Grants

John M. Bennett, University Libraries, $1,200 Ohio Arts Council Grant to help with the publication of “Lost and Found Times."

Margo Vreeburg Izzo, Medicine, $399,938 U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs Grant to direct "Enhancing Academic Achievement and Transition Outcomes through Technology."

Presentations

Mahdi Alosh, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, presented a three-day intensive workshop on “Teaching Foreign Languages"at the University of Damascus, Damascus, Syria, June 19-21.

Nina Berman, Germanic Literatures and Languages, presented “Autobiographies about Kenyan-German Marriages: Questions of Reception and Context"at a Conference in Honor of Susanne Zantop, Dartmouth College, June 20-22.

Karin Dahl, Teaching and Learning, presented “Linking Reading and Writing in Critical Thinking Lessons: Children's Responses to Russian Folktales"at the World Congress of the International Reading Association, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 29-Aug 1.

Evelyn B. Freeman and Patricia L. Scharer, Teaching and Learning, presented “International Children's Literature: Reasons, Resources, and Recent Titles"at the World Congress of the International Reading Association, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 29- Aug 1.

Mary Jo Fresch, Teaching and Learning, presented “Using Children's Literature to Develop Social Critical Literacy"at the World Congress of the International Reading Association, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 29- Aug 1.

Gay Su Pinnell, Teaching and Learning, presented “Change Across Time: Teaching for Shifts in Processing Using Leveled Texts"at the World Congress of the International Reading Association, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 29- Aug 1.

Gonzalo Rubio, Near Eastern Languages, presented “The Linguistic Landscape of Early Mesopotamia"at the Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Leiden, Netherlands, July 1-4.

M.C. Mitchell, K. Stone and C. Graber, Human Nutrition, presented “A Comparison of Perceived Body Image to Actual Body Fat and BMI of Male College Students"at the Experimental Biology Conference 2002, New Orleans, April 21-24.

H. Niemczyk, Entomology, presented “The Multiple Target Principle and Your Golf Course"at the North Ohio Golf Course Supt. Assoc., April 22.

Laura Podalsky, Spanish and Portuguese, presented “Cities of the Dead: Affect, Distance and Horror in Recent Latin American Cinema"at the Crossing Borders: Symposium on Latin American Film, Notre Dame University, Nov. 9-10, and “Utopias y Fronteras/Utopias and Frontiers"at a conference and film festival commemorating the work of filmmakers Fernando Birri and Lourdes Portillo, Stanford University, May 10-11.

Parvaneh Pourshariati, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, presented “Popular Culture in Medieval Iran"at the Society for Iranian Studies International Conference, Bethesda, Md., May 25.

Michael L. Rowland, Dentistry, presented “The African American Church as an Exemplar of Culturally Relevant Adult Education"at the Adult Education Research Conference, Raleigh, N.C., May 24.

Hosam El Sayed, Surgery, presented “Should We Use Basiliximab in Liver Transplantation?"at the Columbus Surgical Society's 13th Annual Presidential Symposium, Feb. 9.

J.T. Snook, Human Nutrition, presented “Effect of Low and High Trans-fatty Acid Intake on Plasma Lipoprotein Metabolism,"co-presenter was S.Y. Ryu, and “Effect of Dietary Fatty Acids On Body Energy Partitioning,"co-presenter was Y-C. Lu, at the Experimental Biology 2002, New Orleans, April 21-24.

Mark Tucker, Human and Community Resource Development, presented “Agri-Culture -- A New Look at Adoption and Diffusion of Information Technology,"co-presenter was Stan Ernst, Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics; “Enhancing Professionalism in Academic Agricultural Communications Programs: The Role of Accreditation,"co-presenters were Sherrie Whaley, Larry Whiting and Robert Agunga, Human and Community Resource Development; and “Measuring Preference for an Agricultural College Newsletter: A Readership Assessment of Missouri's Discover & Enlighten,"co-presenter was Sharon Wood-Turley, University of Missouri, at the International Agricultural Communicators in Education Annual Meeting, Savannah, Ga., Aug. 18-19.

Kathleen Wallace, Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing, presented “Living Downstream: Women and the Environment"at the Women's Club of Cincinnati, co-presenters were Susan Schultz and Jackie Brookner, March 26.

