Appointments

Alan J. Block was appointed chief of the section of podiatry in the Department of Orthopaedics.

Muthu Periasamy has been appointed chair of the Department of Physiology and Cell Biology.

Books

John Bennett, University Libraries, CHAC PROSTIBULARIO, (Columbus: Pavement Saw Press, 2001), co-author is Ivan Arbuelles.

David Citino, English, The Invention of Secrecy (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2001).

Carole Fink, History, The Jews and Minority Rights During and After World War I (University of Capetown: Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research, 2001).

Nicholas Howe, English, Migration and Mythmaking in Anglo-Saxon England, reprint (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2001).

Grants

Henry Zheng, University Resource Planning and Institutional Analysis, $28,874 Association for Institutional Research Grant for"Assessing the Performance of Public Research Universities."

Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, $419,693 National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Encyclopedia of the Midwest project.

Presentations

G.E. Billman, Physiology and Cell Biology, presented"Animal Models of Lethal Arrhythmias"at the Vancouver Pharmacology 2001 Conference, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, March 29.

Mansel Blackford, History, presented"Business, Tourism, and the Environment: Maui, 1959-2000"at the Business History Conference, Miami, April 20-22.

Brenda Jo Brueggemann, English, presented"Disability, Technology, and Writing"at the University of Dayton and Wright State University, Dayton, March 30.

Xiaomei Chen, East Asian Languages and Literatures and Comparative Studies, presented"Not Just Ten Years: The Historical Roots of Model Theater"at the Rethinking Cultural Revolution Culture Conference, Heidelberg University, Feb. 22-24.

Laura Chrisman, African-American and African Studies, presented"'The Killer That Doesn't Pay Back': Chinua Achebe's Critique of Cosmopolitics"at the Ohio Academy of History Annual Conference, Capital University, Columbus, April 7.

Terence Concannon, Ohio Union, presented"Creating a Place for Community Dialogue"at the Annual Association of Collegiate Conference and Event Directors International Conference, Atlanta, March 2001.

Dick Davis, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, presented"Stealing the Bride"and"The Fires of Chastity"at Princeton University, March 29; and"Dastanha-ye 'ashequaneh-ye yunani va adabiyat-e iron dar gorun-e vosta,""The Veil in the Rock,""Obstacles to Love,""Stealing the Bride,"and"The Fires of Chastity"at the University of California, Los Angeles, April 9-13.

Kirk A. Denton, East Asian Languages and Literatures, presented"The Museum of the Chinese Revolution and the Visual Construction of History"at the Rethinking Cultural Revolution Culture Conference, Heidelberg University, Feb. 22-24.

Marcia Dickson, English, Marion, presented"'Gail Just Keeps Repeating Himself' and Other Problems of Novice Readers"at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette, La., April 5-6.

Jon Erickson, English, presented"Globalization and Performance: The New Problematics of Cultural Appropriation"at the 7th Annual Performance Studies International Conference, University of Mainz, Germany, March 31.

Carter Findley, History, presented"A Misnamed Book by a Misnamed Author"and"Cosmopolitan, National, Global"at Marshall University, Huntington, W.Va., April 17.

Christopher Highley, English, presented"Bede and the Construction of Early Modern Catholic Identity"at the Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, Chicago, March 30.

Cherisse Jones, History, presented"How Do I Sing the Lord's Song?: United Church Women Confront Racial Issues in South Carolina, 1940s-1950s"at the Annual Ohio Academy of History Conference, Capital University, Columbus, April 7.

Robin Judd, History, presented"To Speak for All, To Represent a Few: Responses to the 1890s Kosher Butchering Debates"at Wellesley College, March 27.

Jon A. Krosnick, Political Science, presented"Experimental Comparisons of the Quality of Data Obtained from Face-to-Face and Telephone Surveys,"co-presenter was Melanie C. Green, and"The Accuracy of Self-Reports: Comparisons of an RDD Telephone with Internet Surveys by Harris Interactive and Knowledge Networks,"co-presenter was Lin Chait Chang, at the 56th Annual American Association for Public Opinion Research Conference, Quebec, Canada, May 17-20.

Dorothy Noyes, English, presented"Interpretive Regimes and Cultural Conflict: Lessons from the Spanish Transition?"at the Director's Lunch Series, Mershon Center, April 4; and"The Work of Redemption in the Age of Industrial Production: Women, Ballads, and Capitalist Ventriloquism in 19th Century Europe"and"Take/Cover: Copying and Its Double"at the Center for Folklore and Ethnography Conference, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, March 30.

