House GOP members at first also wanted a one-year extension but they wanted it “paid for” with reductions in government spending, including reducing the number of federal government employees.

Due to the deep divisions in how to pay for a year-long extension, Congress finally agreed to the two-month extension that will be paid for by higher fees on government-guaranteed mortgages. So, the idea is during the next two months the Democrat-controlled Senate and GOP-controlled House can work out a longer payroll tax extension. If they cannot, payroll taxes will increase (by about $80 a month for an average family making $50,000 a year) and some fear this will reduce consumer spending and potentially push the economy back into a recession.

Other economists wonder if all of this talk about temporarily boosting consumer spending isn’t a case of focusing on the symptoms of the problems and not the causes of it. For example, economists have long worried about the misaligned incentives in our financial system, tax code and currency markets. It is these misaligned incentives that many economists see as the main cause of the global financial crisis that started in 2008.

But instead of addressing these bigger structural issues, the US Congress cannot seem to come to agreement over a temporary payroll tax reduction. One wonders when, or if, it will ever move on to the bigger issues our economy faces.

Pablo Tanguay, Department of English

January 4, 2012

Pablo Tanguay is an academic advisor in the English department and unofficial Poet Laureate of the Diversity Services Office in the College of Arts and Sciences.

What are your five favorite books and why?

The Basketball Diaries, Jim Carroll; Without Feathers, Woody Allen; One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie; and Ecclesiastes, possibly King Solomon.

Diaries was a revelation: You could be an athlete, druggie, hipster and poet, all before turning 16. Published in 1978 and recounting Carroll’s life from ages 12-16 in early 1960s NYC, The Basketball Diaries tore this San Francisco boy up. I must have been 15 when my mother (my mother!) passed a copy across the kitchen table. In the end, that thin volume cost me a decade of good citizenship, which doesn’t sound, I know, like much of an endorsement, but I still thank my lucky stars it wasn’t Atlas Shrugged that Mom passed along.

I discovered Woody Allen near the same time — also a gift from my mother. This one struck me as insanely different and far funnier than anything else I had read. In retrospect, I can’t possibly have understood Allen’s more sophisticated existential jokes, but what I remember most is jarring juxtapositions. “The Whore of Mensa,” for example, is the title of one of the collection’s more famous pieces.

One Hundred Years of Solitude. An almost miraculous thing happens as you read this book: Despite the dominant themes of loss and solitude, despite the depravity, duplicity and sinful lust, you are, because Garcia Marquez intertwines so naturally the real and the fantastical, transported to a kind of literary cloud, if such a thing is possible. Trust me, it’s as if Kafka had set The Trial in midair, spun it around and had included seven generations of incest and infighting — and made it all stunningly beautiful and also uproariously funny.

Midnight’s Children: see One Hundred Years of Solitude, 10 years later. Um…OMG.

Ecclesiastes may explain the other favorites, or maybe it’s the other way around: Maybe my exposure to Woody Allen led to my love of Ecclesiastes; certainly a title like One Hundred Years of Solitude had an effect. This relatively short Old Testament text not only explains us better than anything else, but the King James version also is, as importantly, the most perfectly-toned piece of writing under the sun.

Top 3 on 2, 12/8/11

December 7, 2011

Why did you choose to work at Ohio State? In addition to being a graphic designer, I’m also certified in Earth and Space Science Education. The unique opportunity to blend my two passions — art and science — at such a respected institution seemed like a no-brainer.

What do you like about your job? I love being part of the Buckeye Nation. Recently I was a chaperone on a high school trip to New York City, and during our tour of Rockefeller Center, the guide asked where our group was from. When he heard Ohio, his immediate response was, “O-H!” How cool is that?

What is the greatest life challenge you’ve overcome? I’m a recovering under-achiever. I spent years not doing what I said I was going to do because I saw myself failing before I even started. Now I keep a small sticky note taped to my computer monitor that reads, “The only way to find the right idea is to try the wrong one and see what happens.” It’s not a cure, but it does inspire me to take chances I might not otherwise.

