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Faculty & Staff, 1/21/10

January 20, 2010

Books
John Bennett, Avant Writing Collection/Rare Books & MSS Library, published a chapbook of poetry in Spanish, La Vista Gancha (Columbus: Luna Bisonte Prods., 2010).

Erin Greenwald, History, wrote a chapter “To Strike a Balance: New Orleans’ Free Colored Community and the Diplomacy of William Charles Cole Claiborne” in Nexus of Empire: Negotiating Loyalty and Identity in the Revolutionary Borderlands, 1760s-1820s, eds. Gene Allen Smith and Sylvia Hilton (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010), pp. 113-39.

Jesus Lara, Landscape Architecture, wrote a chapter, “Sustainable Phoenix: Lessons from the Dutch Model,” in Visualizing Sustainable Planning (Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009) by Gerhard Steinebach, Subhrajit Guhathakurta and Hans Hagen.

Grants
Karen Ahijevych, Nursing, has been awarded a $412,000 grant by the National Institute of Drug Abuse for “Bitter Taste Phenotype as a Risk Factor of Oral Nicotine Replacement Non-adherence.” The broad objective of this exploratory experiment is to generate data on the interaction of bitter taste phenotype and use of oral nicotine replacement therapy during smoking abstinence.

Shaurya Prakash, Mechanical Engineering, received a $3,665 National Science Foundation Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems grant for “SGER: A Microscale Impedance Measurement System for Nanofluidics.”

P. Sadayappan, Computer Science and Engineering, received a $468,492 National Science Foundation Information and Intelligent Systems grant for “Collaborative Research: An Environment for High-Productivity High-Performance Computing using GPUs/Accelerators.”

Kevin Tavin, Art Education, received a $3,000 grant from the Colleges of the Arts and Humanities for his book proposal, Visual Culture Pedagogy: International and Cross Cultural Pedagogy.

Fernando Teixeira, Electrical and Computer Engineering, received a $269,231 National Science Foundation Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems grant for “New Physics-Based Inverse-Scattering Techniques For Ultrawideband Distributed Sensing.”

Presentations
Simone Drake, African American & African Studies, participated in the Podcast, “Crisis in the Village?: The Morehouse Dress Code,” with Mark Anthony Neal, David Ikard and Jeffrey McCune Jr., Oct. 26 (the podcast is posted at newblackman.blogspot.com); and presented “Racial Democracy, Propaganda and the Transhemispheric Imagination in Danzy Senna’s Caucasia,” at the American Studies Association’s annual conference, Washington, DC, Nov. 5-8.

Cynthia Fontanella and Danielle Hiance, Social Work, presented “Suicidal Adolescent Inpatients at Risk for Early Readmission: The Effect of Psychotropic Medication Changes and Polypharmacy,” with Jeffrey Bridge and John Campo, at the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry’s 56th annual meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, Oct. 27-Nov. 1.

Fred Hitzhusen, Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, presented “Inventory and Economic Potential of Biomass for Energy in Ohio,” at the Green Energy Central Ohio workshop at Columbus State Community College, March 28; and “Renewable Energy Options, Problems and Potential” at the Adult Forum, Overbrook Presbyterian Church, Columbus, March 29.

David Huron, Music, presented “Why Do Listeners Enjoy Music that Makes Them Weep?” as part of the Music and the Brain Lecture Series at the Library of Congress’ Whitall Pavilion, Washington, DC, Dec. 5, 2008. The lecture was in conjunction with his then-newly released book, Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation; presented “Many Musical Worlds: Globalization and the Society of Difference,” at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, Jan. 15, 2009; and “Describing Music, Interpreting Music, Explaining Music,” University of North Carolina, Greensboro, N.C., Jan. 29, 2009.

Sharell Mikesell and Jean Schelhorn, Office of Research, presented “Inventions, IP and Industry: The Ins and Outs of Industry Collaboration and Commercialization,” Columbus, Nov. 3.

