Appointments

John C. Byrd has been appointed director of the hematologic malignancies program in the Division of Hematology and Oncology.

Ava M. Stinnett has been appointed managing editor of Theory Into Practice in the School of Educational Policy and Leadership.

Grants

David A. Culver, Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, $67,302 Ohio Lake Erie Protection Fund Grant for"Development of a Planktonic Index of Biotic Integrity for Lake Erie"; $73,713 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Ohio Department of Natural Resources Grant for"Lower Trophic Level Impacts on Fish Recruitment"; and $66,951 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Ohio Department of Natural Resources Grant for"Improved Reliability of Percid Production in Rearing Ponds."

Charles Eisenbeis, Hematology and Oncology, $105,000 Cure For Lymphoma Foundation Grant to study a specific type of lymphoma which stems from the Epstein-Barr virus.

Jay D. Iams, Obstetrics and Gynecology, $1,096,211 NICHD Multicenter Network of Maternal-Fetal Medicine Units Grant, 2001-06.

Iris Meier, Plant Biology, $435,000 National Science Foundation Grant for"Investigating the Role of Novel Nuclear Envelope-associated Plant Proteins in Nuclear Dynamics."

Randy Scholl, Plant Biology, $2,767,211 National Science Foundation 5-year Renewal Grant for The Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center at Ohio State.

Performances

Jon Erickson, English,"Triangulation," dance-theater work, Wild Space Dance Company, Pittman Theatre, Alvernon College, Milwaukee, May 11-12.

Sebastian Knowles, English,"Les chansons de Bilitis," narrator, Faculty Artists Series, Ohio State, May 15.

Presentations

Julia F. Andrews, History of Art, presented"Origins of Revolutionary Visual Culture: Chinese Woodcuts in the 1930s" at the Rethinking Cultural Revolution Culture Conference, University of Heidelberg, Germany, Feb. 24; and"Mapping Chinese Modernity" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Symposium, New York, May 19.

Fojan Belic, Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures, presented"The Concept of Language among the Medieval South Slavs" at the 36th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 5.

Richard Bradley, Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, presented"Birds and their Habitats" at the Galion Historical Society, Galion, March 11;"The Ohio Spider Survey; Six Years On" at the Delaware County Bird Club, Delaware, March 26; and"Basic Spider Biology" at the Aullwood Audubon Eco-conference, Dayton, April 28.

David Cressy, History, presented"1641: The Revolution before the Revolution" at the Religion, Culture and Society in Early Modern England Conference, St. Mary's College, University of Surrey, England, April 19.

David A. Culver, Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, presented"Lake Erie Plankton at the Millennium Plus One: Processes and Problems" at the Lake Erie in the Millennium-Progress and New Issues Conference, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, March 28, co-presenters were Erin Haas and Murray Charlton; and"Dreissenid Mussels and the Boundary Layer: Restrictions on Benthic-Pelagic Coupling" at the Water Resources Conference, Kent State University, Kent, April 3.

Annette Fieldstone, Psychology, presented"Teaching College Psychology Courses Somatically" at the 11th Annual Somatics Conference, Columbus, May 12.

Casey Hoy, Entomology, presented"Resumen y Conclusiones, Qual es el Proximo Paso?" at the V Seminario International de Tecnologia de Produccioon de las Cruciferas, Universidad de Celaya, Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico, May 17-18.

Lee Johnson, Molecular Genetics, presented"Post-transcriptional Regulation of Thymidylate Synthase Gene Expression During the Cell Cycle" at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, April 10.

Lisa Kiser, English, presented"St. Francis and the Animals" at the Speaking Images Conference, University of California, Los Angeles, May 18.

Iris Meier, Plant Biology, presented"The Nuclear Matrix, the Nuclear Envelope, and Nuclear Transport Signaling in Plants" at the Dupont Experimental Station, Wilmington, Del., March 22.

Sharon Mitchell, English, presented"Humouring the King? Lydgate's Life of Our Lady" at the 36th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 5.

Linda Mizejewski, English, presented"Cowboy for President: Will Rogers and the National Scene, 1915-1935" at the Space Between the Wars Conference, Fayetteville, Ark., May 18.

Dorothy Noyes, English, presented"From Specularity to Ventriloquism: Women, Folksong, and the Myth of the Capitalist in Industrial Europe" at the Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, Columbus, May 16; and"Getting Burned: Politics and Identity in a Spanish Fire Festival" at the College of Humanities, May 16.