James Phelan, English, presented"In the Garden of Forking Authors: Or, What's at Stake in the Debate about the Implied Author?"at Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y., April 5.

Julia Praud, French and Italian, presented"Sexual Healing: Memory and Maternity in Assia Djebar's Les nuits de Strasbourg"at the 10th Annual Fraker Conference, University of Michigan, March 23-24.

Fred D. Sack, Plant Biology, presented"Too Many Mouths and Four Lips: Stomatal Patterning and Development in Arabidopsis"at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., Feb. 23.

Michael Sasso, English, presented"Working Blind: Making Business Communication Accessible to Consumers and Professionals With Disabilities"at the Joint Conference of Midwest and Eastern Regions Association for Business Communication, Kansas City, Mo., March 29-31.

Phoebe S. Spinrad, English, presented"Andrew Marvell, Albert Einstein, and the Space-Time of 'To His Coy Mistress'"at the South-Central Renaissance Conference, College Station, Texas, April 5.

James Upton, African-American and African Studies, presented"Race and Multiculturalism in the 21st Century: Still Teaching Taboo Topics"at the 29th Annual National Association for Ethnic Studies Conference, New Orleans, March 29-31, co-presenter was R. Maples.

Sabra Webber, Comparative Studies, presented"What is Folklore and How is an African Folk Tale African"at Columbus Alternative High School, Winter 2001.

Becky Wilkins and Jean Dodson, Child Care Center, presented"Using the Model Child Care Work Standards to Retain Staff"at the National Coalition for Campus Children's Centers Conference, New York, March 28-31.

Karen Winstead, English, presented"Devotion and Dissent in the Writings of John Capgrave"at the Medieval Academy of America, Tempe, Ariz., March 17.

David Woods, Institute for Ergonomics, presented"The Mechanics of Election Reform: From Registration to Results"at the American Psychological Association, American Political Science Association and Consortium of Social Science Association Conference, March 16.

Judy Wu, History, presented"'A Queer Place in Dagotown': Chinatown and North Beach as Interzones and Port Cultures"at the Annual Association for Asian American Studies Conference, Toronto, March 28-April 1.

The following members of the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures made presentations at the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Midwest Conference, Cleveland, March 30-April 1: Daniel Collins,"From Appellative to Emblem: The Particle -s in Woe from Wit"; George Kalbouss,"Woe from Wit and Eugene Onegin"; Melissa Allman,"Valentin Kataev: From Hidden to Open Subversion"; Julia Cretu,"Metropol': An Aesthetic Statement and a Major Act of Ideological Disobedience in the 'Burnt Generation'"; Julia Mikhailova,"Raising in Russian: How the Russian Verb kazat''sya Seems Like 'Seem'"; Natalie Mykysey,"Rebellion and Acceptance in Chingiz Aitmatov's 'The Place of the Skull'"; Mark Nuckols,"Central Europe-a Sprachbund Overlooked?"; Ona Renner-Fahey,"Tainstvennyi Pesennyi Dar: Poetic Creation in Early Akhmatova"; Andrea Sims,"Frequency Effects in Morphological Change: The Case of Serbo-Croation Hybrid Nouns"; Susmita Sundaram,"Cowards with a Non-Fatal Amount of Conscience: The Poet's Moral Collapse in Fazil Iskander's Kroliki I Udavy"; and Elizabeth Worrall,"Dialogism in Tolstoy: The Problem of Obtonsky in Anna Karenina."

Publications

John M. Bennett, University Libraries, review of 21st Century Opener: Madonna Septet by Ivan Arguelles, Small Press Review, Vol. 33, No. 3-4, pp. 1-4.

G.E. Billman, Physiology and Cell Biology,"KDB-328,"Curr. Opin. Invest. Drugs, Vol. 2 (2001), pp. 93-96.

Tien-Hsien Chang, Molecular Genetics,"Specific Alterations of U1-C Protein or U1 Small Nuclear RNA Can Eliminate the Requirement of Prp28p, an Essential DEAD-box Splicing Factor,"Mol. Cell., Vol. 7 (2001), pp. 227-32, co-authors are J. Y.-F Chen, L. Stands, J.P. Staley, R.R. Jackups Jr. and L.J. Latus.