How do you apply the ‘One University’ concept?
I spend a lot of time researching university related websites and publications to see if there are elements I can incorporate into projects I’m working on. For example, our college is in the process of redesigning all of its websites, and we’ll be employing the same main navigation method that’s used on osu.edu so that visitors have a consistent online experience. It’s a balancing act because each group, unit or organization wants its own identity, but there’s strength in unified messaging and appearance.

If you weren’t working at Ohio State, what would you rather be doing? I eat, sleep and breathe music, so I’d be employed in the music industry in some way. Maybe I’d have a job at the Paradise Rock Club in my favorite city, Boston. Just about any band that matters has performed there at one time or another.

Who is your hero? This will sound like a joke, but I’m being completely serious — Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She’s the first female protagonist who taught me that a woman doesn’t have to act like a man to be a hero.

What is your favorite activity outside of work? As a recent first-time homeowner, I’ve been spending a lot of time shopping for art to hang on the walls. I’d be happy to fill them from ceiling to floor, so I have to exercise some restraint.

What are you going to do when you retire? Some days I think I’d like to move to Panama or Costa Rica and grow my own coffee. Other days, a lakeside cabin on Lake  Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire sounds good.

To nominate a staff member for an upcoming issue, e-mail oncampus@osu.edu.

Ohio State alumnus and Foundation director Keith Monda and his wife, Linda, have committed $5 million to The Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences to create the Keith and Linda Monda International Experience Scholarships. Within five years, their new endowment will be providing 50 Arts and Sciences students every year with funds for an international experience as part of their degree program. The gift is in support of Ohio State’s comprehensive Fundraising campaign which is expected to launch publicly in the next year.

Monda, who retired in 2008 as president of Coach Inc., earned his bachelor’s and master’s in economics at Ohio State and attributes his success in business to his strong Arts and Sciences education. “Ohio State gave me the disciplined, analytical thinking skills to solve complex business problems,” he said. “If you learn how to think about things in the proper manner, you will use those skills throughout your career.”

Providing the opportunity to travel and experience first-hand the variety of viewpoints, cultures and languages outside of the United States is an important goal for the College of Arts and Sciences, according to Joe Steinmetz, executive dean and vice provost of the college. To that end, the college will contribute $75,000 annually to the Mondas’ scholarships.

“Keith and Linda have dedicated their lives to finding ways to make education and educational experiences accessible and affordable to all persons,” said Steinmetz. “Their extraordinary generosity will ensure that a vital part of a student’s education, the experience of studying abroad, will become a reality for many of our students who do not have the means to experience education and life in another country.”

Ohio State has focused on globalizing its curriculum to better prepare students and is in the top 20 nationally for the number of students studying abroad, according to the national Institute of International Education. In all, 1,945 Ohio State students participated in a study abroad experience during the 2009-10 school year. The average international experience costs $5,000-$7,000 — a cost that for many poses a hurdle. The Monda Scholarships are expected to average $6,000 for students who demonstrate need.

Faculty & Staff, 12/8/11

December 7, 2011

Book

Ali Keyhani, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Design of Smart Grid Renewable Energy Systems (Wiley, 2011).

Grants

Jeffrey Bons and Ali Ameri, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, have received a US Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory grant of $497,223 to conduct advanced turbine technology research for the clean and efficient operation of turbines using fuels derived from coal and containing high amounts of hydrogen. The Ohio State project is called “Effects of Hot Streak and Phantom Cooling on Heat Transfer in a Cooled Turbine Stage Including Particulate Deposition.”

Glenn Daehn, Materials Science and Engineering, and Anthony Luscher, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, received a $400,000 grant from the Alcoa Foundation through Ohio State’s Institute for Materials Research in support of innovative design and manufacturing technologies that will enable the creation of lighter, more environmentally friendly vehicle structures.

Marcelo Dapino, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, received a $1.5 million award from the Ohio Third Frontier Wright Project Program to develop an advanced manufacturing technology for fabricating novel smart materials and structures. The project title is “Integrated Ultrasonic Additive Manufacturing and Laser Machining for Realization of Novel Smart Structures.”

