Books

Margaret H. Meeker, University Hospitals, Care of the Patient in Surgery, 11th edition, (St. Louis, Mo: Mosby, 1999).

Kenneth E. Rinaldo, Art and Technology, editor, Leonardo Digital Salon Catalog, Vol. 31, No. 5 (1998).

Grants

Susan Delagrange, Writing Center-Mansfield, Marcia Dickson, English-Marion, and John Norman, English, $23,359.50 Battelle Endowment for Technology and Human Affairs Grant for "Development of the Summer 2000 Institute on Teaching and Technology for English Teachers," 1999-2000.

Timothy Gregory, History, $21,470 Institute for Aegean Prehistory Grant for "Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey."

Helen M. Marks, Educational Policy and Leadership, $20,000 Committee on Urban Affairs Grant for "Organizational Learning in University District Schools: Using Benchmarks for School Improvement," 1999-2000.

Stephen Tracy, Greek and Latin, $15,000 Gladys Kriebl Delmas Foundation Grant for "Digitized Images of Dated Athenian Decrees."

Presentations

David Cressy, History, presented "Railing and Insulting Language: Lay and Clerical Tongue-Smiting in Early Modern England" at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Ala., March 1.

Melissa Ianetta, English, presented "Fair Shrift for Shreve: Identity and History in Absalom, Absalom!" at the 20th Century Literature conference, University of Louisville, Louisville, Ky., Feb. 25.

F. Abiola Irele, Comparative Studies, presented "The Origins of African Discourse: The Life of Olaudah Equiano" at La Vie Intellectuelle, Artistique et Politique en Afrique Occidentale conference, Porto-Nove, Benin Republic, October 1998.

N.F. Johnson and L. Musetti, Entomology, presented "Data Warehousing Architecture and Tools for Hymenoptera Biodiversity Informatics" at the Fourth International Hymenopterists conference, Canberra, Australia, Jan. 9.

Tom Kasuli, Comparative Studies, presented "Intimacy and Integrity: Cultural Orientations for Understanding Relationship" at Emory University, Feb. 12 and "Intimacy: An Approach to Understanding Japanese Philosophy" and "Comparative Religion as a Resource for the Philosophy of Religion" at Indiana Univerity, South Bend, Feb. 17-18.

Charles Klopp, French and Italian, presented "Son et Lumière in the Novels of Roberto Cotroneo" at the 20th Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, Louisville, Ky., Feb. 26.

Nancy K. Lowe, Community, Parent-Child and Psychiatric Nursing, presented "Variables Influencing Incidence of Cesarean Section Birth," "Gynecologic Self-Care and Military Women in Austere Environments" and "Writing Clinical and Professional Articles for Nursing Publications" at the 23rd Annual Midwest Nursing Research Society conference, Indianapolis, April 1999; "Coping with Labor: Pain and Other Nuiscances" at the Pharmacologic and Non-Pharmacologic Management of Pain During Pregnancy, Delivery and the Post-Partum Conference at Seton Perinatal Center, Paterson, N.J., October 1998; and "Living the Professional Life -- Principles, Princes and Passions" at the Sigma Theta Tau International Conference, Columbus, June 1998.

M. Patrice McCarthy, Community, Parent-Child and Psychiatric Nursing, presented "Women's Lived Experience with Infertility after Unsuccessful Medical Treatment" at the Children's Hospital Research Colloquium, Columbus, November 1998.

John McCombe, English, presented "Architecture, Authority, and Personal Space in Conrad's 'The Secret Sharer'" at the 20th Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, Louisville, Ky., Feb. 26.

H. Niemczyk, Entomology, presented "Activity Spectrum of New Turf Insecticides" and "Biologically Based Turfgrass Management, What is It?" at the Ohio Turfgrass Conference, Columbus, Dec. 7-10.

Hannah O'Handley, Community, Parent-Child and Psychiatric Nursing, presented "Effects of Second Hand Smoke" at the Children's Hospital Infectious Disease Unit, Columbus, Dec.-Jan.; and "Jumping Jeopardy: Ban Trampolines" at the Ohio Chapter of National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates and Practitioners, Columbus, Sept. 25.

Franklin Proa–o, Comparative Studies, presented "Irreverent Religious Protest in Latin American Feminist Poetry" at the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies, Colorado Springs, Colo., Feb. 18.

Sylvia Reynolds-Blakely, Community, Parent-Child and Psychiatric Nursing, presented "Health Promotion in School-Aged Children" at Sharon Kornegay's Show Connections, August 1998.

Kenneth E. Rinaldo, Art and Technology, presented "Art and the Physics" at the American Association of Physics Teachers conference, Los Angeles, January 1999.

Linda Haverty Rugg, Germanic Languages and Literatures, presented "Impossible Family Albums: RE-Visioning the WWII Combat Soldier in Saving Private Ryan and the Exhibit Crimes of the Wehrmacht" at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., March 10.

Nancy Ryan-Wenger, Community, Parent-Child and Psychiatric Nursing, presented "Impact of the Threat of War on Military Children. Pediatric Nursing Research: Making It Happen" at the Fourth Biennial Pediatric Nursing Research Conference, Cincinnati, Nov. 13; and "Gynecologic Self-Care and Military Women in Austere Environments" at the First Federal Nursing Poster Session, AMSUS Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Nov. 10.

