Appointments

David Carwile has been appointed manager of WOSU Radio.

Books

Angie Estes, English, Voice-Over (Oberlin: Oberlin College Press, 2002).

Mark Grimsley, History, co-editor, The Collapse of the Confederacy (University of Nebraska Press, 2001).

Geoffrey Parker, History, translation, La revolucion military. Innovacio apogeo de Occidente 1500-1800 (Madrid: Alianza, 2000).

Beth Sutton-Ramspeck, English, Lima, editor, Mary Augusta Ward's Marcella (Peterborough, Ontario, Canada: Broadview Press, 2002), co-editor is Nicole B. Meller.

Grants

Center for Folklore Studies, $3,000 OSU Cares Seed Grant to support the "Ohio's Appalachian Folk Culture" project.

Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures, $20,000 Ohio Bicentennial Commission Grant for the Ohio Emigration History Project.

National East Asian Language Resource Center, $358,000 per year Title VI Grant, 2002-2006.

Performance

Andrew Hudgins, English, Poetry Reading, University of Michigan, Flint, Mich., Jan. 24, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Feb. 28.

Presentations

Connie Boehm, Eric Busch, Andrea Dowhower and John Kleberg, Student Affairs, presented "Responding to Off-Campus Disturbances: A Collaborative Approach" at the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators Conference, Boston, March 4.

J.F. Buckley, English, presented "A Gay Friend, A Leading Lady: Meager Lodgings" at the Popular Culture Association Conference, Toronto, March 13.

John Burnham, History, presented "How the Development of a Modern Consumer Culture Was Necessary for the Deinstitutionalization of Mental Patients in the Late 20th Century" at the University of California, Los Angeles, March 12.

Gerald P. Chubb, Aerospace Engineering and Aviation, presented "Errors Associated with an Unusual Clearance" at Arizona State University, Mesa, Ariz., March 2002.

Jon Gear, Student Affairs, presented "Unix Scripting," "MDT Merchant Dial-Up Terminal" and "IP Converters" at the Annual Blackboard System Users Conference, Phoenix, Ariz., March 18-21.

Leigh Gilmore, English, presented "Zones of Privacy" at the Graduate Conference on the Politics of Place in Autobiography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., April 8.

John Guilmartin, History, presented "The Strategic Impact of Aircraft Design, 1933-1945: How Aeronautical Engineering Shaped the Conduct and Outcome of World War II" at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, March 12.

Donna Guy, History, presented "Women's History in Latin America, Past, Present and Future" at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb., April 1.

Hannibal Hamlin, English, presented "Holy Cursing: English Renaissance Psalms as Models of Invective" at the Renaissance Society of America and Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Joint Conference, Scottsdale, Ariz., April 11.

Wendy Hesford, English, presented "'Speak Truth to Power': Human Rights and the Rhetoric of Witnessing" at the CCCC Convention, Chicago, March 22.

Andrew Hudgins, English, presented "Some Thoughts on Poetry and Autobiography" and "After the Lost War and the American Long Poem" at the Associated Writing Programs Conference, New Orleans, March 7.

Jenny Klein and Anne Marie Glaze, Student Affairs, presented "The Ohio State Welcome Leader Program: The First Experience for Ohio State First-Year Students" at the Annual National Resource Center for First-Year Experience Conference, Orlando, Fla., Feb. 17.

John Lippold, Welding Engineering, presented "The Trials, Tribulations, and Triumphs of Distance Learning" at the American Welding Society Conference, Chicago.

Christine Ballengee-Morris, Art Education and Student Affairs, presented "Multiculturalism in Post Colonial Times" at Trinity College, Dublin, Feb. 19, and "Multiculturalism and Education in a New Century" at the National Art Education Conference, Miami, March 23.

Basia A. Nowak, History, presented "Structural Transformations and Resistance in the League of Women in Poland" at the Midwest Slavic Conference, Bowling Green State University, March 23.

Dorothy Noyes, English, presented "Mutilation, Moors and Motley in 17th Century Languedoc: Emblems of the Local for an Absolutist Audience" at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures, Bloomington, Ind., Feb. 23, and "Catalan, Taliban, Caliban: Denaturalization and the Fate of Local Custom" at the Center for Folklore and Ethnography, University of Pennsylvania, Jan. 31.

Amanda Scheiderer, English, presented "Writing to Fill the Void: The Conceit of Confession in Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov" at the Midwest Slavic Conference, Bowling Green, March 23.

Amy Shuman, English, presented "Self-Evident and Self-Conscious Ethnicity: A Model for Understanding the Production of Cultural Heritage" at the End of White Ethnicities Workshop, Columbus, March 2, co-presenter was Amy Horowitz.

Heather Tanner, History, Mansfield, presented "Lords, Wives and Vassals in the Roman de Silence" at the Ohio Medieval Colloquium, Columbus, March 9.

