Appointments

Arthur P. Bertolino has been appointed chief of dermatology at the Ohio State University Medical Center.

Joel Lucas has been appointed medical director at Ohio State University Hospitals East.

Evelyn Pintz has been appointed medical director of the Ohio State University Primary Care Network.

James C. Williams, Engineering, has been appointed to the Ohio Aerospace and Defense Advisory Council, 2001-2004.

Books

Javier Gutierrez-Rexach, Spanish and Portuguese, editor, Current Issues in Spanish Syntax and Semantics (Studies in Generative Grammar 53) (Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2001), co-editor is Luis Silva-Villar, and Meaning and the Components of Grammar/El significado y los componentes de la gram‡tica (LINCOM Studies in Theoretical Linguistics) (Munich: LINCOM Europa, 2001).

Ileana Rodriguez, Spanish and Portuguese, editor, Convergencia de tiempos. Estudios subalternos/contextos latinoamericanos estado cultura, subalternidad (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2001).

Dale Van Kley, History, editor, Religion and Politics in Enlightenment Europe (University of Notre Dame Press, 2001), co-editor is James E. Bradley.

Grants

Tito Homem-de-Mello, Industrial and Systems Engineering, $341,706 National Science Foundation Grant to study "Stochastic Optimization for Revenue Management."

W. Scott McGraw, Anthropology, Mansfield, $10,000 Margot Marsh Biodiversity Foundation of Great Falls, Virginia, Grant in support of the Ivory Coast's Tai Forest Monkey Project and $2,500 Conservation International Grant for his continuing work on the eastern Ivory Coast.

Kimberly S. Roempler, College of Education Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Science and Mathematics Education, $60,560 National Science Foundation Grant for the support of a Science Metadata Working Group.

Performance

Sebastian Knowles, English, "Of Song, Love, and Death," poetry and music, Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, Nov. 18, co-performers were Jeffrey Wood and Patrick Woliver.

Presentations

Amy Alrich, History, presented "'Re-settlement'in the Soviet Zone of Occupation: The Formative Experiences of the Expellees with the Indigenes in Postwar East Germany" at the 26th Annual Social Science Historical Association Conference, Chicago, Nov. 16-18.

Febe Armanios, History, presented "Al-mar'ah al-fadila: Representing Woman in Modern Coptic Society" at the Middle East Studies Association Conference, San Francisco, Nov. 17-20.

Janice Aski, French and Italian, presented "Teaching Italian in the United States: The New Millennium" at the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Conference, Washington, D.C., Nov 16-18.

Terry Barrett, Art Education, presented "Studio Critiques -- Making Them Better" at the Midwest Society for Photographic Education Annual Conference, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, Nov. 16.

D.M. Baylen, Instructional Design and Development, presented "Revisiting Discussion Strategies that Enhance Students'Online Interaction and Learning" at the Teaching Online in Higher Education Online Conference, Nov. 13, co-presenter was C.K. Sorensen.

Anne Bower, English, Marion, presented "Welcome to the Neighborhood: Mexicans and Mexican Food in Texas Community Cookbooks" at the American Studies Association Conference, Washington, D.C., Nov. 9.

Joan Bradley, Mansfield, presented "Build It Yourself" at the National Association of Biology Teachers, Montreal, Canada, Nov. 8, and "Science is for Everyone -- Accessibility Matters!" at the Technology Enhanced Research and Learning Conference, Columbus, Nov. 3, co-presenter was Carole Holomuzki.

Nicholas Breyfogle, History, presented "Russian Sectarian Antimilitarists Before the Introduction of Universal Military Service" at the International Peace Studies Conference, Hofstra University, Nov. 9.

Angela Brintlinger, Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures, presented "In Living Color: Tynianov's Use of Color Imagery in The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar" at the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Conference, Washington, D.C., November 2001.

Brenda Jo Brueggemann and Debra Moddelmog, English, presented "Coming Out Pedagogy: Risking and Enabling Identity in Language and Literature Classrooms" at the American Studies Association Conference, Washington, D.C., Nov. 10.

Wes Budke, Human and Community Resource Development, presented "What Makes an Exemplary Program" Webcast panel discussion at the Great Oaks Institute of Technology and Career Development, Cincinnati, Aug. 23.

Sara Dickinson, Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures, presented "Personal Objects as Signifiers of Taste in Chemashevsky and Marinina" at the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Conference, Washington, D.C., November 2001.

Andrea Dowhower, Heather Brandon and Tracy Stuck, Student Affairs, presented "The Anatomy of a Greek Community: Lessons Learned from an Honest Assessment" at the Association of Fraternity Advisers National Conference, Washington, D.C., Nov. 30.

