Appointments

M. Ronald Glaser has been named interim associate vice president for health sciences research and vice dean for research in the College of Medicine and Public Health.

Daniel Sedmak has been named interim associate vice president for health sciences education and vice dean for education in the College of Medicine and Public Health.

Books

Gregory Jusdanis, Greek and Latin, The Necessary Nation, (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000).

Kitty O. Locker, English, Business Communication: Building Critical Skills (Chicago: Irwin/McGraw-Hill, 2001), co-author is Stephen Kyo Kaczmarek.

Geoffrey Parker, History, The World is Not Enough: The Imperial Vision of Philip II of Spain (Baylor University, Markham Press Fund, 2001).

Grants

Stephen Boyles, Animal Sciences, $28,818 Ohio Department of Agriculture Division of Animal Industries Grant to develop Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) materials in 2000, co-recipient is Robin Burton.

Karol Fike, Animal Sciences, $19,960 OARDC Seed Grant and $49,180 OARDC Matching Funds Grant for"Decreasing age of puberty in bulls with luteinizing hormones-releasing hormone (LHRH) agonists."

Jeffrey Firkins and Mark Morrison, Animal Sciences, and Burk Dehority, OARDC and Animal Sciences, $20,000 OARDC Seed Grant for"development and use of molecular technologies to study nitrogen transactions in the rumen to reduce nitrogen excretion in the environment."

Francis Fluharty, OARDC, Ohio Beef Industry Center and Animal Sciences, $1,267,200 USDA Congressional Grant to develop the Ohio Farm Family Beef Industry Network, 2001-06.

Roger High, Animal Sciences, $1,050 OSU CARES and Outreach and Engagement Program Grant to develop a Sheep Interactive Youth Learning Center.

Ross Larue and Mark Morrison, Animal Sciences, $3,300 OARDC Seed Grant for"Investigation of proteomics and metagenomics to identify new genes and proteins in the rumen of sheep fed different diets."

Joseph Ottobre, Animal Sciences, $20,000 OARDC Seed Grant for"Role of vitamin C transporters and prostaglandin synthase in vitamin C depletion during regression of the ovine corpus luteum."

William Pope, Animal Sciences, $20,000 OARDC Seed Grant for"Expression of the androgen receptor during follicular development and estrous cycle in swine."

Macdonald Wick, Animal Sciences, $29,400 OARDC Matching Funds Grant for"Early determination of tenderness in beef carcasses."

Henry Zerby, Animal Sciences, and Francis Fluharty, OARDC, Ohio Beef Industry Center, and Animal Sciences, $60,000 Federal-State Market Improvement Program Grant to develop the first-ever grid system that pays cow-calf producers for the actual carcass value of the animals they produce and to develop muscle separation techniques and value-added products for muscles currently not marketed through most Ohio retail and restaurant establishments, co-recipients are Betsy Belleville, Ohio Department of Agriculture Division of Markets, Don Frobose, Wood County Extension Agent, and Dave Mangione, South District Extension Specialist.

Presentations

Michael E. Beeth, Teaching and Learning, presented the following at the Association for the Education of Teachers in Science Conference, Costa Mesa, Calif., January 2001:"Inquiry-based Research Articles Published by Elementary Students in the I Wonder Journal (1992-2000)," co-presenter was Tracy Huziak; and"Redesign in Science Teacher Preparation," co-presenters were Gyoungho Lee and Hyeoksoon Kwon.

Tim M. Berra, Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, Mansfield, Emeritus, presented"Charles Darwin, the Man" at the University of Georgia, Jan. 27.

J.F. Copenhaver, Teaching and Learning, Mansfield, presented"The Complexity of Attributing Purpose to Human Behavior in a Cross-Cultural Context: A Study of Children's Responses to Literature" at the Qualitative Research in Education Annual Conference, Athens, Ga., January 2001;"Using Goffman's Presentation of Self Theory to Analyze Three Middle Grade Social Studies Teachers' Interpretations of Multicultural Education (Founders Roundtable)" at the National Association for Multicultural Education Annual Conference, Orlando, Fla., November 2000; and"Responses to Race-Related Literature: How Urban African American Students Talk About Race in Multiethnic Elementary Classrooms" at the Multicultural Literature for Children and Young Adults Annual Conference, Asheville, N.C., July 2000.

