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Faculty-Staff, 8-13-09

August 13, 2009

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Job titles disappear at Staff Arts and Crafts Exhibit

August 12, 2009

by Adam King

When Andy Hudson gets lost in his work, he’s not talking about his role as an associate director of medical education in the College of Medicine. Instead it’s his time spent near a 2,000-degree furnace as he turns a ball of molten glass into a distinctive visual interpretation of his happiest emotions. Continue reading ‘Job titles disappear at Staff Arts and Crafts Exhibit’

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.