Appointments

Leon McDougle has been appointed assistant dean for diversity and cultural affairs in the College of Medicine and Public Health.

Ahmad Sikainga, History and African-American and African Studies, has been appointed director of the African Studies Center.

Halina Stephan, Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures, has been appointed director of the Center for Slavic and East European Studies.

Fernando Unzueta, Spanish and Portuguese, has been appointed director of the Center for Latin American Studies.

Books

John Bennett, University Libraries, THE CHAPTERS, collaborative poetry (Columbus: Luna Bisonte Prods., 2002) co-author is Robin Crozier.

Linda Harlow, French and Italian, Bravo!: Communication, Grammaire, Culture et Litterature, 4th edition (Boston: Heinle & Heinle, 2001), co-authors are Judith A. Muyskens, Mich�le Vialet and Jean-Fran�ois Bri�re.

Christopher Highley and John N. King, English, editors, John Foxe and His World (St. Andrew's Studies in Reformation History, Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2002).

Martin Jamison, University Libraries, Title Index for the Directory of Unpublished Experimental Mental Measures: Volumes 1-7 (Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2001).

Jeffrey Kipnis, Architecture, Perfect Acts of Architecture (Museum of Modern Art, 2001).

Grants

Taylan Altan, Mechanical Engineering, $10,000 Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences Jacob Wallenberg Foundation Grant.

Bharat Bhushan, Mechanical Engineering, $350,000 National Institute of Standards and Technology Grant for"A Novel UHV Tribo-Appartus and Modifications of Atomic Force Microscope for Applications to Micro/Nanoscale Devices."

Rongxing (Ron) Li, Keith W. Bedford and C.K. Shum, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science, and Raul Ramirez, Center for Mapping, $1,100,000 National Science Foundation Grant for"Digitalization of Coastal Management and Decision Making Supported by Multi-Dimensional Geospatial Information and Analysis," co-recipient was Aidong Shang, SUNY/Buffalo.

Linda Lobao, Human and Community Resource Development, $6,900 American Sociological Association and National Science Foundation Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline Grant Program Grant for"Spatial Inequality as an Emerging Research Agenda in Sociology."

Maria Palazzi, Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design, $11,615 OSU Sponsored Program Grant with the Center of Science and Industry for"Digital Pottery" and $20,000 TELR Grant for"Virtual Theatre."

D.K. Panda, Computer and Information Science, $750,000 Department of Energy Grant for"Communication Support for Programming Models for Scalable Parallel Computing."

P. Sadayappan and Gerald Baumgartner, Computer and Information Science, and Russ Pitzer, Chemistry, $1,950,000 National Science Foundation Grant for"Synthesis of High Performance Algorithms for Electronic Structure Calculations."

Performances

Katherine Burkman, English, Emeritus, performed Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein at the Longboat Key Center for the Arts, Longboat Key, Fla., Jan. 15.

Andrew Hudgins, English, performed a Keynote Poetry Reading at the North Carolina Writers' Network Annual Conference, Charlotte, N.C., Nov. 17.

Presentations

Will Batstone, Greek and Latin, presented"Beyond the Rules: Putting the Music Back in the Verse" at the American Philological Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, Jan. 4.

Alan Beyerchen, History, presented"Enduring Sources of American Technological Innovation" at the Net Assessment Summer Study Symposium, U.S. Naval War College, Newport, R.I., July 23; and"Unpredictability in War" at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y., September.

Mansel Blackford, History, presented"Maui: A Fragile Paradise" to the Maui Historical Society, Wailuku, Hawaii, Dec. 20.

Deborah Bohanan, Treasurer's Office, and Tricia Privette, Accounting, presented"Accounts Receivable and Accounts Receivable Collection Services" to departmental and college fiscal officers, Oct. 23.

Dick Davis, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, presented"Panthea's Children: Hellenistic and Persian Romances" at the University of Leiden, Holland, Dec. 6.

Kathy Edwards, University Press, and Stephen Finn, Resource Planning, presented"Debits and Credits" to departmental and college fiscal officers, Dec. 3-4.

Tom Ewing, Accounting, presented"Accounting at OSU" to departmental and college fiscal officers, Oct. 1-2, and on Dec. 11-12, co-presenter in December was Susan Litton.

Helen Fehervary, Germanic Languages and Literatures, presented"John Willett: The Power and Wit of the Context" at the Modern Language Association Conference, New Orleans, Dec. 27-30.