Julia Watson, Comparative Studies, presented “After Words"to the Theater Department production of The Memory of Water by Shelagh Stephenson, Ohio State, May 16.

Sherrie Whaley, Human and Community Resource Development, presented “Genetic Modification of the Food Supply: A Content Analysis of U.S. News Magazines, 1990-2000"at the International Agricultural Communicators in Education Annual Meeting, Savannah, Ga., Aug. 19.

Judy Wu, History, presented “American Womanhood and Oriental Maternalism: Mom Chung and the Creation of WAVES"at the Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Storrs, Conn., June 8.

Jerry Zutell, Teaching and Learning, presented “Scaling Up Professional Development in Literacy Instruction"at the World Congress of the International Reading Association, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 29-Aug. 1, co-presenters were Kathy Roskos, Catherine Rosemary and Katie Kinnucon-Welsch.

Publications

J. L.-S Au, S.H. Jang and M.G. Wientjes, Center for Retrovirus Research, “Clinical Aspects of Drug Delivery to Tumors,"J. Controlled Release, Vol. 78, pp. 81-95.

N.L. Benowitz, K. Ahijevych, S.M. Hall, A. Hannson, J. Henningfield, R.D. Hurt, P. Jacob, M. Jarvis, J. LeHouzec, E. Lichtenstein, J. Tsoh and W. Velicer, Nursing, “Biochemical Verification of Tobacco Use and Cessation,"Nicotine and Tobacco Research, No. 4 (2002), pp. 149-159.

Nina Berman, Germanic Languages and Literature, “The Appeal of Karl May in the Wilhelmine Empire: Emigration, Modernization, and the Need for Heroes,"A Comparison to Realism: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics and Culture, (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2002), pp. 283-305, edited by Todd Kontje; “Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Political Vision -- an Analysis of Selected Early Prose Writing,"A Comparison to the Works of Hugo von Hofmannsthal's: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture, (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2002), pp. 201-220, edited by Thomas A. Kovach; and “Colonization or Globalization? Ernst Udet's Account of East Africa from 1932,"Africanizing Knowledge: African Studies across the Disciplines, (Piscataway NJ: Transactions Publishers Rutgers, 2002), pp. 297-313, edited by Toyin Falola and Christain Jennings.

K. Boris-Lawrie, Center for Retrovirus Research, “The Destiny of Retroviral Unspliced RNA: Ribosome or Virion?"Journal of Virology, Vol. 76, No. 7, pp. 3089-3094, co-author was M. Butsch, “Nuclear Interactions are Necessary for Translational Enhancement by SNV PCE,"Journal Of Virology, Vol. 76, No .7, pp. 3292-3300, co-authors were A. Dangel, S. Hull and T. Roberts.

Margo Vreeburg Izzo, Medicine, and Peg Lamb, Holt High School, “Self-determination and Career Development; Skills for Successful Transitions to Postsecondary Education and Employment,"National Center for the Study of Postsecondary Educational Supports and the National Center on Secondary Education and Transition, www.rrtc.hawaii.edu/products/phaseIII/pdf/o2.pdf.

S.K. Frazier, D.K. Moser, B. Riegel, S. McKinley, W. Blakely, K.A. Kim and B.J. Garvin, Nursing, “Critical Care Nurses' Assessment of Patients' Anxiety: Reliance on Physiological and Behavioral Parameters,"American Journal of Critical Care, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp.57-64.

C.W. Kennedy and B.J. Garvin, Nursing, “Interpersonal Communication in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing,"edited by J.J. Fitzpatrick, The Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Research Digest, (Springer Publishing Co: 2001).

M. Lairmore, Center for Retrovirus Research, “Activation of Nuclear Factor of Activated T Cells (NFAT), Human T-Lymphotropic Virus Type 1 Accessory Protein p12I,"J. Virol, Vol. 76, pp. 3493-3501, co-authors were B. Albrecht, C. D'Souza, W. Ding, S. Tidandapani and M. Coggeshall; “Engraftment and Tumorigenesis of HTLV-1 Transformed T Cell Lines in SCID/Bg and NOD/SCID Mice,"Leuk. Res., Vol. 26, pp. 561-567, co-authors were Y. Liu, K. Dole, J. Stanley, V. Richard, T. Rosol, L. Ratner and G. Feuer.