Jerold R. Thomas, OSU Extension Northwest District, presented "Trends and Issues Affecting Economic Development in Ohio Counties" at the National Community Resources and Economic Development Conference, Orlando, Fla., Feb. 24-27.

The following members of the Extension Community Development Department made presentations at the National Community Resources and Economic Development Conference, Orlando, Fla., Feb. 24-27: Donald P. Lacy, "Models of Community Planning"; Donald P. Lacy and Joe Lucente, "Framing Community Issues for Public Understanding and Deliberation" and "Local Government Leadership Academy: A Model Curriculum"; Deanna L. Tribe and Sara J. Gurney, "Working with Wood -- Craft Product and Regional Image"; Nancy Kukay and Donald P. Lacy, "What Makes This Community Tick? A Curriculum for Civic Education and Leadership Development"; David Patton, "Land Use Conflict: When City and County Clash"; David Civittolo, John Conglose, Greg Davis, Nancy Kukay and Donald P. Lacy, "A Model for Comprehensive Community Land Use Planning to More Effectively Utilize Consulting Services"; and Greg Davis, "Facilitating a Community Engagement Model for Preparing a CEDS (Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy) for an EDA Grant."

The following members of the Department of Human and Community Resource Development made presentations at the Central Regions Agricultural Education Research Conference, St. Louis, Feb. 21-23: N.A. Knobloch and M.S. Whittington, "Factors That Influenced Beginning Teachers' Confidence About Teaching in Agricultural Education"; R. J. Birkenholz, "Assisting and Mentoring Agricultural Education Teachers: A Study of First-Year Teachers in a Midwestern State," co-authors are B.C. Greiman and W.D. Walker, and "Assessing Research Capacity in Agricultural Education: A Departmental and Disciplinary View," co-author is B.C. Greiman; R.A. Gerber and W.E. Budke, "An Exploration of the Characteristics Affecting Critical Thinking in Agricultural Education Preservice Teachers"; N.A. Knobloch, J. Cano, J. Connors and M.S. Whittington, "Framing a New Model for Preparing Teachers of Agriculture: A Case Study of Teacher Education Reform"; N.A. Knobloch, "Factors Influencing the Integration of Agriculture Into the Elementary School Curriculum: Relevance, Value, Fit and Perceptions," co-author is R.A. Martin; K. Kao and L. Miller, "Levels of Cognition of Instruction and of Students' Reflecting Thinking in a Selected Web-Enhanced Course"; and Neil Knobloch, Jamie Cano, Jim Connors and Susie Whittington, "Retooling Preserve Agricultural Education" and "Praxis Assessments for Beginning Agricultural Educations."

Publications

David Adams, English, "Unbegrifflichkeit (Noncomceptuality)," Historiches Wšrterbuch der Philosophie, Vol. 11, edited by Joachim Ritter, Karfried GrŸnder and Gottfried Gabriel (Basel: Schwabe, 2001).

Johnson Cheu, English, "De-gene-eretes, Replicants, and Other Aliens: (Re)Defining Disability in Futuristic Films," Disability/Postmodernity: Embodying Disability Theory, edited by Mairian Corker and Tom Shakespeare (London: Continuum, 2002), pp. 198-212.

David Citino, English, "Newborn Found Alive in Shallow Grave" and "In the Bedroom of Fear," Like Thunder: Poets Respond to Violence in America, edited by Virgil Suarez and Ryan G. Van Cleave (Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 2002); "Peter Pan," Blue Fifth Review, Supplement 2002 (www.angelfire.com/poetry/bfrsupplement/index.html); and "Returning to the Field," Line Drives: 100 Contemporary Baseball Poems, edited by Brooke Horvath and Tim Wiles (Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 2002).

Angie Estes, English, "History" and "Score," Pleidades, Vol. 22, No.2 (2002), pp. 114-16; "Atrium," American Literary Review, Vol. 13, No. 1 (Spring 2002), p. 12; and "Cell 7: The Mocking of Christ," Slate (www.slate.msn.com), April 2.

Hannibal Hamlin, English, "Psalm Culture in the English Renaissance: Readings of Psalm 137 by Shakespeare, Spenser, Milton, and Others," Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 55, No. 1 (Spring 2002), pp. 224-57.

