Appointments

Donald Dean has been appointed director of the biochemistry program.

Caroline Whitacre has been appointed associate vice president for health sciences research and vice dean for research.

Books

Michael W. Curran, History, Emeritus, A History of Russia, the Soviet Union, and Beyond, 6th edition (Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth Press, 2002), co-author is David MacKenzie; and Russia and the Soviet Union in the 20th Century, 4th edition (Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth Press, 2002), co-author is David MacKenzie.

Audeen W. Fentiman, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science, Radioactive Waste Management (New York: Taylor & Francis, 2002), co-author is James S. Saling.

Allan Millett, History, pamphlet,"Drive North: U.S. Marines at the punchbowl," Korean War Commemorative Series, (U.S. Marine Corps History and Museums Division, 2001).

Geoffrey Parker, History, Phillip II, 4th edition (Open Court Publishing Company, 2002) and El exito Nunca Es Difinitivo: Imperialismo, Guerra y Fe en la Europa Moderna (Madrid: Taurus, 2001).

Hugh Urban, Comparative Studies, The Economics of Ecstasy: Tantra, Secrecy and Power in Colonial Bengal (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001) and Songs of Ecstasy: Tantric and Devotional Songs from Colonial Bengal (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001).

Julia Watson, Comparative Studies, Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives (University of Minnesota Press, 2001), co-author is Sidonie Smith.

Grants

S.J. Lennon, Consumer and Textile Sciences, $245,728 USDA Higher Education Challenge Grant for"Textiles and Apparel Industry Internships: Cross-university Sharing," 2001, co-recipients are M.H. Rucker and N. Cassill.

Hazel Morrow-Jones, City and Regional Planning, $39,396 National Science Foundation Award for"The Impact of the September 11, 2001, Terrorist Attacks on American Metropolitan Household Decisions to Stay in the Same Residence, to Remodel, or to Move," 2002.

H.G. Parsa, Consumer and Textile Sciences, $500 Ohio Restaurant Association Grant and $3,000 Central Ohio Restaurant Association Grant for"Career Choices of Young Adults: Focus Group Studies."

N.A. Rudd, Consumer and Textile Sciences, $59,000 Columbus Medical Association Foundation Grant for"Education and Prevention of Eating Disorders at the Center for Eating Disorders and Psychotherapy," 2000-01, co-recipient is L. Hill; and $30,699 Leo Yassenoff Foundation Grant for"Proposal to Expand the Michelle Lynn Dauterman Computer-aided Design Lab at Ohio State University," 2001, co-recipients are S. Zavotka and R. Widdows.

J. Smith, Consumer and Textile Sciences, Dee Jepsen, Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, and Benita Jackson-Smoot, Public Health, $30,000 NIOSH Grant for"Effectiveness of Sun Safety Intervention Approaches to Changing Sun Protection Behaviors of Agricultural Workers."

G. Strege, Consumer and Textile Sciences, $13,263 Ohio Arts Council Grant to support the exhibition,"Fashion American Style 1900-1999," 2001-02; and $4,408 National Endowment for the Humanities Grant to support re-housing and preservation of the collection.

The Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures/World Media and Culture Center and the Institute for Chinese Studies, $1,996,459 Freeman Foundation Grant to support Chinese language and culture distance learning courses and undergraduate Asian studies course enhancements, 2002-2006.

Presentations

Paul R. Berger, Electrical Engineering, presented"Extending CMOS Using Tunneling Devices" at the Frontier Science Research Conference in Materials Science and Technology, La Jolla, Calif., 2001; and"Integration of Silicon-based Tunnel Diodes with CMOS: An RIT-OSU-NRL-NSF Effort" at the 14th Biennial University/Government/Industry Microelectronics Symposium, Richmond, Va., June 17-20, co-presenters were Niu Jin, Sung-Yong Chung, Jeremy J. Kempisty, Karl D. Hirschman, Santosh K. Kurinec and Phillip E. Thompson.

Marc Branham, Entomology, presented"Shielded Flashing -- a Novel Flash Control Mechanism in a Dominican Republic Firefly" at the Entomological Society of America Annual Conference, San Diego, Dec. 9-12.

Ron Hammond, Entomology, presented"Potato Leafhopper Glandular-haired, Insect Resistant Alfalfa in Large Plots" at the Entomological Society of America Annual Conference, San Diego, Dec. 9-12; and"2001 Field Crop Insects" at Pesticide Applicator's Training, Cleveland, Nov. 29; at Regional Agronomy School, Henry County, Dec. 18; and at Regional Agronomy School, Marion County, Dec. 19.