Burk Dehority, OARDC and Animal Sciences, presented"Effects of pH on Viability and Growth of Entodinium caudatum, Entodinium exiguum, Epidinium caudatum and Ophryoscolex purkynjei in Vitro" at the 25th Rumen Function Conference, Chicago, Nov. 14-16.

Francis Fluharty, OARDC and Animal Sciences, presented"Genetic Potential and Management Practices that Affect Meat Characteristics" at the National Cattlemen's Beef Association's Annual Conference, San Antonio, Feb. 2; and"How Does the Ohio BQA Program Work?" at the Ohio Cattlemen's Beef Association's Annual Conference, Dublin, Jan. 7.

Woody Foster, Entomology, presented"Mating Behavior in Mosquitoes: Alternative Strategies and the Evolution of Courtship" at the Zoological Institute of the University of Zurich, Switzerland, Dec. 18.

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

R.B. Hammond, Entomology, presented"Soybean Aphids and Slugs" at the Top Ohio Growers Conference, Columbus, Jan. 13;"Slug Management" at the Shelby County Agronomy Day, Jan. 15; and"Slug Issues and Management Strategies" at the Ohio No Till Conference, Plain City, Jan. 23.

Youngsun Kwak, Teaching and Learning, presented"Development of Constructivist Views of Teaching and Learning by M. Ed. Students in a (Mathematics, Science & Technology Education) Preservice Teacher Education Program" at the Association for the Education of Teachers in Science Conference, Costa Mesa, Calif., January 2001, co-presenter was Michael E. Beeth.

Joy Pate, OARDC and Animal Sciences, presented"Immune Response Events in the Corpus Luteum Triggered by Uterine PGF During Luteolysis" at the European Society of Domestic Animal Reproduction Annual Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, Nov. 24.

Christopher Reed, History, presented"Agriculture, the Root Occupation (benye): Chinese History Viewed from the Perspective of its Farmers" at the College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences LEAD Program Study Institute, Columbus, Jan. 18.

Angel Torres and Casey Hoy, Entomology, presented"IPM for Carrot Weevil in Parsley" at the 55th Annual Celeryville Muck Crops School, Willard, Jan. 18.

Sandra Velleman, OARDC and Animal Sciences, presented"Beta 1 Integrin Expression and Localization during Normal and Low Score Normal Avian Myogenesis" at the 40th American Society of Cell Biology Conference, San Francisco, Dec. 9-13.

R. Paul Vellom, Teaching and Learning, presented"Using Electronic Classrooms and the World Wide Web to Support Science Teaching and Learning" at the Association for the Education of Teachers in Science Conference, Costa Mesa, Calif., January 2001, co-presenters were Marcia Fetters, University of Toledo, and Michael E. Beeth.

Julia Watson, Comparative Studies, presented"Autobiography at the Visual-Verbal Interface: Charlotte Salomon's Life? Or Theater?" at the Modern Languages Association Conference, Washington, D.C., Dec. 29.

Etsuyo Yuasa, East Asian Languages and Literatures, presented"Nonrestrictive Relative Clauses in Japanese" at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., Jan. 5.

Henry Zerby, Animal Sciences, presented"Why is a Quality Assurance Program Necessary" at the 2001 Ohio Cattlemen's Beef Association Annual Conference, Dublin, Jan. 7.

The following members of the Department of Greek and Latin made presentations at the American Philological Association Conference, San Diego, Jan. 4-6: Bruce Heiden,"S.E. Bassett and the Pragmatics of Homeric Poetry"; Duane W. Roller,"Defining the Southern Limits of the Known World: The Exploration and Treatises of Juba II of Mauretania"; and Victoria Wohl,"Cleon before Pericles: Thucydides on the'Turn' in Athenian Politics."

