Appointments

Anil Arya, Accounting and Management Information Systems, was appointed the John J. Gerlach Chair in Accounting, July 2003.

Scott Marsh, Arts, was appointed chair of the Department of Dance.

Mellasenah Morris, Arts, was appointed director of the School of Music.

Laura Rush, Veterinary Medicine, was appointed as an assistant professor in the Department of Veterinary Biosciences and as a full member of the Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Books

John M. Bennett, Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, Public Cube, visual poetry chapbook, (Columbus: Luna Bisonte Prods, 2003); Loud Work, collaborative visual poetry chapbook, (Columbus: Luna Bisonte Prods, 2003), co-author was Jim Leftwich; and Historietas Alfabeticas, poetry chapbook, (Columbus: Luna Bisonte Prods, 2003).

David Citino, English and Creative Writing, Paperwork, (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2003).

David Cressy, History, Society and Culture in Early Modern England, (Ashgate, 2003).

David Hoffmann, History, Stalinist Values: The Cultural Norms of Soviet Modernity, 1917-1941, (Cornell University Press, 2003).

Duane W. Roller, Greek and Latin, The World of Juba II and Kleopatra Selene: Royal Scholarship on Rome's African Frontier, (London: Routledge, 2003).

Patricia Sieber, East Asian Languages and Literatures, Theaters of Desire: Authors, Readers, and the Reproduction of Early Chinese Song-Drama, 1300-2000, (New York: Palgrave, 2003).

Grants

John M. Bennett, Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, $1,400 Ohio Arts Council grant in support of the journal Lost and Found Times.

Laura Kissel, Byrd Polar Research Center Archival Program, $5,010 National Film Preservation Foundation grant to preserve two films from the Harrison H. Richardson collection.

Presentations

The following individuals in Human and Community Resource Development gave presentations at the 19th Annual AIAEE Conference, April 8-12, Raleigh, N.C.: P.J. Squire, "The Role of Agricultural Education in the Preventive War Against the Spread of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa"; J. Mark Erbaugh, Joseph Donnermeyer, Magdalene Amujal and Samuel Kyamanywa, "The Role of Women in Pest Management Decision Making: A Case Study from Uganda"; Larry E. Miller and Chia-Chien Hsu, "Motivation and Characteristics of Visitors to Taiwan Vacation Farms"; Gary J. Wingenbach, Barry Boyd, James R. Lindner, Shanna Dick, Sergio Arispe and Sharon Haba, "Students' Knowledge and Perceptions About International Agricultural Issues"; R. Warren Flood and Nikki L. Conklin, Agricultural and Extension Education, "Use of Emerging Educational Technologies within Their Instruction"; Nikki L. Conklin and Linda M. Kutilek, "Using a Systems Approach to Maximize Human Potential or Individual and Organizational Success"; James J. Connors, "International Knowledge and Attitudes of FFA Costa Rican Travel Seminar Participants"; Mohammad Chizari, Hamid Movahed and James R. Lindner, "The Role of Internet in Educational Activities of Graduate Students at Tehran University, College of Agriculture"; Barbara G. Ludwig and Michael J. McGirr, "Globalizing Extension: A National Initiative for U.S. Land Grant Universities"; Barnabas M. Dlamini, "Levels of Competence and Attitudes Toward Supervision as Perceived by Secondary School Agriculture Department Heads in Botswana"; Chifang Lu and Larry E. Miller, "Instructional Technology Competencies Perceived as Needed by Vocational Teachers in Ohio and Taiwan"; Nikki L. Conklin, Laryssa L. Hook, Beverly J. Kelbaugh and Ruben D. Nieto, "Identifying Training Needs of Extension Personnel: A Comprehensive Model"; and Ryan J. Schmiesing, R. Dale Safrit and Joseph A. Gliem, "Factors Affecting OSU Extension Agents' Perceptions of Organizational Justice and Job Satisfaction: Critical Insights into Emerging Trends and Existing Policies in Extension Human Resource Management."

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

Karen Barnes, University Development, Susan Litton, Financial Training and Documentation, and Al Rodack, Office of the Treasurer, presented "Stewardship of Endowment and Gift Funds" to department and college fiscal officers, May 6-7.

Tim M. Berra, Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, emeritus, Mansfield, presented "The Unique Swim Bladder of the Nurseryfish, Kurtus gulliveri (Perciformes) and its Potential Role in Hearing" at the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists in Manaus, Brazil, June 27, co-authors were K. Carpenter and J. Humphries; and "Does the Vagus Nerve Play a Role in the Auditory Function of the Swim Bladder in the Nurseryfish, Durtus gulliveri (Perciformes: Kuridae)?" at the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists in Manaus, Brazil, June 27, co-authors were K. Carpenter, A. Savitzky and V. Townsend.