Kristin Risley, English, presented"A Literature of Our Own: Ethnic Pride, American Patriotism, and Literary Culture in a Norwegian-American Magazine" at the American Literature Association Conference, Cambridge, Mass., May 25.

Fred D. Sack, Plant Biology, presented"Stomatal Patterning in Arabidopsis" at Cornell University.

Amy Shuman, English and Center for Folklore Studies, presented"Memory and Deliberate Forgetting" at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., May 6;"Small World Stories: A Discourse Analysis" at Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas, April 8; and"Language, Ethnicity, Heritage and Identity" at the State Linguistics Profiles Conference, Ohio State, May 12, co-presenter was Norma Mendoza Denton.

Julia Watson, Comparative Studies, presented"Versions of Memory Work: Charlotte Salomon's ÔPostscript' to Life or Theater?" at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., May 6-7, and"Siting the Visual-verbal Interface in Women's Autobiographical Work" at the University of California, Los Angeles Center for the Study of Women, May 15.

Roger William, Entomology, presented"Biology, Behavior and Control of the Rose Chafer, Macrodactylus subspinosus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) Utilizing a Powerful New Attractant" at the 5th Annual Latinoamericana de Scarabaeoidologia, Catholic University, Quito, Ecuador, March 5-9.

Michelle Wolfe, History, presented"Heading the Holy Family: Domestic Narratives and Clerical Households in Early Stuart England" at St. Mary's College, University of Surrey, England, April 18.

The following members of the Department of Human and Community Resource Development made presentations at the Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education 17th Annual Conference, Baton Rouge, La., April 4-7: Scott D. Scheer and Lijuan Zhai,"The Influence of International Study Abroad Programs on Agricultural College Students"; J. Mark Erbaugh, Joseph Donnermeyer and Paul Kibwika,"Evaluating Farmers' Knowledge and Awareness of Integrated Pest Management (IPM): Assessment of the IPM Collaborative Research Support Project in Uganda"; and Barbara G. Ludwig,"Two Decades of Progress in Globalizing U.S. Extension Systems."

Publications

Brian Ahmer, Microbiology,"SirA Orthologs Affect both Motility and Virulence," Journal of Bacteriology, Vol. 183 (2001), pp. 2249-58, co-author is Robert I. Goodier.

E. O. Alzate Alcantara and D.H. Dean, Entomology,"Roll of a-helix Seven of Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Ab d-endotoxin in Membrane Insertion, Structural Stability and Ion Channel Activity and Toxicity," Biochemistry, Vol. 40 (2001), pp. 2540-47.

Julia F. Andrews, History of Art,"White Cat, Black Cat: Chinese Art and the Politics of Deng Xiaoping," Word and Meaning: Six Contemporary Chinese Artists, edited by Kuiyi Shen (Buffalo, N.Y.: State University of New York at Buffalo, Research Center in Art and Culture, 2000), pp. 19-29;"Reflections on the Study of Chinese Painting," Discovering Chinese Painting: Dialogues with American Art Historians, edited by Jason C. Kuo (Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing, 2000), pp. 141-57;"A Shelter from the Storm: Chinese Painting in a Cataclysmic Age, 1930-1980," Between the Thunder and the Rain: Chinese Paintings from the Opium War to the Cultural Revolution, 1840-1979 (San Francisco: Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 2000), pp. 169-97; and"Mapping Chinese Modernity," Chinese Art/Modern Expressions, edited by Judith Smith and Maxwell Hearn (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001), pp. 285-305.

M. Archangelsky and M.A. Branham, Entomology,"Description of the Last Larval Stage and Pupa of Pyropyga nigricans (Coleoptera: Lampyridae), and Comparison with Larvae of Other Known Photinini Genera," Can. Ent., Vol. 133 (2001), pp. 1-10.

S. Arnold, A. Curtiss, D.H. Dean and O. Alzate, Entomology,"The Role of a Proline-induced Broken-helix Motif in a-helix 2 of Bacillus thuringiensis e-endotoxins," FEBS Letters, Vol. 490 (2001), pp. 70-74.

Frank Darwiche, English,"Lebanon," Countries and their Cultures, edited by Melvin Ember (New York: Macmillan Reference, 2001).

Leigh Gilmore, English,"Limit-Cases: Trauma, Self-Representation, and the Jurisdictions of Identity," Biography, Vol. 24, No. 1 (March 2001), pp. 128-40.

