Appointment

Gail E. Besner, Pediatric Surgery, has been appointed co-director of the Medical Scientist Training Program.

Books

Barbara Becker-Cantarino, Germanic Languages and Literatures, Sophie von La Roche, Herbsttage (1805) (Darben/Frankfurt: Petra Wald Verlalg, 1999).

Sally Kitch, Women's Studies, Higher Ground: From Utopianism to Realism in American Feminist Thought and Theory (University of Chicago Press, 2000).

Karen Winstead, English, editor and translator, Chaste Passions: Medieval English Virgin Martyr Legends, (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2000).

Grant

W.B. Farrar, L.D. Yee, W.E. Burak, Jr., J. Lester, L. Kemp, J. Bennett and M. Bauer, Surgery, $47,000 National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project Grant for "Reach for the STAR (Study of Tamoxifen and Raloxifene): The Quest to Prevent Breast Cancer,"2000.

Presentations

Derek Alwes, English, Newark, presented "'Oh, Phooey to Death!': Boethian Consolation in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia"at the Comparative Drama Conference, Columbus, April 27-29; and "Man About Town: The 'Place' of the Cony-Catching Pamphlets in Robert Green's Career"at the NEMLA Conference, Buffalo, N.Y., April 7-9.

Barbara Becker-Cantarino, Germanic Languages and Literatures, presented "Korper und Korperlichkeit im fruhneuzeiliichen Deutschland"at the International Congress, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbuttel, Germany, April 8.

Brenda Boyle, English, presented "Vietnam Revised: The Melodrama of 84 Charlie MOPIC"at the 20th Annual Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association Conference, New Orleans, April 19-22.

Brenda Bruggemann, English, presented "Stuck Between: Writer-Teacher," "Downsizing Dilemmas: Doing More with Less,"and "An Enabling Pedagogy" at the Conference on College Composition and Communications, Minneapolis, April 12-14.

W.E. Burak Jr., Surgery, presented "Reducing the Incidence of Breast Cancer in Women at High Risk"at Bethesda Hospital, Zanesville, Sept. 9; "Applications of New Technology in Patient Care -- Potentials and Pitfalls" at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Sept. 17; "Breast Disease: Benign and Malignant"at the OB/GYN Review Conference, Columbus, Oct. 7; "Image-Guided Breast Biopsy"at the Central Ohio Society of Mammographers, Columbus, Oct. 23; "Sterotactic Breast Biopsy"at the Japan Association of Breast Cancer Screening 9th Annual Conference, Yokohama, Japan, Nov. 17; and "Sentinel Node Biopsy for Breast Cancer"at St Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Japan, Nov. 18.

D.A. Caniano, Surgery, presented "Ethical Considerations in Prenatal Surgical Consultation"at the University of Kansas Medical College, Kansas City, Kan., April 14-15.

Samuel Choi, English, presented "Beastly Machines: The Organic and the Mechanic in Wells and Kafka"at the NEMLA Conference, Buffalo, N.Y., April 7-9.

David Citino, English, presented "A Celebration of the Poetry of Frank O'Hara"at the Wexner Center, April 25.

C.H. Cook, Surgery, presented "Driving Under the Influence: What is the Incidence of Citation for Trauma Patients?"and "Physiologic Triage of Trauma Patients Improves Resource Utilization without Compromising Outcomes"at the Eastern Association for Surgery of Trauma, Ft. Myers, Fla., Jan 14.

David Cressy, History, presented "The Body of Lydia Downes: Sickness, Sex, Violence and Death"at the Bodies of Literature/Histories of the Body Conference, Ohio State, Columbus, April 22; and "History and Memory in Revolutionary England"at the Humanities Institute, Ohio State, Columbus, May 4.

Paula Foster, English, presented "Resistant Readings of Hegemonic Text in a Changing Organization"at the Conference on College Composition and Communications, Minneapolis, April 12-15.

C. Hinman, M. Downing, M. Luquette and G. Besner, Surgery, presented "A Model for Intestinal Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury in Weanling Rats" at the 15th Annual Academy of Surgical Research Conference, Scottsdale, Ariz., Sept. 4.

Nicholas Howe, English, presented "Writing the Map of Anglo-Saxon England" at the Medieval and Renaissance Colloquium, University of California, Davis, April 19.

Bill Marras, Industrial, Welding and Systems Engineering, presented "Potential Biomechanical Mechanisms for Psychosocial Stress"at the International Society for the Study of Lumbar Spine Annual Conference, Adelaide, Australia, co-presenters were K. Davis, C. Heany and A. Maronitis.

Danielle Marx-Scouras, French and Italian, presented "La Recuperation de Jean Senac"at the 53rd Annual Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference, Lexington, Ky., April 27-29.

