Appointments

Susan Meyer has been appointed editorial manager in the Marketing Department at WOSU.

Mindy Rex has been appointed assistant director of development for the Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute.

Book

J. Brooks Breedon, Architecture, LARCH: Site Engineering Tutorials for Landscape Architecture, (Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, Inc. 2002).

Exhibit

John M. Bennett, University Libraries, "Visual Poetry," at the "02txt: Celebrating the Visual Word" exhibit, Chidlaw Gallery, Art Academy of Cincinnati, February-March 2002.

Grants

Brian Ahmer, Microbiology, $884,000 National Institutes of Health (National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease) Grant for "Detection of Mixed Microbial Communities by Salmonella," 2001-2005.

Ralph E.J. Boerner, Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, $225,935 U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service Grant for "Evaluation of the Efficacy of Fire and Fire Surrogates for Wildfire Fuels Management and Forest Restoration in the Klamath National Forest, California," 2001-2004.

E.L. Bumgardner, Surgery, $300,000 American Diabetes Association Grant for testing the limits of immune tolerance for experimental islet transplantation, 2002-2004.

W.E. Carson, Surgery, $294,000 National Cancer Institute Grant for correlative studies for a phase II trial of IL-12 plus interferon-alpha, 2001-2003, and $589,000 National Cancer Institute Grant for a phase II study of an anti-VEGF antibody in malignant melanoma, 2001-2003.

Jay D. Iams, Obstetrics and Gynecology, $3,084,435 National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development Grant to investigate problems in clinical obstetrics, particularly those related to the prevention of low birth weight, prematurity and medical problems of pregnancy, 2001-2006.

C.G. Orosz, Surgery, $6,200,000 National Institutes of Health/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Program Project Grant for mechanisms of chronic pathobiology in allografts, 2001-2006.

The Fisher College of Business and the Regional Campuses, $343,000 Ohio Board of Regents Grant to remain on the cutting edge of technology by upgrading the capacity for distance learning.

Presentations

Brian Ahmer, Microbiology, presented "Detection of Mixed Microbial Communities by Salmonella" at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Dec. 17.

Gary Allread, Institute for Ergonomics, presented "Ergonomics in the Healthcare Industry" at the Association of Occupational Health Professionals in Healthcare Conference, Pittsburgh, Oct. 10-11, and "Costly Mistakes: How to Address Ergonomic Hazards and Risks" at the Ohio OSHA Conference, Columbus, Oct. 31.

Terry Barrett, Art Education, presented "Responding to Photographs: Selectivity, Instantaneity and Credibility" at the University of Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 15-16.

Tien-Hsien Chang, Molecular Genetics, presented "Pursuing a Successful Life Sciences Research Career" at the National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Aug. 21; "RNA Helicases: In Vivo Targets and Potential Functions in Yeast Virus Replication" at the Institute of Molecular Biology, Taipei, Taiwan, Aug. 17; and "Potential Use of the Microarray Technology in Studying Post-transcriptional Gene Expression" at the Workshop on Microarray Technology, National Taiwan University Bioinformatics Research Center, Taipei, Taiwan, July 21.

Elizabeth Davis, Spanish and Portuguese, presented "El motivo marinero del ex-voto, de Garcilaso a Quevedo" at the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry 5th Annual Conference, Ohio State, October 2001, and "ÀMarte o Venus? Incoporaci—n de elementos liricos en El Bernardo de Balbuena (1624)" at the Asociaci—n Internacional de Hispanistas Conference, City University of New York, July 2001.

Donald H. Dean, Biochemistry, presented "Effects of an MTS-spin Label on the Structure and Function of Bacillus thuringiensis CrylAb d-endotoxin" at the 45th Annual Biophysical Society Conference, Boston, Feb. 17, 2001, co-presenters were O. Alzate, C. Hemann and R. Hille; "100 Years of Bacillus thuringiensis a Paradigm for Transgenic Organisms: A Critical Scientific Assessment" at the American Academy for Microbiology Workshop, Ithaca, N.Y., Nov. 16-18; "Mechanism of Action of Bacillus thuringiensis Insecticidal Proteins" at the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Ohio State, May 16; and "Protein Engineering of BT Toxins: From Mechanisms to Rational Design" at the University of California, San Diego, June 6.

Leigh Gilmore, English, presented "Zones of Privacy" at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Jan. 16.

Ronald B. Hammond, Entomology, presented "Agronomic Insects" to the Regional Agronomy Meetings in Portage County and Wayne County, Ohio, Jan. 15, and to the Pesticide Applicator's Training, Perrysburg, Jan. 17; "Soybean Aphid" at the Northern Ohio Crops Day, Pemberville, Jan. 17; and "Soybean Insects" at the Extension Agent In-Service and OSIA Seed School, Columbus, Jan. 10, and to Top Farmers of Ohio, Columbus, Jan. 12.

