OnCampus Faculty & Staff

Oct. 23, 2003
Vol. 33, No. 5


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"Faculty & Staff" entries must be typed in onCampus style as it appears in this section. Entries that follow guidelines are published as soon as space permits and in the order in which they are received. Von Vargas compiles "Faculty & Staff," and questions can be directed to her at 292-8455 or vargas.12@osu.edu.

Books

Mo Yee Lee, Social Work, Solution-Focused Treatment with Domestic Violence Offenders: Accountability for Change, (Oxford University Press, 2003), preface by Insoo Kim Berg, Brief Family Therapy Center, Milwaukee, co-authors were John Sebold and Adriana Uken.

Lee Martin, English, Turning Bones, (Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 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).

Halina Stephan, Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures, editor and author, Living in Translation: Polish Writers in America (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2003).

Grants

Julia F. Andrews, History of Art and East Asian Studies Center, Fulbright Scholar grant to do research at Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan, 2003-04.

Tim M. Berra, Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, Mansfield, emeritus, $8,800 National Geographic Society grant to support field work on the Adelaide River of Australiaís Northern Territory.

Marcia Dickson, English, Marion, Faculty Collaboration Grant through Technology Enhanced Learning and Research (TELR) for her project, "Modernism Web," 2002-2004.

Takashi Nishiyama, History, Society for Social Studies of Science grant.

Randolph Roth, History, Faculty Research Small Grant from Ohio Stateís Criminal Justice Research Center for "Historical Violence Database: A Collaborative Research Project on the History of Violent Crime and Violent Death."

Ruth Yerardi, Nursing, $7,500 Veterans Affairs Network of Ohio grant to fund dissertation research, "Biobehavioral Nicotine Dependence in Persons with Schizophrenia," 2003-04.

Donn C. Young, Comprehensive Cancer Center and Center for Biostatistics, $1,053,731 National Cancer Institute grant to overcome barriers to the enrollment of patients on early phase clinical trials, co-investigators are William Hicks and Joel Saltz.

Presentations

The following members of Faculty and TA Development made presentations at the 2003 annual meeting of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education, Denver, Colo., Oct. 9-11: Kathleen A. Harper, "The Use of Imagery in Problem Solving," co-presenters were Wilfrid Nixon and Angela R. Linse; Alan Kalish, "Statewide Vision ‚ The Ohio Learning Network Learning Communities Initiative," co-presenters were Sheryl Hansen, Wayne Hal and Dan Madigan; Kathryn Plank, "The Stories We Tell Ourselves: Difficulties and Difference in Consultations," co-presenter was Peter Felton; and Stephanie Rohdieck, "Re-envisioning the Large, Central TA Orientation," co-presenter was Lana Rae Lenz.

John M. Bennett, Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, presented poetry performances at the Chela Gallery and the 14-Karat Cabaret, Baltimore, Md., Oct. 3-4.

Kevin Boyle, History, directed sessions of a National Endowment for the Humanities Institute for College Teachers on "Teaching the Civil Rights Movement," Harvardís W.E.B. DuBois Center, July 2003.

Kathy Edwards, University Press, and Kevin King, Office of Academic Affairs, presented "Debits and Credits" to departmental and college fiscal officers, Aug. 26-27.

Tom Ewing, Division of Accounting, and Renne Komula Jr., Public Safety, presented "Accounting at OSU" to departmental and college fiscal officers, July 23-24.

Fritz Graf and Sarah Iles Johnston, Greek and Latin, presented lectures at an international conference on the god Apollo, Delphi, Greece, July 10.Ý

Donna J. Guy, History, presented "Divorcio y violencia familiar en Argentina" at the 51st International Americanist Congress held in Santiago, Chile, July 14-17; "Freud, delincuencia infantil, y sexualidad precoz en Argentina, 1900-1950" at the Seventh Argentine Meeting on Womenís History and the Second Congress on Gender, held simultaneously in Salta, Argentina, July 24-26; and "Algunas reflexiones sobre el futuro de la historia de la mujer" at the II Coloquio Internacional de Historia de Mujeres y de Genero en Mexico, Guadalajara, Mexico, Sept. 4-6.