Andrew Hudgins, English, "Behemoth and Leviathan," "Our Neighbor's Little Yappy Dog" and "Satan," American Poetry Review, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Jan./Feb. 2002); "Elegy for My Father, Who is Not Dead," Introduction to Poetry, 10th edition, edited by X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia (New York: Longman, 2002), p. 321; "Alabama Breakdown," The Remembered Gate: Memoirs by Alabama Writers, edited by Jay Lamar and Jeanie Thompson (Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 2002), pp. 147-61; "Introduction," The Waltz He Was Born For: An Introduction to the Writing of Walt McDonald (Texas Tech University Press, 2002), pp. ix-xxi; "Days of Obligation," Image: A Journal of Religion and the Arts (Fall 2001), pp. 35-37; "In the Red Seats," Line Drives: 100 Contemporary Baseball Poems, edited by Brooke Horvath and Tim Wiles (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2002), pp. 59-60; and "First Job: the Sense of being Airborne Violently," The Washington Post Magazine, March 3, pp. 19-21 and 29-31.

Ethan Knapp, English, review of Thomas Hoccleve's Complaint and Dialogue, edited by J.A. Burrow (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), in Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Vol. 23 (2001), pp. 529-31, and review of Thomas Hoccleve's The Regiment of Princes, edited by Charles R. Blyth (Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University, Medieval Institute Publications, 1998), in Speculum, Vol. 76 (2001), pp. 737-38.

Lee Martin, English, "A Backward Spring," River Teeth, Vol. 3, No. 2 (2002), pp. 6-17.

N.L. McCaslin, Human and Community Resource Development, "Should All High School Students Be Required to Take Some Vocational or Technical Education? Yes." Congressional Quarterly Researcher, January 2002; and "Comparing the Impact of Traditional and Cooperative Apprenticeship Programs on Graduates' Industry Success," Journal of Career and Technical Education, Vol. 18, No. 2 (2001), pp. 81-96, co-author is A.A. Rezin.

A.M. Mentro, D.K. Steward and B.J. Garvin, Nursing, "Infant Feeding Responsiveness: A Conceptual Analysis," Journal of Advanced Nursing, Vol. 37, No. 2 (2002), pp. 208-16.

Jeredith Merrin, English, "Art Over Easy," The Southern Review, Vol. 38, No. 1 (Winter 2002), pp. 202-14.

Allan Millett, History, "Epilogue: Korea and the American Way of War," JFQ (Spring/Summer 2001), pp. 86-87.

S. Miyoshi, S.L. Pate and D.L. Palmquist, OARDC and Animal Sciences, "Effects of Propylene Glycol Drenching on Energy Balance, Plasma Glucose, Plasma Insulin, Ovarian Function and Conception in Dairy Cows," Animal Reproduction Science, Vol. 68 (2001), pp. 29-43.

Gabriella Modan, English, "White, Wholewheat, Rye: Jews and Ethnic Categorization in Washington, D.C.," Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 116-30.

Richard Mortensen, Microbiology, "C-Reactive Protein Induces Signaling through Fc-gamma RIIa on HL-60 Granulocytes," Journal of Immunology, Vol. 168 (2002), pp. 1413-18, co-authors are Maoyen Chi, Susheela Tridandapani, Wanhjian Zhong and Mark Coggeshall.

M.L. Mussard and J.E. Kinder, Animal Sciences, "Composition and Morphology of the Follicular Basal Lamina during Atresia of Bovine Antral Follicles," Journal of Reproduction, Vol. 123 (2002), pp. 97-106, co-authors are H.F. Irving-Rodgers, Flinders University of South Australia, and R.J. Rodgers, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Douglas A. Nelson, Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, "Learning by Instruction or Selection: Implications for Patterns of Geographic Variation in Bird Song," Behavior, Vol. 138 (2001), pp. 1137-60, co-authors are H. Khanna and P. Marler.

Dorothy Noyes, English, "Breaking the Social Contract: El Comte Arnau, Violence and Production in the Catalan Mountains at the Turn of the Century," Catalan Review, Vol. 14 (2000), pp 129-58.

J.L. O'Brien, D.K. Moser, B. Riegel, S.K. Frazier and B.J. Garvin, 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 (2001), pp. 97-103.

M. Oukka, S.T. Kim, G. Lugo, J. Sun, L.C. Wu and L. Glimcher, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, "The Transcription Factor KRC Regulates TNF Receptor-Driven Responses through Interaction with TRAF2," Molecular Cell, Vol. 9 (2002), pp. 121-31.

Tony Pasquarello, Philosophy, Emeritus, Mansfield, "Program Notes on the Music of Beethoven, Mozart and Rossini," Mansfield Symphony Orchestra, February, 2002.

Karlis Racevskis, French and Italian, "Michel Foucault," Postmodernism: The Key Figures, (Blackwell Publishers, 2002), pp. 135-40.

Bert A. Rockman, Public Policy and Management, "Reinventing Government or Reinventing Politics? The American Experience," Politicians, Bureaucrats and Administrative Reform, edited by B. Guy Peters and Jon Pierre (Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science, 2001), co-author is Joel Aberbach; and "Theory and Inference in the Study of Bureaucracy: Micro-and Neoinstitutionalist Foundations of Choice," Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.

