Appointment

Chandan K. Sen has been named director of research for the Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery.

Books

Barbara Becker-Cantarino, Germanic Languages and Literatures, Schriftstellerinnen der Romantik. Epoche -- Werke -- Wirkung (Munich: C.H. Beck Verlag, 2000).

Xiaomei Chen, East Asian Languages and Literatures and Comparative Studies, editor, East of West: Crosscultural Performance and the Staging of Difference (Palgrave, 2000), co-editor is Claire Sponsler.

Ellen Gil-Gomez, Comparative Studies, Performing La Mestiza: Textual Representations of Lesbians of Color and the Negotiation of Identities (Garland, 2000).

Lindsay Jones, Comparative Studies, The Hermeneutics of Sacred Architecture, Vol. 1, Hermeneutical Calisthenics: A Morphology of Ritual-Architectural Priorities and Vol. 2, Monumental Occasions: Reflections on the Eventfulness of Religious Architecture (Harvard University Press, 2000).

Brian Rotman, Comparative Studies, Mathematics As Sign: Writing, Imagining Counting (Stanford University Press, 2000).

Grants

Tim M. Berra, Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, Mansfield, Emeritus, $10,000 National Geographic Society and Columbus Zoo grants to study the life history of nurseryfish, Kurtus gulliveri, in the Northern Territory of Australia.

D. McNeil, Internal Medicine, $134,000 OSU/Cleveland Clinic-Florida/Industry Consortium Grant for "Integrated Management of Indoor Aeroallergens," Sept. 1, 2000-March 1, 2001.

Presentations

Chadwick Allen, English, presented "When Tonto Was a Half-Breed: Race and Frontier Mythology in The Lone Ranger" at the Western Literature Association Conference, Norman, Okla., Oct. 26.

Alex Blazer, English, presented "A Symptomatic Sinthome: Adrienne Rich's Floating Poem and the Problem of the Real of Love" at the Central New York Conference on Language and Literature, Cortland, N.Y., Oct. 28-31.

Brenda Jo Brueggemann, English, presented "Delivering Disability, Willing Speech" at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Oct. 26.

Katherine Burkman, English, Emeritus, presented Samuel Beckett's "Not I" and "Come and Go" at the Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 3.

William S. Dancey, Anthropology, presented "Hopewell Settlement: The Dispersed Sedentary Argument" at the 10th Annual Woodland Conference, Hopewell Culture National Historical Park, Chillicothe, Oct. 27, co-presenter was Paul Patheco.

H. de Ruiter, Entomology, presented "The Influence of Inorganic Anions of Glyphosate Activity" at the American Society for Testing and Materials Pesticide Formulations and Applications Systems Conference, Orlando, Fla., Oct. 24-25, co-authors were Roger Downer, Tim Ebert, Frank Hall, E. Nijhius and N.L. Waginingen.

D.L. Denlinger, Entomology, presented "Escape in Time: the Biology of Overwintering in Insects" and "Tsetse: The Fly that Thinks It's a Mammal" at the University of Oklahoma, Oct. 10-14.

Roger Downer, Entomology, presented "Trends Affecting Crop Protection Agents/Adjuvants: Opportunities in Integrative Strategies" at the First Latin American Symposium on Adjuvants for Agrochemicals, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, Sept. 27-29, co-presenter was Frank Hall.

Melissa Dunbar, English, presented "Negotiation in Tutor Training," co-presenter was Mark Letcher, Education, and "In Defense of Feminized Writing Centers" at the National Writing Center Association Conference, Baltimore, Nov. 2-4.

Naomi Fukumori, East Asian Languages and Literatures, presented "The Performative Power of Chinese Learning in Makura no soshi and Murasaki Shikibu nikki" at the Association for Japanese Literary Studies Conference, Washington University, St. Louis, Nov. 11.

Jared Gardner, English, presented "The Afterlife of Charles Brockden Brown" at the Frontiers of Charles Brockden Brown Conference, Las Vegas, Oct. 27.

Emmett Glass and Don McNeil, Internal Medicine, and Glen Needham and Zhaoyi Bu, Entomology, presented "Why Ticks Suck! Practical and Philosophical Issues Discussed" at the Society for Vector Ecology Conference, Berkeley, Calif., Oct. 18.

Kay Halasek, English, presented "Spinster Teachers: The Lives and Times of the Hunter College Women, 1897-1913" at the 20th Annual Rhetoric Conference, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Oct. 31-Nov. 2.

