Books

John Conteh-Morgan, French and Italian, translated The Struggle for Meaning: Reflections on Philosophy, Culture and Democracy in Africa by Paulin J. Hountondji (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2002).

Matt Goldish, History, editor, Spirit Possession in Judaism: Cases and Contexts from The Middle Ages to the Present (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2003).

John Simpson, Landscape Architecture, Yearning for the Land (Pantheon Books, 2002).

Mindy Wright, English, Instructor's Manual to Accompany Critical Inquires: Readings on Culture and Community (New York: Longman, 2003).

Exhibit

Lisa Tilder, Architecture, "Critical Mass -- An Exhibition: Art.Arcitecture.Design" at the Museum of New Art in Detroit.

Grants

Tim Granata, Environmental & Ecological Engineering, $832,000 for the Great Lakes Protection Fund for "Coupling Ecological, Economic, and Engineering Studies to Formulate Guidelines for Dam Removal and River Restoration in Great Lakes Watersheds," with Ulrike Zika and Fred Hitzhusen.

Jeffery Reutter, Stone Laboratory, $348,000 three-year grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to enhance the laboratory's research, education and outreach programs, and fund major renovations to the Research Building.

Rick Suminski and Rick Petosa, Education, Physical Activity and Educational Services, Exercise Science Division, $1.1 million three-year grant from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention to "promote physical activity and better health in a Columbus community by helping them build an environment conducive to being physically active."

Carla Wilks, Community Extension Center, Cynthia Tyson, Teaching and Learning, and Patrick Mullen, English, $15,500 awarded by the Ohio Humanities Council and the Martha Holden Jennings Foundation to conduct a 2003 Summer Teachers Institute.

Presentations

The following members of the Department of Entomology made presentations at the SETAC 23rd Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Nov. 16-20: N. Basta, J. Schroder, K. Bradham, J. Si and R. Lanno presented "The Effect of Soil Spiking Procedures on Heavy Metal Bioavailability During Plant and Earthworm Bioassays"; L. Booth, C. Darling, F. Palasz, R. Lannon and M. Wickstrom presented "Lead Toxicity in the Earthworm Eisenia Fetida and the Issue of Lead Bioavailability"; K. Bradham, R. Lanno, N. Basta, J. Schroder and M. Payton, presented "Effects of Soil Properties on the Bioavailability and Toxicity of Metals in Contaminated Soils to Earthworms"; R. Lanno, L. Booth, P. Booth, B. Tost and N. Basta presented "Application of Chemical Measures of Bioavailability to the Development of Ecological Soil Screening Levels"; R. Lanno, R. Kuperman, N. Feisthauer and C. Menzie, presented a short course, "Soil Toxicity Evaluation: Current Practice and Applications"; and B. Tost, R. Lanno, L. Booth, P. Booth and N. Basta presented "Assessment of PAH Bioavailability in Soil to Eisenia Fetida Using Solid-Phase Microextraction Technology."

Alan Beyerchen, History, presented "Teaching the Teachers" at the Seventh Lessons and Legacies Conference: The Holocaust in International Perspective, University of Minnesota, Nov. 2.

Sherwin Bryant, History, presented "Subjects of the King: Afro-criollos and the Notion of Mercy in the Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century Quito" and organized the panel "Mita and Slavery: The Realities of Bondage in the North Andes" at the 117th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Chicago, Jan. 4.

D.L. Denlinger, Entomology, presented "Shutting Down for the Winter: An Insect Perspective on Confronting Environmental Stress" at the opening of the Center for Environmental Stress, Arhus University, Denmark, Jan. 9.

Raquel Diaz-Sprague, Allied Medicine, presented "Observation and Comments on Emerging Latino Health Issues in Columbus, Ohio" at the Redes en Accion, 3rd North Central Regional Meeting of the Midwest Latino Health Research, Training and Policy Center, Indianapolis, Nov. 7-8.

Georgina Dodge, African American and African Studies Community Extension Center, presented "Raising Community Leaders" at the East High School Leadership Breakfast, Dec. 13.

