Appointments

Philip F. Binkley, Internal Medicine, was appointed to the James Hay and Ruth Jansson Wilson Professorship in Cardiology, 2000-2003.

Tammy Bray, Human Nutrition and Food Management, was appointed associate dean of research and international studies in the College of Human Ecology.

Jeffrey Milks, Family Medicine, has joined the New Albany Family Practice.

John N. Reeve, Microbiology, was appointed to the Rod Sharp Professorship in Microbiology.

James M. Ryan, Clinical Internal Medicine and Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging, was appointed to the Joseph M. Ryan, M.D. Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine.

Andrew M. Thomas, University Hospitals, was appointed assistant medical director.

Lynne Torello, Family Medicine, has joined the Crown Park Family Medical Practice.

Denise Williams, Family Medicine, has joined the University Hospitals East Family Practice.

Books

Geoffrey Parker, History, The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, Italian translation (Bologna: il Mulino, 1999); and The Spanish Armada, revised edition (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999).

Nathan Rosenstein, History, editor, War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds: The Mediterranean, Europe, and Mesoamerica (Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University, 1999), co-edited with Kurt Raaflaub.

Grants

Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing, $30,000 Ohio READS Grant for "Partnerships for Literacy: Improving Reading and Writing for Students at Trevitt, Hubbard, and Mohawk Africentric Elementary Schools."

College of Humanities, $500,000 National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grant for support of scholars, a K-12 workshop and the World Media and Culture Center.

Presentations

Charles F. Adams, Public Policy and Management, presented "Community Partnership Grantmaking and Emerging Local Democracies" at the Association for Public Policy, Analysis and Management Conference, November 1999; and "Fiscal Decentralization Indicators: Local Democratic Government," both at the National Tax Association Conference, October 1999.

Ruth Allred, Accounting, and Sharon Graney, Engineering Experiment Station, presented "How to Use FAS Forms" to departmental and college fiscal officers, Columbus, Oct. 6-7.

Karen Barnes, Development, Susan Litton, Financial Training, Al Rodack, Treasurer's Office, and Diane Town, Development, presented "Stewardship of Endowment and Gift Accounts" to departmental and college fiscal officers, Columbus, Nov. 8 and Nov. 30.

Angela Brintlinger, Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures, presented "Poetry, Pedagogy and Politics: The American Pushkin(s) in 1937" at the Alexander Pushkin and Humanistic Study Conference, Stanford University, April 1999; "Pushkin on Display: Moscow and Paris, 1937" at the Pushkin Beyond Europe Conference, Pennsylvania State University, October 1999; and "Of Birthdays and Deathdays: The Commemorative Conference in Post-Soviet Russia" at the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Conference, St. Louis, November.

John Burnham, History, presented "A History of Medical Practitioners and Historians as Writers of Medical History" at the Australian Society of the History of Medicine Conference, Sydney, Australia, July 7.

David Citino, English, presented "A Brief History of the Future" at the Board of Trustees meeting, Dec. 3.

Kathy Edwards, University Press, and Stephen Finn, University Resource Planning and Institutional Analysis, presented "Debits and Credits" to departmental and college fiscal officers, Columbus, Oct. 26-27.

Tom Ewing, Accounting, presented "Accounting at OSU" to departmental and college fiscal officers, Columbus, Nov. 18-19.

Carter Findley, History, gave the following presentations at Princeton University: "The Pre-Islamic Turks and Their Precursors," Dec. 7; "Islam and Empire from the Seljuks through the Mongols," Dec. 8; and "Islamic Empires of the ÔGunpowder' Era," Dec. 9.

Susan Hartmann, History and Women's Studies, presented "New Perspectives on 20th Century Feminism" at the Community Forum of the Unitarian Universalist Church, Columbus, Jan. 2.

Dave Heilman, Entomology, presented "Wintering and Almost Spring Management" at the Ohio State Beekeepers Association conference, Columbus, Nov. 13.

Rob Hupp, Administrative Resource Management System, and Susan Litton, Financial Training and Documentation, presented "Transactions and FAS for General Budget Units" to departmental and college fiscal officers, Columbus, Oct. 19-20.

Carla Jackson, Accounts Payable, and Char Jessie, Financial Training, presented "Working with the Office of Accounts Payable" to departmental and college fiscal officers, Columbus, Dec. 8-9.

Char Jessie, Financial Training, presented "Procurement Card Fiscal Training" to departmental and college fiscal officers, Columbus, Oct. 29.