S.D. Hanna, Consumer and Textile Sciences, presented"Factors Related to Meeting the Capital Accumulation Ratio Guideline," co-presenters were Rui Yao and Catherine P. Montalto;"The Effect of Saving Goals and Expectations on Household Saving Behavior," co-presenters were Jong-Youn Rha and Catherine P. Montalto; and"Which Households Meet the Household Debt Service Burden Guidelines?" co-presenters were Jing Zhao and Catherine P. Montalto, at the Academy of Financial Services, Toronto, Canada, Oct. 17; and"Uncovering Clients' Inherent Risk Tolerance" at the Schwab Institutional Academic Speaker Series, July 24.

K.A. Jakes, Consumer and Textile Sciences, presented"Morphology and Microstructure of Marine Silk Fibers" at the American Chemical Society National Conference, Chicago, Aug. 26-28, co-presenter was R. Srinivasan.

Norman F. Johnson, Entomology, presented"Hymenoptera Databasing and Authority Files: Report from the Taxonomic Database Working Group Meeting, Sydney, 2001" at the Entomological Collections Network Annual Conference, San Diego, Dec. 8.

Thomas P. Kasulis, Comparative Studies, presented"Philosophy and Cultural Difference" at Kent State University, Oct. 4.

Jill Lane, Comparative Studies, presented the following:"Seduction, Race, and National Rhythm: the Cuban danz—n" and"Transmigratory Moves: Dance in Global Circulation" at the Congress on Research in Dance, New York, Oct. 26-28;"On Fraternidad: Cuban Black/face Publics, 1890-94" at the Hemispheric Institute Annual Conference, Monterrey, Mexico, June 14-23; and"Reverend Billy: Mimesis and the Dialectics of (not) Shopping" at the Performance Studies International Conference, Mainz, Germany, March 1-April 28.

Joyce Smith, Consumer and Textile Sciences, presented"Skin Cancer Education Program and Impact Evaluation with Farmers in Minnesota and Ohio" at the North American Agromedicine Consortium Annual Conference, Charleston, S.C., Nov. 4; and"Service Learning Offers Forum for Clothing Program and Community Outreach" at the ITAA Pre-conference: Trends for Today's Health Lifestyles, Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 9, co-presenter was Bridgette Sloan.

Smriti Srinivas, Comparative Studies, presented"Cities of the Past and Cities of the Future: Theorizing the City of Bangalore" at the Illinois Institute of Technology, New York University and Bilkent University, Antalya, Turkey, May 2001;"Urban Frontiers and Ritual Geographies: The Spatial Mnemonics of the Sai Baba Movement in Bangalore City" at the American Anthropological Association Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., Nov. 28-Dec. 2; and"The Abundance of Memory: Transnational Networks and the Sathya Sai Baba Movement in Atlanta" at the American Academy of Religion Annual Conference, Denver, Nov. 17-20.

Julia Watson, Comparative Studies, presented"Siting the Visual-Verbal Interface in Women's Autobiographical Work" at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women, May 14, and"Versions of Memory Work: Charlotte Salomon's 'Postscript' to Life or Theater?" at the University of British Columbia, May 7.

The following members of the Department of Entomology made presentations at the Entomological Society of America Annual Conference, San Diego, Dec. 9-12: D.J. Horn,"The Ohio Lepidopterists' Long-term Butterfly Monitoring Program"; Kurt Pickett,"Status of Polistes dominulus in the United States: Introduction, Distribution and Competitive Considerations" and"Exorcising the Demon"; Kevin P. Miller and D.J. Horn,"A Synthesized Chemical Attractant for the American Burying Beetle Nicrophorus americanus (Coleoptera: Silphidae)-part One the Wind-tunnel"; Sibyl Bucheli,"Systematics of Coleophoridae (Lepidoptera, Gelechioidia)"; David Rosenthal,"A Cladistic Analysis of the Genus Seira (Hexapoda: Collembola: Entomobryidae) and Implications to Biogeography"; Hojun Song,"Phylogenetic Relationships of North American Schistocerca (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Cyrtacanthacridinae) and Problems with Current Taxonomy"; Doug Richmond, Parwinder Grewal and John Carcina,"Influence of Below-Ground Herbivory and Fungal Endophyte Infection on Competition Between Grasses and Forbes"; Adrienne E. Smith and D.J. Horn,"Response of Selected Saprophytic Scarabaeidae to Natural and Synthetic Odors Found in Decomposing Dung, Carrion and Fermented Fungi"; Eric J. Dotseth and Norman F. Johnson,"Review of Methods for Representation of Geographic Distributions"; Peter W. Kovarik, Norman F. Johnson, Paul E. Skelley, H. Wilson Montgomery and Roy F. Morris II,"Spatial Analysis of Distribution Patterns of Insects Inhabiting Plains Pocket Gopher Burrows in Illinois and Indiana"; Chi-Feng Lee,"Afrobrianax, a New Genus of the Eubrianacinae with Notes on Its Phylogenetic Position and Description of One New Species from South Africa"; Norman F. Johnson and Luciana Musetti,"Biodiversity Informatics Tolls for Taxonomy"; Luciana Musetti, Norman F. Johnson and Jens-Wilhelm Janzen,"A New Fossil Species of the Australian Endemic Genus Peradenia Naumann and Masner (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupoidea, Peradeniidae)"; John Wenzel,"Phenotypic Characters in the Age of Genomics"; and Norman F. Johnson,"XML Technology and Biodiversity Informatics."