Scott Cantor, Office of Information Technology, co-presented "Shibboleth Update: Status and Next Steps" and participated in the panels "External Authorization: Architectures and Implementations" and "Moving It Forward: Next Steps for Campuses and for the Community" at the National Science Foundation Middleware Initiative-Enterprise and Desktop Integration Technologies (NMI-EDIT) Consortium's Advanced Campus Architectural Middleware Planning (CAMP) workshop, Boulder, Colo., July 8-11.

Kathy Edwards, University Press, presented "Debits and Credits" to departmental and college fiscal officers, May 21-22.

Mona Fitzer, Kathy Sipes and Madeline O'Connor, Human Resources, Integrated Disability, presented as a team "Mental Health Forecast: Disability Management's New Initiative" at the Disability Management Employers Coalition 8th Annual National Disability and Absence Management Conference, Newport Beach, Calif., July 21-22.

Stephen G. Hall, History, participated in an invited panel, "Black Antislavery Writings, 1760-1819: A Scholarly Conversation" and presented a talk on Jacob Oson's treatise, "A Search for Truth or An Inquiry for the Origin of the African Nation" at the 25th Annual Meeting of the Society for Historians of the Early Republic, Ohio State, July 18.

Susan Hartmann, History, presented "Behind the Silences: Challenges to the Gender Status Quo During the Truman Years" at the Conference on the Historical Significance of the Truman Presidency at the Truman Library, Independence, Mo., July 18.

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 2003.

Rob Hupp, Division of Accounting, Susan Litton, Financial Training and Documentation, and Joan Randall, Horticulture and Crop Science, presented "Using General Ledger Reports" to departmental and college fiscal officers, June 11 and 12.

Chris Igodan, ATI, presented "The Transformation of African Agricultural Universities -- An African Perspective" at the final of five global seminar series on Sustainability, Education and Management of Change in the Tropics, Oslo, Norway, Sept. 3-5.

Char Jessie, Financial Training and Documentation, presented "Working with the Office of Accounts Payable" to departmental and college fiscal officers, March 13-14, co-presenter was Aleta Wallace, Division of Accounts Payable; "Procurement Card Fiscal Training" to departmental and college fiscal officers, March 21 and May 30, co-presenter was Jen Bulla, Purchasing-Receiving-Stores-Travel and University Mail Services; and "Working with the Office of Accounts Payable" to departmental and college fiscal officers, May 15-16, co-presenter was Kelley Maynard, Purchasing-Receiving-Stores-Travel and University Mail Services.

Kevin King, Office of Academic Affairs, and Susan Litton, Financial Training and Documentation, presented "Debits and Credits" to departmental and college fiscal officers, Jan. 28-29.

Renne Komula Jr., Public Safety, presented "Accounting at OSU" to departmental and college fiscal officers, Feb. 5-6, co-presenter was Susan Litton, Financial Training and Documentation; and "Accounting at OSU" to departmental and college fiscal officers, June 3-4.

Susan Litton, Financial Training and Documentation, presented "Working with the Office of Accounts Payable" to departmental and college fiscal officers, Jan. 16-17, co-presenter was Aleta Wallace, Division of Accounts Payable; "Using General Ledger Reports" to departmental and college fiscal officers, Feb. 18-19, co-presenter was Anne Wilcheck; "The Reconciliation Process" to departmental and college fiscal officers, Feb. 25-26; "Accounting at OSU" to departmental and college fiscal officers, April 3-4; "Using General Ledger Reports" to departmental and college fiscal officers, April 9-10, co-presenter was Don Seidelmann, Resource Management Systems; "The Reconciliation Process" to departmental and college fiscal officers,

April 16-17; "The Reconciliation Process" to departmental and college fiscal officers, June 17 and 18; and "Accounting Concepts-Refresher" to departmental and college fiscal officers, June 24.

Ann Merrill, Physical Activity and Educational Services, David Roy, Undergraduate Student Academic Services, Arts and Sciences, and Angela Henderson, Sociology, presented "Beyond the Statistics of Failure ó Diversity and Degree Success" at the OSU Undergraduate Dean's Conference, May 23, and the Ohio Academic Advising Association Conference, June 10, both in Columbus.

Fred Sack, Plant Biology, presented "Mouths in Place: Stomatal Development in Arabidopsis" at 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.