Mark A. Levy and T.M. Bray, Human Nutrition, “Cellular Response of Antioxidant Metalloproteins in Cu/Zn SOD Transgenic Mice Exposed to Hyperoxia,"American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Vol. 281, No. 1 (July 2001), pp. L172-L182, co-authors were Y.J. Tsai and A. Reaume.

L.M. Mansky, H. Wang and K.M. Norris, Center for Retrovirus Research, “Analysis of Bovine Leukemia Virus Gag Membrane Targeting and Late Domain Function,"J. Virol., Vol. 76 (2002), pp. 8485-8493.

L.E. Mathes, M. Podell and M.A. Gavrilin, Center for Retrovirus Research, “Methamphetamine Enhances Cell-Associated Feline Immunodeficiency Virus Replication in Atrocities,"J. NeuroVirology, Vol. 8, pp. 240-249.

Lydia C. Medeiros, Human Nutrition, “Evaluation of Food Safety Education for Consumers,"Journal of Nutrition Education, Vol. 33, Supplement 1 (2001), pp. S27-S34, co-authors were V.N. Hillers, P.A. Kendall and A. Mason; “Food Safety Education: What Should We Be Teaching in Consumers?"Journal of Nutrition Education, Vol. 33, No. 2 (March-April, 2001), pp 108-113, co-authors were V.N. Hillers, P.A. Kendall and A. Mason; and “Identification and Classification of Consumer Food-Handling Behaviors for Food Safety Education,"Journal of American Dietetic Association, Vol. 101, No. 11 (Nov. 2001), pp. 1326-39, co-authors were P. Kendall, G. Chen and S. DiMascola.

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, pp. 208-216.

D.K. Moser, S.K. Frazier, M.A. Woo and L.K. Daley, Nursing, “Normal Fluctuations in Pulmonary Artery Pressures and Cardiac Output in Patients with Severe Left Ventricular Dysfunction,"European Journal of Cardiac Nursing, Vol. 1, pp. 131-137.

H.D. Niemczyk, D.J. Shetlar, K.T. Power and D.S. Richmond, Entomology, “Seasonal Occurrence of the Sod Webworm Moths (Lipedoptera-Crambidae) of Ohio,"Great Lakes Entomologist, Vol. 33, No. 3&4, pp. 173-185.

Terence Odlin, English, “Reprint of Language Transfer,"(Shanghai: Foreign Language Education Press, 2001).

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

J.P. Rinehart, D.L. Denlinger and D.B. Rivers, Entomology, “Upregulation of Transcripts Encoding Select Heat Shock Proteins in the Flesh Fly Sarcophaga Crassipalpis in Response to Venom from the Ectoparasitoid Wasp Nasonia Vitripennis,"Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, Vol. 79, pp. 62-63.

S. Salminen and P.S. Grewal, Entomology, “Does Decreased Mowing Frequency Enhance Alkaloid Production in the Endophytic Tall Fescue and Perennial Ryegrass?"J. Chem. Ecol., Vol. 28, pp. 931-942.

Anne Smith, Human Nutrition, “Selenium Intakes, Absorption, Retention and Status in Adolescent Girls,"J American Dietetic Assoc., Vol. 102 (2002), pp. 1082-1087, co-authors are D. Holben, J. Llich, J. Landoll, J. Holcomb and V. Matkovic.

Eileen M. Smith, A. David Just and Dean R. Prigelmeier, Center for Corporate and Community Education, Mansfield, “Two Case Studies in a Systematic Approach to Structured On-the-Job Training For Accelerated, Verifiable Results,"Implementing On-the-Job Learning, (2002), pp. 111-130.

Jean T. Snook, Human Nutrition, “Cholesterol Ester Transfer and Cholesterol Esterification in Type I Diabetes: Relationships with Plasma Glucose,"Acta Diabetologica, Vol. 38, No. 1 (2001), pp. 537-42, co-authors were C-K. Chang, T.K. Tso, Y-S. Huang, R.A. Lozano and W.B. Zipf; “Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease in Type 1 Diabetic Children: The Influence of ApoE Phenotype and Glycemic Regulation,"Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, Vol. 54, No. 3 (2001), pp. 1655-171, co-authors were T.K. Tso, R.A. Lozano and W.B. Zipf; and “The Cholesterolaemic Effects of Dietary Fats in Cholesteryl Ester Transfer Protein Transgeneic Mice,"British Journal of Nutrition, Vol. 85, No. 6 (June 2001), pp. 643-48, co-author was C-K. Chang.