T. Ferrari, Human and Community Resource Development, presented"Touching Tomorrow Through Today's Out-of School Time Programs: Critical 4-H Elements," co-presenter was N.N. McNeely;"The Growing Phenomenon of School Gardens: Cultivating Positive Youth Development," co-presenter was S. Skelly, Mississippi State; and"Defining and Measuring Stages of Youth Leadership Development," co-presenters were J. Jordan and K. Henry, University of Florida, at the NAE4-HA Conference, Bismarck, N.D., Oct. 21-25.

Stephen Finn, Resource Planning, Susan Litton, Financial Training and Documentation, and Rick Shaffer, Optometry, presented"Earnings Operations at OSU" to departmental and college fiscal officers, Nov. 5-7.

Daney G. Jackson, Extension, Personnel, presented"Summary of a Study Examining the Two Track System for Extension Agents within Ohio State University Extension" at the Association on Employment Practices and Principles 2001 Conference, San Francisco, Oct. 18-20.

Char Jessie, Financial Training and Documentation, presented"Procurement Card System Reconciliation" to departmental and college fiscal officers, Nov. 16, co-presenter was Peggy Schmidt, Purchasing, Receiving and Stores;"Procurement Card Fiscal Training" to departmental and college fiscal officers, Nov. 16; and"Working with the Office of Accounts Payable" to departmental and college fiscal officers, Nov. 29-30.

Neil Knobloch, Human and Community Resource Development, presented"The Influence of Peer Teaching and Early Field Experience on Teaching Efficacy Beliefs of Preservice Educators in Agriculture" at the National Agricultural Education Research Conference, New Orleans, Dec. 11-15.

Joseph Levine, Philosophy, presented"Thick Conceivability versus Thin Conceivability" at the University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland, Dec. 7.

Jeffrey Lewis, History, presented"Biochemistry with a License: Tobacco Mosaic Virus and the Start of Molecular Biology Research in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1937-1965" at the History of Science Society Annual Conference, Denver, Nov. 10.

Danielle Marx-Scouras, French and Italian, presented"On tue les instituteurs: Camus et les imperatives pedagogiques" at the University of Cergy-Pontoise, France, Nov. 22-24.

Judith Mayne, French and Italian, presented"Caged and Framed: the Women in Prison Film" at the Intervention Arts Center and "Dorothy Arzner and Women's Cinema in Hollywood" at the University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Dec. 6-7.

Michael Meckler, Greek and Latin, presented"The Rise of Populism, the Decline of Classical Education, and the 17th Amendment" at the American Historical Association Conference, San Francisco, Jan. 5.

Thomas Piontek, English, presented"Pretty in Pink and Blue: The Pressure of Normative Gender in Ma vie aen rose and But I'm a Cheerleader" at the 5th Congress of the Americas, Universidad de Americas, Puebla, Mexico, Oct. 18.

Tricia Privette, Accounting, presented"Accounting Concepts" to departmental and college fiscal officers, Nov. 15.

Aaron Retish, History, presented"The Worst Fate of All?: Life in Viatka/Kirov at the Beginning and End of the 20th Century" at the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Conference, Alexandria, Va., November 2001, and"Creating Peasant Citizens: Rituals of Power, Rituals of Citizenship in Viatka Province, February-October 1917" at the Russian Revolution International Conference, Durham, England, January 2002.

Bert A. Rockman, Public Policy and Management, presented"The President and the Bureaucracy" at the American Political Science Association Conference, San Francisco, Aug. 29-Sept. 2, co-presenter was Joel Aberbach, UCLA;"Differing and Contending Approaches to Control of the Bureaucracy in the United States" at Seoul National University, Oct. 11; and"Politics By Other Means: Administrative Reform in the U.S." at the Korean Association for Public Administration, Seoul, Korea, Oct. 11-13.

S.D. Scheer, Human and Community Resource Development, presented"Touching Lives of 4-H Children Today to Give Them a Bright Tomorrow: Introducing Cloverbud Curriculum Series II," co-presenters were C. Hall, K. Holley and C. Stiles.

Smriti Srinivas, Comparative Studies, presented"Transnational Networks and the Global Imagining of Faith in the Sai Baba Movement" at the French Institute for Research in Africa and the British Institute in Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Kenya, Dec. 13.

Julia Watson, Comparative Studies, presented"Theorizing Women's Life Narratives at the Visual-Verbal Interface," Modern Languages Association Conference, New Orleans, Dec. 29, co-presenter was Sidonie Smith.

Larry Whiting, Human and Community Resource Development, and Martha Filipic, Communications and Technology, presented"Being Media Savvy in Crisis Communications Situations" at the OSU Extension Southwest District Agricultural and Natural Resources In-Service Conference, Springfield, Ohio, Nov. 16.