Georgina Dodge, African American and African Studies Community Extension Center, presented, "Can Tiger Change His Stripes?: Transcending Racial Identity with a Golf Club" at the Modern Language Association, New York, Dec. 30.

Jon Erickson, English, presented "Tension/Release: The Production of Time in Performance" at the Modern Language Association, New York, Dec. 27.

Luciano Farina, French and Italian, presented "Perifrasi e Antifrasi: a proposito della necessita di una disanima della lingua di Parini, opera per opera" at the Circolo Filogico Brianteo, Bosisio-Parini-Milan, Dec. 14-15.

C. Magbaily Fyle, African American and African Studies, presented "Ethnicity, Politics and Sierra Leone History" and chaired "The Politics of Identity" at the African Studies Association, Washington, D.C., Dec. 5.

Somnath Ghosh, Mechanical Engineering, presented "Multi-Scale Computational Modeling of Failure in Heterogeneous Structures" at the Polish National Congress of Solid Mechanics, in Zakopane, Poland, September 2002.

R.B. Hammond, Entomology, presented "Slug Management in Field Crops" at the Midwest Ag Show, Dayton, Jan. 8; "Soybean and Forage Insect Update" at the Agent In-Service, Columbus, Jan. 9; "Soybean Insect Update" at the Ohio Seed Improvement Association (OSIA), Columbus, Jan. 9; "Agronomic Insect Update" at the Regional Agronomy Day, Norwalk, Jan. 14; and "Slugs" at Horticulture Day, Avon, Jan. 14.

Dorothy Noyes, English, presented "Alias ‘Yusuf Galan': Neighbors, Sleepers, and the Violence of Recognition" at the Sleepers, Moles, and Martyrs, Secret Identifications, Societal Integration, and the Differing Meanings of Freedom, Reinhausen, Germany, Oct. 8; "The Theory and Practice of Identity in Catalan Nationalism: A Performance Approach" at the Identifications and the State: Religion, Geography, and Regions, Ford Foundation Project on Collaborative Research Networks in China, Thailand, Russia, and France, St. Petersburg, Russia, Oct. 10; and "Neighbors and Sleepers: Sociability, Solidarity, and Surveillance in Urban Spain" at the American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Rochester, N.Y., Oct. 18; and was a respondent for the APA Outreach Committee Panel, "Looking at Antiquity in a New Orleans State of Mind" at the American Philological Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Jan. 3.

Karlis Racevskis, French and Italian, presented, "What Comes After Postmodernism?" at the Faculty Lecture Series, Jan. 23.

Wayne Redenbarger, Spanish and Portuguese, presented "Latin Noun Morphology: athematics, i-stems, and imparisylabics" at the Historical Linguistics Study Group, Jan. 23.

Mo Samimy, Mechanical Engineering, presented "Plenary Lecture" at the 10th International Symposium on Flow Visualizations (ISFV), Kyoto, Japan, August 2002, and "Sound Emission by Vortical Structures in a Jet" at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colo., August 2002.

Ken Sandhage, Materials Sciences, presented "Chemically-Tailored, 3D Nanoparticle Structures via the BaSIC Process" at the 8th International Conference on Ceramic Process Science, Hamburg, Germany; "A Novel, Low-Temperature Route to Dense, Net-Shaped, Ultra-High-Melting Metal/Carbide, Metal/Boride Composites: Displacive Compensation of Porosity" and "A Novel Bioclastic Route to Complex-Shaped, 3-D Nanoparticle Structures with Chemistries Tailored for Biomedical Applications" at the Conference of Metallurgists, Montreal, Canada; and "A Novel Bioclastic Route to Chemically-Tailored, 3-D Nanostructures (GEMs): Shape-preserving Chemical Conversion of Diatom Microshells (Frustules)" at the International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, Cocoa Beach, Fla.