Norman Johnson, Entomology, presented "Biodiversity Informatics: Journey from Data to Knowledge" at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, Nov. 12.

Susan Litton, Financial Training, presented "How to Use FAS Reports" to college and departmental fiscal officers, Columbus, Nov. 2-3; and "Accounting at OSU" to departmental and college fiscal officers, Dec. 15-16.

Rick Livingston, Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, presented "Hanif Kureishi's Dickensian Twist" at the Modern Language Association Conference, Chicago, December 1999.

Michael Meckler, Greek and Latin, presented "The Jerry Springerization of Late Antiquity" at the American Historical Association Conference, Chicago, Jan. 7.

L.R. Nault, Entomology, presented "Ants, Plants and Honeydew" at the University of California, Davis, Nov. 17.

Harry Niemczyk, Entomology, presented "Your Pest Spectrum" and "Target Calendar" at the Ohio Turfgrass Conference and Show, Columbus, Dec. 7-8.

Pamela Pennock, History, presented "In the Shadow of Prohibition: American Public Policy toward Alcohol Since 1933" at the Business of Addiction Conference, University of Reading, Dec., 11.

Thomas Piontek, English, presented "Postmodern Gender: Drag Kings, Performativity and Female Masculinity" at the International Postgraduate Conference, Freidrich-Alexander-UniversitŠt Erlangen/NŸrnberg, Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany, Nov. 19; and "Drag Kings and the Performativity of Postmodern Gender" at the Johan Wolfgang Goethe-UniversittŠt, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, Nov. 25.

Cathy Rakowski, Women's Studies and Human and Community Resource Development, presented "Women's Human Rights" at the Columbus Council on World Affairs, Franklin University, Columbus, Dec. 3.

Neil Tennant, Philosophy, presented "Conservativeness, Incompleteness and Deflationism" at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pa., Nov. 29.

Jim Tew, Entomology, presented "Challenges of the Modern Day Beekeeper" and "The Bee Hive -- Brilliantly Flawed" at the Maryland State Beekeepers Association Conference, Annapolis, Md., Nov. 6; and "Overwintering Nucs" at the Ohio State Beekeepers Association conference, Columbus, Nov. 13.

The following members of the Department of English gave presentations at the Modern Language Association Conference, Chicago, Dec. 28-29: Hewitt, Elizabeth, "Emily Dickinson's Bad Taste"; John King, "Poets, Print, and the English Reformation" and "Did the Reformation Betray the Renaissance?"; Lisa Kiser, "The Interdisciplinary Chaucer"; and James Phelan, "The Girl with the Curl: Toward a Rhetoric of Personal Criticism."

The following members of the Department of Entomology gave presentations at the National Entomological Society of America conference, Atlanta, Dec. 12-16: Marc Branham, "Phylogenetics and the Evolution of Sexual Communication in Fireflies"; Beverly Gerdeman and Hans Klompen, "A Comparative Study on the Genital Access System of the Heterozerconidae"; N.F. Johnson and L. Musetti, "An Information System for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory" and "The Monomachidae: An Austral-Disjunct Family of Parasitic Hymenoptera (Proctotrupoidea)"; D.J. Horn, F.F. Purrington, A.E. Smith and D. Osborne, "Diversity Patterns of Scarabaeidae and Cerambycidae in Oak Forests Subjected to Prescribed Burning"; Cheol-Min Kim and Hans Klompen, "Phylogenetics of Trigynaspida: Morphology, Molecules, Classification, Hosts, and Biogeography"; Hans Klompen, "A Fossil Argasid Tick from New Jersey Amber"; R.C. Stanton, F.F. Purrington and D.J. Horn, "Trends in Carabid Diversity and Abundance within Oak Forests Subjected to Prescribed Fire in Ohio"; and Angel Torres and Casey Hoy, "Determining the Relationship Between Carrot Weevil Infestations, Damage, and Planting Dates of Parsley."

Publications

Charles F. Adams and Miriam Wilson, Public Policy and Management, "Welfare Reform Meets the Devolution Revolution in Ohio," Learning From the Leaders: Welfare Reform and Policy in Five Midwestern States (Albany, N.Y.: Rockefeller Institute, State University of New York, 2000).