Melissa Dunbar, Neis P. Highberg and Michael Sasso, English, presented "Testing, Testing: The High School/College Connection and ÔThe Teach Writing Project'" at the National Council of Teachers of English Conference, Baltimore, Nov. 17.

Jon Erickson, English, presented "Presence" at the American Society for Theatre Research Conference, San Diego, Nov. 17.

Gail Gunderson and Jo Jones, Human and Community Resource Development, presented "FLEX: A Leadership Education Experience" at the Association of Leadership Educators Conference, Minneapolis, July 19.

Donna J. Guy, History, presented "Rape and the Politics of Masculine Silence" at the Sexuality and Social Control in Latin America Conference, Tulane University, Nov. 17.

Katherine Henry, English, presented "Anguished Voices and Civic Speech in American Slavery As It Is" at the American Studies Association Conference, Washington, D.C., Nov. 11.

Wendy Hesford, English, presented "Globalization, Composition, and Community Service Learning as Materialist Practices," Drake University, Dec. 2.

Neil Jacobs, Germanic Languages and Literatures, presented "Yiddish Linguistic Topography" at the Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference, Banff, Alberta, Canada, April 21-23.

Jo Jones, Marilyn Spiegel and Jan Thompson, Human and Community Resource Development, presented "Let's Celebrate: Past, Present and Future of Leadership Education" at the Association of Leadership Educators Annual Conference, Minneapolis, July 19.

David Kraybill and Linda Lobao, Human and Community Resource Development, presented "County Government Survey: Challenges and Changes in the New Millennium" at the National Association of Counties, Washington, D.C., July 24.

Linda Lobao, Human and Community Resource Development, presented "Does Lean and Mean Government Benefit the Masses?: State Employment, Social Welfare, and Economic Well-being Across U.S. Locales," co-presenter was Gregory Hooks, and "Contesting the Country-side: Theory, State Policy, and Community Change in Rural America" at the American Sociological Association Conference, Anaheim, Calif., August 2001.

Keith Manecki, English, presented "Hart Crane's ÔArchitecture Art': The Bridge, Modernism and the Challenge of Place" at the South Central Modern Languages Association Conference, Tulsa, Okla., Nov. 2.

Irene Masing-Delic, Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures, presented "Utopia Projected: Gorky's II Sorrito as Iasnaia Poliana" and "Who Are the Tatars in Blok's Kulikovo-cycle? The Orient as an Inner Category in Russian and Soviet Orientalism" at the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Conference, Washington, November 2001.

Judith Mayne, French and Italian, presented "In the Dietrich Archive" at the Dietrich at 100: An International Conference, Dartmouth College, Oct. 27.

Larry Miller, Human and Community Resource Development, presented "Research for Practice" and "Conducting Valid Survey Research" at the 9th Annual Chinese American Educational Research and Development Association Conference, Columbus, Sept. 22.

Dorothy Noyes, English, presented "El hueso cantante: vox populi y mito capitalista" at the Neuvas y Viejas Tradiciones en Ambitos Urbanos Conference, Madrid, Nov. 23, and "The Uncontainable Periphery: Merimee's Ethonographic Fantastic" at the American Folklore Society Annual Conference, Anchorage, Alaska, Oct. 19.

The following members of the Department of Human and Community Resource Development made presentations at the Rural Sociological Society's 64th Annual Conference, Albuquerque, N.M., Aug. 17-19: Stephen Kandel and Ted. L. Napier, "Factors Associated with Farmers'Motivation to Make Production Decisions: A Comparative Analysis of Three Midwestern Watersheds"; Linda Lobao, David Kraybill and Louis E. Swanson, "Localization Processes, Spatial Inequality and the State: The Emerging Roles of County Governments in Rural America"; Joseph Donnermeyer, Scott D. Scheer and Sherrie Whaley, "Media Portrayals of Substance Use: An Analysis of Rural and Urban Youth"; Molly Bean Smith and Jeff Sharp, "Community Integration and Attitudes toward Growth and Agriculture: Results from a Community Study of the Rural-Urban Interface"; Rosiady Sayuti, "Group Dynamics and Decision Making Process on the Farm: A Case Study of Dry Land Areas in Lumbak Island, Indonesia"; J. Brian Brown and Daniel T. Lichter, "Rural Single Mothers and Challenges to Economic Stability"; A.E. Luloff, Jeff Sharp, Lawrence Busch and Cornelia Flora, "The Future of Rural Sociology in Colleges of Agriculture and in the Discipline of Sociology"; Joseph F. Donnermeyer, "Occupational Change and Amish Society"; Susan McCabe and Jeff Sharp, "Preservation Through Transformation: Possible Future of Exurban Agriculture"; Joseph Donnermeyer and Lora Friedrich, "To Be or Not To Be: An Analysis of Decisions by Young Amish Men and Women"; Mark Tucker, Ted L. Napier, Brent Sohngen and Corey Henry, "Factors Influencing Ohio Farmers'Adoption of Long-Range Weather Forecasts as Management Decision-Making Tool"; and Richard H. Moore and Mark Weaver, "A Local Approach to TMDL Watershed Planning: The Sugar Creek Method."