Samir Ghadiali, Biomedical Engineering and Internal Medicine, received a $350,000 National Science Foundation grant for “Biomechanical Mechanisms of Oncogenic Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition,” with Doug Kniss, Biomedical Informatics, Obstetrics and Gynecology and Pediatrics, and Patrick Nana-Sinkham, Internal Medicine. This proposal will utilize a combination of biophysical, molecular biology and quantitative engineering tools to investigate the biomechanical mechanisms that govern cancer metastasis with a goal to develop quantitative biomechanical markers that can be used to more accurately grade tumors and metastatic potential.

Nicole Luthy, Ohio Resource Center, received $1 million from the Ohio Department of Education for the pilot project “Formative Assessment in Middle School (FAMS),” to help teachers develop assessment strategies aligned to the new Ohio standards in English language arts and mathematics.

Bob Mahlman, Center on Education and Training for Employment, received a $466,313 grant from the Ohio Department of Education for “Automated Materials Joining Technology Curriculum Development.”

Helen Malone, Physical Activity and Educational Services, received $48,606 from the Franklin County Board of Developmental Disabilities to advise Buckeyes Behavior Analysis Services, a multi-disciplinary initiative with Ohio State, Columbus Public Schools and Franklin County Board of Developmental Disabilities.

Monadine Mattey, Family and Consumer Sciences, OSU Extension, received $15,000 from the Scioto County Family and Children First Council for “Systematic Training for Effective Parenting.”

Presentations

Bhavik Bakshi, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, presented “Coal Gasification by Conventional versus Calcium Looping Process – A Life Cycle Energy, Global Warming, and Water Assessment,” with L.S. Fan, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and Berrin Kusun and Shwetha Ramkumar, and “Comparing Resource Consumption in the US Economy for 1997 and 2002 via Eco-LCA: A Case Study on Biofuels,” with Erin Landers and Shweta Singh, at the at the International Society of Industrial Ecology conference, Berkeley, Calif., June 7-9.

Tim Berra, Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, emeritus, presented “Charles Darwin: The Concise Story of an Extraordinary Man,” at Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, Oct. 25; “Chasing Nurseryfish and Avoiding Crocodiles in Northern Australia,” at the Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, N.T. Australia, Oct. 28 and at Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, Nov. 9.

Jerry Dannemiller, Wexner Center, served on the panel “Think Tank: Unlocking Strategy with Marketing Masters,” at the National Arts Marketing Project Conference, Louisville, Ky., Nov. 12.

Martin Feinberg, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Mathematics, presented “Thinking about Chemical Reaction Networks” and “Thinking About Chemical Reactors,” as the Richard H. Wilhelm Lectureship in Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., Oct. 3-5.

Rick Freuler, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Cliff Whitfield, Engineering Education Innovation Center, presented “An Overview of Highly Successful First-year Engineering Cornerstone Design Projects,” at the International Conference in Engineering Education, Belfast, Northern Ireland, Aug. 22-26, with Elizabeth Riter, Engineering Scholars, and Yosef Allam, First Year Engineering Program.

Harvey Graff, English and History, chaired and participated in sessions on “Problems of Sources and Methods in the History of Childhood” and “The Existential Problem of Urban Studies,” at the annual meeting of the Social Science History Association, Boston, Mass., Nov. 17-20.

Richard Gumina, Cardiovascular Medicine, presented “A Novel Transgenic Pig Overexpressing Ectonucleoside Triphosphate Diphosphohydrolase 1 (ENTPD-1/CD39) Demonstrates Reduced Myocardial Injury,” at the 2011 American Heart Association Scientific Sessions, Orlando, Fla., Nov. 17.

Sherman Hanna, Consumer Sciences, presented “Using Real Clients in a Capstone Financial Planning Class,” at the CFP Board Registered Program conference, Washington, DC, August 2011, with Michael Gutter.

Beth Kattelman, University Libraries, presented “Lying in the Archives: Magicians, Charlatans and the Economy of Deception,” at the annual conference for the American Society for Theatre Research, Montreal, Quebec, Nov. 19.