David Citino, English,"Steerage (after Stieglitz),"Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by 20th Century American Art, edited by Jan Greenberg (New York: Abrams, 2001), p. 51;"Corpse of Recluse Found a Year After Her Death,"The Blue Fifth Review (online), (Winter, 2001), pg. 2, www.angelfire.com;"Dearly Beloved,"The Columbus Dispatch, April 1, p. F7;"Fireflies,""The Art of Hummingbirds,"and"The Girl Who Made the Stars,"The Honors Society of Phi Kappa Phi OSU Chapter Newsletter, Vol. 23, No. 1 (2001), pp. 2-3; and"Heartfelt Verse Lies within Us All 12 Months a Year,"The Columbus Dispatch, April 22.

J.J. Curry, Physiology and Cell Biology,"Sudden Chest Pain: A 'Multi-Session' Problem-Based Learning Case for First-Year Medical Students Focusing on Spontaneous Pneumothorax,"Journal of Clinical Problem-Based Learning, Vol. 5 (2001), pp. 40-63, co-authors are J.A. Lubbers and S.A. Tjioe.

Dick Davis, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures,"Guides for the Soul,"The New Criterion, Vol. 19, No. 5, p. 39; and review of E.G. Browne's"A Literary History of Persia,"Wilberforce-Clarke's"The Divan-I Hafiz,"and Hassan Kamshad's"Modern Persian Prose Literature,"Iranian Studies, Vol. 32, No. 4, pp. 585-88.

Donald H. Dean, Biochemistry,"Role of a-Helix Seven of Bacillus thuringiensis CrylAb d-Endotoxin in Membrane Insertion, Structural Stability, and Ion Channel Activity,"Biochemistry, Vol. 40 (2001), pp. 2540-47, co-authors are E. Alcantara and O. Alzate, and"The Role of a Proline-induced Broken a-helix Motif in Alpha-helix 2 or Bacillus thuringiensis d-endotoxins,"FEBS Letters, Vol. 490 (2001), pp. 70-74, co-authors are S. Arnold, A. Curtiss and O. Alzate.

Kathy Fagan, English,"MOVING & ST RAGE,""Revisionary Instruments I"and"She Attempts to Tell the Truth About True Romance,"reprint, The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American Women, edited by Susan Alzenberg and Erin Belieu (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001), pp. 101-07.

Nicholas Howe, English and Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies,"Kilroy in Dresden,"Dissent (Spring 2001), pp. 85-91.

Gary Kennedy, Mathematics, Mansfield,"Contact Formulas for Rational Plane Curves via Stable Maps,"Journal of Algebraic Geometry, Vol. 10 (2001), pp. 365-96, co-authors are Susan Colley and Lars Ernstrošm.

John N. King, English,"'The Light of Printing': William Tyndale, John Foxe, John Day, and Early Modern Print Culture,"Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 54 (2001), pp. 52-85.

Rick Livingston, Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities,"An Exchange with Amartya Sen,"New York Review of Books, Vol. XLVIII, No. 7 (April 26).

Robin Bell Markels, English,"The Conduct and Culture of Women's Basketball in The Necessary Hunger,"Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Spring 2000), pp. 143-57.

George A. Marzluf, Biochemistry,"Metabolic Regulation in Fungi,"Applied Mycology and Biotechnology, edited by G.G. Khachatourians and D.K. Arora (Elsevier Science, 2001), pp. 55-72.

J. Dennis Pollack, Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, Emeritus,"Ureaplasma unrealyticum: An Opportunity for Combinatorial Genomics,"TRENDS in Microbiology, Vol. 9, No. 4 (2001), pp. 169-75.

V. Raghavan, Plant Biology,"Embryogenesis at the Crossroads -- Some Perspectives on Over a Century of Plant Embryo Research,"Acta Biologica Cracoviensia Series Botanica, Vol. 42 (2000), pp. 31-38 and"The Coming of Age of Plant Embryology,"Current Science, Vol. 80 (2001), pp. 244-51.

Edward A. Riedinger, University Libraries, History and Spanish and Portuguese,"Brazilian Anti-Regency Uprisings,"pp. 215-16 and"Brazilian Anti-Republican Uprisings,"pp. 216-18 (Magill's Guide to Military History, Vol. 1 (Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 2001);"Directory of Research for Brazilian Studies in France,"SALALM (Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials) Newsletter (April 2001), pp. 23-24;"The Lisbon Earthquake, 1755,"Natural Disasters (Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 2000), Vol. 1, pp. 113-16; and reviews of David Baronov's The Abolution of Slavery in Brazil, Hugh Kenner's The Elsewhere Community, and Robert Harvey's The Elsewhere Community, Multicultural Review, (March 2001), pp. 80-82.