Paulette P. Schmidt, Optometry, presented "Realities of Implementing State-Mandated Preschool Vision-Screening Programs" at the Optical Society of America conference, Santa Fe., N.M., Feb. 20.

A. Sharkov, J. Noyes and J. Woolley, Entomology, presented "Monophyly of the Encyrtidae and Evolution of Major Lineages within the Family" at the Fourth International Hymenopterists Conference, Canberra, Australia, Jan. 6-11.

Theresa Skybo, Community, Parent-Child and Psychiatric Nursing, presented "Implementing Anticipatory Guidance" at Children's Hospital, Columbus, September 1998.

Jennifer Terry, Comparative Studies, presented "Gender and Technology: A Traveler's Questions about Reception Practices" at the Media, Art and Society Symposium, Stockholm, Sweden, Dec. 9.

A. Tores and C. Hoy, Entomology, presented "Determining the Relationship Between Carrot Weevil Infestations, Damage and Planting Dates of Parsley" at the 53rd Annual Celeryville Muck Crops School, Willard, Jan. 14.

Barbara Warren, Community, Parent-Child and Psychiatric Nursing, presented "Deaf Culture and Implications for Intervention" at the Second Conference on Effective Clinical Interventions with Persons who are Deaf/Hard of Hearing and Mentally Ill, Columbus, November 1998; "What is Nursing: A Cultural Perspective" at Hilliard Darby High School, Hilliard, November 1998; "Culture: A Value in Our Lives" at the ADAMH Board, Columbus, October 1998; and "Symptomatology and Medication Monitoring for Public Mental Health Consumers" and "Encountering Intercultural Training within the Nursing Discipline: Consumers and Collaborative Partners" at the American Psychiatric Nurses Association conference, Orlando, Fla., October 1998.

Julia Watson, Comparative Studies, presented "Voicing' Deaf-Mute Subjectivity Postcolonially: The Case of Moussa Ly Sangarè" at the Modern Langauges Association conference, San Francisco, Dec. 27-30.

Sabra Webber, Comparative Studies, presented "The Role of the Enigma in the Tunisian 'Imaginaire'" at the University of Tunis, Oct. 23; "Inshallah Khier: Narrative Theories Around the Story of a Dream" at the Center for Maghrib Studies, Tunisia, Nov. 13; and "Bish Nakilik Mnama: Thèorie de la narration autour de l'histoire d'un r�ve" at the National Center for Social Science and Economics Research, Tunisia, Nov. 18.

Publications

Lee K. Abbott, English, "Speaking for Myself," Epoch, Vol. 47, Nos. 2 and 3 (1998), pp. 255-62.

Kelly Anspaugh, English-Lima, "Circe Resartus: William Browne's 'Circe and Ulysses Masque' and 'To the Lighthouse,'" Virginia Woolf: Renaissance Woman, edited by Sally Greene (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1999), pp. 161-91.

Xiaomei Chen, Comparative Studies, "Modern Chinese Spoken Drama," Columbia History of Chinese Literature edited by Victor Mair, (Columbia University Press, 1998); and "Growing Up with Posters During the Cultural Revolution: Gendered Body, Cross-Dressing and Androgyny in Maoist China," Posters of the Cultural Revolution, edited by Stephanie Donald and Harriet Evan (London: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999).

David Citino, English, "Words Truly Soar Once Released as Joyous Noise," Columbus Dispatch (March 14).

F. Abiola Irele, Comparative Studies, "African Philosophy: Francophone," Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Edward Craig, Vol. 1, (London: Routledge, 1998), pp. 108-17.

Kenneth E. Rinaldo, Art and Technology, "Artificial Life Art," New York Arts Magazine (December 1998).

Jennifer Terry, Comparative Studies, "Agendas for Lesbian Health: Countering the Ills of Homophobia," Revisioning Women, Health, and Healing, edited by Adele E. Clarke and Virginia L. Olesen (New York: Routledge, 1999).

Hugh Urban, Comparative Studies, "India's Darkest Heart: Kali in the Colonial Imagination," Kali: Goddess of Extremes, edited by Hugh Jeffrey Kripal and Rachel McDermott (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999); "A Dance of Masks: The Esoteric Ethics of Frithjof Schuon," Crossing Boundaries: Ethics, Antinomianism and the History of Mysticism, edited by G. William Barnard and Jeffrey J. Kripal (Albany: SUNY Press, 1999); and "The Torment of Secrecy: Ethical and Epistemological Problems in the Study of Esoteric Traditions," History of Religions, Vol. 37, No. 3 (1998).

Julia Watson, Comparative Studies, "Unspeakable Difference: The Politics of Gender in Women's Autobiographies," Women, Autobiography, Theory: A Reader, edited by Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson (University of Wisconsin Press, 1998).

Sabra Webber, Comparative Studies, "Middle East Studies and Subaltern Studies," Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, Vol. 31, No. 1 (1998), pp. 11-16.

Recognitions

Terry Barrett, Art Education, was visiting artist/scholar at the University of Georgia Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, Ga., Feb. 14-18.

Paul Butler, Humanities, has become a Certified Novell Engineer.

Michelle Herman, English, received an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship.

F. Abiola Irele, Comparative Studies, is a Visiting Overseas Fellow at Churchill College, University of Cambridge, 1999.

Bill Roorbach, English, received an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship.