Books

James Battersby, English, emeritus, Unorthodox Views: Reflections on Reality, Truth, and Meaning in Current Social, Cultural, and Critical Discourse (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing, 2002).

Helen Fehervary, Germanic Languages and Literatures, Anna Seghers: The Muthic Dimension (Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, 2001); editor, Aufstand der Fischer von St. Barbaraf (Berlin, Aufbau Verlag, 2002); and editor, Werkausgabe (Berlin, Aufbau Verlag, 2000), co-editor is Bernhard Spies.

Mitchell Lerner, History, The Pueblo Incident: A Spy Ship and the Failure of American Foreign Policy (University Press of Kansas, 2002).

Claire Robertson, History, co-editor, Genital Cutting and Transnational Feminism: Disputing U.S. Polemics (University of Illinois Press, 2002).

Duane W. Roller, Greek and Latin, Messapia: An Archaeological Survey in the Heel of Italy (Chicago: Ares Press, 2002).

Grant

Alexander Stephan, Mershon Center and Germanic Languages and Literatures, $23,181 German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology Euro Grant and $3,000 German Academic Exchange Service Grant for conferences on "The Americanization of Germ Culture in the 20th Century."

Presentations

Chadwick Allen, English, presented "Reimaging American Indian Prehistory" at the Native American Literature Symposium, Mystic Lake, Minn., April 11.

Karen Barnes, University Development, Susan Litton, Financial Training, and Al Rodack, Office of the Treasurer, presented "Stewardship of Endowment and Gift Funds" to departmental and college fiscal officers on March 18 and 19.

Rebecca Bias, French and Italian, presented "Colette and Divine: Encounter with a Serpent" at the 13th annual "Image, Film, Text" Conference, Binghamton University, Binghamton, N.Y., March 16.

Sherwin Bryant, History, presented "Representing Resistance: Slave Litigants in the Kingdom of Quito during the 18th Century" at the Organization of American Historians Conference, Washington, D.C., April 11-14.

David Citino, English, presented "An Ohio Poet Speaks (Up)" at the Westminster Thurber Retirement Center, Columbus, March 5.

David Cressy, History, presented "Revolutionary England 1640-1642" at the Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif., March 13, and "The Insolences of the Army: Soldiers and Civilians, 1640-1642" at the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, Pomona College, Claremont, Calif., April 6.

Richard Davis, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, "Ferdowsi's Alexander" Persian Studies Conference, Princeton, April 26 and 27.

Kathy Edwards, University Press, presented "Debits & Credits" to departmental and college fiscal officers, Jan. 15 and 16, co-presenter was Stephen Finnü Resource Planning, and "Debits & Credits" to departmental and college fiscal officers, Feb. 20-21, co-presenter was Susan Litton, Financial Training & Documentation.

Tom Ewing, Accounting, presented "Accounting at OSU" to departmental and college fiscal offices on Jan. 24 and 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 on March 27-29.

Kenneth Goings, African American and African Studies, presented "Black Collectibles and American Stereotyping" at the University of Kentucky, April 14.

Susan Hartmann, History, presented "What Changed for Women in the 20th Century?" at Shepherd College, April 10.

Mark Headings, Agricultural Technical Institute, presented "Distribution and Behavior of the Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle, Harmonia axyndis (Pallas)" at the 57th Annual North Central Branch of the Entomological Society of America Conference, East Lansing, Mich., March 24-27; and "Weaving International Threads into the Fabric of Course Instruction" at the 9th Annual Midwest Institute for International/Intercultural Education Conference, Kalamazoo, Mich., April 19-20.

Nicholas Howe, English and Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, presented "Rome: Capital of Anglo-Saxon England" at the Medieval Academy of American Annual conference, New York, March 30.

Rob Hupp, Nancy Jacobs, and Anne Wilcheck, Accounting, and Don Seidelmann, Resource Management Systems, presented "Using General Ledger Reports" to departmental and college fiscal officers on March 6 and 7.

Nancy Jacobs, Accounting, Susan Litton, Financial Training & Documentation, and Anne Wilcheck, Accounting, presented "Using General Ledger Reports" to departmental and college fiscal officers on Jan. 29 and 30.

Char Jessie, Financial Training, presented "Procurement Card Fiscal Training" to departmental and college fiscal officers on Jan. 18 and Feb. 22; "Working with the Office of Accounts Payable" to departmental and college fiscal officers on Jan. 10 and 11, co-presenter was Craig Dudley, Accounts Payable; and "Working with the Office of Accounts Payable" to departmental and college fiscal officers on Feb. 14-15, co-presenter was Aleta Wallace, Accounts Payable.

Robin Judd, History, presented "Teaching the Memories of Others" at the 17th Annual City of Columbus Commemoration of Yom Hashoah Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 12.

Lisa Kiser, English, presented "Animal Economies in the Early Franciscan Legends" at Randolph-Macon College, March 25.

Susan Litton, Financial Training and Documentation, presented "Accounting at OSU" to departmental and college fiscal officers, Feb. 25 and 26.