Fernando Martinez-Gil, Spanish and Portuguese, presented "Consonant Intrusion in Heterosyllabic Consonant-Liquid Clusters in Old Spanish and Old French: An Optimality Theoretical Account" at the 31st Annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, University of Illinois, Chicago, April 20-22.

Iris Meier, Plant Biology, presented "Targeting of Plant RanGAP to the Nuclear Envelope" at the American Society of Cell Biology Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., December 2001, co-presenters were A. Rose and S. Patel.

Richard Mortensen, Microbiology, presented "Brief History of CRP Research and Its Use in Clinical Medicine" and "CRP-Mediated Signaling Events in Leukocytes" at the University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany, Sept 15-20.

Myroslava M. Murdrak, History of Art, presented "The Iconostasis" at Pontifical College Josephinum, Columbus, Feb. 9.

Berl R. Oakley, Molecular Genetics, presented "How Mitotic Spindles Form in Aspergillus" at the Mycological Society of America, American Phytopathological Society and the Society of Nematologists Joint Conference, Salt Lake City, Aug. 28.

Publications

S.F. Abdessalam, E.E. Zervos, M. Prasad, W.B. Farrar, L.D. Yee, M.J. Walker, W.B. Carson and W.E. Burak Jr., Surgery, "Predictors of Positive Axillary Lymph Nodes Following Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Breast Cancer," American Journal of Surgery, Vol. 182 (2001), pp. 316-20.

David Adams, English, "'Remorse and Power': Conrad's Karain and the Queen," MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, Vol. 47 (2001), pp. 723-52.

Brian Ahmer, Microbiology, "SdiA of Salmonella enterica Is a LuxR Homolog that Detects Mixed Microbial Communities," Journal of Bacteriology, Vol. 183 (2001), pp. 5733-42, co-authors are Michael Bindhu, J.N. Smith, S. Swift and F. Heffron.

R.W. Brueggemeier, A.S. Bhat, C.J. Lovely, H.D. Coughenour, S. Joomprabutra, D.H. Weitzel, D.D. Vandre, F. Yusuf and W.E. Burak Jr., Surgery, "2-Methoxymethylestradiol: A New 2j-methoxy Estrogen Analog that Exhibits Antiproliferative Activity and Alters Tubulin Dynamics," Journal of Steroid Biochem Mol. Biol., Vol. 78, No 2 (2001), pp. 145-56.

Helen M. Chamberlin, Molecular Genetics, "The Adaptable lin-39," Nature Genetics, Vol. 29 (2001), pp. 106-07; "EGL-38 Pax Regulates the Ovo-related Gene; lin-48 During Caenorhabditis elegans Organ Development," Development, Vol. l. 128 (2001), pp. 2857-65, co-authors are A.D. Johnson, D. Fitzsimmons and J. Hagman; and "Highly Conserved Amino Acids in Pax and Ets Proteins Are Required for DNA Binding and Ternary Complex Assembly," Nucleic Acids Res., Vol. 29 (2001), pp. 4154-65, co-authors are D. Fitzsimmons, R. Lutz, W. Wheat and J. Hagman.

M.A. Cooper, T.A. Fehniger, S.C. Turner, K.S. Chen, B.A. Ghaheri, T. Chayur, W.E. Carson and M.A. Caligiuri, Surgery, "Human Natural Killer Cells: A Unique Innate Immunoregulatory Role for the CD56(bright)Subset," Blood, Vol. 97, No. 10 (2001), pp. 3146-51.

Elizabeth B. Davis, Spanish and Portuguese, "La epica novohispana y la ideologia imperial," Historia de la literature mexicana, Siglo XVII (Mexico: Siglo XXI, 2002), pp. 129-52, and "Medieval and Golden Age Literature: On Teaching the ÔOlder Literatures'," Teacher's Guide to the Advanced Placement Course in Spanish Literature (Princeton, N.J.: Education Testing Service, 2001), pp. 21-34.

