Books

Jane Amidon, Architecture, Radical Landscapes, published in four languages; German (hardcover) by DVA, Spanish (hardcover) by Blume, French (hardcover) and in English (paperback) by Thames and Hudson.

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

Grants

Paul Berger, Electrical Engineering, $270,000 NSF grant for "RF Performance of Si-Based RITD for Mixed-Signal Applications," with Wu Lu.

Dorota Brzezinska, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science, $550,000 NSF grant for "Transantarctic Mountains Deformation Network: GPS Measurements of Neotectonic Motion in the Antarctic Interior," with Terry Wilson; $400,000 National Imagery and Mapping Agency grant for "Study on the Impact of Accurate Gravity Compensation on GPS/INS-Based Direct Sensor Orientation and Targeting" and $50,245 ODOT grant for "Airborne LiDAR: A New Source of Traffic Flow Data," both with Charles Toth.

Jeff Chalmers, Chemical Engineering, $2 million National Cancer Institute grant for "High Performance Magnetic Cell Sorting."

David A. Culver, Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology and Aquatic Ecology Laboratory, $103,694 grant for "Improved Reliability of Percid Production in Rearing Ponds," July 2003-June 2004 and $86,098 grant for "Lower Trophic Level Impacts on Fish Recruitment," July 2003-June 2004.

Jennifer Evans-Cowley, City and Regional Planning, $7,500 OSU CARES grant to support the Planning Education at a Distance Program; $26,000 Center for Urban and Regional Analysis grant for "Local Land Use Decisions in Ohio Townships," with Don Lacy, OSU Extension; and $10,000 Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts grant, with Todd Gannon, Architecture.

Jean Michelle Guldmann, City and Regional Planning, $28,681 SBC Faculty Research grant in support of the proposal "Internet Broadband Service Demand Analysis: Quantitative Choice Methods of Household and Firm Behavior," for 2003-04, with Edward Malecki.

Hazel Morrow-Jones, City and Regional Planning, $28,704 Center for Urban and Regional Analysis grant for "Analyzing Mature Suburbs Through Property Values," autumn 2003.

Steve Ringel, Electrical Engineering, $700,000 National Renewable Energy Laboratory High Performance Photovoltaics Program Competition for "Optimized III-V Multijunction Concentrator Solar Cells on Patterned Si and Ge Substrates"; and $900,000 National Science Foundation Focused Research Group grant for "Electronic, Chemical, and Structural Properties of Metamorphic III-V Compound Heterojunctions and Devices," with Len Brillson, Wu Lu and John Wilkins.

Joel H. Saltz, Computer and Information Science, $2.1 million National Institutes of Health grant for planning "Grid-enabled Medical Image Analysis," with several other Ohio State researchers; and $403,000 National Science Foundation grant for "GridDB-Lite: Database Support for Data-Driven Scientific Applications in the Grid."

Roy A. Stein, Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology (Aquatic Ecology Laboratory), $79,099 grant for "Percid Predation in Reservoirs,"July 2003-June 2004; $79,145 grant for "Introduction of a New Piscivore Population in an Ohio Reservoir," July 2003-June 2004; $988,852 from the Ohio Division of Wildlife for "Fish Management in Ohio," July 2003-June 2004, with Elizabeth A. Marschall, Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology (Aquatic Ecology Laboratory; $24,963 grant for "Factors Affecting Smallmouth Bass Recruitment in Lake Erie," July 2003-June 2004, with Marschall; $138,281 grant for "Quantifying How Parental Attributes Influence Characteristics of Early Life History Stages of Ohio Stocks of Lake Erie Walleye," July 2003-June 2004, with Marschall and Konrad Dabrowski, School of Natural Resources and Aquatic Ecology Laboratory.

Presentations

D. Derek Aday, Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, presented "Exploring Variation In Bluegill Population Size Structure: Interactions Between Density Dependence and Early Maturation" at the 133rd annual meeting of the American Fisheries Society in Quebec City, Canada, Aug. 14.

Hojjat Adeli, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science, presented keynote lectures at the IEEE Electro/Information Technology Conference, Indianapolis, and the Mediterranean Conference on Modeling and Simulation, Reggio Calabria, Italy, June 2003, and the IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics, Banf, Alberta, Canada, August 2003.

