Books

Brian Moeller, OIT Enterprise Network Security, The Effective Incident Response Team (Addison-Wesley, 2003), preface by Steven Romig, OIT Enterprise Network Security, co-author was Julie Lucas.

L.H. Newcomb, J.D. McCracken, J.R. Warmbrod and M.S. Whittington, Human and Community Resource Development, Methods of Teaching Agriculture, 3rd edition, (Upper-Saddle, N.J.: Pearson Education, Inc., 2004).

Grants

The following individuals were recipients of the 2002-2004 Faculty Collaboration Grants through Technology Enhanced Learning & Research (TELR), designed to promote the development of innovation learning objects and digital asset collections while improving inter- and cross- disciplinary collaboration: Wayne Carlson, Industrial Interior and Visual Communication Design; Chuck Curtis and Michael Boehm, Plant Pathology; Karen Diaz, University Libraries; Marcia Dickson, English; Susan Fisher, Biological Sciences; and Robert Gustafson, Engineering.

The Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, $4,000 Ohio Humanities Council grant to fund the Institute-Museum Faculty Series, "The Big Picture: Humanities Lectures at the Columbus Museum of Art" for 2003-04.

Joe Donnermeyer, Human and Community Resource Development, $104,500 Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services grant to conduct a statewide survey of citizens' attitudes toward crime and criminal justice; and a $24,037 CURA (Center for Urban and Regional Analysis, Department of Geography) grant for developing a demographic database of the Amish, co-recipient is Elizabeth Cooksey, Sociology.

Darcie Slanker and Diana Jackson, Center on Education and Training for Employment, $99,995 Franklin County Department of Job and Family Services grant for "The Community Youth Mapping Project," June 2003.

Benjamin Stinner, Patrick Goebel and Richard Moore, Human and Community Resource Development, Deborah Stinner and Robin Taylor, Entomology, $99,990 National Science Foundation grant for "Restoring Biocomplexity into Agroecosystems as the Basis of Sustainability: A Planning Grant to Link Ecological and Human Networks in a Headwater Watershed."

Presentations

Gregory Armstrong, Plant Biology, presented "Light Regulation of Pigment Biosynthesis, Membrane Formation and Plastid Differentiation in Arabidopsis" at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, April 25.

Jim Connors, Human and Community Resource Development, presented a paper titled "International Knowledge and Attitudes of FFA Costa Rican Travel Seminar Participants" at the Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education annual conference in Raleigh, N.C., April 8-12.

Lora Friedrich, Rural Sociology, and Joe Donnermeyer, Human and Community Resource Development, presented "To Be or Not To Be: An Analysis of the Baptism Decisions of Young Amish Men and Women" at the biannual meeting of the Anabaptist Sociology and Anthropology Association, Hillsdale College, Mich., June 27.

Somnath Ghosh, Mechanical Engineering, was the keynote speaker at the annual Computational Science and Engineering Research Symposium at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 25.

Mark Headings, Agricultural Technical Institute, presented "Student Academic Performance Relative to Time Length" at the 49th Annual Conference of the North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture (NACTA), San Luis Obispo, Calif., June 18-20.

David Hoover, University Marketing Communications, presented "Design as Brand Element" and "Marketing a Complex Campus" at the CASE Institute for Integrated Marketing and Branding, San Diego, May 28-30.

Larry Miller, Human and Community Resource Development, presented "Preparing for a Job in Academia" at the 2003 Symposium of the Ohio Chinese American Professional Association, Bowling Green State University, June 14.

Richard Moore, Human and Community Resource Development, presented "Sanchoku Producer Cooperatives in Japan and Ohio" at the Annual Meeting of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society, Austin, Texas, June 14.

David Patton, OSU Extension, presented "Engaging Citizens in Public Deliberation: The National Issues Forums" at a symposium held by the Center for the Study of Public Debate, Francois-Rabelais University, Tours, France, May 15.

Cathy Rakowski, Human and Community Resource Development, presented "Women's Movement or Women in Movement? The Case of Feminist Organizing in Venezuela" at LASA 2003, the international congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Dallas, March 2003, co-presenter was Gioconda Espina.