Frank Hall and Roger Downer, Entomology, presented "Optimizing Toxin Presentation and Acquisition Processes" at the 3rd International Lab to Field Transfer Conference, Canterbury, U.K., Sept. 10-12, co-presenter was Tim Ebert; and "A Wind Tunnel Appraisal of Spray Drift: Capture Efficiency on Non-Target Species" at the American Society for Testing and Materials Pesticide Formulations and Application Systems Conference, Orlando, Fla., Oct. 24-25, co-presenters were F.R. Hall, T. Ucar, Jim Hacker and Jim Tew.

Hannibal Hamlin, English, presented "'Hearts Broken and Contrite': Jonson, Herbert, Milton and Psalm 51" at the 16th Century Studies Conference, Cleveland, Nov. 4.

Brian Hauser, English, presented "Charles Brockden Brown at the Frontier of Narrative Theory" at the Frontiers of Charles Brockden Brown Conference, Las Vegas, Oct. 27.

Christopher Highley, English, presented "Robert Persons, Hispaniolization, and Exile Identity" at the 16th Century Studies Conference, Cleveland, Nov. 3.

Fred Hitzhusen and Dustin French, Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, presented "Toward Improved Codification, Protocol and Application of Benefit Transfer Methods" at the Southern Economics Association 70th Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., Nov. 10.

Ester Hoogstaden, French and Italian, presented "Une reflexion sur l'histoire: L'Education sentimentale de Flaubert et La Fortune des Rougon de Zola" at the 3rd Annual Graduate Colloquium for French and Francophone Studies, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pa., Oct. 27-28.

Thomas Kasulis, East Asian Languages and Literatures and Comparative Studies, presented "Intimacy and Integrity: Cultural Perspectives on Nature" and "Belonging: Zen Buddhist Ecology" at the Buddhism and the Environment conference, Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, Sept. 22-24; and "Zen Buddhism and Creativity" at Centre College, Danville, Ky., April 12.

John N. King, English, presented "Eliza, Belphoebe, and the Politics of 1579-1580," "Tudor Humanism and the Classical Tradition" and "The Reception of Classical Models in Tudor Humanism" at the 16th Century Studies Conference, Cleveland, Nov. 2-4.

Sally Kitch, Women's Studies, presented "Feminist Future Thought: The Dangers of Utopia" at the Feminist Utopias: Redefining Our Projects Conference, University of Toronto, Nov. 10.

Kevin Lindberg, English, presented "'The Phaeton cast down': The Earl of Essex and Thomas Heywood's The Royall King, and the Loyall Subject" at the Midwest Conference on British Studies, Cincinnati, Oct. 28.

Mihaela Marin, French and Italian, presented "Un Coeur simple: le paysage flaubertien au feminin" at the 19th Century French Studies Colloquium, University of Illinois, Urbana, Ill., October 2000; and "Femme-plante ou femme-pierre: Zola et l'esthetique du pittoresque" at the 9th International Conference on Emile Zola and Naturalism, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, September 2000.

Danielle Marx-Scouras, French and Italian, presented "A Berber, Feminist Novel on War: Yamina Mechakra's La Grotte eclatee" at the 2nd Annual Race, Gender and Class Conference, New Orleans, Oct. 19-21.

Michael Meckler, Greek and Latin, presented "Kinship in Adomnan's Life of Columba" at Rutgers University, Nov. 9.

Glen Needham, Entomology, presented "Dust Mites: Does Integrated Management Reduce Allergens and Asthma in Homes?" at the Parasitological Society of Southern Africa, Bloemfontein, Republic of South Africa, Sept. 28.

Fernando Noll, Entomology, presented "Caste Differentiation and Colony Cycle in Social Wasps" at the International Society for the Study of Social Insects North American Section Conference, Huntsville, Ark., Oct. 7.

Dorry Noyes, English, presented "Performer, Interpreters, and Cultural Conflict: Reading Strategies" at the American Folklore Society Annual Conference, Columbus, Oct. 27.

Kurt Pickett, Entomology, presented "Evolution of Peculiar Castes in the Charismatic genus Apoica Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Epiponini" at the International Society for the Study of Social Insects North American Section Conference, Huntsville, Ark., Oct. 6.

Franklin Proano, Comparatives Studies, Marion, presented "Mental Disorders in the Contemporary Mexican Novel Written by Women" at the International Conference on Madness and Bliss in Literature and the Visual Arts, Atlanta, Nov. 3-5.