M. Michalsky, M. Lara-Marquez and G. Besner, Surgery, presented "Heparin-Binding EGH-Like Growth Factor (HB-EGF) Modulates Nitric Oxide Production in Intestinal Epithelial Cells"and "Endogenous Heparin-Binding EGF-Like Growth Factor: A Potential Role in Fetal and Neonatal Gastrointestinal Physiology,"co-presenters were L. Chun and M. Downing, at the Year 2000 Pediatric Academic Societies and American Academy of Pediatrics Joint conference, Boston, May 14.

Dennis Minahen, French and Italian, presented "Mallarme a la mode or La Mode a la Mallarme/e?"at the 53rd Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, Ky., April 29.

Linda Mizejewski, English, presented "Women of Prime-Time Noir"at the Popular Culture Association Conference, New Orleans, April 19.

Hazel Morrow-Jones, City and Regional Planning, presented "Repeat Home Buying: Movers with Choice Move Further Into Suburbs"at the Association of American Geographers Conference, Pittsburgh, April 5.

Publications

E.A. Bakalakos and W.E. Burak Jr., Surgery, "Is CEA Useful in the Follow-Up Management of Patients with Colorectal Liver Metastses?"American Journal of Surgery, Vol. 177 (1999), pp. 2-6, co-authors are D. Young and E.W. Martin Jr.; and "The Radioimmunoguided Surgery System as a Diagnostic Tool,"Surg. Onc. Clin. North America, Vol. 8 (1999), pp. 129-44.

Barbara Becker-Cantarino, Germanic Languages and Literatures, "Der schone Leib wird Stein. Zur Funktion der poetischen Bilder als Geschlechterdisdurs in Eichendorffs Marmorbild,"Das Sprach-Bild als textuelle Interaktion, G. Labroisse and D. van Stekelenburg, editors, (Amsterdam, 1999), pp. 123-34; "Hexenkuche und Walpurgisnacht: Imaginationen von Damonie in der fruhen Neuzeit und im Faust I,"Euphorion, Vol. 99 (1999), pp. 193-225; "Sophie La Roches Englandreise,"Manner und Frauen. Fur Renate Mohrmann, Elmar Buck, editor (Koln: Theaterwissenschaftliche Sammlung, 1999), pp. 42-53; "Bettina von Arnim, die 'Frauenfrage' und der 'Feminismus'"and "Die echte politik mub Erfinderin sein,"Beitrage eines Wieperscorfer Kolloquiums zu Bettina von Arnim, Hartwig Schulz, editor (Berlin: Saint Albin Verlag, 1999), pp. 217-48; and "Geschlecht und Kononbildung am Beispiel der 'Autorinnen der Romantik',"Autorinnen in der Literaturgeschichte, Christiane Caemmerer et al., editors (Osnabruck: Zeller Verlag, 1999), pp. 11-29.

Morris Beja, English, "Light to the Gentiles,"preface to Morton Levitt's James Joyce and Modernism: Beyond Dublin (Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2000), pp. 1-4.

W.E. Burak Jr., M.J. Waler, L.D. Yee, A. Kim, S. Saha, G. Hinkle, J. Olsen, R. Pozderac and W.B. Farrar, Surgery, "Routine Preoperative Lymphoscintigraphy Is Not Necessary Prior to Sentinel Node Biopsy for Breast Cancer,"American Journal of Surgery, Vol. 177 (1999), pp. 445-49.

D.A. Caniano, and F. Baylis, Surgery, "Ethical Considerations in Prenatal Surgical Consultation,"Pediatric Surg. Int., Vol. 15 (1999), p. 303-09.

David Citino, English, "Models Auction Their Eggs on the Web,"Mid-American Review, Vol. 20, Nos. 1-2 (2000), pp. 167-68; review of Virginia Hamilton Adair's "Living on Fire"and Mark Strand's "Blizzard of One,"Columbus Dispatch, (April 30); "Poetry-Induced Mind Travels Continue,"Columbus Dispatch, (May 7); and review of Anne Carson's "Men in the Off Hours" and Lisa Russ Spaar's "Acquainted with the Night: Insomnia Poems,"Columbus Dispatch, (May 7).

C.H. Cook, L.D. Martin, B. Howard and L.J. Flanchaum, Surgery, "Survival of Critically Ill Surgical Patients Discharged to Extended Care Facilities," Journal of the American College of Surgeons, Vol. 189, No. 5 (1999), pp. 437-41.

L.J. Damore, J.A. Johnson, R.S. Dixon, M.A. Iverson, E.C. Ellison and W.S. Melvin, Surgery, "Transmission of Live Laparoscopic Surgery over the Internet 2,"American Journal of Surgery, Vol. 178 (1999), pp. 415-17.