Fred Sack, Plant Biology, presented "Mouths in Place: Stomatal Development in Arabidopsis" at the Plant Gene Expression Center, USDA, Albany/Berkeley, Calif.,

May 8, Plant Biology University California- Davis, May 9, and Environmental and Plant Biology, Ohio University, Athens, May 16.

David Somers, Plant Biology, presented "ZEITLUPE, a Novel Signaling Component of the Arabidopsis Circadian Clock System" at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Biochemistry Colloquium, March 24.

John Wenzel, Entomology, presented "Homoplasy Is Your Friend," "Adaptive Characters and Phylogenetic Studies of Adaptation: Three Examples from Complex Behavior" and "Phylogenetic Characters in the Age of Genomics" at the Fourth Argentine meeting of Cladistics and Biogeography, CÛrdoba, Argentina, March 5-7.

Publications

Brian Ahmer, Microbiology, "Detection of Other Microbial Species by Salmonella: Expression of the SdiA Regulon," Journal of Bacteriology, Vol. 185, No. 4 (2003), pp. 1357-1366, co-authored by Jenee N. Smith.

Terry Bahn and David Way, Medicine Administration, and Holly Cronau, Family Medicine, "A Comparison of Family Medicine and Internal Medicine Experiences as a Combined Clerkship," Family Medicine, Vol. 35, No. 7 (2003), pp. 499-503.

Sarah Dewees and Linda Lobao, Human and Community Resource Development, "Local Economic Development in an Age of Devolution the Question of Rural Localities," Rural Sociology, Vol. 68 (Spring 2003), pp. 182-206, co-author was Louis Swanson.

Joe Donnermeyer, Human and Community Resource Development, "Digital Divide Evidence in Four Rural Communities," IT and Society, Vol. 1, No. 4 (2003), pp. 107-117, co-author was C. Ann Hollifield; and "Creating Demand: Influencing Information Technology Diffusion in Rural Communities," Government Information Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 2 (2003), pp.135-150, co-author was C. Ann Hollifield.

George Marzluf, Biochemistry, "Characterization of DNA Binding and the Cysteine Rich Region of SRE, a GATA Factor in Neurospoa Crassa Involved in Siderophore Synthesis," Biochemistry, Vol. 41 (2002), pp. 15288-15295, co-author was K.A. Harrison; "Multiple GATA Transcription Factors Control Distinct Regulatory Circuits and Cellular Activities in Neurospora," Genomics of Plants and Fungi, R.A. Prade and J.J. Bohnert, eds. (New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc., 2003), pp. 119-130; and "Cooperative Action of the NIT2 and NIT4 Transcription Factors Upon Gene Expression in Neurospora," Current Genetics, Vol. 42 (2003), pp. 260-267, co-author was X. Mo. Cathy Rakowski, Human and Community Resource Development, "Women's Coalitions as a Strategy at the Intersection of Economic and Political Change in Venezuela," International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, Vol. 16, No. 3 (Spring 2003), pp. 387-405.

Richard Swenson, Biochemistry, "Mechanism of Flavin Mononucleotide Cofactor Binding to the Desulfovibrio vulgaris Flavodoxin: I. Kinetic Evidence for Cooperative Effects Associated with the Binding of Inorganic Phosphate and the 5'-Phosphate Moiety of the Cofactor," Biochemistry, Vol. 42, No. 8 (2003), pp. 2307-2316, co-authored by T.A. Murray; and "Mechanism of Flavin Mononucleotide Cofactor Binding to the Desulfovibrio vulgaris Flavodoxin: II. Evidence for Cooperative Conformational Changes Involving Tryptophan 60 in the Interaction between the Phosphate- and Ring-binding Subsites," Biochemistry, Vol. 42, No. 8 (2003), pp. 2317-2327, co-authored by T.A. Murray and M.P. Foster.

Z.X. Tan, R. Lal, N.E. Smeck, F.G. Calhoun, R.M. Gehring and B. Parkinson, Natural Resources, "Identifying Associations Among Soil and Site Variables Using Canonical Correlation Analysis," Soil Science, Vol. 168, No. 5 (2003), pp. 376-382.