At the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 53rd annual meeting, San Antonio, Texas, Oct. 19-23, the following lectures were given: “Application of a Participatory Methodology for Investigating Personal Fall Arrest System Usage in the Construction Industry,” Carolyn Sommerich and Steven Lavender, Integrated Systems Engineering, with D. Liu and E. Sanders; “Comparative Study of Computer Usage Patterns and Prevalence of Musculoskeletal Symptoms Among College Students,” Sommerich, K.N. Cooper and N.H. Campbell; “Dynamic Load Moment Exposure and Spine Function Impairment,” William Marras, Lavender and Sue Ferguson, Integrated Systems Engineering, with R.E. Splittstoesser and G. Yang; “How Panoramic Visualization Can Support Human Supervision of Intelligent Surveillance,” David Woods, Integrated Systems Engineering, and James Davis, Computer Science and Engineering, with A.M. Morison; “Human Factors Issues in the Design of Super-Dense Operations Airspace,” Philip Smith and Amy Spencer, Integrated Systems Engineering, with A. Andre, M. Evans, and J. Krozel; “Identifying Safe Load Moment Exposures for the Back,” Lavender, Marras, Ferguson and Pete Schabo, Integrated Systems Engineering, with R.E. Splittstoesser and G. Yang; “Is There a Lateral Transfer Distance that Minimizes the Twisting and Lateral Bending Motions of the Spine During Box Transfers?” Lavender and M. Johnson; “Musculoskeletal Disorder Risk associated with Auto Rotation Angle during an Assembly Task,” Ferguson, Marras, Gary Allread and Greg Knapik, Integrated Systems Engineering, with K.A. Vandlen, Splittstoesser and Yang; “Understanding Coordination Challenges in Urban Firefighting: A Study of Critical Incident Reports,” Martin Voshell, Integrated Systems Engineering, with M. Branlat, L. Fern and S. Trent.

Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, History, screened “Washing Dishes: A Mid-Life Contemplation,” a digital narrative at the OSU Story Telling Festival and Global Story Box Launch, Columbus, June 3; presented “Journeys toward Peace: Thich Nhat Hanh, the American Peace Movement and the Construction of Political Authenticity,” at the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations annual meeting, Falls Church, Va., June 27; and gave talks about her research and teaching for the Honors Orientation, the Program in Arts and Humanities Development and the TELR Research on Research programs, Columbus, July 2009.

Publications
Katherine Burkman, English, has an original monologue, “My First Pedicure” in a collection entitled MOTHER/DAUGHTER MONOLOGUES: URGENT MATURITY, International Center for Women Playwrights, pp. 100-3.

Elizabeth Hewitt, English, “The Authentic Fictional Letters of Charles Brockden Brown,”  Letters and Cultural Transformations in the United States, 1760-1860, eds. Theresa Strouth Gaul and Sharon Harris. (Ashgate, 2009).

Mary Juhas, Engineering, “Women in Materials Science Committee: Advancing the Future of TMS and MSE,” Journal of Materials, Vol. 61, No. 10 (2009), p. 9.

Stuart Lishan, English, “Winter Count, 1964,” Literature: The Human Experience, 10th ed. (New York: Bedford/ St. Martins, 2010), eds. Richard Abcarian, Marvin Klotz and Samuel Cohen, pp. 1075-77.

Emily Patterson, Health Information Management and Systems, “Evaluation of a Physician Informatics Tool to Improve Patient Handoffs,” Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Vol. 16 (2009), pp. 509-15, with M.E. Flanagan, R.M. Frankel and B.N. Doebbeling.

Brian Roe and Timothy Haab, Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, “Financial and Psychological Risk Attitudes Associated with Two Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in the Nicotine Receptor (CHRNA4) Gene,” with Michael Tilley, Howard Gu, David Beversdorf and Wolfgang Sadee, PLoS ONE, Vol. 4, No. 8.

B.J. Warren, Nursing, and D. Antai-Otong, “The Client with Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders,” Psychiatric Nursing: Biological and Behavioral Concepts, 2nd ed. (Clifton Park, NJ: Thomson Delmar Learning), pp. 383-409, ed. D. Antai-Otong.

Recognition
Dennis Cannon, Art Education, was selected as “2009 Outstanding Arts Educator by the Ohio Art Education Association.

Robert Ladislas Derr, Art, had his work exhibited in “Playing the City,” curated by Matthias Ulrich at the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfort, Germany, April 20-May 6.

Thelma Patrick, Nursing, received the American Organization of Nurse Executives’ Best Paper Award for the abstract “Better VLBW Infant Outcomes in Nursing Magnet Hospitals,” presented at the 2009 International Nursing Administration Research Conference.

Service
Katherine Borst Jones, Music, was guest artist for the Luther College Dorian Festival. She presented a master class for Luther College flute students, conducted the Dorian Festival Flute Choir in performances, performed “Silhouettes” by OSU graduate Roger Cichy with the Luther College Concert Band and gave clinics for band directors, Decorah, Iowa, Feb. 28-March 2; and performed the first movement of Concert for Flute and Wind Orchestra by Michael Mower with the Kent State Stark Concert Band and gave a clinic for the Tuslaw High School Band, Massillon, May 2009.