The following members of the English Department made presentations at the Modern Language Association Conference, Washington D.C., Dec. 27-30: David Adams,"Virginia Woolf's'Reoccupation' of Christian Territory"; Morris Beja,"Spielberg's Schindler"; David A. Brewer,"Boswell, Macheath, and the Making of the National Heritage"; Steven Fink,"Thoreau and Authorship Reconsidered"; Hannibal Hamlin,"ÔThe highest matter in the noblest' forme': The Influence of the Sidney Psalms" and"The'Originality' of English Renaissance Psalms"; Sebastian D.G. Knowles,"Yes, Virginia, There is a Fugue:'Sirens' Octet"; James Phelan,"Wayne C. Booth and Contemporary Critical Theory" and"Narrativity, Lyricality, and Portraiture: Some Innovative Forms of the Short Story"; and Elizabeth Renker,"Teaching Melville's Poetry" and"Teaching Melville's Poetics of Difficulty."

Publications

Chadwick Allen, English, review of Catherine Rainwater's Dreams of Fiery Stars: The Transformations of Native American Fiction, in Studies in American Indian Literatures, Vol. 12, No. 3 (2000), pp. 90-92.

John Burnham, History,"Changing Metaphors in History of the Human Sciences," History of the Human Sciences, Vol. 13 (2000), pp. 121-24.

John Burnham, History,"Jack Pressman and the Future of the History of Psychiatry," Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol. 74 (2000), pp. 778-85.

B.R. Choi and D.L. Palmquist, OARDC and Animal Sciences,"Cholecystokinin Mediates Depression of Feed Intake in Dairy Cattle Fed High Fat Diets," Domestic Animal Endocrinology, Vol. 19 (2000), pp. 159-75, co-author is M.S. Allen, Michigan State University.

Laura Chrisman, African American and African Studies,"Rethinking Black Atlantacism," The Black Scholar, Vol. 30, No. 3-4 (December 2000), pp. 12-17.

David Citino, English,"Lecture to the Bioscience Class: Pine and Lighting, Cataclysms and Stone" and"The Beatification of Padre Pio," The Ohio Review Thirtieth Anniversary Issue, New and Selected, Vol. 1 (2001), pp. 141-43;"Pomp, Circumstance, and Other Songs of a Lifetime: A Commencement Address," Humanities Exchange, Vol. 16 (2000), pp. 34-35; reviews of Edward Sanders' The Poetry and Life of Allen Ginsberg: A Narrative Poem, edited by Middlebrook and George; Selected Poems of Anne Sexton; and William Matthews' After All: Last Poems, in The Columbus Dispatch, Jan. 7, p. F7.

Dick Davis, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures,"A Monorhyme for the Shower,""Farewell to the Mentors,""Live Happily,""Out of Time" and"To the Persian Poets," The Hudson Review, Vol. 53, No. 4 (Winter 2001), pp. 596-98.

Helen Fehervary, Germanic Languages and Literatures,"Mannerism, Modernism, Muller:'In der Zeit des Verrats/Sind die Landschaften schon,'" Heiner Muller: Probleme und Perspektiven; Bath-Symposium 1998, edited by Ian Wallace, Dennis Tate, and Gerd Labroisse (Amsterdam/Atlanta: Editions Rodopi, 2000), pp. 35-44.

G.E. Flores, Entomology,"Cladistic Analysis of the Neotropical Tribe Nycteliini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)," pp. 13-25;"Systematics of the Andean genera Falsopraocis Kulzer and Antofagapraocis gen. N (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae), with Descriptions of Two New Species," pp. 76-94; and"Systematic Revision of the Argentinean Genus Thylacoderes Solier (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) with Descriptions of Two New Species," pp. 76-94, Journal of the New York Entomological Society, Vol. 108, No. 1-2 (2000).

Jean Fran�ois Fourny, French and Italian,"Introduction," pp. 3-6, and"Pierre Bourdieu's Uneasy Psychoanalysis," pp. 103-11, SubStance, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Winter 2001).