Hannibal Hamlin, English, Mansfield, presented "Shakespeare and the Bible: Biblical Allusion on the Renaissance Stage" to the Society of Fellows of the Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif., July 13.

Mark Headings, Agricultural Technical Institute, presented "Honey Bee Communication" at the monthly meeting of the Tri-County Beekeepers'Association, Wooster, Sept. 24.

Char Jessie, Financial Training and Documentation, presented "Working with the Office of Accounts Payable" to departmental and college fiscal officers, Aug. 21-22, co-presenter was Aleta Wallace, Division of Accounts Payable; and "Introduction to Your Fiscal Responsibilities at OSU" to departmental and college fiscal officers, Aug. 14 and Sept. 16.

Renne Komula Jr., Public Safety, and Susan Litton, Financial Training and Documentation, presented "Accounting at OSU" to departmental and college fiscal officers, Sept. 24-25.

Susan Litton, Financial Training and Documentation, presented "Financial Stewardship" to departmental and college deans and chairs, Sept. 4, co-presenter was Al Rodack, Office of the Treasurer; "Financial Stewardship" to departmental and college deans and chairs, Sept. 11, co-presenter was Rodack; "Using General Ledger Reports" to departmental and college fiscal officers, July 29-30, co-presenter was Don Seidelmann, Resource Management Systems; "Debits & Credits" to departmental and college fiscal officers, July 18; and "The Reconciliation Process," to departmental and college fiscal officers, Aug. 6-7.

Lee Martin, English, presented "From Our House," and "Turning Bones" at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, Bradford, Pa., Sept. 16; was featured author in "One Community/One Author," communitywide reading program, Harrisburg (Illinois) District Library; and read from Quakertown andÝTurning Bones at the Harrisburg District Library, Sept. 11, and from From Our House and Turning Bones at Southeastern Illinois College, Sept. 12.

Takashi Nishiyama, History, presented "Modernity and Technology: Building Safer, Lighter, Metal Trains in Trans-World War II Japan, 1918-1963" at the History of Science Society of Japan, Tokyo University, Sept. 6.

Lance Williams, Natural Resources, presented "Community Ecology: Understanding Impacts of Disturbances in Small Streams" at the University of South Carolina, Sept. 5; and "Using Fish as Water Quality Indicators" at the 2003 Watershed Stewards Series with OSU Extension, Ohio EPA, and Ohio DNR.

Publications

Kevin Boyle, History, "Walter Reuther: The Promise of Modern America," The Human Tradition in America: 1865 to the Present, (Wilmington, Del.: SR Books, 2003), Charles Calhoun, ed., pp. 183-199.

S. Czesny, J. Rinchard, M.A.G. Abiado and K. Dabrowski, Natural Resources, "The Effect of Fasting, Prolonged Swimming, and Predator Presence on Energy Utilization and Stress in Juvenile Walleye (Stizostedion vitreum),"Ý Physiology & Behavior, Vol. 79, No. 4-5 (2003), pp. 597-603.

Helen Fehervary, Germanic Languages and Literatures, "John Willett: the Artistry, Wit and Power of the Context," The Brecht Yearbook, Vol. 28 (2003), pp. 275-287.Terri D. Fisher and A.S. Walters, Psychology, Mansfield, "Variables in Addition to Gender that Help to Explain Differences in Perceived Sexual Interest," Psychology of Men and Masculinity, Vol. 4 (2003), pp. 154-162.

Judy Fountain, The Womenís Place, "The Womenís Place at Ohio State University: Making Room for Gender Equity on Campus," On Campus With Women, Vol. 32, No. 3-4, (Association of American Colleges and Universities, Spring/Summer 2003).

Hannibal Hamlin, English, Mansfield, Review of Literature and Religious Culture in Seventeenth-Century England by Reid Barbour, The Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Summer 2003), pp. 485-87.

Ludmila Isurin, Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures, "Deserted Island or a Childís First Language Forgetting," Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, Vol. 3, p. 15166.

Robin Judd, History, "Jewish Political Behavior and the Sch”chtfrage, 1880-1914," Towards Normality? Acculturation and Modern German Jewry, (Mohr Siebek, 2003), Rainer Liedtke and David Rechter, eds.