Koritha Mitchell, English, has been appointed chair of the 2010 Errol Hill Award Committee, which identifies the best book in Black Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies for the American Society for Theatre Research.

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Job titles disappear at Staff Arts and Crafts Exhibit

August 12, 2009

by Adam King

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Faculty and Staff accomplishments, 6/18/09

June 18, 2009

Books
Richard Dutton, English, edited The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theatre (Oxford University Press, 2009).

Karen Leick, English, Gertrude Stein and the Making of an American Celebrity (New York: Routledge, 2009).

Grants
Elizabeth Dayton and Robert Mullen, Environment and Natural Resources, have been awarded $75,193 for their project “Linking Soil Test Phosphorus with Agricultural Runoff Phosphorus” and $75,133 for their project “Best Management Practices for Mitigating Phosphorus Movement from Agricultural Fields” from the USEPA through the Great Lakes National Program Office.

David Stebenne, History, received a Mershon Center Faculty Research Grant to support research on his new book project (a political history of the USA from the 1930s through the 1960s).

Presentations
Greg Anderson, History, presented “Slavery and the State in Classical Athens: An Illiberal Perspective” at the Conference of Midwestern Greek Historians and Political Theorists, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., April 26.

Ray Cashman, English, presented “Working Relationships in the Field: Cases For and Against Friendship,” second annual Workshop on Fieldwork, Columbus, May 9.

Ozeas Costa Jr., Continuing Education, presented “Challenges and Opportunities for the Use of Technology in Geography Education at the Secondary Level: A Case Study From North-Central Ohio,” at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, Nev., March 22-27.

David Dennis, History, presented “Deserteurs, Syphilitic Sailors and Prodigal Sons: Transnational Masculinities in the Foreign Port City” at the 2009 Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar in German History, Washington, DC, April 29-May 2.

Liv Gjestvang, Digital Union and Faculty & TA Development, was one of three featured speakers at the University of Wisconsin’s conference Digital Storytelling Across the UW System, Madison, Wis., Nov. 6.

Claudio Gonzalez, Agriculture, Evironmental and Development Economics, presented “The Impact of the Financial Crisis on Microfinance and the Poor” at the International Symposium on Microfinance as a Tool for Peacebuilding, Cali, Colombia, Jan. 22-23.

Ronald Hammond, Entomology, presented “Field Crop Insects and Transgenic Corn,” at the Wayne County Agronomy Day, Wooster, March 4; and “Field Crop Insect Update,” at the Tri-County Agronomy Day, Carrollton, March 5.

Susan Hartmann, History, presented an invited paper, “‘Rights Liberalism’ and the Material Bases of Second-Wave Feminism,” at the Fourth International Conference in American Political History, Rethinking American Liberalism: Progressive Politics and the Public Sphere, Boston University, Boston, Mass., March 20.

David Horn, Entomology, presented “Moths of Ohio: The Joy of Moth-ing.” Appalachian Butterfly Conference, Shawnee State Park, Aug. 9.

Glenn Kranking, History, presented “Island People: The Swedish Diaspora in Estonia, 1870-1944” at the American Swedish Institute, Minneapolis, Minn., Oct. 5; and “The Sovietization of Estonia” at John Carroll University, University Heights, March 26.

Koritha Mitchell, English, was an invited participant in “Afrosonics: Grammars of Black Sound,” at the Black Performance Theory Working Group, Yale University, New Haven, Conn., May 8-10.

Kristen Mosier, Research Foundation, presented “Cayuse424 Introduction,” Columbus, April 7.

Rob Padilla, History, presented “Red Cross Nurses in Military Hospitals during Wartime: The Emergence of a Modern  Medicalized Female Identity in the Meiji Period (1868-1912),” at the Midwest  Conference on Asian Affairs at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minn., Oct. 10-12.

Martin Ponce, English, presented “All for Love, But for the Lovers,” at the Association for Asian American Studies, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 23.

Matt Roberts, Food, Agriculture and Environmental Science, presented “The Truth About Ethanol” to the Dairy Business Association’s Dairy Expansion Symposium at Lambeau Field, Green Bay, Wis., Jan. 28; and “Basis and Convergence Problems in the CME Wheat Market” at the Alabama Seed Improvement Association annual meeting, Panama City, Fla., March 2.