Danielle Marx-Scouras, French and Italian, presented "France and Algeria: 1962-2002: Turning the Page?" at the Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Florida State University, March 25-26.

Margaret Mills, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, "Narratives of Loss and Lost Narratives: Afghanistan," Asian Studies Center Seminar, University of Texas at Austin, April 26.

Terence Odlin, English, presented "Language Contact and Some Questions of Wilhelm von Humbolt" at the University of Caceres, Spain, March 15; "Are There Constraints on Language Transfer?" at the University of Madrid Complutense, March 14; "Some Thoughts on the Globalization of English" at the University of Santiago de Campostella, Spain, March 4; "The Contrastive Prediction in Second Language Acquisition and Its Evil Twin" at the University of London, Feb. 21; and "Looking for Roots in the Substrate: The Cases of Ebonics and Anglo-Irish" at the Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, Cleveland, Nov. 3.

Tony Pasquarello, Philosophy-Mansfield, emeritus, presented "A Nontheist in Wonderland" at All Souls Unitarian-Universalist Church, Bellville, July 7.

James Phelan, English, presented "Audience Response in Lyric Narratives:'Home Burial' and'Now I Lay Me'" at the International Conference on Narrative, Michigan State University, April 11.

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

Mark Rankin, English, presented "Reading Intertextuality: Masculinity, Perkin Warbeck, and Charles 1" at the Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society Annual Conference, Los Angeles, April 5; and "Reconsidering Bioregionalism in To a God Unknown" at John Steinbeck's Americas: A Centennial Conference, Hofstra University, Hempstead, N.Y., March 21.

Thibaut Schilt, French and Italian, presented "Boudu Saved from Mediocrity? Or Jean Renoir's Adaptation of a Boulevard Play" at the 13th Annual "Image, Film, Text" conference, Binghamton University, Binghamton, N.Y., March 15.

Publications

Febe Armanios, History, "The'Virtuous Woman': Images of Gender in Modern Coptic Society," Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 38, No. 1 (January 2002), pp. 110-30.

Morris Beja, English, Emeritus, review of John McCourt's The Years of Bloom: James Joyce in Trieste, 1904-1920, Irish Studies Review, Vol. 10 (2002), pp. 98-100.

David Citino, English, "Ruins of Lost City Found in Lake Erie," Whirligig: A Journal of Language and Art, Vol. 2 (2002), pp. 10-11; and "Homage to the Corn," "Basic Writing, Marion Correctional," and "Cleveland, Angels, Ogres, Trolls," I Have My Own Name for It: Modern Poems of Ohio, edited by Elton Glaser and William Greenway (Akron: The University of Akron Press, 2002).

Jon Erickson, English, "Response to Marvin Carlson's'Speaking in Tongues'," Text and Presentation, Vol. 22 (April 2001), pp. 17-21.

Glenn Hartz, Philosophy, "Inconsistency in Leibniz's Metaphysics of Body is Consistent with His Strategy," Vii. Internationaler Leibniz-Kongress Nihil Sine Ratione, Vortrage 1. Teil (2001), pp. 470-77.

Terence Odlin, English, "Language Transfer and Cross-linguistic Studies: Relativism, Universalism, and the Native Language," The Oxford Handbook of Applied Linguistics, edited by Robert Kaplan, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), pp. 253-61.

Karlis Racevskis, French and Italian, "Toward a Postcolonial Perspective on the Baltic Studies," Journal of Baltic Studies, Vol. 33, No. 1 (Spring 2002), pp. 37-56.

J.S. Timmons, W.P. Weiss and D.L. Palmquist, OARDC and Animal Sciences, and W.J. Harper, Food Science and Technology, "Relationships among Dietary Roasted Soybeans, Milk Components, and Spontaneous Oxidized Flavor of Milk," Journal of Dairy Science, Vol. 84 (2001), pp. 2440-49.

Harald Vaessin, Molecular Genetics, "Transcription of the Drosophila CKI Gene Dacapo Is Regulated by a Modular Array of Cis-Regulatory Sequences," Mechanism of Development, Vol. 112, Nos. 1-2 (March 2002), pp. 25-36, co-authors are T.-H. Liu and L. Li.

S.G. Velleman, OARDC and Animal Sciences, "Low Score Normal Muscle Weakness Alters Cardiac Decorin Expression: Implication for Cardiac Collagen Fibril Organization," Poultry Science, Vol. 80 (2001), pp. 1743-47.

W.P. Weiss, Animal Sciences, "Effect of Dietary Vitamin C Concentrations of Ascorbic Acid in Plasma and Milk," Journal of Dairy Science, Vol. 84 (2001), pp. 2302-07.

R.N. Williams, Entomology, "The Use of Pheromones and Semiochemicals to Monitor the Density of Grape Insect Pests," J. King Abdulaziz University-Meteorology, Environment & Arid Land Agriculture Sciences, Vol. 10 (2002), pp. 69-83.