Amy Shuman, English and Center for Folklore Studies,"Food Gifts: Ritual Exchange and the Production of Excess Meaning,"Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 113 (2000), pp. 495-508.

Youngmin Sun and Y. Li, Sociology, Mansfield,"Marital Disruption, Parental Investment, and Children's Academic Achievement Ð A Prospective Analysis,"Journal of Family Issues, Vol. 22, pp. 27-62.

Wynne Wong, French and Italian,"Alertness, Orientation, and Detection: The Conceptualization of Attentional Functions in Second Language Acquisition,"Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Vol. 23 (2001), pp. 103-24, co-author is D. Simard.

Recognitions

Philip Adamo, History, received the Ohio Academy of History Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award.

G.E. Billman, Physiology and Cell Biology, was chosen a Fellow of the Council on Basic Cardiovascular Sciences of the American Heart Association.

Jacques Herzog, Architecture, has been awarded the Pritzker Prize.

Tracy Hoskins, History, received the Philanthropic and Educational Organization Scholars Award for 2001-02.

Carol Osborn, Allied Medical Professions, has had her book,"Statistical Applications for Health Information Management,"selected as one of the 250 Best Books of 200 by Doody's Journal.

Martha L. Wharton, African-American and African Studies, has been chosen to be a Coolidge Fellow in the 2001 Cross Currents Research Colloquium.

Service

Terry Barrett, Art Education, served as juror for the"Border to Border -- In Color"national drawing competition and exhibition, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tenn.

Denise Beard, Facility Planning and Design, has been elected first vice president of the Association of University Interior Designers.

Laura Chrisman, African-American and African Studies, served as a panelist on"Interdisciplinarity and African Literary Criticism"at the African Literature Association Annual Conference, Richmond, Va. April 6.

J.J. Curry, Physiology and Cell Biology, presented a seminar and workshop to train new faculty to facilitate in the Problem-Based Learning Pathway at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, Erie, Pa., March 7, and a workshop on use of problem-based learning models in education in various disciplines at the University of Cincinnati, April 5-6.

Chuck Curtis and Mike Ellis, Plant Pathology, are board member liaisons for the American Phytopathological Society's Office of Public Affairs and Education Youth Programs and Extension.

S.M. Jhiaang, Physiology and Cell Biology, is a member of the Program Committee for the 2001 American Thyroid Association Annual Meeting, a member of the American Thyroid Association Membership Committee, and on the editorial board of Endocrinology.

Sabra Webber, Comparative Studies, chaired a panel on proverbs and riddles at the American Folklore Society meetings, October 2000, and served as faculty editor for a double issue of The Middle East and South Asia Folklore Bulletin, (Spring/Autumn 2000), co-editors were Kristin Peterson, Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures, and Ipek Celik, Comparative Studies.

Notable

Boyer Award goes to Birckbichler

Diane W. Birckbichler, chair of the Department of French and Italian and director of the Foreign Language Center at Ohio State, recently received the Ernest L. Boyer International Award for Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Technology.

Birckbichler was selected from among nominees from 22 institutions throughout the United States, Canada and Brazil. The award is sponsored by the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning.

The Boyer Award includes a $5,000 cash prize provided by Blackboard Inc., a company that provides software platforms for Web-based course and portal management. Birckbichler has announced she will donate the $5,000 to Ohio State's World Media and Culture Center.

"This money is something I have earned through the good words of so many in the college,"Birckbichler said."I would like to give it back so that it can be used on projects that are important to us all."

Ohio State's World Media and Culture Center is a collection of services and facilities that will be implemented in a newly renovated Hagerty Hall in 2003. The center will help Ohio State's language and culture programs integrate technology and international media into courses and academic programs.

Michael Hogan, dean of the College of Humanities, said,"The Boyer Award honors the innovative ways Diane has used her foreign language expertise and technological savvy in the service of teaching."

A respected expert in foreign language and learning, Birckbichler has inspired thousands of undergraduates, improved the teaching abilities of countless foreign language GTAs, and facilitated the language training of high school students nationwide.