E.V. Glass, J.A. Yoder and G.R. Needham, Entomology,"Evaluation of Putative Arrestant-aggregation Pheromones in the American House Dust Mite, Dermatophagoides farinae Hughes (Astigmata: Pyroglyphidae)," International Journal of Acarology, Vol. 27 (2000), pp. 15-18.

R.G. Hancock and W.A. Foster, Entomology,"Exogenous Juvenile Hormone and Methoprene, But Not Male Accessory Gland Substances or Ovariectomy, Affect the Blood/nectar Choice of Female Culex nigripalpus Mosquitoes," Medical Veterinary Entomology, Vol. 14 (2000).

Nicholas Howe, English and Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies,"Deserts, Lost History, Travel Stories," Southwest Review, Vol. 85, No. 4 (2000), pp. 526-39.

Charles Klopp, French and Italian, review of Andrea De Carlo's Nel momento, World Literature Today, Vol. 74 (2000), p. 659.

Ethan Knapp, English, review of S.H. Rigby's Chaucer in Context: Society, Allegory and Gender, in Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Vol. 22 (2000), pp. 527-31.

J.H. Lucas, Physiology and Cell Biology,"Effects of Sodium and Chloride on Neuronal Survival after Neurite Transection," Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology, Vol. 60 (2001), pp. 33-48, co-authors are L.J. Rosenberg and D.G. Emery.

Catherine P. Montalto, Consumer and Textile Sciences,"Retirement Savings: Meeting Growing Challenges," The Consumer Federation of America's Financial Services Conference (November 2000);"The Retirement Adequacy of American Households in 1998. Retirement Income Security: Current Practices and Emerging Issues," Preconference of Association for Financial Counseling and Planning Education, (November 2000), co-author is Sherman Hanna; and"Determinants of Planned Retirement Age," Financial Services Review, Vol. 9, No. 1 (2000), pp. 1-15, co-authors are Sherman Hanna and Yoon Yuh.

Patrick B. Mullen, English,"A Word of Introduction: Collaborative Research in Context," pp. 119-22;"The Dilemma of Representation in Folklore Studies: The Case of Henry Truvillion and John Lomax," pp. 155-74; and"Collaborative Research Reconsidered," pp. 207-14; Journal of Folklore Researchü Vol. 37, No. 2-3 (2000).

Foster Forbes Purrington, Entomology,"New Southerly Distribution Records for the Boreal Carrion Beetle, Nicrophorus vespilloides (Coleoptera: Silphidae)," Entomological News, Vol. 111, No. 5 (2000), pp. 355-58, co-author is Robert L. Davidson.

J.P. Rinehart, G.D. Yocum and D.L. Denlinger, Entomology,"Thermotolerance and Rapid Cold Hardening Ameliorate the Negative Effects of Brief Exposures to High or Low Temperatures on Fecundity in the Flesh Fly, Sarcophaga crassipalpis," Physiological Entomology, Vol. 25 (2000), pp. 330-36.

Nancy Rudd and Shannon Lennon, Consumer and Textile Sciences,"Mapping Knowledge: Taking Action at the International Textile and Apparel Conference," co-authors are Gwen O'Neal, Kansas State University, Mary Littrel, Iowa State University, S. Gahring, K. Geum and M. DeLong;"Body Image and Television Shopping Channel Exposure Among Television Shoppers," co-author is Seung Hee Lee;"What Do We Know at the End of the Millennium? Part I," and"What Do We Know at the End of the Millennium? Part II," co-author is Seung Hee Lee;"Pedagogical Issues in Textiles and Clothing, Part II: Thinking Outside the Box," co-authors are J.Z. Flynn, B. Trout and S. Butler, Proceedings of the International Textile and Apparel Conference, (November 2000).

Patricia Sieber, East Asian Languages and Literatures,"Acts of Translation: Jane Hirshfield, Chinese Poetics and the Practice of Zen," Contemporary Buddhism, Vol. 1, No. 2 (November 2000), pp. 119-139.