Publications

Mark Bayer, English, "Moving UpMarket: Queen Anne's Men at the Cockpit in Drury Lane, 1617," Early Theatre, Vol. 4 (2001), pp. 138-48.

Barbara Becker-Cantarino, Germanic Languages and Literatures, "ÔDie wŠrmste Liebe zu unsrer litterarischen Ehe': Friedrich Schlegels Lucinde und Dorothea Veits Florentin," Bi-TextualitŠt. Inszenierungen des Paares, edited by Annegret Heitmann, Sigrid Nieberle, Barbara Schaff and Sabine Schutting (Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 2001), pp. 131-41, and "Dorothea Veit-Schlegel als Schriftstellerin und die Berliner Fruhromantik," Amim und die Berliner Romantik: Kunst Literatur und Politik, edited by Walter Pape (TŸbingen: Niemeyer, 2001), pp. 123-34.

L.M. Borden, J.F. Donnermeyer and S.D. Scheer, Human and Community Resource Development, "The Influence of Extra-curricular Activities and Peer Influence on Substance Abuse," Adolescent and Family Health, Vol. 2, No. 1 (2001), pp. 12-19.

Robert Davis, History, "Counting European Slaves on the Barbary Coast," Past & Present, Vol. 172 (August 2001), pp. 87-124.

Susan Hartmann, History, "Expanding Feminism's Field and Focus: Activism in the National Council of Churches in the 1960s and 1970s," Women and Twentieth-Century Protestantism, edited by Margaret Lamberts Bendroth and Virginia Lieson Brerto (University of Illinois Press, 2001), pp. 49-69.

Charles Klopp, French and Italian, review of Albert Bevilacqua, La Polvere nell'erba, World Literature Today, Vol. 73 (2001), pp. 383-84.

Lee Martin, English, "My Word: Memoir's Necessary Betrayal," Post Road, Vol. 3 (2001), pp. 113-20.

Linda Mizejewski, English, review of Angela Latham's Posing a Threat: Flapper, Chorus Girl, and Other Brazen Performers of the American 1920s, American Historical Review, (October 2001), p. 1389.

Recognitions

Avi Benatar, Welding Engineering, received the Society of Plastics Engineers'Special Interest Group on Joining of Plastics and Composites Best Paper Award for "Investigation of Non-Thermal Effects Produced by Ultrasonic Heating and Curing of Two-Part Epoxy Adhesive," co-author was Kin Ming Kwan.

Marilyn Blackwell, Germanic Languages and Literatures, received the American Association of University Professors'Nemzer Award for promoting faculty rights and faculty governance.

Rudy Buchheit, Materials Science and Engineering, has received the National Association of Corrosion Engineers'H.H. Uhlig Educator Award for outstanding effectiveness in postsecondary corrosion education by young educators.

Wes Budke, Human and Community Resource Development, received the Future Farmers of America's Honorary American Degree.

Ann D. Christy, Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, received the 2001 Plimpton Outstanding Teaching Award for being named the best associate professor in the college.

Julie Fox, Extension Enterprise Center, received the Ohio Manufacturing, Defense and Technology Centers'Outstanding Trainer and Consultant Award.

Beth D. Gaydos, Family and Consumer Sciences Extension, Noble and Monroe Counties, received the National Extension Association of Family and Consumer Sciences'second place award in national communications (radio).

Timothy Gregory, History, was awarded the title of Honorary Associate in the University of Sydney's School of Philosophy, Gender, History and Ancient World Studies for 2001-02.

Keith Kilty, Social Work, received the American Association of University Professors'Nemzer Award for promoting faculty rights and faculty governance.

L. James Lee, Chemical Engineering, has been elected a Fellow of the Society of Plastics Engineers.

Rongxing Li, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science, received the PACON International Service Award for 2001.

Patrick Maughan and Paul Schroeder, University Security Services, received certification as Institutional Protection Managers from the International Foundation for Cultural Property Protection.

Service

Scott Boden, Student Affairs, is program chair for the 2002 Great Lakes Association of College and University Housing Officers Conference.

George Kalbouss, Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures, Emeritus, is on the Board of Directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 2001-2003.

Halina Stephan, Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures, organized and chaired a panel on "Marketing the Diaspora: Polish Culture in America" and served as a discussant on "Socialist or Magic Realism? Artist and State in Post-War Krakow" at the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Conference, Washington, D.C., November 2001.