L.C. Wu, M.D. Hicar, J-W. Hong and C.E. Allen, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, "HIVP3/KRC Encodes a Major Binding Protein for the Signal Sequences of V(D)J Recombination," Immunogenetics, Vol. 53 (2001), pp. 564-71.

Recognitions

Roger Blackwell, Marketing, received the Ohio Cancer Research Associates Grand Illusions Award for his community and civic work.

Katherine Mulligan, Medical Dietetics, received the Ohio Dietetic Association Outstanding Educator Award for 2002.

Mo-How Shen, Aeronautical Engineering and Aviation, is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Dorcas Taylor, WOSU, received a National Public Radio scholarship to attend the 2002 Public Radio Conference in Washington, D.C.

The following members of the Human and Community Resource Development Department received awards from Gamma Sigma Delta: Linda Labao, Research Award of Merit; Larry Miller, International Award of Merit; Joe Donnermeyer, Teaching Award of Merit; and Richard Moore, Extension Award.

Service

Mansel Blackford, History, chaired a session on "Native Adaptation in the 19th and 20th Centuries" at the Great Lakes American Studies Association Conference, Athens, Ohio, April 13.

Gerald Cable, Pharmacy, is a trustee of the Ohio Pharmacists Association representing District 9.

Jan Fullerton, WOSU, served as chauffeur for Clifford the Big Red Dog at Week of the Young Child, South Point.

Glenn Hartz, Philosophy, spoke on "Business Ethics" at the National Association of Purchasing Managers of North Central Ohio, April 16.

Notables

Campbell promoted in HR

The Office of Human Resources (OHR) has announced that Nancy Campbell has been appointed as assistant vice president for human resources, effective June 1.

In this newly created role, Campbell's key responsibility will be to advance OHR's goal of being a model administrative unit -- she will focus on clarity of priorities, action planning, allocation of resources, integration of projects and core services, communications, staff development and other related areas. Campbell and OHR's directors will manage projects and services to ensure that OHR is organized to deliver on strategic priorities and core services with extremely high reliability and certainty.

With Campbell handling many internal responsibilities, Associate Vice President Larry M. Lewellen will be able to focus on external relationships and critical strategic priorities and ensure that OHR projects and services are connected to the University's leadership agenda.

"I am particularly proud to have Nancy Campbell accept this position. She is deeply talented and well-respected Universitywide, and has repeatedly proven her value to Ohio State," Lewellen said. "She has the very strong and universal support of the OHR staff."

Campbell has a Ph.D. in educational policy and leadership from Ohio State. She served as director of the Organization and Human Resource Development department for 10 years. Her areas of expertise are change management, performance management, leadership/executive assessment and feedback, career development and quality improvement.

Schoen recipients named

Two Ohio State faculty members have been selected to receive the University's 2002 Kathryn T. Schoen Awards to advance their professional interests in higher education administration.

The recipients are Mardi C. Hastings, associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Biomedical Engineering Center, and Amanda M. Termuhlen, associate professor of clinical pediatrics in the College of Medicine and Public Health.

Hastings will use the grant to participate in a month-long internship under the guidance of Ilene Busch-Vishniac, dean of the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, just before the beginning of Ohio State's 2002-03 academic year. Busch-Vishniac is one of only four women engineering deans in the country.

Hastings seeks to observe the Whiting School's joint administration of its biomedical engineering department and undergraduate degree program with the Johns Hopkins College of Medicine, and to learn more about resource allocation and management; the roles of faculty administrators as associate deans; development and implementation of long-term plans; and large-scale K-12 mentoring programs in math, science and engineering for students underrepresented in those disciplines.

Termuhlen, also director of the Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Program at Children's Hospital, will apply her grant toward the cost to attend the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) Mid-Career Women Faculty Professional Development Seminar. The conference is designed to enhance participants' skills and knowledge related to academic and organizational leadership, help them develop an agenda for professional development goals, and allow them to network and establish mentoring relationships with role models and colleagues.

Termuhlen intends to apply the broad professional development opportunity to her academic and research career and her administrative role at Children's Hospital, as well as in her capacity as the AAMC's women's liaison officer to Ohio State's College of Medicine and Public Health, where she seeks to promote development programs for women faculty.

The Schoen awards are presented, in alternate years, to women faculty members or administrative and professional staff at Ohio State and were made possible by an endowment from Schoen. A leader in higher education, Schoen, then a member of the faculties of the colleges of Education, Medicine, and Social and Behavioral Sciences, chaired the 1970 Universitywide study to assess the status of women at Ohio State. Now retired, she became the University's first woman vice president when she was appointed to lead educational services in 1978.

The 2002 award proposals were reviewed and recipients selected by Alex Collier, associate professor of psychology; Olga Esquivel-Gonzalez, associate director of consulting services in the Office of Human Resources; Kay Halasek, associate provost and director of University Honors and Scholars and associate professor of English; Mary Ann Sagaria, interim director and associate professor in the School of Educational Policy and Leadership; and Barbara Snyder, vice provost for academic policy and human resources and Joanne W. Murphy/Class of 1965 Professor of Law.