Barbara Lehman, Teaching and Learning, presented “NCTE Authors – A Master Class in Children’s Literature: Trends and Issues in an Evolving Field (Children’s Books as Bestsellers),” at the National Council of Teachers of English annual convention, Nov. 19.

Abdel Mohammad, Geriatric Dentistry, presented “Oral Systemic Connection-Diagnosis and Managment as Part of the Health Team,” to the Greater New York Dental Meeting on behalf of the American Academy of Oral Medicine and the American Association of Hospital Dentistry/ Special Care Dentistry Region II Program for their 66th annual meeting.

Oded Shenkar, Business, participated in a free public discussion of how imitation, or a combination of imitation and innovation, what he calls “immovation,” can lead to greater profits than innovation alone, at Ohio State Marion, Nov. 17.

Publications

Becky Cornett and Tina Latimer, Medical Center, “Managing Hospital Readmissions:  An Overview of the Issues,” Journal of Health Care Compliance, Vol. 13, No.6,
pp. 5-14.

Russel Mikkelson, Instrumental Conducting and Ensembles, with former students Lisa Galvin, Brian Sze and Zachary Roberts, jointly composed a work for concert band titled Songs from the Heartland, (Daehn Publications, 2011).

Recognition

Bharat Bhushan, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, has been awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Kragujevac in Serbia for his outstanding contribution to the advancement of engineering sciences and bio/nano technologies as well as his contribution to the development of the faculty of mechanical engineering in Kragujevac.

Mary Juhas, Engineering, was named to the Ohio Women’s Hall of Fame for her extraordinary commitment to excellence, achievement and service to others. The Ohio Women’s Hall of Fame recognizes the many outstanding contributions Ohio women have made to their state and nation.

Minnie McGee, Minority Engineering Program, has been selected as a 2011 “University Rep Unsung Hero” by GEM, the National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science, in recognition of her commitment to the GEM Mission.

Umit Ozkan, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been named a Fellow of the American Chemical Society. Fellows are named for outstanding achievements in and contributions to science, the profession and the society.

Scopas Poggo, African and African American Studies, received the Excellence in Diversity Award at the inaugural Diversity Dinner sponsored by Ohio State Mansfield’s Office of Multicultural Affairs.

The Wexner Center Design Department was awarded Best of Show for a collection of publications entered (including gallery guides, brochures, a catalogue and the calendar), Best of Category (Print) for the Pipilotti Rist catalogue, Awards of Merit (Print) for the Paula Hayes gallery guide and the Joe Dante retrospective brochure and an Award of Merit (Campaign) for the calendar of events, at the Columbus Society of Communicating Arts’ Creative Best awards ceremony, Nov. 17.

Service

Ada Demb, Educational Policy and Leadership, serves on the editorial board for the NACADA Journal.

Belinda Gimbert, Educational Policy and Leadership, and Patty Hanna, Melissa Dudley and Leslie Scott, Project KNOTtT, trained 50 teachers in the Clark County School District, Nevada, June 16-17.

Jackie Goodway, Physical Activity and Educational Services, has been reappointed to Ohio State’s Institutional Review Board to ensure the safety and welfare of subjects in research projects and clinical trials.

Faculty & Staff, 11/17/11

November 16, 2011

Books

Amanda Boetzkes, Art History, The Ethics of Earth Art (Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, 2010).

Christian Kleinbub, Art History, Vision and the Visionary in Raphael (University Park, Pa.: The Pennsylvania University Press, 2011).

Patricia Lather, Educational Policy and Leadership, is author of Engaging Science Policy: From the Side of the Messy, which received a 2011 Critics Choice Book Award from the American Educational Studies Association.

Hari Sharma, Center for Integrative Medicine, emeritus, and Christopher Clark, Ayurvedic Healing (London: Singing Dragon, 2012).

Grants

Gulsah Akar and Steve Gordon, City and Regional Planning, have been awarded a $136,000 grant from the Ohio Department of Transportation to support their project linking land use, transportation and travel behavior in Ohio.