Harald Vaessin, Molecular Genetics, "The Drosophila IgC2 Domain Protein Friend-of-Echinoid, a Paralogue of Echinoid, Limits the Number of Sensory Organ Precursors in the Wing Disc and Interacts With the Notch Signaling Pathway," Developmental Biology, Vol. 256 (2003), pp. 302-316, co-authors were S. Chandra and A. Ahmed.

John Wenzel, Entomology, "Bioluminescence in Insects," Yearbook of Science and Technology (New York: McGraw-Hill Publishers, 2003), pp. 33-36, co-authors were M.A. Branham and R.A. Broadley; and "The Origin of Photic Behavior and the Evolution of Sexual Communication in Fireflies (Coleoptera: Elateroidea)," Cladistics, Vol. 19 (2003), pp. 1-22, co-author was M.A. Branham.

Recognitions

Robert Agunga, Human and Community Resource Development, was accepted into the 2003-04 Ohio State Teaching Enhancement Programs (OSTEP), Mid-Career and Senior Faculty Program.

Joe Donnermeyer, Human and Community Resource Development, received the Outstanding Service to Students Award.

Lakshmi Dutta, Electrical Engineering, won the Academic Advising Association award for "Outstanding Advisor."

Bill Flinn, Human and Community Resource Development, was recognized as one of ten professors nominated by the students of the Colleges of the Arts and Sciences for outstanding undergraduate teaching awards, at the 2003 Human and Community Resource Development Department Honors Reception, April 23.

Tim Mazik, Internal Medicine, was the College of Medicine and Public Health/Office of Health Sciences Employee of the Month for July 2003.

Susan Noble, Electrical Engineering, was recognized by the Ohio State Academic Advising Association for her contribution to advising.

Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Computer and Information Science, and Michael Twa, Tom Raasch and M. Bullimore, OSU Vision Sciences, won the Best Paper Award for "Automated Classification of Keratoconus: A Case Study in Analyzing Clinical Data"at the SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, San Francisco, May 1-3.

Prasanna Raghavan, Mechanical Engineering, a Ph.D. candidate working in the field of computational mechanics, was awarded first prize in the 15th annual Melosh Medal Competition for the Best Student Paper on finite element analysis, Duke University, Durham, N.C.,March 28.

Cathy Rakowski, Human and Community Resource Development, received the 2003 Rodney F. Plimpton Young Teacher Award.

Jeffrey Reutter, David Kelch, Jill Jentes Banicki and Frank Lichtkoppler, Ohio Sea Grant, recently won an APEX Award of Excellence, for "Entering the Zone," an article about the Lake Erie "dead zone" that appeared in the September/October 2002 issue of Twine Line, Ohio Sea Grant's newsletter.

Eric Schnell, Information Technology Services, Fred Snyder, Ohio Sea Grant College Program, and Ohio Sea Grant Extension shared the 2003 Great Lakes Sea Grant Program Leaders' Outstanding Program Award at the Network Conference, Burlington, Vt., June 8-11.

Peg Steele, Computer and Information Science, received the Outstanding Advising Award from the National Academic Advising Association, in the category of Academic Advising -- Primary Role.

Linda Weavers, Civil and Environmental Engineering, received the American Association of University Women's "Recognition Award for Emerging Scholars."

John Wenzel, Entomology, and John Freudenstein, Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, appeared in the Ohio Bicentenary Commission's documentary "Ohio 200 Years," which was first publicly broadcast May 8.

Sherrie Whaley, Mark Tucker and Jeff Sharp, Human and Community Resource Development, and Lynn Knipe, Food Science and Technology, received the 2003 ACE Best Research Paper Award for "Preferred Communication Sources and Food-Related Risks: A Statewide Analysis," Kansas City, Mo., June 2003.

Susie Whittington, Human and Community Resource Development, received the Outstanding Service to Students Award.

Karla Zadnik, Optometry, received the First Annual James M. Siddens Award for Distinguished Faculty Advising for exceptional advising of graduate students at Ohio State from the Council of Graduate Students.

Service

Scott Scheer, Human and Community Resource Development, led a statewide in-service for Extension professionals on Pre-adolescent Development and Extension Programming for Children, April 22.

Allison Snow, Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, is the president-elect for the Botanical Society of America, a national professional society for plant biologists. Snow will serve as president-elect, July 2003-June 2004; president,ÝJuly 2004-June 2005; and past-president, July 2005-June 2006.