Appointment

Raymond W. Lawton, National Regulatory Research Institute, was appointed Director of the Institute, November, 1998.

Books

Darin J. Meeker, Athletics, Positive Transitions for Student Athletes: Life Skillls for Transitions in Sport and Career, (Scottsdale, Az.: Holcomb Hathaway, Inc., 1999).

Linda Mizejewski, English, Ziegfeld Girl: Image and Icon in Culture and Cinema(Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1999).

Karla Zadnik and Joseph T. Barr, Optometry, Diagnosis, Contact Lens Prescribing and Care of the Keratoconus Patient (Woburn, Mass.: Butterworth Heinemann, 1999).

Grants

Lizbeth Bryant, English-Mansfield, $20,000 National Writing Project Grant to establish The Mid Ohio Writing Project Site in Mansfield; and $900 Council of Writing Program Administrators Grant for a nationwide study of writing programs at the millennium, co-recipient is Maureen Hourigan, Kent State.

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

Presentations

Carol Bininger and Kathrynn Thompson, Community, Parent-Child and Psychiatric Nursing, presented "Boundaries Group" at the Columbus Area Community Mental Health Center, Columbus, Ohio, March 8, 15, 22, 29 and May 6, 13, 20 and 27.

John Burnham, History, presented "The Future of the Human Sciences" at the European Society for the History of the Human Sciences, Durham, England, Aug. 29; "Deinstitutionalizing of Mental Patients in the 1950s: The Topeka Experiment" at the National Library of Medicine History Seminar, Bethesda, Md., Dec. 16; and "How the 20th-Century Mental Hospital Became Demonized" at the International Symposium of History of Psychiatry on the Threshold of the 21st-Century--Two Millennia of Psychiatry in West and East, Nagoya, Japan, March 21.

Wen Chern, Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, presented "Econometric Analysis of China's Agricultural Trade Behavior" at the annual Regional Committee WCC-101 conference, San Diego, Calif, Feb. 8-9; and "Demand for Food and Demand for Health: Some Methodological Issues" at the International Conference on Health Economics, Taipei, Tiawan, March 25-26.

Katherine David-Fox, History, presented "'Boyish Tricks' and the End of Noblesse: The Political and Literary Rebellion of the 1890s Generation" at the Russian and East European Center's Distinguished Lectures Colloquium, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Ill., March 23.

Fred Hitzhusen, Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, presented "Global Population, Food and Environment" at the Wooster Great Decisions Program, College of Wooster, Feb. 2; "Economics and the Environment" at the Terraqua Club, Ohio State's School of Natural Resources, Columbus, Feb. 3; "The Eonomics of Land Degradation" at Ohio State's School of Natural Resources, Columbus, Feb. 5; and "A Resource Economic Perspective on Erosion Control for Non Economists" at the International Erosion Control Association's 30th annual conference, Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 22-26.

Denis J. Hollern, University Police, presented "Basic Firearms for Dignitary Protection" at the American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers conference, Albuquerque, N.M., Jan. 19-23.

Anelia Katchova and Alan Randall, Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, presented "Welfare Analysis of the Chinese Grain Policy Reforms" at the SAEA conference, Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 2.

Susan Kent, Teaching and Learning-Newark, presented "Interdisciplinary, Inquiry-Based Instruction: Collaboration Among Teacher Educators, Preservice and Inservice Teachers," co-presenter was Mary Bendixen-Noe, and "Differences in Level of Concerns Between Students Completing Bachelor's or Master's Level Teacher Preparation Programs" both at the Association of Teacher Educator's Annual Conference, Chicago, Ill., Feb. 17; and "The Development of Integrated, Professional Portfolios as a Culminating Project in a Preservice Master of Education Program" at the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education Conference, Washington, D.C., Feb. 27.

David Kraybill, Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, presented "A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis of the Great Lakes Water Quality Initiative" at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., Feb. 18; and "A Regional Economic Model for Simulating the Effects of Water Quality Change" to the Department of Resource Economics and Policy, University of Maine, April 2.

Ernest Liuand Wen Chern, Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, presented "Food Consumption in Urban and Rural China: Quantity Versus Quality" at the American Council on Consumer Interests 45th annual conference, Chicago, Ill., March 24-27.

M. Patrice McCarthy, Community, Parent-Child and Psychiatric Nursing, presented "Honoring Women's Experience with Infertility: A Dialogue Between Phenomenological and Feminist Theory Construction" and "Researching Women's Lived Experiences with Infertility Utilizing a Caring Framework" at Advances in Qualitative Methods conference, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, February 1999.

Jennie Nickel, Community, Parent-Child and Psychiatric Nursing, presented "Discharge from Home Care: A Process Analysis" and "Home Care Discharge Planning" at the Research Forum, Ohio State's College of Nursing, Nov. 10, and at First Choice Home Care Agency, Nov. 24; and "Epidemiology as Applied in Public Health Nursing" at Ohio State's School of Public Health, Nov. 4.