David Adams, English-Lima, "Okonomie der Rezeption: Die Vorwegnahme eines Nachlasses," translated by Michael Bischoff, pp. 369-86, and "Bibliographie Hans Blumenberg," pp. 426-70, co-author is Peter Behrenberg; and Die Kunst des †berlebens: Nachdenken Ÿber Hans Blumenberg, edited by Franz Josef Wetz and Hermann Timm (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1999)

James O. Alben, Medical Biochemistry, "Glutamate-89 in Subunit II of Cytochrome bo(3) from Escherichia coli Is Required for the Function of the Heme-Copper Oxidase," Biochemistry, Vol. 38 (1999), pp. 15150-56, co-authors are J. Ma, P.H. Tsatsos, D. Zaslavsky, B. Barquera, J.W. Thomas, A. Katsonouri, A. Puustinen, M. Wikstrom, P. Brzezinski and R.B. Gennis.

R.A. Altschuld, Medical Biochemistry, "FK506 Alters Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Calcium Release in Neonatal Piglet Cardiac Myocytes," Pediatric Research, Vol. 46 (1999), pp. 316-19, co-author is C.M. Hohl.

R.A. Androw and G.D. Keeney, Entomology, "New Records of Ohio Long-Horned Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), The Great Lakes Entomologist, Vol. 32 (1999) pp. 1-7.

Angela Brintlinger, Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures, "Pushkin in the Perception of the Parisian Emigration (from materials of the 1937 Russian Jubilee Press)," Ot zapadnykh morei do samykh vrat vostochnykhÉ: A.S. Pushkin za rubezhom K 200-letiiu so dnia rozhdeniia (Moscow: Pushkin Institute, 1999).

Arthur Burghes, Medical Biochemistry, "Identification of Survival Motor Neuron as a Transcriptional Activator-Binding Protein," Human Molecular Genetics, Vol. 8 (1999), pp. 1219-26, co-authors are J. Strasswimmer, C.L. Larson, D.E. Breiding, J.J. Chen, T. Le and E.J. Androphy.

David Citino, English, "Poetry of the Chef Can Be Exquisite," The Columbus Dispatch, (Dec. 19).

Diana Dubrul, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, "Virgenes O Metretrices La Prostitucion Sagrada en el Orienie Antiguo," Gerion, Vol. 17 (1999), pp. 129-48; and "An Ebla Incantation against Insomia and the Semiticization of Sumerian," Orientalia, Vol. 68 (1999), pp. 254-266, co-author is M. Civil.

Kathy Fagan, English, "In California," Gulf Coast, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Summer 1999), pp. 94-95.

Tsonwin Hai, Medical Biochemistry "ATF3 and Stress Responses," Gene Expression, Vol. 7 (1999), pp. 321-35, co-authors are C.D. Wolfgang, D.K. Marsee, A.E. Allen and U. Sivaprasad; and "Complexes Containing Activating Transcription Factor (ATF)/cAMP-Responsive-Element-Binding Protein (CREB) Interact with the CCAAT-Enhancer-Binding Protein (C/EBP)-ATF Composite Site to Regulate Gadd153 Expression During the Stress Response," Biochemical Journal, Vol. 339 (1999), pp. 135-41, co-authors are T.W. Fawcett, J.L. Martindale, K.Z. Guyton and N.J. Holbrook.

Russ Hille, Medical Biochemistry, "Mechanistic Aspects of Molybdenum-Containing Enzymes," FEMS Microbiology Review, Vol. 11 (1999), pp. 489-501, co-authors are J. Retey, U. Bartlewski-Hof, P.M.H. Kroneck, W. Reichenbecher and B. Schink; "Freeze-Quench Difference Magnetic Circular Dichroism Study of a Xanthine Oxidase Intermediate," Inorganic Chemistry, Vol. 38 (1999), pp. 4963-70, co-authors are R.M. Jones, F.E. Inscore and M.L. Kirk; "Molybdenum-Containing Enzymes," Essay in Biochemistry, Vol. 34 (1999), pp. 125-38; "The Reductive Half-Reaction of the H172Q Mutant of Trimethylamine Dehydrogenase: Evidence Against a Carbanion Mechanism and Assignment of Kinetically Influential Ionizations in the Enzyme-Substrate Complex," Biochemical Journal, Vol. 341 (1999), pp. 307-14, co-authors are J. Basran, M.J. Sutcliffe and N.S. Scrutton; "Redox Cycles in Trimethylamine Dehydrogenase and the Mechanism of Substrate Inhibition," Biochemistry, Vol. 38 (1999), pp. 14927-40, co-authors are P. Roberts, J. Basran, E.K. Wilson and N.S. Scrutton; and "Rubredoxin from the Green Sulfur Bacterium Chlorobium tepidum Functions as an Electron Acceptor for Pyruvate:Ferredosin Oxidoreductase," Journal of Biological Chemistry, Vol. 274 (1999), pp. 29772-78, co-authors are K.S. Yoon, C. Hemann and F.R. Tabita.

