Book

P.C. McKenry, Human Development and Family Science, Families and Change, (Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 2000), co-author is Sharon Price.

Grants

David M. Bisaro, Molecular Genetics, $260,000 USDA-NRICGP Grant for "Molecular Mechanisms of Geminivirus Replication," 2000-03.

Ralph E.J. Boerner, Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, $13.3 million U.S. Joint Fire Science Program Grant for "A National Study of the Consequence of Fire and Fire Surrogate Treatments," 2000-04, one of 18 recipients.

Michael Day and James Kinder, Animal Sciences, $200,000 USDA-NRICGP Enhancing Reproductive Efficiency Program Grant for research on "Early Maturation of the Endocrine Axis in Heifers," 2000-03.

Francis Fluharty and Daral Jackwood, OARDC and Animal Sciences, $225,000 Certified Angus Beef Program Grant for "Genetic and Nutritional Factors Affecting Muscle Characteristics and Carcass Value of Beef Steers," 2000-03.

Mark. P. Foster, Biochemistry, $70,000 American Heart Association Beginning Grant-In-Aid for "NMR Studies of Ligand Induced Changes in Enzyme Structure and Dynamics," 2000-02.

James Kinder, Animal Sciences, $120,000 College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences Mid-Career Faculty Development Award Grant for "Proposal for a Faculty Development Process: Department of Animal Sciences," 2000-04; and $2,000 College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences Vice President's Visiting Expert Proposal Grant to host Gordan Niswender from Colorado State University.

Xiasong Liu, OARDC and Animal Sciences, $1,855 Graduate Student Alumni Research Award Program Grant for "Characterization of Cell Surface Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycans During Turkey Skeletal Muscle Development."

George Marzluf, Biochemistry, $244,949 National Institutes of Health Grant for "Regulation of Gene Expression in Neurospora."

Mark Morrison, Animal Sciences, $250,000 National Research Initiative Competitive Grant on "Molecular and Kinetic Analyses of the Adhesion of Ruminococcus albus to Cellulose," 2000-03; $58,000 National Research Initiative Competitive Grant on "Molecular Biology of Protein Degradation" and "Utilization by Prevotella ruminicola"; $60,000 Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund Grant for "Synthesis and Assembly of Cellulose Binding Proteins in Ruminococcus albus"; and $300,000 Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund Grant for "Molecular Analysis of Cellulosome Organization in Ruminococcus albus and Fibrobacter intestinalis, for Optimization of Fiber Digestibility in Ruminants," 2000-03, co-recipients are Edward Bayer, Weizmann Institute, Israel, and Joshua Miron, Volcani Research Center, Israel.

Donald Palmquist, OARDC and Animal Sciences, $2,000 College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences Vice President's Visiting Expert Proposal Grant to host Peter van Soest from Cornell University.

Joy Pate, OARDC and Animal Sciences, $310,000 Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund Grant, for collaborative research with Israeli scientist on "Roles of Endothelin-1 and Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha in Determining Responsiveness of the Bovine Corpus Luteum to Prostaglandin F2alpha."

Fred D. Sack, Plant Biology, $130,000 NASA Grant for a space flight experiment on the Shuttle (STS-107), 2001; and $250,872 National Science Foundation, Ohio State and BOR Action Fund Multi-User Equipment Grant for "A Wide-Field Deconvolution Microscope for Cell and Developmental Biology," 2000-01, co-recipients are C. Beattie, B. Oakley, H. Vaessin and D.P. Verma.

Richard T. Sayre, Plant Biology, $148,230 NOAA Sea Grant for "Heavy Metal Bioremediation Using Genetically Altered Biomass," 2000-03, co-recipients are S. Traina and L. Malek.

Bruce S. Zwilling, Microbiology, $950,000 National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Grant for "Regulation of Nrampl Mediated Iron Transport," 2000-05.

Presentations

Terry Barrett, Art Education, presented "Looking at Photographs" at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, Aug. 24.

Tien-Hsien Chang, Molecular Genetics, presented "Roles of RNA Helicases in Yeast: Tracking the Path of RNA Metabolism" to the Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan, March 20, and at National Taiwan University, Taipei, March 14, and "Roles of RNA Helicases in Yeast" at National Taiwan University, Taipei, March 21.

Jeane Copenhaver, Teaching and Learning, Mansfield, presented "The Intersections of Response and Ethnicity: Elementary School Students Respond to Multicultural Children's Literature" at the South Central Modern Language Association Conference, Memphis, Tenn., October 2000; and "Professional Constraints and Response" at the National Council of Teachers of English Annual Conference, Denver, November 1999.

Peter Curtis, Plant Biology, presented "Forest Ecosystems and Climate Change: Whither the Flow of Carbon?" at the University of Oklahoma, March 6; and "Global Climate Change: A View from Inside the Ecological Research Community" at the School of Journalism, March 3.

Susan Delagrange, English, Mansfield, presented "Future Tense: Planning a Writing-Intensive Online Professional Writing Course" and "Writing Center Ethnography:'Little Narratives' and the Writing Center Tutor" at the College Composition and Communication Conference, Minneapolis, April 12-15.

