Books

James Billups, Social Work, Faithful Angels: Fifty Years of International Social Work Notables (Annapolis, Md.: NASW Press, 1999).

David L. Clark, Anatomy and Medical Education, The Brain and Behavior: An Introduction to Behavioral Neuroanatomy (Blackwell Science, 1999), co-author is Nashaat N. Boutros, Yale University.

William Malarkey, Internal Medicine, Take Control of Your Aging (Wooster: The Wooster Book Company, 1999).

Tony Tripodi, Social Work, editor, New Directions for Social Work Practice (Washington, D.C.: NASW Press, 1999), co-editor is Miriam Potocky-Tripodi, Florida International University.

Grants

Margaret H. Hines, Anatomy and Medical Education, $425,297 National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration Department of Transportation Grant for "Trauma Research: Response Characteristics of Shoulder in Side Impact and of Stiffness of Thorcolumbar Spine," co-recipients are Petra Schomolbrock and Peter B. Baker.

Timothy Jost, Law, $10,000 American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics Grant for its Mayday Scholars Program considering legal, regulatory and financial barriers to effective pain relief.

C.G. Orosz, Surgery, $25,000 College of Medicine and Public Health and Lerner Research Institute of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation Joint Initiative Grant-in-Aid Program Grant for "Role of Matrix Metalloproteinases in Acute Rejection of Alogeneic Skin and Heart Grafts," 1999-2000, co-recipient is R. Fairchild.

R.P. Pelletier, Surgery, $10,000 Department of Surgery, Medical Research Development Fund Grant for "Development of Assays to Estimate Recipient Risk for Post-Transplant Immune-Mediated Graft Dysfunction or Graft Loss," 1999-2000.

A. Strauch, Physiology, and C.G. Orosz, Surgery, $1.4 million NIH/NHLBI Grant for "Transcriptional Basis of Cardiac Allograft Remomeling," 1999-2003.

A.M. VanBuskirk, Surgery, $27,000 Comprehensive Cancer Center-James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute Grant for "Cytokine Genotype and the Development of Post-Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder," 1999-2000.

D. Xia, Surgery, $219,000 National Institutes of Health Grant for "Transgeneic Mice with Precise Control of Gene Expression," 1999-2002.

The Foreign Language Center, in cooperation with the College of Humanities and the Office of International Studies, $49,230 Battelle Endowment for Technology and Human Affairs Grant to make satellite broadcasting in foreign languages available to faculty, staff and students on the cable system.

Presentations

P.M. Arnold, Surgery, presented "Extensive Sector Biopsy for Detection of Carcinoma of the Prostate" at the American Urological Association, North Central Section, Chicago, Sept. 23-25, co-presenter was R.R. Bahnson.

A.A. Bickerstaff, D. Xia, C.G. Orosz, L. Carrodeguas, A.M. VanBuskirk and R.P. Pelletier, Surgery, and A.R. Strauch, Physiology, presented "Role of TGFb in Cardiac Allograft Acceptance" at the American Society of Transplantation Annual Conference, Chicago, May 15-19, co-presenter was S.V. Subramanian.

Richard Boettcher, Social Work, presented "Exemplars of Quality Management in Public Children Services" at the Public Children Services Agencies State Conference, Columbus, Sept. 16.

John H. Bolte and Margaret Hines, Anatomy and Medical Education, presented "Pilot Study of Shoulder Trauma Produced by Lateral Impacts" at the 27th International Workshop on Human Subjects for Biomechanical Research, San Diego, Calif., Oct. 24, co-presenters were Joseph D. McFadden and Roger A. Saul.

Richard A. Bradley, Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, presented "Peculiar Foraging Behavior of Oecobium annulipes (Araneae: Oecobiidae)" at the Ohio Web conference, Aug. 7; "Testing Estimates of Spider Species Diversity" at the American Arachnological Society, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad W.I., June 28; and "Introduction to Spider Identification" at the Ohio Biological Survey, Museum of Biodiversity, Columbus, June 20.

W.E. Burak Jr., Surgery, presented "Radioimmunoguided Surgery for Colorectal Malignancy" at the 67th Annual Southeastern Surgical Society Scientific Meeting and Post-Graduate Course, Tampa, Fla., Feb. 14; "Current Treatment of Breast Cancer" at the American Pharmaceutical Association Conference, San Antonio, Texas, March 8; and "Sentinel Lymph Node in Breast Cancer" at Akron General Hospital Surgery Grand Rounds, Akron, May 14.