Robert A. Rapp, Materials Science and Engineering, Emeritus, presented "Hot Corrosion: A Fluxing Mechanism?" at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York, Nov. 9.

Barry Shank, Comparative Studies, presented "Vicious Sentiments" at the Future of American Studies Conference, Dartmouth, June; "The Mute Objectivity of Mass Feeling: 20th-Century Greeting Cards and the Refusal of Emotional Eloquence" at the 100 Years of Mass Culture Conference, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, September; and "Fractured Utopian Soundscapes" at the American Studies Association Conference, Detroit, October.

Martha C. Sims, English, presented "Preachers and Healers: 'Outsider' Artists Inside Their Communities" at the American Folklore Society Conference, Columbus, Oct. 26.

Susan Jones, Entomology, presented "Economically Important Termites in the United States" at the International Union for the Study of Social Insects French Section Conference, Dijon, France, Sept. 6-8; and "Insect Pests and Their Management" at the Ohio Housing Authorities Conference, Worthington, Oct. 18.

Lisa Tatonetti, English, presented "Claiming Race, Claiming Queerness: Constructing Queer Family in Cherrie Moraga's Autobiographic Fiction" at the American Studies Association Conference, Detroit, Oct. 12-15; and "'Tomorrow Tucson': Dislocation in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead" at the Western Literature Association Conference, Norman, Okla., Oct. 26-29.

Jennifer Terry, Comparatives Studies, presented "Sexual Rights as Cultural Capital" at the University of California, Los Angeles Center for the Study of Women, February 2000.

James E. Tew, Entomology, presented "Integrated Pest Management" and 12 Challenges Facing Modern Day Beekeepers" at the Tennessee Beekeepers Association Conference, Oak Ridge, Tenn., Oct. 20-21, and "Integrated Pest Management" and "Life Cycle and Anatomy of the Honey Bee" at the Alabama State Beekeepers Association Meeting, Sept. 15-16.

C.A. Triplehorn, Entomology, presented "The Rest of the Story: A Darkling Beetle Chronicle" and "Why was the Creator so Inordinately Fond of Beetles?" at Brigham Young University, Salt Lake City, Utah, Nov. 2-3.

Julia Watson, Comparative Studies, presented "Disappearance and Emergence at the Interface: Charlotte Salomon's Life or Theater?" at the Barnard Feminist Art and Art History Conference, New York, Oct. 28-29.

Jennifer Willging, French and Italian, presented "Nathalie Sarraute's Fluid Muse" at the Midwest Modern Languages Association Conference, Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 2-4.

Publications

Barbara Becker-Cantarino, Germanic Languages and Literatures, "Lessings Der Misogyne: Maskerade und Secualitat in Lessings fruhen Lustspielen," Monatshefte, Vol. 92 (2000), pp. 123-38.

Todd A. Blackledge and Kurt M. Pickett, Entomology, "Predatory Interactions Between Mud-Dauber Wasps (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae) and Argiope (Araneae, Araneidae) in Captivity," Journal of Arachnology, Vol. 28 (2000), pp. 211-16.

Beau David Case, University Libraries, "The Acquisition of Faculty Publications at their University Libraries," Library Resources & Technical Services, Vol. 44 (2000), pp. 84-91; and "First Amendment Speech Tests," Encyclopedia of the U.S. Supreme Court (Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 2000), pp. 371-72.

Johnson Cheu, English, "Caught Prey," Witness, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Fall 2000), pp. 26-27.

David Citino, English, "The Death of Gorilla Monsoon," Witness, Vol. 14, No. 2 (2000), p. 124-25; review of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings, edited by J.D. McClatchy, Columbus Dispatch, Nov. 12; and "Spiders, Worms, the History of M.S.," Seneca Review, Vol. 30, No. 2 (2000), p. 85.

Tracy L. Craig and D.L. Denlinger, Entomology, "Sequence and Transcription Patterns of 60S Ribosomal Protein PO, a Diapause-Regulated AP Endonuclease in the Flesh Fly, Sarcophaga crassipalpis," Gene, Vol. 255, pp. 381-88.

Hannibal Hamlin, English, "'Very Mete to be Used of all Sortes of People': The Remarkable Popularity of 'Sternhold and Hopkins' Psalter," The Yale University Library Gazette, Vol. 75 (Oct. 2000), pp. 37-51.

R.B. Hammond, L.G. Higley, L.P. Pedigo, L. Bledsoe, S.M. Sponer and T.A. Degooyer, Entomology, "Similated Insect Defoliation on Soy Bean: Influence of Row Width," Journal of Economic Entomology, Vol. 93 (2000), pp. 1429-36.