C.K. Shum, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science, presented "CHAMP Gravity and GRACE Simulations" at the Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics, Wuhan, China; "Contribution of GRACE and COSMIC to Temporal Gravity Field Studies" at the Purple Mountain Astronomical Observatory, Nanjing, China; and "Determination of Vertical Crustal Motion Using Satellite Altimetry" at a workshop on Crustal Motion and Sea Level Change, Toulouse, France, with A. Braun, C. Kuo and J. Mitrovica, September 2002.

Jennifer Willging, French and Italian, presented "Grade Inflation: A Survey of Recent Literature" at the Modern Language Association Annual Convention, New York, Dec. 27-30.

R.N. Williams, Entomology, presented "Strawberry Pollination in NE Ohio" and "An Update of Available Insecticides for Small Fruits" at the Ohio Fruit and Vegetable Congress, Toledo SeaGate Centre and Radisson Hotel, Jan. 15-17, co-presenter was Celeste Welty; "A Beneficial Turned Pest: The Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle" at the Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., Nov. 17-20, co-presenter was S.V. Garces; presented a poster, "The Importance of Native Bees in the Pollination of Strawberries in Ohio" at the Ohio Fruit and Vegetable Congress, Toledo SeaGate Centre and Radisson Hotel, Jan. 15-17, co-presenters were Dan Fickle, Kevin McClure and Jim Jasinski.

Jacques L. Zakin, Chemical Engineering, presented "Review of Recent Experimental Results and Evaluation of Physical Criteria Required for Surfactant Drag Reduction" at the 15th International Congress of Chemical and Process Engineering in Prague, Czech Republic, August 2002, co-authors were Yunying Qi and Ying Zhang; and "Some Surprising Recent Experimental Results in Turbulent Drag Reduction with Surfactant Additives" at the University of Missouri-Columbia, Sept. 19.

Publications

Paul R. Berger, Electrical Engineering, "A PNP Si Resonant Interband Tunnel Diode with Symmetrical NDR," Electronics Letters, Vol. 37 (2001), pp. 1412-1414, co-authors were Jiu Jin, Sean L. Rommel, Phillip E. Thompson and Karl D. Hobart; "Doping and Junction Formation," and "Electrodes," both in Survey of Semiconductor Physics, Karl Boer, ed., (New York: Van Nostrand Rheinold, 2002), pp. 827-888 and pp. 859-881.

Kim L. Boyer, Electrical Engineering, published articles in the proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Quebec City, Canada, August 2002: "Multiscale Surface Organization and Description for Free Form Object Recognition," Vol. 3, pp. 569-572, co-authors were Ravi Srikantiah and Patrick J. Flynn; "Classifying Land Development in High Resolution Satellite Images Using Straight Line Statistics," Vol. 1, pp. 127-130, co-author was Cem Unsalan; "Robust Detection of Buildings in Digital Surface Models," Vol. 1, pp. 159-163, co-authors were Prabhu Krishnamoorthy and Patrick J. Flynn; and "Head Pose Estimation Using View Based Eigenspaces," Vol. 4, pp. 302-305, co-author was Sujith Srinivasan.

Kevin Boyle, History, "The Price of Peace: Vietnam, the Pound, and the Crisis of the American Empire," Diplomatic History, Vol. 27 (January 2003), pp. 37-72.

Brenda Brueggemann, English, "Depending on Trees," Prairie Schooner, Vol. 76, No. 4 (Winter 2002), pp.61-71.

Rudy Buchheit, Materials Science and Engineering, "Electrochemical Techniques in Corrosion Science and Engineering," (New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc., 2002), co-authors were Robert Kelly, John Scully and David Shoesmith.

David Citino, English, "Physics Professor Killed in Coffee Shop," poem, Phi Kappa Phi Forum, Vol. 82, No.4, pp. 15; "The Skeleton of Roaring Camp Might be a Woman," poem, New Letters, Vol. 69, No.1 (2002), pp.156-157; "An Englishman Never Ventures Far without Certain Necessities," poem, Rattle: Poetry for the 21st Century, Vol. 8, No. 2 (2002), pp. 98; and "Sister Mary Appassionata Before the Mirror," poem, American Literary Review, Vol. 13, No.2 (2002), pp. 22.