Gil Bohrer, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science, received a $45,000 grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Climate Program for “Improving Process-Level Understanding of the Factors Underlying Long-Term Trends and Year-to-Year Variability in Carbon Sequestration of Northeastern Forests.” He also received two grants from from the US Department of Energy program for Terrestrial Carbon Cycle Research: $1.03 million for “Forecasting Carbon Storage as Eastern Forests Age: Joining Experimental and Modeling Approaches at the Umbs Ameriflux Site,” with Peter Curtis, Evolution, Ecology and Organizational Biology, Chris Gough and Knut Nadelhoffer; and $263,140 for “Effects of Disturbance on Carbon Sequestration in the New Jersey Pine Barrens,” with Karina Schafer, Ken Clark and Nick Skowronski.

Cynthia Buettner, Human Development and Family Science, received $197,707 from the Ohio Commission on Service and Volunteerism for OSU Kid Corps 2011-12, to continue the multi-component program to increase literacy and social skills among at-risk preschoolers.

Ann Clutter, Tony Nye and Brad Bergefurd, OSU Extension, Family and Consumer Sciences, received a $3,000 2011 Neighborhood Mini-Grant Award, 2010.

Belinda Gimbert, Center on Education and Training for Employment and Educational Policy and Leadership, received a $50,000 school improvement grant from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Tomorrow Center, 2011.

John Huntington, Art History, received a Research Enhancement Grant from the Division of Arts and Humanities to conduct research on Buddhist and Himalayan art during the 2011-12 academic year.

The Kirwan Institute Global Justice Program’s Food Justice Program was awarded a Seed Grant Target Award by Ohio State’s Food Innovation Center. The grant will support the launch of Kirwan’s Large Scale Land Acquisitions Mapping Project, which will examine the impact of foreign investors’ acquisition of millions of hectares of arable land in Africa since 2001. Among other factors, the project will study the benefits and impacts of foreign land investments on specific communities and countries in terms of food security, as well as social and ecological-biophysical impacts.

Bill Loadman, Educational Policy and Leadership, emeritus, received $100,000 from the Ohio Department of Education for “Theory-based Measurement” and $178,657 from the Ohio Department of Youth Services to evaluate the Striving Readers program, 2011-13.

Kris Paulsen, Art History, has been awarded a grant from the Getty Research Institute to conduct research on her forthcoming book, Mass Medium: Artists’ Television 1965 to the Present.

Presentations

Tim Berra, Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, presented “Charles Darwin: The Concise Story of an Extraordinary Man,” at the Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Oct. 4, and at Embiggen Books, Melbourne, Oct. 13;  and “The Role of Environmental Scientists in Shaping Public Opinion and Policy,” “Life History of the Australian Grayling, Prototroctes maraena, or Why Does a Fish Smell like a Cucumber?” and “Chasing Nurseryfish and Avoiding Crocodiles in Northern Australia,” at the Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Oct. 11-14.

Carla Curtis, Social Work, presented “Prevailing Risk Assessment Protocols: Are They Culturally Responsive to African American Children and Families?” at the 15th annual Council on Social Work Education annual program meeting, Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 27-30, with Ramona Denby Brinson.

Tamara Davis and Mo Yee Lee, Social Work, presented “Concept Mapping for Curriculum Development: Advancing Stakeholder Engagement through Technology,” at the 15th annual Council on Social Work Education annual program meeting, Curriculum Workshop, Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 27-30.

Elsadig Elsheikh and Wendy Ake, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, presented “Can Africa Survive Land Deals?” at the Food Innovations Seminar Series, Columbus, Nov. 11.

James Genova, History, presented “’Y’En A Marre!’ (We’ve Had Enough): Senegal in the Season of Discontent,” at Ohio State Marion, Nov. 16.

Joe Guada, Social Work, presented “Perceptions toward Mental Illness among African American Adolescents with Psychiatric Disorders,” at the 15th annual Council on Social Work Education annual program meeting, Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 27-30, with D. Kranke and J. Floersch.