Mitchell Lerner, History, Newark, "Four Years and a World of Difference: The Evolution of Lyndon Johnson and American Foreign Policy," Southwestern Historical Quarterly (2003) and "A Tuskegee Airmanís Story in Pictures," Callaloo (2003).

Allan Millett, History, edited two CDs, History of the United States Marine Corps and The Second World War, and wrote the preface to ACTA: Coming to the Americas: The Eurasian Military Impact on the Development of the Western Hemisphere (U.S. Commission on Military History and the Cantigny First Division Foundation, 2003).

Jack L. Nasar, City and Regional Planning, "Does Neotraditional Development Build Community?," Journal of Planning Education and Research, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 58-68, and "Prompting Drivers to Stop for Crossing Pedestrians," Transportation Research, Part F, Vol. 6 (2003), pp. 175-182.

Takashi Nishiyama, History, "Aeronautical Technology for Pilot Safety: Re-examining Deck-Landing Aircraft in Great Britain, Japan, and the United States," Historia Scientiarum, Vol. 13 (2003), pp.13-32.

Kathryn Plank, Faculty and TA Development, "I Find the Real American Tragedy"; "Chester Gillette"; "Roberta Brown"; "Roland Molineux"; and "The Rake," A Theodore Dreiser Encyclopedia, (Westport: Greenwood Press, 2003), Keith Newlin, ed.

Alexander Stephan, Germanic Languages and Literatures and Mershon Center, "Neues vom FBI. CNDI LA-BB-1: Die Ðberwachung von Bertolt Brechts Telefon in Los Angeles" [News from the FBI. CNDI LA-BB-1: The Surveillance of Bertolt Brechtís Telephone in Los Angeles], Neue Deutsche Literatur, Vol. 51, No. 549 (2003), pp. 123-44.

L.R. Williams, C.M. Taylor, M.L. Warren and J.A. Clingenpeel, Natural Resources,Ý"Environmental Variability, Historical Contingency, and the Structure of Regional Fish and Acroinvertebrate Faunas in Ouachita Mountain Stream Systems,"ÝEnvironmental Biology of Fishes, Vol. 67, No. 2 (2002), pp. 203-216.

R.A. Williams, Natural Resources,Ý"Use of Stand Density Index as an Alternative to Stocking Percent in Upland Hard Woods," Northern Journal of Applied Forestry, Vol. 20, No. 3 (2003), pp. 137-142.

Judy Wu, History, "íThe Ministering Angel of Chinatown,'Missionary Uplift, Modern Medicine, and Asian American Womenís Strategies of Liminality," Asian/Pacific Islander American Women: A Historical Anthology, (New York University Press, 2003), Shirley Hune and Gail Nomura, eds., pp. 155-171.

Recognitions

Terry Barrett, Art Education, has been named a Distinguished Fellow of the National Art Education Association, September 2003.

Angela Brintlinger, Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures, has been awarded a Wood Institute short-term fellowship for research at the College of Physicians Library and M¸tter Museum, Philadelphia.

Scott Cantor, Office of Information Technology, was the spotlight personality on the Internet2 Web site in July 2003 and was invited by Macquarie Universityís E-learning Centre of Excellence (MELCOE) to speak at a national summit on Web access management in higher education, Sydney, Australia, May 2003.

Jennifer Conrad, Arts and Sciences, was recognized as a Wellness Ambassador for autumn quarter by the Faculty and Staff Wellness Program.

Raquel Diaz-Sprague, Allied Medicine, received the 2003 Health Hero AwardÝfrom the Latino Health Research and Policy Center, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), June 2003.

Jim Harmon, Linguistics, was the College of Humanities Spring Quarter ABC Award recipient, given to the staff member who goes above and beyond the call of duty in performing a particular task.Ý

Kathleen A. Harper, Faculty and TA Development, was a finalist in the 2003 Bright Idea Awards competition, sponsored by the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education, Oct. 10-11, Denver, Colo., co-authors were Dennis Pearl, Statistics, and Roger Woodard.

Karen Huber, History, was awarded the Bourse Chateaubri and Fellowship from the French Ministry of Education for her dissertation research in France, 2003-04.