D. Denlinger, Entomology, presented "Time for a Rest: Programmed Diapause in Insects" at the Society of Experimental Biology Conference, Cambridge, England, July 30-Aug. 3.

Clive Edwards, Entomology, presented "Economic Aspects of Vermicomposting" in Portland, Ore., July 26-27.

Carter Findley, History, presented "A Quixotic Author and His Great Taxonomy: Mouradgea d'Ohsson and His'Tableau GŽnŽral de l'Empire Othoman'" at the 19th International Congress of Historical Sciences Conference, Oslo, Norway, Aug. 7.

Frank Hall, Entomology, presented "Pesticide Bioavailability Opportunities for New Biocides" at the FMC Seminar, Princeton, N.J., June 20.

Ron Hammond, Entomology, presented "Slugs, Bugs, and Grubs: The Year 2000 Issues" at the Ohio No-Till Council Precision Planting Field Day, Van Buren, July 21; and "Bean Leaf Beetle Resistant Soybeans and Insect Problems in the 2000 Growing Season" at the Piketon Soil and Water Field Night, July 26.

Barbara A. Lehman, Teaching and Learning, presented "Global Literature for Children: An American Perspective" at the 18th World Congress on Reading, Auckland, New Zealand, July 12, co-presenter was Christine McLeod.

Cheng-Ta Li, Animal Sciences and Food Science, presented "Improvement of the Physicochemical Properties of Pale Soft and Exudative (PSE) Meat Products with an Extract from Mechanically Deboned Turkey Meat (MDTM)" and "Spectrophotometric Determination of Lamb Tissue Peroxide Value" at the Food Technologists Annual Conference, Dallas, June 10-14 and at the 53rd Reciprocal Meat Conference, Columbus, June 18-21.

George A. Marzluf, Bichemistry, presented "A New GATA Factor, ASD, Regulates Sexual Development in Neurospora crassa" at the Neurospora 2000 Conference, Monterey, Calif., March 9-12, co-presenter was Bo Feng.

Tony Pasquarello, Philosophy, Mansfield, Emeritus, "God 12,000: The Faith of a Rebeliever" at the 26th National American Atheists Conference, San Francisco, April 21-23.

M. Karen Powers-Stubbs, English, Mansfield, presented "Reading Ecocomposition Readers" at the College Composition and Communication Conference, Minneapolis, April 14; "Listening for/to the Voices of the'Other(s)': Debating Diversity on the Listserv" at the College English Association of Ohio Conference, Ohio Wesleyan University, April 28; and "Whitewashing Green Readers: The Rhetorical Displacement of Race, Class, and Gender in Ecocomposition Textbooks" at the Rhetoric Society of American Conference, Washington, D.C., May 26.

Publications

Edward J. Behrman, Biochemistry, "On the Conformation of UDP-Gle, A Sugar Nucleotide," Journal of Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans., Vol. 2 (2000), pp. 677-82, co-authors are K.B. Kim, E.C. Behrman and C.E. Cottrell.

Jim Buckley, English, Mansfield, "Echoes of Closeted Desire(s): The Narrator and Character Voices of Jake Barnes," The Hemingway Review, Vol. 19, No. 2 (Spring 2000), pp. 73-87.

Richard Burry, Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy, "Overexpression of HuD, but Not of Its Truncated Form HuD I+II, Promotes GAP-43 Gene Expression and Neurite Outgrowth in PC12 Cells in the Absence of Nerve Growth Factor," Journal of Neurochemistry, Vol. 75, No. 3 (2000), pp. 1103-1114, co-authors are Kim D. Anderson, Melissa A. Morin, Andrea Beckel-Mitchener and Charlotte D. Mobarak, University of New Mexico, Rachael L. Neve, Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital, Henry M. Furneaux, Sloan-Kettering Cancer Institute, and Nora I. Perrone-Bizzozero.

J.M. Carpenter, J. Kohima and J.W. Wenzel, Entomology, "Polybia, Paraphyly and Polistine Phylogeny," American Museum Noviates 3298 (2000), pp. 1-24.

Jeane Copenhaver, Teaching and Learning, Mansfield, "Silence in the Classroom: Learning to Talk About Issues of Race," The Dragon Lode, Vol. 18, No. 2 (1000), pp. 8-18; and "A Comfortable Start for Everyone: The First Week of School in Three Multi-Age (K-2) Classrooms," Early Childhood Education Journal, Vol. 27 (1999), pp. 73-80, co-authors are D. Fu, L. Hartle, L. Lamme, J. Copenhaver, D. Adams, C. Harmon and S. Reneke.

C.A. Edwards and D.P. Mentel, Entomology, "Global Aspects of Agricultural Sustainability in the Future of the University and the Future of Our Civilization," UNESCO Conference, Budapest (Singapore, New Jersey, London, Hong Kong: World Scientific Press, 2000), pp. 280-90.