Jack Nasar, City and Regional Planning, presented “Perceived Physical Characteristics of Streets for Walkability,” at the 2011 annual meeting and expo of the American Society of Landscape Architects, San Diego, Calif., Oct. 30-Nov. 2.

Susan Saltzburg, Social Work, presented “Teaching LGBTQ Culturally Relevant Practice: Helping Students Unpack Heterosexist and Gender Conventions,” at the 15th annual Council on Social Work Education annual program meeting, Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 27-30.

Publications

Hojjat Adeli, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science, Biomedical Informatics, Neuroscience and Neurological Surgery, co-edited “Advanced Communication and Networking,” a compilation of the refereed proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Advanced Communication and Networking, Brno, Czech Republic, June 2011, with  T.-h. Kim, R.J. Robles and M. Balitanas.

Becky Cornett, Medical Center, “The Physician Documentation Integrity Imperative: A Commentary,” Journal of Health Care Compliance, Vol. 13, No. 5,
pp. 21-6, 62.

Jay Kandampully, Consumer Sciences, “Generation Y as Hospitality Industry Employees: An Examination of Work Attitude Differences,” Journal of Applied Management and Entrepreneurship, with and David Solnet and Anna Hood.

Caezilia Loibl, Consumer Sciences, and David Kraybill and Sara Wackler DeMay, Agricultural Economics, “Accounting for the Role of Habit in Regular Saving,” Journal of Economic Psychology, Vol. 32, No. 4 (August 2011), pp. 581-92.

Recognition

Donna Brown, Family and Consumer Sciences, OSU Extension, was welcomed into the Farm Science Review Hall of Fame for sharing human ecology presentations for 20 years and serving as a member of the Farm Science Review Program and Policy Committee.

Susan Huntington, Art History, emerita, has been named a Fellow at the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton for the 2011-12 academic year. During her fellowship, Huntington will be working on her book on the early Buddhist art of India.

Amy Sturm, Human Genetics and Genetic Counseling, received the 2011 Outstanding Volunteer Award from the National Society of Genetic Counselors at the society’s annual national conference, San Diego, Calif. Sturm was recognized for her volunteerism toward the progress of various committees, task forces and specific projects aiming to advance multiple roles of genetic counselors in health care by promoting education, research and public policy to ensure the availability of quality genetic services.

Yuliang Wang, Precision Measurement and Control Laboratory, has been selected as a 2011 Pelotonia Postdoctorial Fellow. Wang has extensive experience in micro/nanoscale imaging and mechanical property measurement with Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM). His research focuses on application of AFM and vision sensing techniques on mechanical property measurement of cancer cells.

Service

Patricia Enciso, Teaching and Learning, is a member of the Literacy Research Association board of directors, 2011-14.

Darcy Haag Granello, Physical Activity and Educational Services, headed a 40-member team from the Counselor Education Program that raised more than $3,000 in the Columbus Out of the Darkness Community Walk, Oct. 23, to support the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and the OSU Campus Suicide Prevention Program, making it the number one team in fundraising for Central Ohio.

Josh Hawley, Physical Activity and Educational Services and Glenn School, completed a Fulbright Senior Specialist assignment teaching a PhD course on longitudinal research at the State University-Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia, 2011.

Susan Zies, Family and Consumer Sciences, OSU Extension, Lucas County, was chosen to participate in the 2011-12 Staff Leadership Series conducted by The Women’s Place at Ohio State.

Board of Trustees, 11/17/11

November 16, 2011

Enrollment is up, so is quality

The first year of Ohio State’s plan to increase its overall enrollment has gone pretty much according to plan, OSU’s vice president for enrollment services told the Board of Trustees’ Academic Affairs and Student Life Committee Nov. 3.

Dolan Evanovich told the committee the total university enrollment for this year is 64,429, an increase of 352 students, or 0.5 percent from last year. It’s the first year in a five-year enrollment plan that aims to boost that figure to 7,100 by 2015.

The plan also includes goals that address regional campus enrollment, new freshman numbers and quality, diversity and retention.

