Books

Mary Margaret Fonow, Women's Studies, Union Women: Forging Feminism in the United Steelworkers of America (University of Minnesota Press, 2003).

Marsha J. Hamilton and Eleanor S. Block, University Libraries, Projecting Ethnicity and Race: An Annotated Bibliography of Studies on Imagery in American Film (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2003).

Grants

Michael Grever, Internal Medicine, and John Byrd, Medicine, $574,899 grant from the National Cancer Institute for a study of anti-cancer agents, designed to provide a "critical role in the development of new cancer therapies," for a period of five years.

Rafiq Islam, OSU South Center at Piketon, $10,000 grant from Agrotain Inc. to conduct research on "comparison of slow release urea, liquid urea-ammonium nitrate, and standard urea fertilizer effect on crop yields, nitrogen leaching and soil quality properties," 2003; $4,000 from the Warner Endowment Fund for Sustainable Agriculture Interdisciplinary Grant Program for On-farm Research for "Cover crops, composted chicken and diary manures effect on crop yields, weed control and soil quality in soybean-corn rotations," 2003; and $750 from the Ohio Fruit Growers Society Research Funding for "Development of a simple test to evaluate water suitability for mixing with pesticides," 2003.

Presentations

Taylan Altan, Materials Science and Engineering, presented "Hydroforming in Olofstroem" at the Lund University, Sweden, March 2003.

R.A. Bradley, Entomology, presented "The Status of the Spider Family Cybaeidae (Araneae) in Ohio" at the Ohio Systematists, Columbus, Feb. 22.

J. Cardina, C.P. Herms and D.A. Herms, Entomology, presented "Flowering Plant Phenology Predicts Weed Emergence" at the Weed Science Society of America, 2003 Annual Meeting, Jacksonville, Fla., Feb. 10-14.

Mark Headings, Agricultural Technical Institute, presented "Insect Populations on Four Species of Solanaceae Planted in Covered and Uncovered Soil" at the 58th Annual Conference of the North Central Branch of the Entomological Society of America, Madison, Wis., March 23-26.

D.A. Herms, Entomology, presented "The Latest Technology in Ornamental Insect Management" at the 2002 Ohio Turfgrass Conference, Columbus, Dec. 11, 2002; "Biology and Management of Black Vine Weevil in Nurseries" and "Research Update: Plant, Soil, Mulch Interactions" at the 74th annual OSU Nursery Short Course, Columbus, Jan. 20-22; and "The Emerald Ash Borer Threat to Ohio" at the 2003 Ohio Tree Care Conference, Columbus, Feb. 9-11.

D.J. Horn, Entomology, presented "Update on Deep Woods All-Taxa Biodiversity Inventory" and "The Ohio Lepidopterists' Long-term Butterfly Monitoring Program" at the Ohio Systematists Meeting, Columbus, Feb. 22.

Steven Joyce, German, Mansfield, presented, "Cultural Anechoism and Comic Indeterminacy in T.C. Boyle's East is East" at the 8th International Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), Aberystwyth, Wales, July 22-27, 2002.

Sara Pugach, History, presented "Carl Buettner and the End of Power: Or, How a Missionary Lost His Way, 1872-1880" and moderated the panel "Mission und Macht in West- und Ostafrika" at the "Mission und Macht im Wandel politischer Orientierungen" conference in Berlin, March 7.

R.N. Williams, Entomology, presented "New Developments In Pest Management" and "Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle" at Viticulture 2003, Buffalo, N.Y., Feb. 20-22.

Publications

David Citino, English, "Tools," poem, www.poetsagainstthewar.org; "A Religious History of Hands," poem, Special Issue: Ohio Bicentennial Celebration, Mid-American Review, Vol. 23, No. 2 (2003), pp. 300-305; "We Owe the Dead," poem, Poetry, Vol. 182, No. 1 (2003), pp. 12; and "Weed Killer/Killer Weed," "Ivy, Late Sun, with Fettucine" and "Six Stabbed After Argument at Baby Shower," poems, Inertia, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2003).

Marguerite Clarke and Kelvin Gregory, Education, "The Impact of High-Stakes Testing" Theory Into Practice, Vol. 42, No. 1, (Winter 2003).

S. Cobey, Entomology, "The Extraordinary Honey Bee Mating Strategy and A Simple Field Dissection of the Spermatheca. A Three Part Series, Part 1: Mating Behavior," American Bee Journal, Vol. 143, No. 1 (2003), pp. 67-69; and "The Extraordinary Honey Bee Mating Strategy and A Simple Field Dissection of the Spermatheca. A Three Part Series, Part 2: The Colony As A Super Organism," American Bee Journal, Vol. 143, No. 2 (2003) pp. 130-133.