Raquel Diaz-Sprague, Allied Medicine, "Perspectives on Latina Issues: Problems and Solutions: Reflection on Issues Faced by Latinas in Science," AWIS Magazine, Vol. 31 No. 3, pp. 8-10.

Arjan Durresi, Computer and Information Science, "Stateless Proportional Bandwidth Allocation," in proceedings of ITCOM2002 Internet Performance and Control of Network Systems III, pp. 25-37, Boston (July 29), co-authors were Prassana K. Jagannathan and Raj Jain; and "Guidelines for Optimizing Multi-Level ECN, Using Fluid Flow Based TCP Model," in the proceedings of ITCOM2002 Quality of Service over Next Generation Internet, pp. 106-116, Boston (July 29), co-authors were Pierre-Francois Quet, Sriram Chellappan, Mukundan Sridharan, Hitay Ozbay and Raj Jain.

Kenneth Goings, African American and African Studies, "Symphonic Poems: The Art of Aminah Robinson," preface, Exhibition Catalog, (Columbus Museum of Art, 2002), pp. 11.

Stephen G. Hall, History, "To Render the Private Public: William Still and the Selling of the Underground Railroad," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 127, (January 2003), pp. 7-27; and "George Bancroft," "Samuel Gompers," "John Brown" and "William H. Prescott," in Interdisciplinary Biographical Dictionaries of the Western World's Great Cultural Eras, Vol. VI, Industrialization and Imperialism, 1800-1924, (Westport: Greenwood Press, December 2002), Jeff Ball, ed.

J.J. Heath, R.N. Williams and P.L. Phelan, "Aggregation and Male Attraction to Feeding Virgin Females," Macrodactylus subspinosus (F.), (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae), Environmental Entomology, Vol. 31, No. 6 (2002), pp. 934-940.

Hsiung Hsu, Electrical Engineering, "Techniques for Coherent Phonon Excitation and Stimulated Brillouin Scattering," Journal of Applied Optics, OT, (July 1, 2002), pp. 4037-4041, co-authors were Stephen Wanuga, Stephen Tehon, Rong-ning Li and Yue Xu.

Andrew Hudgins, English, "My Father's Corpse" and "Praying Drunk," reprint in The Norton Introduction to Literature, 8th ed., Jerome Beaty, ed., (New York: Norton, 2002), pp. 846 and 874.

Michael Kardos, English, "On the Ethics of Simultaneous Submissions," The Writer's Chronicle, Vol. 35 No. 4 (February 2003), pp. 58-59.

Anthony Libby, English, excerpt from "Far from Lowell," poem, reprinted in Sourcebook About Mary, Archdiocese of Chicago (Liturgical Training Publications, 2002), pp. 77.

Lee Martin, English, "Who Causes This Sickness?" The Sun, (January 2003), pp. 28-33; "Sorry," Natural Bridge, Vol. 8 (2002), pp.1-14; and "Literary Theory in the Fiction Workshop," Gulfstreaming, (Fall/Winter 2002), http://w3.fiu.edu/gulfstrm/.

Carla Pestana, History, "Martyred by the Saints: Quaker Executions in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts," Colonial Saints: Discovering the Holy in Americas, 1500-1800, Allan Greer and Jodi Bilinkoff, eds., (London and New York: Routledge, 2003), pp. 169-191.

Scopas Poggo, African American and African Studies, Mansfield, "Kuku Religious Experiences in the Sudan and in Exile in Uganda, 1900-1972," Religion and Conflict in the Sudan, (Nairobi, Kenya: Paulines Publications Africa, 2002).

Ken Sandhage, Materials Science and Engineering, "Novel, Bioclastic Route to Self-Assembled, 3D, Chemically Tailored Meso/Nanostructures: Shape-Preserving Reactive Conversion of Biosilica (Diatom) Microshells," Adv. Mater., Vol. 14, No. 6 (2002), pp. 429-433, co-authors were M.B. Dickerson, P. M. Huseman, M.A. Caranna, J.D. Clifton, T.A. Bull, T.J. Heibel, W.R. Overton, and M.E.A. Schoenwaelder.