Publications

Nicholas Breyfogle, History,"Caught in the Crossfire? Russian Sectarians in the Caucasian Theater of War, 1853-56 and 1877-78," Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, Vol. 2, No. 4 (Fall 2001), pp. 713-50.

M.A. Ebbert and L.R. Nault, Entomology,"Survival in Dalbulus Leafhopper Vectors Improves after Exposure to Maize Stunting Pathogens," Envomol. Exper. Appl., Vol. 100 (2001), pp. 311-24.

Stephen Hall, History,"Haiti,""Nnandi Azikwe,""Kelly Miller,""John Hope,""Alain Locke," and"Felix Eboue," W.E.B. Dubois Encyclopedia, edited by Gerald Horne and Mary Young (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2001).

S.D. Hanna and C.P. Montalto, Consumer and Textile Sciences,"Do Individual Investors Make Rational Asset Allocation Decisions?" p. 9, co-author is C.W. Lai, and"Factors Related to Meeting the Capital Accumulation Ratio Guideline," p. 23, Proceedings of the Academy of Financial Services (2001), co-author is R. Yao.

Jane Hathaway, History,"The Iconography of the Sword Zulfikar in the Ottoman World (With Special Reference to Egypt)," International Congress on Learning and Education in the Ottoman World, Istanbul, 12-15 April 1999: Proceedings, edited by Ali Caksu (Istanbul: Research Centre for Islamic History, Art and Culture, 2001), pp. 365-75.

David Horn, Comparative Studies,"L'oeuil experimente l'expertise medical at le corps criminel au XIXe si�cle," Michel Foucault et la medecine: Lectures et usages, edited by Philippe Arti�res and Emmanuel Da Silva (Paris: KimŽ, 2001), pp. 249-69.

K.A. Jakes, Consumer and Textile Sciences,"FTIR Microspectroscopy as an Effective Tool for Single Fiber Identification and Fiber Structural Analysis," Textile Specialty Group Postprints, edited by J.L. Merritt and V.L. Whelan, American Institute for Conservation, Vol. 10 (2000), pp. 25-38, co-author is R. Chen;"Cellulolytic Biodegradation of Cotton Fibers from a Deep Ocean Environment," Textile Specialty Group Postprints, edited by C.M. Breeze, American Institute for Conservation, Vol. 9 (2001), pp. 1-10, co-author is R. Chen; and"Prehistoric Use of Sumac and Bedstraw as Dye Plants in Eastern North America," Southeastern Archaeology, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Summer 2001), pp. 56-66, co-author is A.G. Ericksen.

Thomas P. Kasulis, Comparative Studies,"Shin Buddhist Ethics in Our Postmodern Age of Mappo," The Eastern Buddhist, Vol. 33, No. 1 (Spring 2001).

Barbara Lehman, Teaching and Learning, Mansfield,"Pondering the Significance of Big and Little or Saving the Whales: Discussions of Narrative and Expository Text in Fourth and Fifth Grade Classrooms," Reading Research and Instruction, Vol. 40 (2001), pp. 297-314, co-authors are Patricia L. Scharer and Donna Peters.

S.J. Lennon, Consumer and Textile Sciences,"A Comparative Analysis Between the Kawabata Instrumental Evaluation and the Subjective Evaluation of Korean and American Consumers," Journal of The Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles, Vol. 25, No. 2 (2001), pp. 217-27, co-authors are C. Ahn, S.H. Lee, S. Lim and Y. Yang;"Perceived Risk and Purchase Intent Associated with Television Shopping," Frontiers in Direct and Interactive Marketing (New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2001), co-authors are N.F. Stanforth and S. Moore;"Promotional Frames' Influence on Price Perceptions of Two Apparel Products," Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal, Vol. 30, No. 1 (2001), pp. 79-92, co-authors are N.F. Stanforth and J.I. Shin; and"Self-schema or Self-discrepancy? Which Best Explains Body Image?" Clothing and Textiles Research Journal, Vol. 19, No. 4 (2001), pp. 171-84, co-author is N.A. Rudd.