David Steigerwald, History, Marion,"The Paradoxes of Kennedy Liberalism," Review in American History, (December 2000).

Alice C. Stewart and Julie Carpenter-Hubin, Fisher College of Business,"The Balanced Scorecard: Beyond Reports and Rankings," Planning for Higher Education, (Winter 2000-01).

Leslie Stoel, Consumer and Textile Sciences,"Research to Advance the Field," Proceedings of the International Textile and Apparel Conference (November 2000).

James Upton, African-American and African Studies,"Stop-outs: African-American Participation in Adult Education," Out of the Revolution: The Development of Africana Studies, edited by Delores P. Alridge and Carlene Young (New York: Lexington Books, 2000), pp. 491-506.

Julia Watson, Comparatives Studies,"Writing (in) Blood: Autobiography and Technologies of the Real in Janet Campbell Hale's Bloodlines," Haunting Violations: Feminist Criticism and the Crisis of the"Real," edited by Wendy Hesford and Wendy Kozol (Champaign-Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2000), pp. 111-36.

B.W. Wolf, Animal Sciences,"Ion Chromatographic Determination of Three Fructooligosaccharide oligomers in Prepared and Preserved Foods," Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Vol. 48 (2000), pp. 5326-30, co-authors are A.J. Hogarth, D.E. Hunter, W.A. Jacobs and K.A. Garleb.

Wynne Wong, French and Italian,"La saisie (intake), cette grande oubilee," AILE (Acquisition et Interaction en Langues Etrang�res) Vol. 14 (2000), pp. 59-86, co-author is D. Simard.

Judy Wu, History,"'Lovliest Daughter of our Ancient Cathay!': Representations of Ethnic and Gender Identity in the Miss Chinatown U.S.A. Beauty Pageant," edited by Philip Scranton, Beauty and Business: Commerce, Gender, and Culture in Modern America (Routledge 2001).

Rui Yao, Consumer and Textile Sciences,"Do Investors Use the Expected Utility Decision Rule?" Proceedings of the Association for Financial Counseling and Planning Education, (2000), pp. 70-78, co-author is S. Lovett.

Recognitions

Wayne Bacon, OARDC and Animal Sciences, received the Gamma Sigma Delta 2000 Research Award for Excellence.

Mollie Carroll, Medicine and Public Health Personnel, received the College of Medicine and Public Health and Office of Health Services Employee of the Month Award for March.

Mike Day, Animal Sciences, received the Gamma Sigma Delta 2000 Teaching Award for Excellence.

Kay Halasek, English, received the Conference on College Composition and Communication 2001 Outstanding Book Award for A Pedagogy of Possibility: Bakhtinian Perspectives on Composition Studies (Southern Illinois University Press).

Keith Irvin, Animal Sciences, received the College's 2000 Advising Award for Excellence.

Edward Naber, Animal Sciences, Emeritus, received the USDA's Certificate of Appreciation for his role as co-founder of the first national symposium on poultry waste management in 1988.

Patricia Sieber, East Asian Languages and Literatures, and Steven Yao, English, have been selected as 2001-2002 Fellows in the Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities for their project,"Words Between Worlds: Towards a Comparative Cultural Politics of National vs. Ethnic Categorizations of Culture."

Service

Steve Boyles and Gary Fike, Animal Sciences, and Bill Shulaw, Veterinary Medicine, were members of a panel presentation on BQA Components at the Ohio Cattlemen's Beef Association's Annual Conference, Dublin, Jan. 7.

Laura Chrisman, African American and African Studies, was guest editor of Journal: The Black Scholar Special Issue: Transcending Traditions: Afro-American, African Diaspora and African Studies, Vol. 30, No. 3-4 (December 2000).

Leigh Gilmore, English, is on the editorial board of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies.

Danielle Marx-Scouras, French and Italian, chaired a session at the Division on Francophone Literatures and Cultures and served as chair of the Division Executive Committee at the Modern Language Association Conference, Washington, D.C., Dec. 28.