S.K. Frazier, D.K. Moser, L.K. Daley, S. McKinley, B. Riegel, B.J. Garvin and A. Kim, Nursing, "Critical Care Nurses' Belief About and Reported Management of Anxiety," American Journal of Critical Care, Vol. 12, No. 1 (2003), pp. 19-27.

Stephanie Gilmore, History, "The Dynamics of Second-Wave Feminist Activism in Memphis, 1971-1982: Rethinking the Liberal/Radical Divide," NWSA Journal, Vol. 15, No. 1 (Spring, 2003), pp. 94-117.

D.A. Herms, Entomology, "A Biological Calendar for Predicting Pest Activity: Six Years of Plant and Insect Phenology in Secrest Arboretum," Ornamental Plants: Annual Reports and Research Reviews 2002, J.A. Chatfield, J.F. Boggs, E.A. Draper and P.J. Bennett, eds., OARDC/OSU Extension Special Circular 189 (2003), pp. 40-49.; "Effects of Fertilization on Insect Resistance of Woody Ornamental Plants: Reassessing and Entrenched Paradigm," Environmental Entomology, Vol. 31 (2002), pp. 923-933; and "Strategies for Deployment of Insect Resistant Ornamental Plants," Mechanisms and Deployment of Resistance in Trees to Insects, M.R. Wagner, K.M. Clancy, F. Lieutier and T.D. Paine, eds., (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishing, 2002), pp. 217-237.

Rafiq Islam, OSU South Center at Piketon, "Estimating Active Carbon for Soil Quality Assessment: A Simplified Test Method for Laboratory and Field Use," American Journal of Alternate Agriculture, Vol. 18 (2003), pp. 3-17, co-authors were R.R. Weil, M.A. Stine, J.B. Gruver and S.E. Sampson-Liebig; "Evaluation of the Microwave Irradiation Method for Measuring Soil Microbial Biomass," Soil Science Society of American Journal, Vol. 67 (2003), pp. 674-675, co-author was R.R. Weil; and "Organic Carbon Content Assessment Methods," chapter in Encyclopedia of Soil Science, Ratan Lal, ed., (Marcel Dekker, Inc., 2003).

Steven Joyce, German, Mansfield, "The Dissociation of Discourse: Art, Transcendence, and Alchemization," Thomas Bernhard's Old Masters in Alchemization of the Mind: Literature and Dissociation, Zbigniew Bialas/Krzysztof Kowalczyk-Twarowiski, eds. (Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang, 2003), pp.75-94.

Rongxing (Ron) Li and Zhuowen Tu, Civil Engineering, "A Framework for Automatic Recognition of Spatial Features from Mobile Mapping Imagery," Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, Vol. 68, No. 3 (March 2002), pp. 267-276.

E.A. Lingenfelter, R.N. Williams, L.W. Haynes and D.S. Fickle, Entomology, "Evaporation Rates of a Five-Component Attractant for the Rose Chafer (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)," Journal of Entomology Science, Vol. 38, No. 1 (2003), pp. 104-110.

J.E. Lloyd, D.A. Herms, B.R. Stinner and H.A.J. Hoitink, Entomology, "Who Gets the Nitrogen? Comparing Composted Yard Trimmings and Ground Wood as Mulches, BioCycle, Vol. 43, No. 9 (2002), pp. 52-55.

Sally A. Rogers, University Libraries, "Developing an Institutional Knowledge Bank at Ohio State University: From Concept to Action Plan," Libraries and the Academy 3, No. 1 (Jan. 2003), pp. 125-136.

R.C. Stanton, D.J. Horn, F.F. Purrington, J.W. Peacock and E.H. Metzler, Entomology, "Monitoring Selected Arthropods," Characteristics of Mixed-oak Forest Ecosystems in Southern Ohio Prior to the Reintroduction of Fire, E.K. Sutherland and T.F. Hutchinson, eds., USDA Forest Services General Technical Report NE-299, pp. 123-138.

Morgan Wairiu and Rattan Lal, Natural Resources, "Soil Organic Carbon in Retaliation to Cultivation and Topsoil Removal on Sloping Lands of Kolombangara, Solomon Islands," Soil & Tillage Research, Vol. 70, No. 1 (2003), pp. 19-27.

B.J. Warren, Nursing, "The Interlocking Paradigm of Cultural Competence: A Best Practice Approach," Journal of American Psychiatric Nurses, Vol. 8 (2002), pp. 209-213.

Recognitions

James Bartholomew, History, has been awarded a fifteen-month fellowship from the National Science Foundation for his book project "Japan and the Nobel Science Prizes: The First Half Century, 1901-1949."