Nicholas Howe, English and Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, review of Jennifer Neville's Representations of the Natural World in Old English Poetry, Speculum, Vol. 78 (2001), pp. 499-501.

J.L. Jenkins and D.H. Dean, Entomology,"The Complex Receptor-binding Interactions of Insecticidal Proteins from Bacillus thuringiensis," BIA Journal, Vol. 8 (2001), pp. 25-27.

M.K. Lee, J.L. Jenkins, T. H. You, A. Curtiss, J.J. Son, M.J. Adang and D.H. Dean, Entomology,"Mutations at the Arginine Residues in a8 Loop of Cry1Ac Bacillus thuringiensis d-endotoxin Affect Toxicity and Binding to Manduca Sexta and Lymantria Dispar Aminopeptidase," N. FEBS Letters, Vol. 497 (2001), pp. 108-12.

T.A. Lennie, Adult Health and Illness Nursing,"Influence of Market Forces on Nutraceutical Research: Role of the Academic Researcher," Nutrition, Vol. 17, No. 5 (2001), pp. 423-24; and"Education Needs and Altered Eating Habits of Persons with a Total Laryntectomy," Oncology Nursing Forum, Vol. 28, No. 4 (2001), pp. 667-74, co-authors are S.K. Chrisman and R.A. Jadack.

Iris Meier, Plant Biology,"Characterization and High-resolution Distribution of a Matrix Attachment Region-binding Protein (MFP1) in Proliferating Cells of Onion," Planta, Vol. 212 (2001), pp. 535-46.

W.J. Mitsch, Natural Resources and Environmental Science,"Effects of Hydrology on Spatial Patterns of Soil Development in Created Riparian Wetlands," Wetlands Ecology and Management, Vol. 9 (2001), pp. 103-20, co-author is M.S. Fennessy;"Effects of Recycled FGD Liner Material on Water Quality and Macrophytes of Constructed Wetlands: A Mesocosm Experiment," Water Research, Vol. 35 (2001), pp. 633-42, co-authors are C. Ahn and W.E. Wolfe;"Dynamics of Mixtures of Typha latifolia and Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani in Nutrient-enrichment Wetland Experiments," American Midland Naturalist, co-author is L.M. Swenbsouk;"Self-design Applied to Coastal Restoration," Concepts and Controversies in Tidal Marsh Ecology, edited by M.P. Weinstein and D.A. Kreeger (Kluwer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 2000), pp. 554-64;"Macroinvertebrate Community Structure in High- and Low-nutrient Constructed Wetlands," Wetlands, Vol. 20 (2000), pp. 716-29, co-author is D.J. Spieles;"Garden Wetland Experiment Demonstrates Genetic Differences in Soft Rush Obtained from Different Regions (Ohio)," Ecological Restoration, Vol. 18, No. 4 (2000), pp. 258-59, co-author is P.E. Weihe;"The Value of Wetlands: The Importance of Landscape Setting and Scale," Ecological Economics, Vol. 35 (2000), pp. 25-33, co-author is J.G. Gosselink; and"Large-scale Coastal Wetland Restoration on the Laurentian Great Lakes: Determining the Potential for Water Quality Improvement," Ecological Engineering, Vol. 15 (2000), pp. 267-82, co-author is N. Wang.

J.L. O'Brien, D.K. Moser, B. Riegel, S.K. Frazier and B.J. Garvin, Adult Health and Illness Nursing,"Comparison of Anxiety Assessment between Patients and their Clinicians in Acute Myocardial Infarction Patients Hospitalized in the Cardiac Critical Care Unit," American Journal of Critical Care, Vol. 10, No. 2 (2001), pp. 97-103.

James Phelan, English,"Redundant Telling, Preserving the Mimetic, and the Functions of Character Narration," Narrative, Vol. 9 (2001), pp. 210-16.

Fred D. Sack, Plant Biology,"Amyloplasts that Sediment in Protonemata of the Moss Ceratodon purpureus Are Non-randomly Distributed in Microgravity," Plant Physiology, Vol. 125 (2001), pp. 1085-94, co-authors are V.D. Kern, J.D. Smith and J.M. Schwuchow.

A.P. Valaitis, P.L. Jenkins, M.K. Lee, D.H. Dean and K.J. Garner, Entomology,"Isolation and Partial Characterization of Gypsy Moth BTR-270, an Anionic Brush Border Membrane Glycoconjugate that Binds Bacullus thurgiesis Cry1A Toxins with High Affinity," Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology, Vol. 46 (2001), pp. 186-200.