Ahmad Sikainga, History, "City of Steel and Fire: A Social History of Atbara, Sudan's Railway Town, 1906-1984" (Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinmann Press, 2002).

Ahmed Soliman, Automotive Research & Intelligent Transportation, "A Nox for Emission Reduction," FISITA 2002 (Helsinki, Finland, June 2002, co-authors were N. Zabo and P. Dutta; and "Hierarchical Vehicle Model-Based Fault Diagnosis Using Propagation Digraphs," IFAC, (Barcelona, Spain, July 2002), co-authors were P. Pisu and Giorgio Rizzoni.

Wynne Wong, French and Italian, "Linking Form and Meaning: Processing Instruction," The French Review, Vol. 76 (2002), pp. 236-264.

Recognitions

Brooks Breeden, Landscape Architecture, was elected to the College of Fellows of the American Society of Landscape Architects.

Erica Beeney, Fine Arts, is the winner of the Sundance Film Festival's Project Greenlight Competition, for her film, "Battle of Shaker Heights," selected by Matt Damon and Ben Afleck.

Robert S. Brodkey, Chemical Engineering, was elected to a Fellowship in the American Academy of Mechanics.

Michael Cadwell, Jane Murphy and Shawn Rickenbacker, Architecture, were selected for an exhibition of innovative housing design, "Case Study Cleveland."

Raquel Diaz-Sprague, Allied Medicine, was elected president of the Columbus Technical Council, a consortium of 13 scientific and technical societies, for 2002-03.

Somnath Ghosh, Mechanical Engineering, spoke at the Multi-Scale Computational Mechanics for Materials and structures, Cachan, France, September 2002, and at the 2nd Symposium on Computational Modeling of Multi-Scale Phenomena, Petropolis, Brazil, August 2002.

Mardi C. Hastings, Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, received the 2002 Kathryn T. Schoen Award during a ceremony on Oct. 17.

Jeff Kipnis, Architecture, debuted his film "A Constructive Madness" at the Aspen Film Festival, and his exhibition "Perfect Acts of Architecture" was reviewed a second time in the New York Times.

Dave Nielsen, received the "Distinguished Contribution Award" from the Ohio Nursery and Landscape Association, at the 74th Convention in Columbus, Jan. 21.

Dorothy Noyes, English, received the 2002 Folklore and Ethnology Prize of the Societatea Academica de Cercetare a Religiilor si Ideologiilor, Cluj, Romania.

Robert A. Rapp, Materials Science and Engineering, was invited to write a monthly column in the journal Materials Today, a monthly publication emphasizing materials research.

Lisa Tilder, Architecture, was awarded third prize in the "Future Vision Leisure" international competition for her project, "Simulacra Server Chapel," Center of Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria, Oct. 21.

Robert H. Wagoner, Engineering, was chosen to receive the 2003 Fellow Award of The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society at the TMS Annual Awards Dinner on March 4, San Diego.

James C. Williams, Engineering, Materials Science, was keynote speaker at the Berlin Airshow in May 2002, and the Alpha Sigma Mu Lecturer at the American Society for Materials International, October 2002.

Dave Woods, Industrial and Systems Engineering, received the 2002 Jack A. Kraft Innovator Award, for advancing cognitive engineering and its application to safer systems, from the Human Factors and Ergonomic Society, Oct. 1.

Service

Stephen Bechtel, Mechanical Engineering, was appointed a member of the Executive Committee, Textile Engineering, a division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Kim L. Boyer, Electrical Engineering, was named U.S. delegate to the governing board of the International Association for Pattern Recognition and served as program co-chair for the 2002 International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Quebec City, Canada.

Gerald P. Chubb, Aerospace Engineering and Aviation, has been named president-elect of the University Aviation Association, an organization of corporations, aviation professionals, students and institutions of higher education with aviation programs.

Jennifer Evans-Cowley, City and Regional Planning, was recently elected to the Ohio Planning Conference Board of Directors.