Julia Watson, Comparative Studies, “Lumumba: Revisioning the Biopic,"Research in African Literatures, (Spring 2002), pp. 230-235.

Recognitions

The OSU College of Medicine and Public Health awarded 11 doctors with outstanding teaching awards in their respective areas of medicine. Those receiving the Distinguished Educator Award, and their affiliation, are: Charles Hitchcock, basic science at OSU; Mary McIlroy, pediatrics at Children's Hospital; Daniel Melaragno, internal medicine at Riverside Methodist Hospital; Ralph Ballenger, Ob/Gyn at Mt. Carmel Health Systems; Joseph Flood, rheumatologist at Grant Medical Center; Richard Lederman, neurology at Cleveland Clinic Foundation; Greg Barrett, pediatrics at Children's Hospital; and Alice Frazier, family practice in Sunbury. Those receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award are: James Blackford, general surgery at Riverside Methodist Hospital; Michael Anthony, internal medicine at Mount Carmel Medical Center; Bruce Meyer, pediatrics at Children's Hospital; and Andrew Pultz, family medicine at Grant Hospital. The Ambulatory Care Clerkship Preceptor of the Year Award went to Marc Comianos of the Smith Clinic in Marion.

Gonzalo Rubio, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, was awarded a NEH summer stipend for a project of editing, translation, and commentary of the Sumerian Epic Cycle of Enmerkar.

A research paper by Mark Tucker, Sherrie Whaley, Larry Whiting and Robert Agunga, Human and Community Resource Development, “Enhancing Professionalism in Academic Agriculture Communications Programs: The Role of Accreditation,"was selected “Most Outstanding"at the International Agricultural Communicators in Education Annual Meeting, Savannah, Ga., Aug. 19.

Service

Patricia Enciso, Teaching and Learning, will judge research proposals and manage finances as a trustee of the National Council of Teachers of English. She has been a keynote speaker at council conferences and has served on the editorial boards for Language Arts and the Journal of Literacy Research, 2002-2005.

Margo Vreeburg Izzo, Medicine, testified at the Transition Task Force of the President's Commission on Excellence in Special Education, Washington, DC, April 30.

Stephen Pape, Teaching and Learning, was a guest editor with Barry Zimmerman and Frank Pajares of the Theory into Practice issue “Becoming a Self-Regulated Learner,"Vol. 41, No. 2 (2002).

Notables

Optometrist of the year

Robert D. Newcomb, professor of clinical optometry, VSP Chair for the Advancement of Professional Practice, and director of clinics, has been named the recipient of the 2002 Doctors Warren G. and Ruth P. Morris Optometrist of the Year Award in recognition for his outstanding achievements in optometry. His award was presented recently at a national conference in Cleveland.

Newcomb received his doctor of optometry degree from Ohio State in 1971. In 1997, he accepted a faculty appointment at the College of Optometry. He also is current president of the American Academy of Optometry, an international education and research organization that promotes the art, science and research of eye and vision care, and is a member of the prestigious National Academies of Practice. During the past 30 years, he has served on numerous local, state and national committees for the profession of optometry; and has authored over 60 publications, including two textbooks and seven textbook chapters.

DOE appointment

John Reeve, chair of the Department of Microbiology, was recently appointed the first chair of the U.S. Department of Energy's National Biosciences Council. The Department of Energy (DOE) recruited this council of senior research scientists from 12 U.S. research universities to identify research areas that would be appropriate for future sponsorship by the Energy Biosciences Research program of DOE. The council will organize workshops to focus such ideas, and Reeve said that the first will address how to manipulate plants to produce biochemicals on an industrial scale, nanotechniques to study biochemical pathways within a single living cell and how to determine the functions of previously-unknown genes identified by microbial genome sequencing.

In the past, the DOE Energy Biosciences Research program has funded research focused on carbon dioxide and energy capture through microbial and plant photosynthesis and the biological production of natural gas, methane. To date, the Department of Microbiology at Ohio State has received more than $8 million dollars in research grants from this program.