L. Carrodeguas and C.G. Orosz, Surgery, presented "In Vivo Evidence That Human Endothelial Cells Can Serve as APC for T Cells" at the American Society of Transplantation Annual Conference, Chicago, May 15-19.

Erika S. Castro, University Extension, Southwest District, presented "Ohio's Parent Leadership Training Institute: Empowering Parents as Change Agents for All of Ohio's Children" at the Ohio Department of Education: Division of Early Childhood Education Conference, Columbus, Oct. 11; and "Ohio Parent Leadership Training Institute: What Is It? How Do You Implement It In the Community?" at the Ohio Prevention and Education conference, Dublin, Oct. 19, and the Association of Leadership Educators conference, San Diego, Calif., July 10.

C.H. Cook, presented "Biliary Hyperkinesia: A New Indication for Cholecystectomy" at the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract/Digestive Disease Week 40th annual conference, Orlando, Fla., May 17, co-presenters were W.S. Melvin, Surgery, J. Olsen and R. Pozderac, Radiology, J. Kisner and L.C. Martin; "Cytomegalovirus Infections in Critically Ill Surgical Patients: An Occult Epidemic" at the Ninth International Cytomegalovirus Workshop, Brighton, England, April 30, co-presenters were B. McGuinnes, E.A. Davis and R.M. Ferguson, Surgery, and J.K. Yenchar and L.C. Martin; and "Herpes Family Viral Infections in Critically Ill Surgical Patients: An Occult Epidemic" at the Surgical Infection Society, Seattle, April 29, co-presenters were E.A. Davies and R.M. Ferguson, Surgery, and J.K. Yenchar and L.C. Martin.

Peter Curtis, Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, presented "Elevated CO2 Effects on Leaf Senescence"; "Effect of Atmospheric CO2 Enrichment on Respiration and Phytochemistry of Male and Female Trembling Aspen (Populus tremuloides) as Affected by Soil Nitrogen Levels," co-presenter was X. Wang; "Grass Responses to Elevated CO2 : Combining Meta-Analysis with a Phylogenetic Perspective," co-presenters were M.H. Jones and E.A. Kellogg; and "Long-Term Organismal, Ecological and Global Change Research at the University of Michigan Biological Station," co-presenters J.A. Teeri and R. Vande Kopple, all at the Ecological Society of America conference, Spokane, Wash., August 1999.

Eric Grotewold, Plant Biology, presented "Plant Myb-Domain Proteins and Metabolic Diversity: Tools for Engineering Secondary Metabolism" at the First PBMB Symposium on Metabolic Networking in Plants, Ames, Iowa, April 22-25.

Douglas Nelson, Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, presented "The Digital Archiving Project at the Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics," co-presenters were S.L.L. Gaunt, K. Beeman, C.L. Bronson, S.C. Burnett and G.E. Hough, II; and "Song Overproduction and Song Dialects" at the American Ornithologist Union conference, Ithaca, N.Y., Aug. 15.

C.G. Orosz, Surgery, presented "Complexity Theory" at the University of Connecticut Research Day, Farmington, Conn., May 6; "How Regulatory Immune Cells May Promote Experimental Allograft Tolerance" at the Dageraad Symposium on Tranplantation Tolerance, Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 23-26; and "Mechanisms of Alloimmunity: Insights Offered by Complexity Theory" at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation Transplant Research Day, Cleveland, April 2.

V. Raghavan, Plant Biology, presented "Plant Embryogenesis at the Crossroads" at the Genetics and Embryology Symposium, 16th International Botanical Congress, St. Louis, Aug. 1-7.

Michael L. Rowland, Dentistry, presented "Adult Learning Through Religious Music in an African American Church" at the Adult Education Research Conference, Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, May 21-23.

M. Rosita Schiller, Medical Dietetics, presented "Redesigning Coordinated Programs in Dietetics for Future Practice Roles" at the American Dietetic Association Conference, Atlanta, Oct. 18-21.

Brad Van Den Elzen, American Language Program, presented "Simulations in Writing Curriculum" at the 12th World Congress of Applied Linguists, Tokyo, Aug. 7.

Marcia M. Van Riper, Community, Parent-Child and Psychiatric Nursing, presented "Becoming Aware: Siblings of Children with Down Syndrome" at the International Society of Genetic Nurses Conference, San Francisco, September 1999; "Families Living with Down Syndrome: A Historical Perspective and Recent Findings" at the International Family Nursing Research Congress, Tampere, Finland, May 1999, and at the Perinatal Liaison Network Conference, Children's Hospital, Columbus, September 1999; "The Family Experience of Genetic Testing" at the College of Nursing Research Seminar Series, Columbus, May 1999; and "Siblings Sharing in the Care of Children with Down Syndrome: Positive Consequences Outweigh the Negatives" at the 23rd Annual Research Conference of the Midwest Nursing Research Society, Indianapolis, April 1999.