A. Demirag, E.A. Elkhammas, M.L. Henry, E.A. Davies, R.P. Pelletier, G.L. Bumgardner, B. Dorner and R.M. Ferguson, Surgery, "Pulmonary Rhizopus Infection in a Diabetic Renal Transplant Recipient,"Clinical Transplant, Vol. 14 (2000), pp. 8-10.

S.K. Frazier, K.S. Stone, E.R. Schertel, K.K. Moser and J. Pratt, Adult Health and Illness Nursing, "A Comparison of Hemodynamic Changes During the Transition from Mechanical Ventilation to T-Piece, Pressure Support and Continuous Positive Airway Pressure in Canines,"Biological Research in Nursing, Vol. L, No. 4 (April 2000), pp. 253-64.

P. Harding, K. Davis-Fleischer, M. Crissman-Combs, M. Miller, D. Brigstock and G. Besner, Surgery, "Overexpression of Heparin-Binding EGF-Like Growth Factor (HB-EGF) Stimulates Altered Cell Growth and Anchorage Independence," Growth Factors, Vol. 17 (1999), pp. 49-61.

Michelle Herman, English, "Triolet,"Connecticut Review, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Spring 2000), p. 127.

C. Hinman, M. Downing, M. Luquette and G. Besner, Surgery, "A Model for Intestinal Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury in Weanling Rats,"Journal of Invest. Surgery, Vol. 12 (1999), p. 214.

Charles Klopp, French and Italian, review of Giampaolo Pansa's Ti condurro fuori dalla notte, in World Literature Today, Vol. 74 (2000), pp. 130-131.

Jeffrey Lewis, History, "The Performance of a Lifetime: A Metaphor for the Phenotype,"Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, Vol. 43, No. 1 (Autumn 1999), pp. 112-27.

Stuart Lishan, English-Marion, "April and the New Physics,"The Kenyon Review, Vol. 22, No. 2 (Spring 2000), pp. 121-23.

F.R. Long, K.H. Mutabagani, D.A. Caniano and R.C. Dumont, Surgery, "Duodenum Inversum Mimicking SMA Syndrome,"Pediatric Radiology, Vol. 29 (2000), pp. 602-04.

D. McCarthy, S. Qualman, G. Wiet and G. Besner, Surgery, "Herpetic Tracheitis and Brachial Plexus Neuropathy in a Burned Child,"Journal of Burn Care Rehabilitation, Vol. 20 (1999), pp. 377-81.

D.K. Moser, K. Dracup and L.V. Doering, Adult Health and Illness Nursing, "Factors Differentiating Dropouts from Completers in a Longitudinal, Multicenter Clinical Trial,"Nursing Research, Vol. 49, No. 2 (April 2000), pp. 109-16.

Patrick Mullen, English, "Belief and the American Folk,"Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 113 (2000), pp. 119-43.

K.H. Mutabagani, Surgery, "Metastatic Paraganglioma and Paraneoplastic Induced Anemia in an Adolescent: Treatment with Hepatic Arterial Chemo-Embolization," Journal Hematol. Oncol. Vol. 21 (1999), pp. 544-57, co-authors are K.J. Klopfenstein, M.J. Hogan and D.A. Caniano; and "Bronchopexy for Congenital Bronchomalacia in the Newborn,"Journal of Pediatric Surgery, Vol. 34 (1999), pp. 1300-03, co-authors are J. Menke, K. McCoy and G. Besner.

K.E. Owens, W.E. Burak Jr., M.B. Tighe, J. Olsen and W.B. Farrar, Surgery, "Accuracy of 11-Guage Vacuum-Assisted Stereotactic Biopsy in the Diagnosis and Staging of Malignant Breast Disease,"Proc. Soc. Surg. Onc., (1999), p. 11.

Recognitions

Brenda Dervin, Journalism and Communication, received an honorary doctorate in social sciences from the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Morton H. Friedman, Biomedical and Chemical Engineering, received the American Society of Mechanical Engineer's H.R. Lissner Medal for outstanding achievement in bioengineering.

Somnath Ghosh, Mechanical Engineering, is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Yann Guezennec, Mechanical Engineering, received the Mechanical Engineering Teaching Award for 2000.

Pamela G. Hollie, Journalism and Communication, has a reference to her career at The New York Times in Edwin Diamond's Behind the Times.

David Howden, Industrial, Welding and Systems Engineering, received the American Welding Society's Willis Award.

Hsuing Hsu and Steve Yurkovich, Electrical Engineering, and Cynthia Roberts, Biomedical Engineering, received the Institute for Electronic and Electrical Engineering Third Millennium Award.