Paul R. Berger, Electrical Engineering and Physics, presented "MBE Growth Techniques to Form Si/SiGe Resonant Interband Tunneling Diodes with High Peak Current Densities and High Peak-to-Valley Current Ratios" at the 3rd International SiBeC Epitaxy and Heterostructures Conference in Santa Fe, N.M., March 9-12, co-authors were Phillip E. Thompson, Niu Jin, Ronghua Yu, Sung-Yong Chung, Anthony T. Rice, Roger Lake, Peter H. Chi and David S. Simons; "C-V Characterization of Pulsed Plasma Polymerized Allylamine Dielectrics," co-authors were Yifan Xu, Jai Cho and Richard B. Timmons, and "Growth Temperature Effects on Deep-Levels in Si Grown by Low Temperature Molecular Beam Epitaxy," Fall MRS Meeting in Boston, Dec. 2-6, 2002, co-authors were Sung-Yong Chung, Z-Q. Fang, and Phillip E. Thompson; "SiGe Diffusion Barriers for P-doped Si/SiGe Resonant Interband Tunnel Diodes," IEEE Lester Eastman Conference on High Performance Device, Newark, Del., Aug. 6-8, 2002, co-authors were Niu Jin, Anthony T. Rice, Phillip E. Thompson, Peter H. Chi and David S. Simons; and "Developments in Si-based Tunnel Diodes for Extending CMOS Technology" at the Emerging Working Devices Committee, San Francisco, July 2003.

Beth Blostein, Architecture, and Matt Bernhardt, Knowlton School of Architecture staff member, presented "Appropriate Levels of Access: Empirical Studies in The Availability of Computers in Studio" at the ACADIA conference, Ball State, October 2003.

Robert Brodkey, Chemical Engineering, presented "Recent Advances in Obsidian Dating and Characterization" at the International Specialized Workshop, Milos, Greece, July 2003.

Victoria Clement, History, presented "Culture in Post-Soviet Turkmenistan" at the University of Kansas, Sept. 9.

David Cressy, History, presented "Print, Censorship and Satire on the Eve of Areopagitica" and "The Beginnings of the English Revolution" at the Central Renaissance Conference, University of Kansas, Sept. 19.

Georgina Dodge, African American and African Studies Community Extension Center, presented "Braiding Lives in Rita Dove's Thomas and Beulah" at the Marjorie Cook Poetry Festival and Conference, Diversity in African American Poetry, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, Sept. 19.

Helen Fehervary, Germanic Languages and Literatures, presented "Common Visions and Parallel Constructions in the Early Works of Seghers and Brecht" at the International Brecht Society Symposium: 75 Years of the Rise and Fall of the City Mahagonny, Berlin, June 25-30.

Kenneth Goings, African American and African Studies, was a co-facilitator for the Hewlett Curriculum Transformation (Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality) Institute, Hamilton College White Eagle Conference Center, Hamilton, New York, June 1-5; and presented "African Americans Versus the Memphis Street Railway Company: Or, How to Win the Battle But Lose the War, 1890-1920" and "Memphis, Migration, and African American Agency: The Lynching of Ell Person," at the Rhodes Institute for Regional Studies, Rhodes College, Memphis, Tenn., June 9.

Charles Klopp, French and Italian, presented "Strong Characters, Strong Authors, Strong Women, Fiction of Simonetta Ornella Hornby and Melania Mazzucco" at the St. Peter's Italian American Club, Columbus, Sept. 13.

Laura Pondea, French and Italian, presented "OrphÈe-Dafric de Werewere Liking: syncrÈtisme mythique et crÈation de conscience" at the 17th international congress of the Conseil International d'Etudes Francophones (CIEF), New Orleans, June 17-22; and "Le Ventre de Paris d'Emile Zola: un rite d'initiation manquÈ?" at the 12th International AIZEN Conference on Emile Zola and Naturalism, University of Texas at San Antonio, Oct. 9-11.