J. Fang and P.L. Vaghy, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, "Identification of the Increased Expression of Monocyte Chemoattractant ProteinÐ1 Cathespin S, UPIX-1 and Other Genes in Dystrophin-Deficient Mouse Muscles by Suppression Subtractive Hybridization," Journal of Cellular Biochemistry, Vol. 79, No. 1 (2000), pp. 164-72, co-author is G.P. Shi, Harvard University.

F.L. Fluharty, S.C. Loerch and G.D. Lowe, OARDC and Animal Sciences, and T.B. Turner and S.J. Moeller, Animal Sciences, "Effects of Weaning Age and Diet on Growth and Carcass Characteristics in Steers," Journal of Animal Science, Vol. 78 (2000), pp. 1759-67.

S.M. Gavazzi and P.C. McKenry, Human Development and Family Science, "Modeling the Effects of Expressed Emotion, Psychiatric Symptomology, and Marital Quality Levels on Male and Female Verbal Aggression," Journal of Marriage and the Family, Vol. 62 (2000), pp. 669-82, co-author is Teresa Julian.

P.S. Grewal, Entomology, "Mushroom Pests," Field Manual of Techniques of Invertebrate Pathology, edited by L. Lacey and H.K. Kaya, (The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000), pp. 497-502.

I. Karsai and J. Wenzel, Entomology, "Organization and Regulation of Next Construction Behavior in Metapolybia Wasps," Journal of Insect Behavior, Vol. 13 (2000), pp. 111-140.

M.G. Klein, P.S. Grewal and T.A. Jackson, Entomology, "Lawn, Turf and Grassland Pests," Field Manual of Techniques of Invertebrate Pathology, edited by L. Lacey and H.K. Kaya (The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000), pp. 681-706.

J. Kovach, R. Petzoldt and G.E. Harman, Entomology, "Use of Honey Bees and Bumble Bees to Disseminate Trichoderma harzianum to Strawberries for Botrytis Control," Biological Control, Vol. 18 (2000), pp. 235-42.

Albert N. Mancini, French and Italian, "L'Italia Fuori d'Italia: Le Secentine Italiane Nella Newberry, Library di Chicago," Italian Quarterly, Vol. 37 (Winter-Fall 2000), pp. 197-208.

P.C. McKenry, Human Development and Family Science, "The Psychological Well-Being of Black and White Mothers Following Marital Dissolution," Psychology of Women Quarterly, Vol. 24 (2000), pp. 4-14, co-author is Mary McKelvey.

J. Pan and W.F. Hink, Entomology, "Isolation and Characterization of Myrmexins, Six Isoforms of Venom Proteins with Anti-Inflammatory Activity from the Tropical Ant," Toxicon, Vol. 38 (2000), pp. 1403-13.

C. Pasian, R.A.J. Taylor, R.W. McMahon and R.K. Lindquist, Entomology, "New Method of Acephate Application to Potted Plants for Control of Aphis gossypii, Frankliniella occidentalis and Bemisia tabaci," Crop Protection, Vol. 19 (2000), pp. 263-71.

Tony Pasquarello, Philosophy, Mansfield, Emeritus, "God: 12,000 -- The Faith of a Rebeliever," American Atheist Journal, Vol. 38, No. 3 (Summer 2000).

D.K. Pearl, R. Bartoszynski, J-F. Maa and D.J. Horn, Entomology, "High Dimensional Simulation-Based Estimation," Math. Comp. Modeling, Vol. 32 (2000), pp. 27-51.

Recognitions

Barbara Lehman, Teaching and Learning, Mansfield, received the Ohiana Library Association's James P. Barry Ohioana Award for Editorial Excellence for 2000, co-recipients are Evelyn B. Freeman and Patricia L. Scharer.

Cheng-Ta Li, Animal Sciences and Food Science, received a Certificate of Merit and $500 for his paper, "Improvement of the Physiochemical Properties of Pale Soft and Exudative (PSE) Meat Products with an Extract from Mechanically Deboned Turkey Meat (MDTM)" from the Institute Food Technologist Graduate Research Paper Competition in the Muscle Food Division.

Ruth Miller, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, received the College of Medicine and Public Health and Office of Health Services Employee of the Month Award for October.

Normand St-Pierre, Animal Sciences, received the American Agricultural Economics Association's Outstanding Extension Award for his work on building a national program for managing risks and profits for crops and dairy.

Service

Richard A. Bradley, Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, hosted "Spider Identification Day" for the Ohio Biological Survey, Ohio Spider Survey and the Museum of Biodiversity, March 18.

Tien-Hsien Chang, Molecular Genetics, is on the Board of Directors of the Taiwanese Bioscientists of America, 2000-02.

Margaret Nichols, Entomology, served as academic counselor for the Summer Institute for the Gifted, Denison University, Granville, July 1-22.

Fred D. Sack, Plant Biology, served on the Science Working Group for the Space Station Biological Research Project at NASA Ames Research Center, San Francisco, March 31-April 1.