Ellen Levy and Aimee Nezhukumatathil, English, received the Associated Writing Program's Intro to Journals Award for "Supernatural Powers"and "The Witching Hour."

Tim Long and Bruce Weide, Computer and Information Science, received the College of Engineering's Boyer Award for Excellence in Teaching Innovation for 2000.

Robert Parker, Mechanical Engineering, received the American Society of Engineering Education's Outstanding New Faculty Award for 2000.

Charles Toth, Center for Mapping, received the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Presidential Citation for 2000.

Chon-Liang Tsai, Industrial, Welding and Systems Engineering, is a Fellow of the American Welding Society for 2000.

Peter Turchi, Aerospace Engineering, is a Fellow of the Institute for Electronic and Electrical Engineering.

Gregory Washington, Mechanical Engineering, received the Society of Automotive Engineers' Ralph R. Teetor Award.

Jim Williams, Materials Science and Engineering, is the first Laudise Lecturer of the National Materials Advisory Board of the National Research Council and a Life Member of Alpha Sigma Mu, metallurgical honorary society.

S.T. Yang, Chemical Engineering, was issued U.S. Patent No. 6033896 for "Process of Separation of Cells from Liquid by Adsorption onto Fiber," March 7, 2000.

The following residents in the Department of Surgery received winning paper awards at the Columbus Surgical Society's 10th Annual Presidential Symposium, Mt. Carmel Medical Center, Feb. 26: Marc P. Michalsky, Pediatric Surgery, $750 for "Heparin-Binding EGF-Like Growth Factor (HB-EGF) Modulates Nitric Oxide Production in Intestinal Epithelial Cells;"Paul R. Berry, General Surgery, $500 for "Transthoracic Echocardiography Is Not Cost-Effective in Critically Ill Surgical Patients;"and Bradley J. Needleman, Minimally Invasive Surgery, $250 for "Hand-Assisted Laparoscopic Versus Open Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery."

Service

Barbara Becker-Cantarino, Germanic Languages and Literatures, is a member of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession of the Modern Language Association.

Morris Beja, English, moderated a session on "Narratives and Metanarratives" at the Comparative Drama Conference, Ohio State, Columbus, April 27.

David Citino, English, gave a master class at Lorain County Community College, April 21, and a workshop at Wright State University, May 5.

Jon Erickson, English, moderated a session on "Feminist Performance" at the Comparative Drama Conference, Ohio State, Columbus, April 28.

Gene Schuster, Academic Affairs, is president of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers.

Raj Singh, Mechanical Engineering, is vice president for technical activities for the Institute of Noise Control Engineering/USA.

Peter Turchi, Aerospace Engineering, is chair of the Institute for Electronic and Electrical Engineering Standing Committee for Pulsed Power Science and Technology.

R.K. Wolf, Surgery, was director of the Robotics in Cardiac Surgery: The First North American Symposium, Columbus, Feb. 11-12, and The Second International Symposium on Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery, European Surgical Institute, Hamburg, Germany, March 17-29.

Notables

Atwell Hall

The School of Allied Medical Professions Building has been renamed to honor the school's first director, Robert J. Atwell.

Atwell was chief of medical services at the Ohio Tuberculosis Hospital in 1966 when he was recruited to OSU to develop the proposed school. He retired as director in 1983.

Atwell coordinated efforts to seek federal money and approval for the building that will bear his name, which was completed in 1971.

By 1978, the school had developed five undergraduate and two master's-level academic programs and a faculty of 60. Today, Robert J. Atwell Hall houses 180 faculty, eight undergraduate programs and two graduate-level academic programs.

Health sciences

For the second time in two years, the Prior Health Sciences Library has been selected by the Medical Library Association to receive the ISA/Frank Bradway Rogers Information Advancement Award. The Rogers Award is presented annually in recognition of outstanding contributions for the application of technology or theoretical work contributing to the science or knowledge of health sciences information transfer and delivery.

Eric Schnell, Eric Hamrick, Ruey Rodman and Judy Willis received the award for developing the Prospero Electronic /Delivery Project, a Web-based document delivery system.

GTA honors

The Graduate School has recognized 10 recipients of this year's Graduate Teaching Associate Award. They are: Sondra Bacharach (philosophy), William Batchelder (history), Shannon Butler (Spanish and Portuguese), Frank Byrne (history), Thomas J. Duda (mathematics), Lars Dzikus (educational policy and leadership), Lee Franklin (philosophy), Erin Hardin (psychology), Noel Paul (chemistry) and Martin Shumway (civil engineering). Each received a $1,500 honorarium.