Jeremy Wilson, Public Policy and Management, presented"Organizational Context and Community Policing: Assessing Contingencies, Institutional Demands, and Commitment as Implementation Determinants" at the American Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Atlanta, November 2001, and"Organizational Theory Meets the Implementation of Reform: Using a Contingency Framework to Explain the Variation in Community Policing" at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., November 2001.

Judy Wu, History, presented"Real Heroes and Hollywood Heroines: Maternalism, Miscegenation, and American Identity during World War II" at the American Historical Association Conference, San Francisco, Jan. 3-6.

The following members of the Department of English made presentations at the Modern Language Association Conference, New Orleans, Dec. 28-30: Chadwick Allen,"Indigenous Reading, Sovereign Theory"; Brenda Jo Brueggemann and Debra A. Modelmog,"Coming Out Pedagogy: Risking and Troubling Identity in the Language and Literature Classroom"; Leigh Gilmore,"'I Take Shame Upon Myself': Autobiography and ÔThe Custom-House'"; Ethan Knapp,"Future Perfect"; and James Phelan,"Courtships and Contracts" and"Can Readers Infer What Authors Imply? A Case of Unreliable Narration."

The following members of the Fisher College of Business made presentations at the Annual American Finance Association Conference, Atlanta, Jan. 4-6: Rene Stulz,"Culture, Openness, and Finance," co-presenter was Rohan Williamson, Georgetown University; Siew Hong Teoh, Accounting,"The Walkdown to Beatable Analyst Forecasts: The Roles of Equity Issuance and Insider Trading Incentives," co-presenters were Scott Richardson and Peter D. Wysocki, University of Michigan; Bernadette A. Minton and Karen H. Wruck, Finance,"Financial Conservatism: Evidence on Capital Structure from Low Leverage Firms"; Anthony B. Sanders, Finance,"Commercial Mortgage-backed Securities: Prepayment and Prepayment," co-presenter was Brent Ambrose, University of Kentucky; and George A. Alessandria, Economics,"The Development of Financial Intermediation and Real Effects of Capital Account Liberalization," co-presenter was Jun Qian, Boston College.

Publications

Salvador Garcia Castaneda, Spanish and Portuguese,"Telesforo de Trueba y Cosio," Obra varia (Santander: Servico de Publicaciones, Univ. de Cantabria, 2001), pp. 11-52.

David Citino, English,"Writers Win; by Adding Own Voice to the Din," The Columbus Dispatch, Jan. 5.

Dick Davis, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures,"Interpolations to the Text of the Shahnameh: An Introductory Typology," Persica, Vol. XVII (Winter 2001), pp. 35-50, and"All My Soul is There: Verse Translation and the Rhetoric of English Poetry," Yale Review, Vol. 90, No. 1 (January 2002), pp. 66-83.

J.F. Donnermeyer and S.D. Scheer, Human and Community Resource Development,"An Analysis of Substance Use Among Adolescents from Smaller Places," The Journal of Rural Health, Vol. 17, No. 2 (2001), pp. 15-21.

Stephane Dunn, English, Mansfield,"I Thought There was No Real Sex Left: D.H. Lawrence and the Sexed Vision of Black Femininity," Like a Black and White Kaleidoscope Tossed at Random: Essays on D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love (UniversitŽ de Rouen Press, 2001), pp. 59-71.

T.M. Ferrari, Human and Community Resource Development,"Two (or more) Heads Are Better than One: An Application of Group Process to Developing Extension Evaluation Tools," Journal of Extension, Vol. 39, No. 5 (2001), co-authors are M. Ferrer and S. Jacob.

Susan K. Frazier, Debra K. Moser, Barbara Riegel, Sharon McKinley, Wendy Blakely, Kyungeh An Kim and Bonnie J. Garvin, Nursing,"Critical Care nurses ÔAssessment of Patients' Anxiety: Reliance on Physiological and Behavioral Parameters," American Journal of Critical Care, Vol. 11, No. 1 (January 2002), pp. 57-64.

Ignacio Corona GutiŽrrez, Spanish and Portuguese,"DespuŽs de Tlateloco: las narrativas politicas en MŽxico (1976-1990), Un analisis de sus estrategias retoricas y representacionales (Guadalajara: Univ. de Guadalajara, 2001).

Christopher Highley, English,"Richard Verstegan's Book of Martyrs," John Foxe and His World, edited by Christopher Highley and John King (Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2002), pp. 183-97.