Mitchell Lerner, History, The Pueblo Incident won the 2003 John Lyman Book Award for the best work of American Naval History.

Lee Martin, English, was a guest faculty at the San Juan Writers'Workshops, Ouray, Colo., July 17-20; and guest artist at the RopeWalk Writers'Conference, New Harmony, Ind., June 14.

Brian McHale, English, received the Alabama Press 2002 Elizabeth Agee Prize for The Obligation Toward the Difficult Whole: Postmodernist Long Poems, scheduled for publication in January 2004.

Harold Moellering, Geography and Geodetic Science, was named an ICA Honorary Fellow by the International Cartographic Association at the 21st International Cartographic Conference, Durban, South Africa, Aug. 10-16.

James Moore III, Physical Activity and Educational Services, received the Brothers of the Academyís national "Future Scholar Award" at the BOTA Annual Think Tank and Conference, Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 1-4.

John Mott, Recreational Sports Grounds, was nationally recognized as one of the "10 Most Dedicated Grounds Managers" by Landscape Management magazine, July 1.

Basia Nowak, History, was selected to participate in the Junior Scholars'Training Seminar, co-sponsored by East European Studies, at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the American Council of Learned Societies, Maryland, August 2003.

Jeffrey Reutter, David Kelch, Jill Jentes Banicki and Frank Lichtkoppler, Ohio Sea Grant, won an APEX Award of Excellence for "Entering the Zone," a Sept./Oct. 2002 Twine Line article about the Lake Erie "dead zone" phenomenon.

Marsha Robinson, History, received the Phyllis Krumm Award from the Office of International Education for her dissertation research on "Cross, Crescent, Commerce and Women: the US and Morocco 1800-1830" and a third academic year FLAS for the study of Arabic.

Eric Schnell, Prior Health Sciences Library, was awarded a Medical Informatics Fellowship by the National Library of Medicine, Woods Hole, Mass.

Fred Snyder, Ohio Sea Grant Extension, received the 2003 Great Lakes Sea Grant Program Leaders'Outstanding Program Award, Network Conference, Burlington, Vt., June 8-11.

Todd I. Stewart, International and Homeland Security Program, was presented an honorary membership in the National Civil Affairs Association, from soldiers of the 412th Civil Affairs Battalion, Columbus.

Richard Wofford, Office of the Chief Information Officer, was recognized as a Wellness Ambassador for autumn quarter by the Faculty and Staff Wellness Program.

Mary Yerina, WOSU Stations, was honored and presented with an award at the 2003 Forty Under 40 awards reception, held Sept. 28 at the Hyatt Regency, Columbus.

Service

The following members of Human and Community Resource Development provided services at the 19th Annual AIAEE Conference, Raleigh, N.C., April 8-12: Larry Miller, James Connors, Jimmy Lindner and James Knight served as session chairs; Barnabas M. Dlamini served on a response panel and as a discussant; Matt Baker served as a discussant; and James Christiansen served as a facilitator.

Robert Brown, Mathematics, has been selected as the newest member of the Board of the State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio, and will serve through August 2006.

David Cressy, History, directed a six-week NEH Institute on "Cultural Stress from Reformation to Revolution" at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C., June and July 2003.

Raquel Diaz-Sprague, Allied Medicine, was elected president of the Columbus Technical Council (CTC), a consortium of the local chapters ofÝ20 national scientificÝand professional societies, from September 2003-June 2004.

Milap Nahata, Pharmacy, completed his term as immediate past president of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, June 23.

Allison Snow, Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, is the new president-elect for the Botanical Society of America. Snow will serve as president-elect, July 2003-June 2004, as president, July 2004-June 2005 and as past-president, July 2005-June 2006.

Alexander Stephan, Germanic Languages and Literatures and Mershon Center, organized conferences on Cultural Diplomacy and the Image of the United States Abroad at the Mershon Center, May 2003 (with former Ohio Governor Richard Celeste) and American Culture in Europe: Americanization and Anti-Americanism After 1945, at the University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, September 2003, as a collaboration between the Rothermere American Institute and the Mershon Center.

John W. Wenzel, Entomology, appeared in the Ohio Bicentenary Commissions'documentary "Ohio: 200 Years," May 8.

 

 

 
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