Alan Hirvela, English as a Second Language Programs, "Collaborative Writing Instruction and Communities of Readers and Writers," TESOL Journal, Vol. 8 (1999), pp. 7-12; and "Teaching Immigrant Students in the Writing Classroom," Attending to the Margins: Writing, Research, and Teaching on the Front Lines, edited by M. Kells and V. Balester (Boynton/Cook: Heinneman, 1999), pp. 150-64.

Austin Kerr, History, "American Dream," New Scientist, Vol. 164, No. 2214 (November 1999), pp. 94-5.

Ethan Knapp, English, "Eulogies and Usurpations: Hoccleve and Chaucer Revisited," Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Vol. 21 (1999), pp. 247-73.

J. Kovach, R. Rieckenberg, G. English-Loeb and M. Pritts, Entomology, "Oviposition Patterns of the Strawberry Bud Weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) at Two Spatial Scales and Implications for Management," Journal of Economic Entomology, Vol. 92 (1999), pp. 1358-63.

David Madden, History, "A Radical Ethnographer at Work in the Columbia Anthropology Department, 1936-37," History of Anthropology Newsletter, Vol. 26, Nov. 2 (1999), pp. 3-10.

Mary K. Marvel, Public Policy and Management, "An Equilibrium Model of Tax Abatement: City and Firm Characteristics as Determinant of Abatement Generosity," Urban Affairs Review, (July 1999).

Bill Roorbach, English, review of River-Horse: A Voyage Across America by William Least Heat-Moon, in Newsday, (Oct. 31).

Bruce S. Zwilling, Microbiology, "Differential Iron Transport into Phagosomes Isolated from the RAW264.7 Macrophage Cell Lines Transfected with Nramp1Gly169 or Nramp1Asp169," Journal of Leukocyte Biology, Vol. 66 (1999), pp. 113-19, co-authors are Donald E. Kuhn, Beth D. Baker and William P. Lafuse.

Recognitions

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

Michael Borger, Animal Sciences, Agricultural Technical Institute, received the College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award.

Ron Borton, Animal Sciences, Agricultural Technical Institute, received the College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Outstanding Advisor Award.

David Cressy, History, received the American Society of Church History Phillip Schaff Prize for his book, Birth, Marriage and Death: Ritual, Religion and the Life-Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England, 2000.

Bernie Erven, Agricultural Economics, received a U.S. Department of Agriculture National Excellence in Teaching Award.

Sherry Ferrell, Entomology, received the Extension Service 1999 Outstanding Staff Award.

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.

Rebecca Haidt, Spanish and Portuguese, received the Modern Language Association of America's Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize for her book, Embodying Enlightenment: Knowing the Body in 18th Century Spanish Literature and Culture, co-recipient was Frances Aparicio, University of Michigan.

L.R. Nault, Entomology, received the University of California's (Davis) Department of Entomology Tom Leigh Distinguished Alumni Award.

Paul Nutt, Management Sciences, was named a fellow of the Decision Sciences Institute.

Tom Pepper, University Hospitals East, received the Columbus Area Council on Alcoholism President's Award.

Cindy Price, Medicine and Public Health, was named the College of Medicine and Public Health and Office of Health Sciences Employee of the Month for February.

Gregory Williams, Law, received the Association of American Law Schools' honors for serving as president of the association.

Karla Zadnik, Optometry, received an Optometric Management's Top Ten Optometrists of the Decade award.

Service

Arthur Adams, History, emeritus, was quoted in an article in Columbus CEO, January 2000.

Angela Brintlinger, Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures, is a member of the program committee of the annual American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages conference.

Georgina Dodge, African-American and African Studies and English, and George Kalbouss, Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures, were mentioned in an article in Business First, Dec. 10.

Susan Hartmann, History and Women's Studies, chaired a session, "Transgressions: Episodes of Race, Sexuality and Crossings, 1889-1945" at the American Historical Association Conference, Chicago, Jan. 7.

Michael Hogan, History, was quoted in an article, "OSU's Star Power," in the Columbus Dispatch, Dec. 13, and in the San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle, Oct. 31.

Kitty Locker, English, had her research featured in an article in Black Enterprise, November 1999.

Andrea Lunsford, English, was quoted in an article, "Women, Minorities Noticeably Scarce Among Elite," in the Columbus Dispatch, (Dec. 12).

Jennifer Terry, Comparative Studies in the Humanities, was interviewed on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" about homosexuality on Nov. 1.