Christopher Reed, History, presented "The Ambiguous Origins of Modern Consumer Patronage: Publishers and Readers in Late 19th- and Early 20th-Century China" at the 51st annual conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Boston, Mass.

Brian Roe, Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, presented "Why Cattle Inventories Cycle but Dairy Don't" at the Dept. of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University, Jan. 19; and "Modeling Biological Populations with Distributed Parameter Systems" to the Department of Materials Engineering, Ohio State, Columbus, Feb. 19, co-presenter was Chris Allen.

Pamela Salsberry, Community, Parent-Child and Psychiatric Nursing, presented "Asthma Care within the Ohio Medicaid Program" at the Ohio Board of Regents, Ohio Department of Human Services Symposium, June 1998; "Bioethics" at Ohio State's Min-Medical School Course, March 1999; and "Future of Community Health" to LifeCare Executive Staff, February 1999.

Belinda Seimer, Community, Parent-Child and Psychiatric Nursing, presented "Working with Teens" at Mary Rutan Hospital, Bellefontaine, Ohio, March 1999; and "When Should 'Eating Disorders' Be in Your Differential Diagnosis?" at Ohio NAPNAP, September 1998.

Brent Sohngen, Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, presented "Climate Change and Timber Markets: Global and Regional Effects" to the Department of Agriculture, Resource and Managerial Economics, Cornell University, Feb. 18; and "Conservation Set-Asides and Market Effects" at the Western Regional Research Group W-133 conference, Tucson, Ariz., Feb. 24-26.

Doug Southgate, Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, presented "Economic Progress and Habitat Conservation at University College London, Jan. 19; "Environmental and Natural Resource Economics: An Overview" at the Institute of Resource Assessment, University of Dar es Salaam, Feb. 1; "Economic Progress and Habitat Conservation in Latin America" to the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, and Woodrow Wilson School, March 1; "Public Policy, Agricultural Development and the Fate of Forests in South America" at the CIFOR Workshop on Agricultural Intensification and Deforestation, Turrialba, Costa Rica, March 11-13, co-presenters were Boris Bravo-Ureta and Morris Whitaker; and "Tanzania's New Wildlife Policy" at the International Resources Group, Washington, D.C., March 23.

George D. Spence and W. Alan Washer, University Police, presented "Reasonable Force and Reliable Restraint Techniques" at the American Society of Law Enforcement Trainer conference, Albuquerque, N.M., Jan. 19-23.

Kathrynn Thompson, Community, Parent-Child and Psychiatric Nursing, presented "Crisis Intervention in the Workplace" at Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio, January 1999; "Wellness Group Series" at Columbus Area Community Mental Health Center, Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 8 and 13 and Oct. 30; "An Integrated Treatment Approach for Clients with Severe Mental Disability and Chemical Dependence" at Columbus Area Community Mental Health Center, Columbus, Ohio, March 1999, co-presenter was Arlene Thompson; and "A Collaborative Framework: Promoting Group Initiatives in Community Psychiatric Clinical Practice" at the American Psychiatric Nurses Association Conference, Orlando, Fla., Oct. 19, co-presenter was Arlene Thompson.

Cameron Thraen, Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, presented "Dairy Risk Management" athe Southern Dairy Conference, Atlanta, Feb. 9, and at the Western Dairy Conference, Denver, March 18; and "The Integrated Dairy Risk Management Education Program" at the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation Commodity Conference, Columbus, March 23.

Luther Tweeten, Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, presented "Free Market Considerations" at the SAEA conference, Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 1; "U.S. Agriculture and Farm Programs: What the Future Might Hold" at the American Farm Bureau Federation Grains Advisory Committee conference, Orlando, Fla., Feb. 19-21; and "Trade Uncertainty and the New Farm Programs" at the Agricultural, Globalization, Trade and the Environment conference, University of California, Berkeley, March 7-9.

Judy Wu, History, presented "Dr. Margaret Chung and Asian American Women's History" at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Ill., March 30.

Publications

Tim M. Berra, Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology-Mansfield, "Is the Chilean Galaxias Globiceps (Teleostei Galaxiidae) Extant or Extinct?" Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, Vol. 9, No. 3 (1998), pp. 273-78, co-author is C.D. Barbour.

Mansel Blackford, History, "Small Business in America: An Historical Overview," Small Firms, Large Concerns: The Development of Small Business in Comparative Prespective, edited by Konosuke Odaka and Minoru Sawai (Oxford University Press, 1999).

Susan Kent, Teaching and Learning-Newark, "Saints or Sinners: The Case for an Honest Portrayal of Historical Figures," Social Education, Vol. 63, No. 2 (January/February 1999).

Jennie Nickel, Community, Parent-Child and Psychiatric Nursing, "Computer Information Systems of Ohio Home Care Agencies," Caring Magazine (1998), pp. 20-25, co-author is J. Coleman; "Physiological Markers of Aerobic Exercise in HIV," Proceedings of the 12th International AIDS Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, (1998), co-authors are J. Neidig and M. Para, Internal Medicine, and B. Smith and R. Foss.