Benjamin Vogt, English,"Why I Hate Bagels," Front Range Review, Vol. 1 (Spring 2001), pp. 41-42; and"Coming Up With Excuses," The Evansville Review, Vol. 11, p. 48.

Roger Williams, Entomology,"Flight Performance of Some Nitidulid Beetles (Coleoptera) Using a Computer-monitored Flight Mill," Journal of Agricultural Urban Entomology, Vol. 17 (2001), pp. 143-51, co-authors are W.A. Vam Dam and R.A.J. Taylor.

Karen Winstead, English, review of Rosalyn Voaden's God's Words, Women's Voices: The Discernment of Spirits in the Writing of Late-Medieval Women Visionaries, Anglia, Vol. 118 (2000), pp. 457-58.

Recognitions

Diane Birkbichler, French and Italian and Foreign Language Center, has received the 2001 Ernest L. Boyer International Award for Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Technology.

David Citino, English, has been selected to receive the Ohioana Library Association's 2001 Ohioana Career Award.

Dick Davis, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, has received the 2nd Annual American Institute of Iranian Studies Translation Award for the translation of Farid udDin Attar's The Conference of the Birds, co-translator was Afkham Darbandi.

Casey Hoy, Entomology, received the Wooster City School District's Certificate of Recognition for the contribution of his time and effort in the design of Layton Elementary School Education Theme Gardens.

Joanne Naour, Prior Health Sciences Library Circulation Department, is the College of Medicine and Public Health and Office of Health Services Employee of the Month for June.

Marlyn Price, French and Italian, has received the Association of Faculty and Professional Women's Mary Ann Williams Award for service and leadership in the University community.

Service

Julia F. Andrews, History of Art, served as co-editor for Visual Culture and Memory in Modern China, a special issue of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Vol. 12, No. 2 (Fall, 2000), co-editor was Xiaomei Chen.

Daniel Collins and George Kalbouss, Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures, served on the Statewide Planning Committee on relations between Ohio and the Kharkiv Region, Ukraine, May 8.

Jim Connors, Human and Community Resource Development, is editor of the Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education Journal and served as a session chair at the Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education Conference, Baton Rouge, La., April 4-7.

Glenn P. Gravlee, Anesthesiology, is president-elect of the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists.

Charles Gribble, Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures, has been elected president of the Bulgarian Studies Association.

David Kos, Environmental Health and Safety, served as chair for the American Industrial Hygiene Association-Central Ohio Section Conference, Westerville, April 26.

Barbara Ludwig, Human and Community Resource Development, served as a committee chair at the Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education Conference, Baton Rouge, La., April 4-7.

Iris Meier, Plant Biology, served as judge at the 2001 Undergraduate Research Colloquium in the College of Biological Sciences.

Larry E. Miller and J. Mark Erbaugh, Human and Community Resource Development, served as discussants at the Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education Conference, Baton Rouge, La., April 4-7.

Scott D. Scheer, Human and Community Resource Development, served as facilitator at the Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education Conference, Baton Rouge, La., April 4-7.

Koroscik named dean at Cincinnati

Ohio State's dean of the College of the Arts has accepted a similar post at the University of Cincinnati as dean of the College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning, one of UC's top colleges. Judith Smith Koroscik, a 20-year Ohio State veteran, has been dean since 1997. Her new position is effective Aug. 1.

"I have great affection for OSU," Koroscik said."My experience here has been enormously rewarding, and I will miss being part of this great university. OSU's College of the Arts offers many exceptional programs in the visual and performing arts."

Executive Vice President and Provost Edward J. Ray said Koroscik's new position"represents an opportunity for personal and professional growth and development for Judith and, for her, provided an irresistible chance to expand her experiences as dean. President Kirwan and I know that she will do an excellent job in her new position at Cincinnati, and we wish her the very best."

During her years at Ohio State, Koroscik's research focused on examining how the visual arts foster intellectual development. An advocate for technology and research in the arts and design, Koroscik served as co-chair of the Ohio Board of Regents' Information Technology Task Force and helped plan the state's investment in technology.

Ray said he will recommend an interim dean to President Brit Kirwan after consulting broadly with the college's faculty, staff and students.

"Change is part of the rhythm at a university," Ray said,"particularly a large teaching and research campus where good people are hired away and good people are hired. ... As much as I hate to see any of our leaders go elsewhere, other universities seek them out by virtue of their accomplishments here."

A full search for a permanent dean of national reputation will begin soon.