David Staley, History, presented “Imagination Management: Visualizing Future Scenarios” and “Analyzing Future 21st Century National Security Challenges: Strategic Reconnaissance and Creative Thinking to Prevent Strategic Surprise,” at the Proteus USA conference, US Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pa., Sept. 18.

Mazeika Sullivan, Environment and Natural Resources, presented “Fractals, Food Webs & Feathers: The Role of Birds in Reshaping River Ecology” at the Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, Department of Zoology, University of Cape Town, South Africa, Feb. 22.

Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, History, presented “Compulsory Heteronormativity and the Politics of Asian/Asian American Nationalism” and also served as the chair and commentator for a panel on “Grassroots Organizing, Transnational Politics: Housing Struggles in the Asian American Movement” at the Association for Asian American Studies Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 24-25.

Publications
Bharat Bhushan, Mechanical Engineering, “Nanotribological and Nanomechanical Properties of Lubricated PZT Thin Films for Ferroelectric Data Storage Applications,” Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A, Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 768-76, with M. Palacio; “Thermally-Treated Pt-Coated Silicon AFM Tips for Wear Resistance in Ferroelectric Data Storage,” Acta Materialia, Vol. 56, No. 16, pp. 4233-41, with M. Palacio and K. Kwak; and “Platinum-Coated Probes Sliding at up to 100 mm/s against Lead Zirconate Titanate Films for Atomic Force Microscopy Probe-Based Ferroelectric Recording Technology,” Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A, Vol. 26, No. 4,  pp. 783-93 and Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology, July 14, with Kwak.

Terri Fisher, Psychology, “The Impact of Socially Conveyed Norms on the Reporting of Sexual Behavior and Attitudes by Men and Women,” Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Vol. 45, pp. 567-72.

Brian McHale, English, “Models, or, Learning from Science Fiction,” Foreign Literature Studies, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 9-29.

Julian Markels, English, Introduction to Billy Budd and Other Tales by Herman Melville, (Signet Classics, 2009) pp. vii-xiii.

William Marras, Industrial, Welding and Systems Engineering; Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation; and Orthopaedic Surgery, “National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) Future Directions in Occupational Musculoskeletal Disorder Health Research,” Applied Ergonomics, Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 15-22, and “Point of View,” Spine, Vol. 34 (2009), No. 4, p. 322.

Chan Park, East Asian Languages and Literatures, “A Literary Study of P’ansori 2008,” P’ansori, National Center for Korean Traditional Performing Arts Korean Music Manuscript Series, pp. 129-162.

Raj Shrestha, David Ussiri and Rattan Lal, Environment and Natural Resources, “Terrestrial Carbon Sequestration Potential in Reclaimed Mine Land Ecosystems to Mitigate the Greenhouse Effect,” Rattan Lal and Ronald Follett, editors, Soil Carbon Sequestration and the Greenhouse Effect, SSSA Spec. Publ. 57, pp. 321-46.

Doug Stutton-Ramspeck, English, “Eating Words,” Coal City Review, Vol. 26, p. 99; “Ebony Bed” and “Wooing,” The Pinch, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 86-7; “Foursquare,” Cider Press Review, Vol. 10, p. 10; “History of Daylight,” Slant, Vol. 23, pp. 74-5; “Hunger,” Main Street Rag, Vol. 14, No. 2, p. 89.

Recognitions
Jim Bennett, History, was awarded first prize in the Humanities division at the Hayes Graduate Research Forum for his presentation “The Measure of Literacy in Late Medieval England: The Case of St. Albans, 1237-1399,” Columbus, April.

Alan Farmer, English, has been selected by the English Undergraduate Organization as the Undergraduate Professor of the Year.

Gordon Grigsby, English, was awarded an Honorable Mention for his poem, “An Ocean Sound,” in the 2009 Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation Poetry Contest.

Barbara Hanawalt, History, had three sessions of papers given in her honor at the 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Mich., May 8.

Lisa Lex, Optometry, American Optometric Student Association, has earned the Clinical Attending of the Year award.

Ethan Knapp, English, has been selected by the English Graduate Organization as the Graduate Professor of the Year.

Greg Nixon, Optometry, American Optometric Student Association, has earned the Faculty Member of the Year award.

Service
Donna Guy, History, judged humanities senior projects at the Denman Undergraduate Research Forum, Columbus, May 13.

Galal Walker, East Asian Languages and Literatures, participated in a discussion on the Asian Hour, WERE 1300, Cleveland, Feb. 22, topics included US-China relations, intercultural communication, the role of Confucius Institutes and Chinese language study in Ohio.