Andrew Hudgins, English, review of Herbert Morris'"What Was Lost: Poems," Henry James Review, (Fall 2001), pp. 312-15.

John N. King, English,"The World of John Foxe," John Foxe and His World (Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2002), pp. 1-9; and"Spenser's Religion," Cambridge Companion to Edmund Spenser, edited by Andres Hadfield (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp. 200-16.

Jeffrey Kipnis, Architecture, reviews of Bruce Mau's Life Style and the Museum of Modern Art's Workspheres, Artforum International (Summer 2001).

Charles Klopp, French and Italian,"The Return of the Spiritual, with a Note on the Fiction of Bufalino, Tabucchi, and Celati," Annali d'Italianistica, Vol. 19 (2001), pp. 93-102.

Christopher Phelps, History,"A Participant and Partisan: American Socialism and Arne Swabeck," Against the Current, No. 96 (Jan./Feb. 2002).

Angela Pirisi, Nursing,"Nicotine Metabolism Varies between Different Ethnic Groups," The Lancet Publishing Group, Vol. 359 (2002), p. 234.

Steven A. Ringel, Electrical Engineering,"Carrier Trapping and Recombination at Point Defects and Dislocations in MOCVD n-GaN," pp. 937-46, co-authors are A. Hierro, M. Hansen, J.J. Boeckl, L. Zhao, J.S. Speck, U.K. Mishra and S.P. DenBaars; and"Capture Kinetics of Electron Traps in MBE-grown n-GaN," pp. 309-313, co-authors are A. Hierro, A.R. Arehart, B. Heying, M. Hansen, J.S. Speck, U.K. Mishra and S.P. DenBaars, Physica Status Solidi B, Vol. 228 (December 2001).

S.D. Scheer, Human and Community Resource Development,"Understanding Ôseasons of service': Promoting Volunteerism across the Life Span," The Journal of Volunteer Administration, Vol. 9, No. 3 (2002), pp. 15-21, co-authors are R.D. Safrit and J.E. King.

Deborah K. Steward, Nursing,"Biological Vulnerability in Infants with Failure to Thrive: The Association with Birthweight,' Child: Care, Health, and Development, Vol. 27, No. 6 (2001), pp. 555-87.

Recognitions

Dale Bertsch, City and Regional Planning, was elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Certified Planners.

Robert T. Greenbaum and Douglas N. Jones, Public Policy and Management, received the School's Outstanding Teaching Award for 2001.

Robert J. Gustafson, Engineering, and K.C. Ting, Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, were elected Fellows of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers.

Peter Ling, Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, received the 2001 American Society of Agricultural Engineers Leadership Citation for establishing an IET Division Outstanding Conference Paper Award to improve papers written for the ASAE annual conference.

Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Computer and Information Science, was named a recipient of the Ameritech Faculty Fellowship.

Ahmet Selamet, Mechanical Engineering, was elected a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America.

Lisa Tilder, Architecture, received an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship for 2001.

Service

Chadwick Allen, English, is president of the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures.

Terry Barrett, Art Education, presented a workshop for art teachers at the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Jan. 8.

Robert T. Greenbaum, Public Policy and Management, is on the Economic Advisory Committee for the city of Columbus and served with the Ohio Economic Development Information Network to prepare a report,"The Information Technology Industry in the State of Ohio and Its Regions: 1989-2000."

Andrew Hudgins, English, served as judge of the Theodore Roethke Prize: For the Long Poem or Poetic Sequence, for the Hopwood Program at the University of Michigan.

James Phelan, English, is on the executive committee of the Modern Language Association Division on the Teaching of Literature.

Bert A. Rockman, Public Policy and Management, participated in a"Short Course" on Elite Interviewing, chaired a meeting of English language political science journal editors, and served on a panel on Presidential-Legislative Relations During the Clinton presidency.

Raj Singh and Ahmet Selamet, Mechanical Engineering, coordinated the 2001 India-USA Symposium on Emerging Trends in Noise Control Engineering, Ohio State, December 2001.

Larry Whiting, Human and Community Resource Development, is co-chair of the Strategic Planning Committee for Agricultural Communications in Education.

Christian Zacher, English and Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, is on the advisory board of the international Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes.

The following members of the Fisher College of Business Finance Department served as discussants at the Annual American Finance Association Conference, Atlanta, Jan. 4-6: Jean Helwege,"Bonds"; Andrew Karolyi and Ingrid Werner,"International Market Microstructure"; and Bernadette Minton and RenŽ Stulz,"Risk Management with Derivatives."