This year’s incoming freshmen, for example, had higher composite ACT and SAT scores and more were among the top 10 percent of their high school graduating classes. The enrollment plan calls for new freshmen to have an average 29 on their ACT and have 60 percent rank in the top 10 percent of their classes by 2015.

Evanovich also said Ohio State has maintained its 92.8 percent first-year retention rate from last year, aiming for 95 percent by 2015, and said both the four- and six-year graduation rates climbed as well, to 58.4 percent and 79.7 percent, respectively. The aims for those numbers are 62 percent and 83 percent by 2015.

The Ohio State University Board of Trustees approved a variety of personnel, fiscal and construction-related matters at its meeting Nov. 4.

Charter trustee appointed

The board appointed Corbett Price as a charter trustee of the university, for a three-year term beginning Nov. 5. Price, who earned a master’s degree in health administration at Ohio State in 1975, is CEO of Kurron Capital LLC, a healthcare private equity firm. He also is chairman of Kurron & Co. Inc., a management consulting firm that manages health care companies in the US and abroad.

Price has been deeply involved in service to Ohio State, and in 2008 was honored with an Ohio State University Distinguished Service Award for his contributions to society and academics and his dedication to the university. Price joins Charter Trustee Gilbert Cloyd, who was appointed in October 2009.

New affiliate authorized

The board authorized the university to establish OSU India Gateway LLC as an affiliated entity and the newest Global Gateway office. The India Gateway, expected to open in Mumbai in April 2012, will provide opportunities for Ohio State alumni to network and organize events, a portal for study abroad programs and a base for faculty conducting research in India. In addition, the India Gateway will provide a site for recruitment of Indian students, a classroom facility to allow for academic programming and professional education and training programs for employees of Ohio-based and Indian businesses.

The new entity furthers Ohio State’s strategic commitment to become a top global university and establish a presence for the university in strategic locations. Ohio State opened its first gateway office in Shanghai, China, in 2010.

Comprehensive Breast Center named

The board approved the naming of the Comprehensive Breast Center as the Stefanie Spielman Breast Center. The naming honors the significant contributions Stefanie and her husband, Chris Spielman, have raised for the Ohio State Comprehensive Cancer Center – James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute.

Football Complex spaces named

The board approved the naming of spaces inside the Les Wexner Football Complex at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center:

• The Players Private Entrance will be named the Buckeye Private Entrance in recognition of significant contributions to the Woody Hayes Athletic Center made by Kenneth Carpenter in the names of Keith and Brenda Carpenter and Kenneth and Robin Carpenter.
• The practice football field and the Super Bowl Wall will be named The Harold Schumaker Family Football Field and The Super Bowl Wall in recognition of significant contributions to the Department of Athletics by Tina and Byron Trott through the Trott Family Foundation.

Art gallery re-named

Trustees approved re-naming the Farmer Family Art Gallery at Ohio State Lima as the Farmer Family Gallery. The gallery recognizes Martha Farmer, who started the theater program at Ohio State Lima in the 1970s. The new name provides more flexibility for the gallery to include a variety of forms of art.

Building re-named

Trustees approved re-naming the John A. Prior Health Sciences Library as Prior Hall, since the building is no longer used exclusively for a health sciences library.

Personnel actions

The board approved the following personnel appointments:

• Herb Asher has been named senior vice president for Government Affairs, through Sept. 30, 2014.
• Christopher Fairman has been named professor and holder of the Moritz College of Law Alumni Society Designated Professorship in Law in the Moritz College of Law, effective Dec. 1 through Nov. 30, 2016.
• Peter Larsen has been named professor and holder of the Dr. Larry J. Peterson Endowed Professorship in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in the College of Dentistry, through Sept. 31, 2015.

Reappointments

• Casey Hoy has been reappointed professor and holder of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation Endowed Chair in Ecological Management in the College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, through June 30, 2016.
• Bobby Moser has been reappointed executive dean of the professional colleges, through June 30, 2012.
• Keith Smith has been reappointed professor and holder of the George R. and Genevieve B. Gist Endowed Chair in Ohio State University Extension in OSU Extension, through June 30, 2016.