Donald H. Dean, Biochemistry, "Role of a-helix Seven of Bacillus thuringiensis CrylAb d-endotoxin in Membrane Insertion, Structural Stability and Ion Channel Activity and Toxicity," Biochemistry, Vol. 40 (2001), pp. 2540-47, co-authors are E. Alcantara and O. Alzate; "The Role of a Proline-induced Broken-helix Motif in a-helix 2 of Bacillus thuringiensis d-endotoxins," FEBS Letts, Vol 490 (2001), pp. 70-74, co-authors are S. Arnold, A. Curtiss and O. Alzate; "The Complex Receptor-binding Interactions of Insecticidal Proteins from Bacillus thuringiensis," BIA Journal, Vol. 8 (2001), pp. 25-27, co-author is J.L. Jenkins; "Isolation and Partial Characterization of Gypsy Moth BTR-270, an Anionic Brush Border Membrane Glycoconjugate that Binds Bacillus thuringiensis CrylA Toxins with High Affinity," Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology, Vol. 46 (2001), pp. 186-200, co-authors are A.P. Valaitis, J.L. Jenkins, M.K. Lee and K.J. Garner; "Mutations at the Arginine Residues in a8 Loop of CrylAc Bacillus thuringiensis d-endotoxin Affect Toxicity and Binding to Manduca sexta and Lymantria dispar Aminopetptidase N," FEBS Letts., Vol. 497 (2001), pp. 108-12, co-authors are M.K. Lee, J.L. Jenkins, T.H. You, A. Curtiss, J.J. Son and M.J. Adang; "Analyses of Membrane Permeabiliziing Functions of Bacillus thuringiensis CrylAb Domain I and Domain II Mutant Toxins Using Light Scattering Technique," Pest Biochem. Physiol., Vol. 70 (2001), pp. 7-18, co-authors are A. Daniel and M.J. Adang; "Bacillus thuringiensis CrylAc, and CrylFa d-endotoxins Binding to a Novel 110-kDa Aminopeptidase in Heliothis virescens is not GalNAc Mediated," Insect Biochem. Molec. Biol., Vol. 31 (2001), pp. 909-18, co-authors are D.J. Banks, J.-L. Jurat-Fuentes and M.J. Adang; and "Binding Specificity of Bacillus thuringiensis CrylAa for Purified, Native Bombyx mori Aminopeptidase N and cadherin-like Receptors," BMC Biochem., Vol. 2 (22201), p. 12, co-author is J.L. Jenkins.

Jennifer Evans-Cowley, City and Regional Planning, "Impact Fees and Exactions," A Guide to Urban Planning in Texas Communities.

Mauro Ferrari, Biomedical Engineering, "The Engineered Course of Treatment -- Use of Nanoscale Devices is Helping to Revolutionize Medical Treatment and Research," Mechanical Engineering Magazine, December 2001, co-author is Jun Liu.

John King, English, "John Day: Master Printer of the English Reformation," The Beginning of English Protestantism, 1490-1558, edited by Peter Marshall and Alec Ryrie (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 180-208.

Charles Klopp, French and Italian, reviews of Mario Rigoni Stern's Tra due guerre, pp. 204-05, and Andrea Camilleri's La gita a tindari, pp. 201-02, World Literature Today, Vol. 75 (2001).

Edward J. Malecki, Geography and Center for Urban and Regional Analysis, "The Evolution of Technologies in Time and Space: From National and Regional to Spatial Innovation Systems," International Regional Science Review, Vol. 25, No. 1 (January 2002), pp. 102-31, co-author is Paivi Oinas.

Erin McGraw, English, "Aruba," Shenandoah, Vol. 52, No. 4 (2001), pp. 11-26.

Iris Meier, Plant Biology, "The Plant Nuclear Envelope," Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, Vol. 58 (2001), pp. 1774-80; "A Domain Unique to Plant RanGAP Is Responsible for Its Targeting to the Plant Nuclear Rim," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., Vol. 98 (2001), pp. 15377-82, co-author is A. Rose; and "Subnuclear Trafficking and the Nuclear Matrix," Nuclear Import and Export in Plants and Animals (Austin, Texas: Landes Bioscience, Eruekah.com, 2001), edited by T. Tzfira and V. Citovsky.

Linda Mizejewski, English, "Illusive Evidence: Patricia Cornwell and the Body Double," South Central Review, Vol. 18 (No. 3-4) (2001), pp. 6-20.

Berl R. Oakley, Molecular Genetics, "Alanine-scanning Mutagenesis of Aspergillus g-tubulin Yields Diverse and Novel Phenotypes," Mol. Biol. Cell, Vol. 12 (2001), pp. 2119-36, co-authors are M. Katherine Jung, N. Prigozhina, C. E. Oakley and E. Nogales; "Gamma tubulin in Plant Cells," Methods in Cell Biology , Vol. 67 , edited by Robert E. Palazzo and Trisha N. Davis (San Diego: Academic Press, 2001), pp. 195-212, co-author is Yulia Ovechkina; and "g-Tubulin and the C-terminal Motor Domain Kinesin-like Protein, KLPA, Function in the Establishment of Spindle Bipolarity in Aspergillus nidulans," Mol. Biol. Cell., Vol. 12 (2001), pp. 3161-74, co-authors are Natalie L. Prigozhina, R.A. Walker and C.E. Oakley.