C.W. Hoy, T.T. Vaughn and D.A. East, Entomology, "Increasing the Effectiveness of Spring Trap Crop for Leptinotarsa decemlineata," Entomol. Exp. Appl., (2000), pp. 193-204.

Abiola Irele, African-American and African Studies and Comparative Studies, "Introduction," The Fortunes of Wangrin (Indiana University Press, 2000), translated by Amadou Hampate Ba and Aina Pavolini Taylor.

J.S.H. Klompen, Entomology, "Prelarva and Larva of Opilioacarus (Neocarus) texanus (Chamberlain & Mulaik) (Acari: Opiliocarida) with Notes on the Patterns of Setae and Lyrifissures," Journal of Natural History, Vol. 34 (2000), pp. 977-92.

Mitchell Lerner, History, Newark, "Lyndon Johnson and America's Military Intervention in Southeast Asia," Paths Not Taken: Speculations on American Foreign Policy and Diplomatic History, edited by Jonathan Neilson (Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishing, 2000), pp. 175-209.

Stuart Lishan, English, "After Oral Surgery/A Meditation on the Tongue," CrossConnect: Writers of the Information Age, Vol. 4 (Autumn 2000), pp. 93-94.

Robin Bell Markels, English, "Bloomer Basketball and its Suspender Supression: Women's Intercollegiate Competition at Ohio State, 1904-07," Journal of Sport History, Vol. 27, No. 1 (Spring, 2000), pp. 31-49.

Danielle Marx-Scouras, French and Italian, "Un peu de couleur dans la grisaille: Le The au Harem d'Archimede," LittleRealite, Vol. 7, No. 1 (Spring/Summer 2000).

Dorry Noyes, English, "Breaking the Social Contract: Violence and Production in the Catalan Mountains at the Turn of the Century," Crossroads of History: Experience, Memory, Orality: XIth International Oral History Conference, Istanbul, Vol. 3 (2000), pp. 1363-67; and "Cultivating Memory in Catalan Calendar Custom," ICTM Ethnochoreology Symposium Proceedings 1998: Dans Muzik Kultur: Folklora Dogru (Istanbul: Bogazici University, 2000), pp. 151-65.

K.M. Pickett, A. McHenry and J.W. Wenzel, Entomology, "Nestmate Recognition in the Absence of a Pheromone," Insectes Sociaux, Vol. 47, No. 3 (2000), pp. 219-221.

Jennifer Terry, Comparative Studies, "'Unnatural Acts in Nature': A Look at the Scientific Fascination with Queer Sexual Behavior in Animals," GLQ, Vol. 6, No. 2 (2000), pp. 151-93.

Recognition

Chadwick Allen, English, received the Western Literature Association's Don D. Walker Award for the best essay published in 1999 for his article "Blood (and) Memory."

Rose M. Harris, Women's Studies, is a Visiting Scholar in the African American Studies Research Initiative at the University of Houston, 2000-01.

Albert N. Mancini, French and Italian, received the Republic of Italy's Order of Merit title of "Grande Ufficiale" for his efforts in furthering the study of Italian culture in North America and was nominated honorary president of the American Association for Italian Studies for 2001.

Dorothy Noyes, English, and R. Ned Lebow and Richard Herrmann, Mershon Center, received the BMW Award for Research in the Field of Intercultural Learning First Prize for 2000.

Ken Rinaldo, Art and Technology, received the Life 3.0 Art and A-Life competition's First Prize and $5,000 for his work Autopoiesis.

Robert E. Roth, Natural Resources, received the North American Association for Environmental Education's Outstanding Contributions to Research in Environmental Education Award for his substantive contributions to theory and practice in environmental education, the promotion of environmental education research, and establishment and institutionalization of the field and discipline of environmental education.

Jennifer Terry, Comparative Studies, was visiting research scholar at the Center for the Study of Women at the University of California, Los Angeles, 1999-2000.

Service

Tom Kasulis, East Asian Languages and Literatures and Comparative Studies, organized the annual meeting of the American Society for the Study of Religion at the University of Chicago, April 28-30, and serves as president of the society.

Lawrence Libby, Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, and G. Thomas Watters, Ohio Biological Survey, are on the Board of Trustees of the Nature Conservancy.

Robert L. Ruberg, Plastic Surgery, has been elected president of the Plastic Surgery Education Foundation.