Beth Blostein and Lisa Tilder, Architecture, received the 2003 ACSA Creative Achievement Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture at the 2003 Annual Meeting, Louisville, Ky., March 2003.

James K. Bracken, Main Library Research and Reference Services, is among 15 UCLA Senior Fellows appointed for 2003 after a nationwide competition and will attend a three-week program conducted at UCLA, Aug. 11-29.

David Citino, English, will receive the Mark Twain Award for 2003 from the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, at the annual symposium, Michigan State University, May 9; was named Poet Laureate of Upper Arlington by the Board of Education and City Council of Upper Arlington, April 19; and President Karen Holbrook has decreed that "Pomp, Circumstance, and Other Songs of a Lifetime," the poem Citino wrote and delivered at the Winter 2000 commencement, will be printed in every future OSU graduation bulletin.

Stephen Hall, History, received a six-month fellowship at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture during the 2003-04 academic year for his project "A Faithful Account of the Race: African American Historical Writing in Nineteenth Century America."

Rongxing (Ron) Li and Zhuowen Tu, Civil Engineering, received an award from ASPRS (American Society for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing) for their paper "A Framework for Automatic Recognition of Spatial Features from Mobile Mapping Imagery," and they tied with another researcher for Second Honorable Mention for the 2003 Talbert Abrams Award. Li and Tu will share $500 and receive a plaque at the ASPRS 2003 Annual Conference, Anchorage, Alaska.

Robert Rapp, Materials Science and Engineering, received The Mining Metals and Materials Society Educator's Award at the March 2003 meeting in San Diego. TMS recognized Rapp for his contributions to teaching and advising students during 40 years as a faculty member.

Judy Wu, History, received an NEH Summer Stipend for her project "Radical Orientalism: Asia, America, and American Social Movements."

Service

Hojjat Adeli, Civil and Environmental Engineering, was the honorary chair of the International Conference on Computer Vision/Computer Graphics-Collaboration for Model-Based Imaging, Rendering, Image Analysis, and Graphical Aspect Effects (MIRAGE, 2003), INRIA Rocquencourt, France, March 10-12.

Becky Cornett, Medical Center, has been appointed to serve a two-year term on the Health Care Economics and Advocacy Committee of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

Jennifer Evans-Cowley, City and Regional Planning, was elected to the Ohio Planning Conference Board and the Clintonville Area Commission.

Robert Parker, Mechanical Engineering, has been named associate editor of the Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, a journal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, for a term of three years.

Rajendra Singh, Mechanical Engineering and Center for Automotive Research, was elected president of the Institute of Noise Control Engineering (INCE/USA), beginning in February; he also sits on the I-INCE Board of Directors.

Carolyn M. Sommerich, Industrial and Systems Engineering, was elected as an at-large member of the Executive Council of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, for a term of three years.

Peter Swire, Law, was appointed to the Microsoft Trustworthy Computing Academic Advisory Board, as part of Microsoft's efforts to ensure trustworthy computing. The board was created to advise the company on security, privacy and reliability enhancements in Microsoft products and technologies, and began its first series of meetings at the company headquarters, Redmond, Wash.

Lisa Tilder, Architecture, was the co-chair of the "Architecture and Media" session at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture 2003 Annual Meeting, Louisville, Ky., March 2003.

Multicultural Center announces award recipients

Recipients of the 2nd Annual Multicultural Center Awards will be honored at a public reception from 4:30-6:30 p.m. April 28 at the Faculty Club.

The Multicultural Center Awards are designed to acknowledge significant accomplishment, initiative, innovation, work or service in areas intersecting with the Multicultural Center's mission. The 10 award categories encourage recognition of important multicultural work both within the university and in the central Ohio community, and strengthen partnerships and build bridges with individuals and organizations working in cooperation with Multicultural Center values and goals.

The 2003 Multicultural Center Award recipients are:

• Academic Services and Outreach Award: OSU Council on Diversity

• Advocacy Award: Sarah Jayne Moore, undergraduate student in Women's Studies

• Faculty Award: Cregg Ashcraft, volunteer clinical director for the Latino Health Initiative free clinic

• Graduate/Professional Students Award: Tamira Moon, graduate student in Public Health

• Outstanding Organization Award: Korean Student Association

• Outstanding Program Award: Service Learning

• Staff Award: Julius Mayo, coordinator for Residence Education

• Undergraduate Student Award: Lucille Chenhalls, undergraduate student and president of Folclor Hispano

• Outstanding Community Leader Award: Don Wallick, campus minister with King Avenue United Methodist Church

• Outstanding Community Organization Award: International Visitors Council