David E. Somers, Plant Biology, "Clock-associated Genes in Arabidopsis: A Family Affair," Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B. Biol. Sci., Vol. 356 (2001), pp. 1745-53.

Recognitions

Fred Andrle, WOSU, received an award from the Council on American-Islamic Relations Ohio Chapter "in appreciation for being a voice of reason when many voices went awry" following Sept. 11.

Gail Brown, Radiology, is the College of Medicine and Public Health and Office of Health Sciences Employee of the Month for January.

Mauro Ferrari, Biomedical Engineering, received the Industry and Technology Council of Central Ohio's 2001 Outstanding Educator Advancing Technology Award.

Robert McKenney, College of Medicine and Public Health's Information Systems Office, is the College of Medicine and Public Health and Office of Health Sciences Employee of the Month for February.

Ivan Mueller, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science, received the American Geophysical Union's Waldo E. Smith Medal for 2002 for extraordinary service to geophysics.

Lea Ann Parsley, Nursing, won the Silver Medal in skeleton at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

The education program at Ohio State Mansfield has been named one of six Distinguished Achievement Award winners of the International Society for Technology in Education for exemplary models of integration on the National Education Technology Standards for Teachers.

Service

Gary Allread, Institute for Ergonomics, conducted a workshop on "How to Establish an Effective Ergonomics Program" at the Association of Occupational Health Professionals in Healthcare Conference, Pittsburgh, Oct. 10-11.

Robert Bahnson, Surgery, chaired the Scientific Review Panel for the 2002 Massachusetts Prostate Cancer Research Program, Oct. 2001.

John Byrd, Hematology-Oncology, is on the Scientific Advisory Committee of the International Waldenstrom's Macrobulinemia Foundation.

Jan Fullerton, WOSU-TV, presented workshops on the positive effects of classical music on infant brain development and nurturing literacy at the earliest age at Westland High School.

Jay D. Iams, Obstetrics and Gynecology, is president-elect of the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine for 2003.

Pravin Kaumaya, Comprehensive Cancer Center, will lead the Vaccine Study Section of the National Institutes of Health.

Ileana Rodriguez, Spanish and Portuguese, is chair of the nominating committee for the presidency of the Latin American Studies Association.

Nadine Sarter, Industrial, Welding and Systems Engineering, is on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Cognitive Field Research and the International Journal of Aviation Psychology.

W. Michael Sherman, Physical Activity and Educational Services, is on the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency's Research Policy Advisory Committee and is newsletter editor for the American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education.

Richard P. Swenson, Biochemistry, served as co-editor for a special Forum Issue on Organic Cofactors for the journal Antioxidants and Redox Signaling.

Randall K. Wolf, Cardiothoracic Surgery, served as host for the 3rd International Symposium on Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery, Hamburg, Germany, November 2001, and is on the board of directors of the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery.

Notables

Imaging director

Michael Knopp, a highly acclaimed researcher at the National Cancer Institute, has been recruited as director of imaging research in the Department of Radiology at the University Medical Center. Knopp, who also was named to the Novartis Pharmaceutical Chair, will lead the development of molecular and targeted imaging applications in neuroimaging, oncology and other specialties.

Knopp has published more than 140 papers in peer-reviewed journals and has received 16 international awards, including the prestigious fellowship award of the European Congress of Radiology in 1997.

Davies Award

Tim Moore, chief administrative officer at OSU & Harding Behavioral Healthcare and Medicine, has been named the recipient of the first Dr. A. Robert Davies Unity and Excellence Award. The $5,000 award honors an OSU and Harding staff member for their leadership and ability to help others achieve goals that improve behavioral health care services to people in central Ohio.

Moore has been instrumental in facilitating the partnership between Ohio State and Harding, and utilizing the combined expertise of both programs to implement and expand behavioral health programs in the community. He also is a pharmacist and clinical professor in the College of Pharmacy.

MLA prize awarded

Jacqueline Jones Royster, professor of English, was awarded the Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize by the Modern Language Association of America for her book, Traces of a Stream: Literacy and Social Change among African American Women. The prize is awarded for an outstanding research publication in the field of teaching English language and literature.

The prize, which included a $1,000 award, was one of 16 awards presented during the MLA's annual convention in December. The MLA, the largest and one of the oldest American learned societies in the humanities, promotes the advancement of literary and linguistic studies.