J.E. Rossi, S.C. Loerch, H.L. Keller and L.B. Willett, OARDC and Animal Sciences, "Effects of Dietary Crude Protein Concentration during Periods of Feed Restriction on Performance, Carcass Characteristics, and Skeletal Muscle Protein Turnover in Feedlot Steers," Journal of Animal Sciences, Vol. 79 (2001), pp. 3148-57.

S.D. Scheer and R.D. Safrit, Human and Community Resource Development, "Nurturing Future Leadership Skills in Five to Eight Year Old Children through Self-Awareness Activities," Journal of Leadership Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2 (2001), pp. 105-11.

N. Somasekhar, P.S. Grewal and M.G. Klein, Entomology, "Genetic Variability in Stress Tolerance and Fitness among Natural Populations of Steinernema carpocaosae," Biological Control, Vol. 23 (2002), pp. 303-10.

Alexander Stephan, German and Mershon Center, "Zuruck in die Zukunft des Politischen Theaters? Soeren Voima Schreiben mit Das Kontingent Brechts Mabnahme Weiter (Back Into the Future of the Political Theater? Soeren Voima Continue Brecht's Mabnahme with their Play Das Kontingent)," Neue Versuche uber Brecht/New Essays on Brecht (Brecht-Jahrbuch/Brecht Yearbook), Vol. 26 (2001), pp. 61-72.

Recognitions

Katherine Burkman, English, Emeritus, received the 22nd place award in the Writer's Digest 2001 Short Short Story Competition for "Enough Pigs."

Jerry L. Curtis, French and Italian, Newark, received the French Government's Palmes acadŽmiques for his dedication to the works of author Lucette Desvignes.

Cindy Gaillard, WOSU-TV, received the National Educational Television Association's first place award in the Documentary-Biography category for her program, "Laura Gilpin: The Enduring Photographer."

Drew Jones, English, is a co-winner of the 2002 Medieval Academy of America's Nicholas Brown Prize for his book, Aelfric's Letter to the Monks of Eynsham (Cambridge University Press, 1999).

John Lippold, Welding Engineering, received the American Welding Society Irrgang Memorial Award for enhancing the American Welding Society's goal of advancing the science and technology of welding over the past five years.

Lee Martin, English, received the College English Association of Ohio's Nancy Dasher Book Award for his memoir, From Our House.

Mark Morrison, Animal Sciences, received the American Dairy Science Association and American Society of Animal Science Outstanding Young Scientist Award for 2002.

Lucy Murphy, History, received the State Historical Society of Iowa's Benjamin F. Shambaugh Award for her book, A Gathering of Rivers: Indians, Metis, and Mining in the Western Great Lakes, 1737-1832.

Service

Morris Beja, English, Emeritus, served as moderator on a panel entitled "Carnival Comedy" at the James Joyce Birth Conference, University of South Florida, Feb. 1.

Connie Boehm, Student Affairs, served as a panelist on "Empowering Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention Professionals: Collaborative Campus-Community Efforts" at the National Association of Student Personnel Administrator Conference, Boston, March 4.

Beverley Ervine, WOSU-FM, is president of the Association of Music Personnel in Public Radio.

Jon Gear, Student Affairs, is president of the Blackboard Transaction Systems User Advisory Board.

John Guilmartin, History, served on a panel on "Implications of Technology" at the Humanitarian Issues in Military Targeting Conference, Harvard University, March 8.

Donna Guy, History, participated in two panels at the American Historical Association Conference, San Francisco, Jan. 4-6.

Wendy Hesford, English, is on the Modern Language Association's PMLA Advisory Committee through June 2005.

Fred J. Hitzhusen, Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, is serving on a National Research Council panel to assess the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers methods of analysis and peer review for Water Resource Planning.

Michael Hogan, Humanities and History, is vice president and president-elect of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.

Andrew Hudgins, English, served as judge for the Randall Jarrell/Harperprints Poetry Chapbook competition for the North Carolina Writers' Network.

Gabriella Modan, English, organized a panel on "Placing Value: Textual Geographies of Identity and Inequality" for the American Anthropological Association Conference, Washington, D.C., December 2001.

Christine Ballengee-Morris, Art Education and Student Affairs, is chair of Context for the National Art Education Research Task Force and president-elect of the United States Society for Education through the Arts.

Dorothy Noyes, English, is on the editorial board of Revista de Dialectologia y Tradiciones Populares.

Alexander Stephan, German and Mershon Center, organized a conference on "Jeans, Rock and Vietnam. Amerikanische Kultur in der DDR," Berlin, Jan. 15-18, co-organizer was Therese Hšrnigk.

Celeste Welty, Entomology, served on a peer review panel for the Southern Region IPM Grants Program.

Willie J. Young, Student Affairs, is chair of the nominations committee of the National Association of Student Affairs Professionals.