Catherine P. Montalto, Consumer and Textile Sciences,"The Effect of Family Life Cycle and Financial Management Practices on Household Saving Patterns," Journal of Korean Home Economics Association, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2000), pp. 79-93, co-authors are S. Lee and M. Park;"Households with High Levels of Net Assets," Research Report to the Consumer Federation of America and Providian Financial, (July 17, 2001); and"The Effect of Saving Goals and Expectations on Household Saving Behavior," p. 57, co-authors are S.D. Hanna and J-Y Rha; and"Which Households Meet the Household Debt Service Burden Guidelines?" p. 22, co-author is J. Zhao, Proceedings of the Academy of Financial Services (2001).

Geoffrey Parker, History,"Le traite de Lyon (1601) et le 'chemin des Espagnois,'" Cahiers d'Historie, Vol. 46 (2001), pp. 287-305, and"Felipe II: condenado al fracaso," Historia-16, Vol. 303 (2001), pp. 11-27.

N.A. Rudd and S.J. Lennon, Consumer and Textile Sciences,"Body Image: Linking Aesthetics and Social Psychology of Appearance," Clothing and Textiles Research Journal, Vol. 19, No. 3 (2001), pp. 20-33.

Smriti Srinivas, Comparative Studies, review of Nancy L. Eisesland's A Particular Place: Urban Restructuring and Religious Ecology in a Southern Exurb, Journal of Contemporary Religion, Vol. 16, No. 2 (2001).

G. Strege, Consumer and Textile Sciences,"Mina Moscherosch Shmidt: Costumer, Entrepreneur," Women Building Chicago, 1790-1990, A Biographical Dictionary, edited by Rima Lunin Schultz and Adele Hast (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 2001).

Li Tan and Parwinder Grewal, Entomology,"Pathogenicity of Moraxella osloensis, a Bacterium Associated with the Nematode Phasmarhabditis hemaphrodita, to the Slug Deroceras reticulatum," Applied & Environmental Microbiology, Vol. 67, No. 11 (2001), pp. 5010-16; and"Infection Behavior of the Rhabditid Nematode Phasmarhabditis hermaphrodita to the Grey Garden Slug Deroceras reticulatum," Journal of Parasitology, Vol. 87, No. 6 (2001), pp. 1249-1354.

Hugh Urban, Comparative Studies,"The Marketplace and the Temple: Economic Metaphors and Religious Meanings in the Folk Songs of Colonial Bengal," Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 60, No. 4 (2001) and"The Path of Power: Impurity, Kingship and Sacrifice in Assamese Tantra," Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Vol. 69, No. 4 (2001), pp. 597-637.

Julia Watson, Comparative Studies,"Autoethnography" and"Genealogy," pp. 83-86 and 361-63; and"20th Century Feminism," co-author is Sidonie Smith, pp. 250-53, Encyclopedia of Life Writing, edited by Margaretta Jolly (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001).

R. Widdows, Consumer and Textile Sciences,"Korean Households Clothing Expenditures by Categories," Clothing and Textiles Research Journal, Vol. 19, No. 1 (2001), pp. 1-10, co-author is S.S. Park, and"How E-Business Redefines the Business-Consumer Relationship," Customer Relationship Management, Vol. VI, No. 2 (2001), pp. 16-19.

Recognitions

M.L. Failla, Human Nutrition, was selected as the University of California, Davis Lucille S. Hurley Lecturer for 2001 for his outstanding contributions in the field of nutrition research.

H.G. Parsa, Consumer and Textile Sciences, is editor of the Journal of Foodservice Business Research, was guest editor for a special issue of the Journal of Restaurant and Foodservice Marketing, and served as the organizer of the CHRIE Research Methods Special Interest Group.

Linda K. Weavers, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science, received the National Science Foundation's Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Debra Wheeler, Physiology and Cell Biology, is the College of Medicine and Public Health and Office of Health Sciences Employee of the Month for December.

Gary W. Wilson, Agriculture and Natural Resources Extension, Hancock County, received the 2001 Epsilon Sigma Phi Excellence in Extension Award.

Service

Diane Belcher, English as a Second Language Program, is on the Publications Committee of the Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages organization.

Alan Beyerchen, History, served as chair of a panel at the History of Science Society Annual Conference, Denver, Nov. 9.

Thomas P. Kasulis, Comparative Studies, is on the Board of the American Academy of Religion, 2001-2003, chairs the Long-Range Planning and Development Committee, and is a member of the Finance Committee.

Jill Lane, Comparative Studies, served as organizer, moderator and/or discussant on panels at the Hemispheric Institute Annual Conference, Monterrey, Mexico, June 14-23; The Performance Studies International Conference, Mainz, Germany, March 1-April 28; and the American Society for Theatre Research, San Diego, Nov. 15-18.