Leila Rupp, History, and Verta Taylor, Sociology, "Forging Feminist Identity in an International Movement: A Collective Identity Approach to 20th Century Feminism," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Winter 1999), pp. 363-86.

Pamela Salsberry, Community, Parent-Child and Psychiatric Nursing, "Epistemology" and "Health Care Reform and Nursing Research," Encyclopedia of Nursing Research, edited by J. Fitzpatrick, (1998).

Belinda S. Seimer, Community, Parenty-Child and Psychiatric Nursing, and B.A. Cromer, Pediatrics, "Depot Medroxyprogesterone Acetate (Depo-Provera) and Levonorgestrel (Norplant) Use in Adolescents Among Clinicians in Northern Europe and the United States," Journal of Adolescent Health, Vol. 23, No. 2 (1998), pp. 74-80, co-authors are K.S. Berg-Kelly, J.P. van Groningen and L. Ruusavaara.

K.S. Stone, Adult Health and Illness Nursing, "Biomedical Instrumentation," pp. 243-55, and "Collabaration," pp. 182-90, both in Using and Conducting Nursing Research in the Clinical Setting, Second edition, edited by M.A. Mateo and K.T. Kirchhoff, (Philadelphia, Pa.,: Saunders, 1999).

R. Widdows, Consumer and Textile Sciences, "Recruiting for Customer Service Representatives in the High Tech Era: Should We Put People Skills or Computer Skills First?" Customer Relationship Management, Vol. 3, No. 4 (1998), pp. 28-31, co-author is P. Royer.

YŸgel Yanikdag, History, "Ottoman Prisoners of War in Russia, 1914-22," Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 34, No. l (1999), pp. 69-85.

Y. Yuh, Consumer and Textile Sciences, "Retirement Income Inequality: Implications for Personal Financial Education," Proceedings of the Association for Financial Counseling and Planning Education, (1998), pp. 169-75, co-authors are J.J. Xiao and Lakshimi Malroutu; and "Are Americans Prepared for Retirement?" Financial Counseling and Planning, Vol. 9, No. 1 (1998), pp. 1-12, co-authors are C.P. Montalto and S. Hanna.

S.L. Zavotka, Consumer and Textile Sciences, "Creative Writer's Psychological and Environmental Needs in their Home Interior Writing Environments," Journal of the American Association of Housing Educators, Vol. 23, No. 3 (1998), pp. 1-25, co-author is M.A. Timmons.

Recognitions

Sharon Bailes and Beverly D'Andrea, Medical Microbiology and Immunology, received the College of Medicine and Public Health and Office of Health Sciences Co-Employee of the Month Award for June.

Barbara Becker-Cantarino, Germanic Languages and Literatures, received an American Fulbright Scholarship to the Technical University of Dresden, Germany, for "The Culture of Violence: War, Witch Hunts, and Tolerance-from Luther to Kant."

Bharat Bhushan, Mechanical Engineering, received an American Fulbright Scholarship to the Technical University of Vienna, Austria, for "Micro/Nanotribological Studies of MEMS Devices."

Carol Pitts Diedrichs, University Libraries, received the Leadership in Library Acquisitions Award from the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services Acquisitions Section.

William Farrar, Surgical Oncology, Charles Shapiro, Breast Medical Oncology, and Edward Martin, Surgery, were listed in the "exclusive guide to the country's most renowned experts for lung, breast and colon disease" for women in the March 1999 issue of Good Housekeeping.

Victor J. Mayer, Geological Sciences, emeritus, received an American Fulbright Scholarship to Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, Japan, for "Assessing the Potential Role of Global Science Literacy and Earth Systems Education for Japanese Secondary School Education."

Linda Neidhardt, Medicine Administration, received the College of Medicine and Public Health and Office of Health Sciences Employee of the Month Award for May.

Patricia L. Stuhr, Art Education, received an American Fulbright Scholarship to the University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland, for lecturing and research on "Multicultural and Integrated Forms of Art Education: Potential for School Reform and Social Reconstruction."

Carol A. Ventresca, Continuing Education, received the Service to the Association Award from the Ohio Continuing Higher Education Association.

The Department of Reprographics and Printing Services received the Sterling Paper Company's quality award for printing for "Body Mecanique" and "The Serial Attitude" art exhibit catalogs and the Columbus Society of Communicating Arts' Award of Excellence for "Body Mecanique."

Service

Terry Barrett, Art Education, served as visiting art critic at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, April 8-9.

Jackie Goodway, Sport and Exercise Education, is chair-elect of the Motor Development Adademy of the National Association of Sport and Physical Education, 1999-2002.

David Hoover, University Marketing Communications, is a member of the board of directors of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, District Five, 1999-2001.

William J. Mitsch, Natural Resources and Environmental Science, taught a short course on Wetlands and Wetland Processes at the University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Sallam, Tanzania, March 1999.

Robert D. Newcomb, Optometry, is president elect of the American Academy of Optometry.

William Shulaw, Veterinary Medicine, is a member of the board of directors of the Livestock Conservation Institute.