A.M. VanBuskirk, Surgery, presented "Inhibition of in Vivo T Cell Responses by CoPP," co-presenters were C.G. Orosz, Surgery, and R. Buelow; and "Trans-Vivo Assessment of Human Alloreactive DTH Responses: A Tool for Post-Transplant Monitoring," co-presenters were R.P. Pelletier, L. Carrodeguas and C.G. Orosz, Surgery, both at the American Society of Transplantation Annual Conference, Chicago, May 15-19.

Publications

M.G. Petroff, B.K. Petroff and J.L. Pate, Animal Sciences, "Expression of Clytokine Messenger Ribonucleic Acids in the Bovine Corpus Luteum," Journal of Endocrinology, Vol. 140 (1999), pp. 1018-21.

James Phelan, English, "What Do We Owe Texts? Respect, Irreverence or Nothing at All?" Critical Inquiry, Vol. 25 (1999), pp. 758-83, co-author is James R. Kincaid; "The Emotional Logic of Tragedy," Review, Vol. 21 (1999), pp. 47-58; "The Lessons of 'Weymouth': Homodiegesis, Unreliability, Ethics and The Remains of the Day," Narratologies: New Perspectives on Narrative Analysis, edited by David Herman, (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1999), pp. 88-109; and "Sethe's Choice: Beloved and the Ethics of Reading," Style, Vol. 32 (1998), pp. 318-33, co-author is Mary Patricia G.L. Bumgardner and C.G. Orosz, Surgery, "Transplantation and Cytokines," Semin. Liver Disease, Vol. 19, No. 2 (1999), pp. 189-204.

W.E. Burak Jr., M.J. Walker, L.D. Lee, W.B. Farrar, Surgery, and R. Pozderac, Radiology, "Routine Preoperative Lymphoscintigraphy is Not Necessary Prior to Sentinel Node Biopsy for Breast Cancer," American Journal of Surgery, Vol. 177 (1999), pp. 445-49, co-authors are S. Saha, J. Olsen and G. Hinkle; and "Utility of Lymphoscintigraphy for Lymphatic Mapping in Breast Cancer: A Prospective Study," Curr Surg, Vol. 56 (1999), pp. 62-66, co-authors are S. Saha, G.H. Hinkle and J.A. Kim.

D.A. Caniano, Surgery, "Ethical and Legal Considerations in Pediatric Surgery," Pediatric Surgery, edited by J.A. O'Neill, N.E. Rowe, J.L. Grosfeld, F.W. Fonkalsrud and A.G. Coran (St. Louis, Mo.: Mosby, 1999), pp. 229-34, co-author is E.W. Clayton; and "Hypokinetic Gallbladder Disease: A Cause of Chronic Abdominal Pain in Children and Adolescents," Journal of Pediatric Surgery, Vol. 34 (1999), pp. 858-62, co-author is R.C. Dumont.

A. Gowdamarajan and J.T. Davis, Surgery, D.M. Cohen and D.G. Rowland, Pediatrics, and G.M. Schauer, Pathology, "Valve Sparing Operation in a Child with Aneurysmal Disease of the Ascending Aorta," Ann Thoracic Surgery, Vol. 67 (1999), pp. 1151-52.

Glenn Hartz, Philosophy-Mansfield, "How We Can Be Moved by Anna Karenina, Green Slime, and a Red Pony," Philosophy, Vol. 74 (1999), pp. 557-78.

D. Knight, D.M. Cohen and H.D. Allen, Pediatrics, and J.T. Davis, Surgery, "Case Studies of Cycle Exercise after Cardiothoracic Surgery," Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation, Vol. 19 (1999), pp. 186-89, co-authors are W.H. Franklin, W. Shiels and F. Long.

Recognitions

Robert W. Backoff, Public Policy and Management, and Paul C. Nutt, Management Science, received the Best Paper Award in the Academy of Management's Organization Change and Development Division for "The De-Development of Contemporary Organizations."

Robert Greenbaum, Public Policy and Management, received the 1999 Upjohn Institute Dissertation Award for "An Evaluation of State Enterprise Zone Policies: Measuring the Impact on Business Decisions and Housing Market Outcomes"; and the Southern Regional Science Association's Barry Moriarty Graduate Student Paper Award for "The Impact of State Urban Enterprise Zones on Business Outcomes."