Don Seidelmann, Resource Management Systems, presented "Using General Ledger Reports" to the Young Scholars Program, March 19-20.

David E. 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.

Cynthia A. Tyson, Teaching and Learning, presented an invited lecture on the challenges and opportunities for teaching and conducting research in today's political climate at the first National Human Rights Education Summit, sponsored by Amnesty International USA, July 31-Aug. 1, New York.

John W. 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, Cordoba, 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-author was Jenee N. Smith.

E.J. Behrman, Biochemistry, "Synthesis of 2,5- and 2,6-dinitrofluoro-benzenes and Related Hydroquinones," Organic Preparations and Procedures International, Vol. 35, No. 4 (2003), pp. 422-425, co-author was S. Chen.

Tim M. Berra, Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, emeritus, Mansfield, "Early Life History of the Nurseryfish, Kurtus gullieri (Perciformes: Kurtidae), from Northern Australia," Copeia, Vol.2 (2003), pp. 384-390, co-author was F.J. Neira; "Distribution and Biogeography," Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia. 2nd ed. Vol. 4, pp. 52-59; "Family Galaxiidae," Check List of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America, R.E. Reis, S.O. Kullander and C.J. Ferraris Jr., eds., (PortoAlegre, Brasil: Edipucrs), p. 742.

John Burnham, History and Psychiatry, emeritus, "Some Introductory Observations," [to the special issue], Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, Vol. 20 (2003), pp. 7-10; "How the Twentieth-Century Mental Hospital Became Demonized," Two Millennia of Psychiatry in West and East, Hamanaka and Berrios, eds. (Tokyo: Gakuju Shoin, 2003), pp. 183-192.

David Citino, English, Creative Writing,"Bra Ode" and "This Poem Smells," poems, Laurel Review, Vol. 37, No. 2 (2003), pp. 72-4; review of The Voice at 3:00 A.M., Selected Late and New Poems by Charles Simic, Columbus Dispatch, June 15, p. G 7; review of Beyond Belief, The Secret Gospel of Thomas by Elaine Pagels, Columbus Dispatch, July 6, p. H7; "The Poetry of Weather," essay, Columbus Dispatch, July 13, p. D7; "Homage to the Corn," poem, Ohio, Two Hundred Years: A Film Celebrating Ohio's Bicentennial, Florentine/Hott Productions, broadcast on Ohio Public Television stations, May 8.

Jeanne A. Clement, Nursing, "Brief Therapy and Psychiatric Nursing: Creative Responses to a Changing Behavioral Health Care Environment," Journal of Brief Therapy, Vol. 2 (Fall/Winter, 2002) No. 1, pp. 35-42.

Rafiq Islam, OSU South Centers at Piketon, "Dairy Manure Effects on Soil Quality Properties and Carbon Sequestration in Alfalfa-orchardgrass Systems," Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis, Vol. 34, No. 5 and 6 (2003), pp. 781-799, co-authors were D.H. Min, L.R. Vough and R.R. Weil; and "Microbial Communities," Encyclopedia of Soil Science, Ratan Lal, Natural Resources, ed., (Marcel Dekker, Inc. 2003), co-author was S.R. Wright.

P.A. Jacinthe and R. Lal, Natural Resources, "Nitrogen Fertilization of Wheat Residue Affecting Nitrous Oxide and Methane Emission from a Central Ohio Luvisol," Biology and Fertility of Soils, Vol. 37, No. 6 (2003), pp. 338-347.

Martin Jamison, University Libraries, "Synonyms and the Challenges of Information Retrieval," Psychology and Education, Vol. 40, No. 2 (2003), pp. 21-26.

George A. 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; "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; and "Multiple GATA Transcription Factors Control Distinct Regulatory Circuits and Cellular Activities in Neurospora," Genomics of Plants and Fungi, R.A. Prade and H.J. Bohnert, eds, (New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc., 2003), pp. 119-130.

Randolph Roth, History, "'To Err Is Human': Uniformly Reporting Medical Errors and Near Misses, A Naive, Costly, and Misdirected Goal," Journal of the American College of Surgeons, Vol. 196, No. 6 (2003), pp. 911-18.

Richard P. Swenson, Biochemistry, "Mechanism of Flavin Mononucleotide Cofactor Binding to the Desulfovibrio vulgaris Flavodoxin: I Kinetic Evidence of 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-author was T.A. Murray; and "Mechanism of FLavin Mononucleotide Cofactor Binding to the Desulfovibrio vugaris 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-authors were 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 W. 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.