Resolution in memoriam

The board adopted resolutions in memoriam for:

• William Ploughe, associate professor emeritus in the Department of Physics, who died Sept. 9.
• William Shaw, assistant professor emeritus in OSU Extension, who died Aug. 28.
• Donald Young Sr., assistant professor emeritus in OSU Extension, who died Oct. 13.

Pediatric Faculty Practice approved

Trustees approved the creation of the Pediatric Faculty Practice Plan at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. In April, the board approved Faculty Group Practice for physician faculty at Ohio State. The new Pediatric Academic Association Inc. will serve as the faculty practice plan for the faculty physicians who practice at Children’s.

Expression of appreciation

The board expressed appreciation for the work of physician leadership in creating the Faculty Group Practice, the new entity which employs the physician faculty of the College of Medicine.

Construction projects approved

The board authorized the university to enter into professional services contracts for the following project:

Replacement of an Ag Engineering building that was heavily damaged by the September 2010 tornado at the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center in Wooster. Total project budget is $13.8 million to be provided by general funds and insurance.

The board authorized the university to enter into or increase construction contracts for the following project:

Construction of a chilled water plant to support the projects and facilities on south campus, including those that are part of the Medical Center Expansion. The facility will have a total chilled water capacity of 17,500 tons and the ability to expand to an additional 12,500 tons. The construction amount is being increased from $72.5 million to $77.3 million, an increase of 6.6 percent, in order to add a seventh chiller to the project to support the Radiation/Oncology facility, the Cancer and Critical Care Tower and other facilities in the Medical Center Expansion Project. Funding for the project comes from university bond proceeds.

Property sale approved

The board authorized the university to sell approximately 17.7 acres of vacant land located on the south side of Eiterman Road, Dublin, to the City of Dublin for a purchase price of $100,500 per acre.

Property accepted

The board authorized the university to accept a gift of 2.5 acres of improved property located at 456 Partridge Bend in Powell. The property, owned by Steven and Barbara Fishman, has been appraised at values of $850,000 and $880,000. The university has agreed to use the property as transitional housing for faculty and staff until it is sold in approximately three years.

Retirement plans amended

In order to comply with the Internal Revenue Code and other applicable laws, regulations and administrative authority and to make certain administrative changes, trustees approved resolutions to:

• Amend and restate the Ohio Public Higher Education Institutions’ Alternative Retirement Plan.
• Amend the University’s Alternative Retirement.
• Amend The Ohio State University Supplemental Qualified Retirement Plan, renamed The Ohio State University Retirement Continuation Plan.

Self-Insurance Board reappointments approved

Trustees approved the reappointments of Reed Fraley, Dimon McFerson, Hagop Mekhjian and Gary Katz to the Self-Insurance Board, for terms ending April 30, 2013.

Newly established funds

The board accepted the University Foundation Report as of Sept. 30, which included the establishment of two professorships as well as
11 named endowed funds, totaling more than $1.6 million in private gifts to the university.

• Dr. Larry J. Peterson Endowed Professorship in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, $766,212.

• Moritz College of Law Alumni Society Designated Professorship in Law, $42,500 per year, five years.

• Marjorie Fawcett Scholarship Fund, $150,000.

• Novice Fawcett Scholarship Fund, $150,000.

• Advanced Studies in Gerontology Nursing Fund, $125,000.

• Dr. William R. Williams Endowed Fund for the Improvement of Teacher Education, $103,837.

• John W. Villacres Scholarship Fund to Honor SGM Robert Smith and Georgia Ann Smith, $101,288.

• Charles and Barbara Webb Family Scholarship Fund, $71,232.

• Robert J. Freedy, MD, and Lucy R. Freedy, MD, Endowed Cardiovascular Education Fund, $50,000.

• Dr. Walter G. Venzke Endowed Scholarship Fund, $29,975.

• Utzinger Memorial Garden Fund, $25,895.

• Peter W. Spike Dairy Judging Endowment Fund, $25,055.

• The John F. Schuller Scholarship Fund, $25,000.

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