Burkhard Schaffrin, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science, presented "On Total Least-Squares Adjustment with Constraints," and "Biharmonics Spline Wavelets versus Generalized Multi-Quadrics for Continuous Surface Representations" at the Intl. Union of Geodesy and Geophysics General Assembly, Sapporo, Japan.

Lisa Tilder, Architecture, presented "Architecture as Interface: Mediating the In-Between" at the 9th International Bauhaus Colloquium in Weimar, Germany, May 2003, and "Architecture and Image" at the ACSA East Central Regional Conference, October 2003.

Dieter Wanner, Spanish and Portuguese, presented "Data ex Machina: The Corpus as a Key to Diachronic Explanation" at the Zweite Internationale Arbeitstagung zur romanischen Korpuslinguistik (Second International Conference on Romance Corpus Linguistics), Freiburg i.Br., Germany, Sept. 11-14.

Lance Williams, Natural Resources, presented "Stream Biota and the Management of Riparian Zones" at the STREAMS Channel Protection and Restoration Conference, Columbus, Oct. 7.

Publications

Paul R. Berger, Electrical Engineering and Physics, "Growth Temperature and Dopant Species Effects on Deep-Levels in Si Grown by Low Temperature Molecular Beam Epitaxy," Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 93, pp. 9104-9110, June 2003, co-authors were Sung-Yong Chung, Niu Jin, Anthony T. Rice, Ronghau Yu, Z-Q. Fang, and Phillip E. Thompson.

Dale G. Hoyt, Pharmacy, "An Efficient, Nonenzymatic Method for Isolation and Culture of Murine Aortic Endothelial Cells and their Response to Inflammatory Stimuli," In Vitro Cell and Developmental Biology ó Animal, Vol. 39, No. 1 (2003), pp. 43-50, co-authors were Hong Huang and Jane L. McIntosh; "Integrin-mediated Suppression of Wndotoxin-induced DNA Damage in Lung Endothelial Cells Is Sensitive to Poly (ADP-Ribose) Polymerase-1 Gene Deletion," International Journal of Molecular Medicine, Vol. 12 (2003), pp. 533-540, co-authors were Hong Huang, Jane L. McIntosh, Lanyan Fang, and Csaba Szabo; and "Effects of Angiotensin II on Vascular Endothelial Cells: Formation of Receptor-mediated Reactive Nitrogen Species," Biochemical Pharmacology, Vol. 67, No. 7 (2003), pp. 1189-1197, co-authors were Michael J. Mihm, Suvara Wattanapitayakul, S.F. Piao and John A. Bauer.

Ludmila Isurin, Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures, "Deserted Island or a Child's First Language Forgetting," Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, Vol. 3, No. 15166; and "Retroactive Interference from Translation Equivalents: Implications for First Language Forgetting," Memory and Cognition, Vol. 29 (2001), pp. 312-319.

Charles Klopp, French and Italian, review of Alberto Bevilacqua's Viaggio al principio del giorno, World Literature Today, No. 77 (2003), p. 146.

Hazel Morrow-Jones, City and Regional Planning, "A Policy of Urban Growth and Residential Mobility in the US," Planning and Policy, (in English, with Korean translation by Wonseok Seo), Vol. 7 (2003), pp. 88-99.

Karlis Racevskis, French and Italian, Mishels Fuko, apzina un valodas esamÓba [an anthology of essays on Michel Foucault in Latvian]. (Riga: Zin’tne Press, 2003), p. 206; critical edition of Voltaire's Lettre sur les inconvÈnients attachÈs ý la littÈrature. Complete Works of Voltaire, Vol. 20A, (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2003), pp. 263-87; and critical edition of Voltaire's Discours de rÈception ý l'AcadÈmie franÁaise. Complete Works of Voltaire. Vol. 30A, (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2003), pp. 1-36.

Walter Rucker, African American and African Studies, "'A Negro Nation Within the Nation': W.E.B. Du Bois and the Creation of a Revolutionary Pan-Africanist Tradition," Black Scholar, Vol. 32 (Fall-Winter 2002), pp. 37-46; reprinted in The Souls of Black Folk: Centennial Reflections, (Washington, D.C.: The Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Inc., 2003), Tamara Brown, Ida Jones and Yohuru Williams, eds., pp. 323-334.

Stephanie Shaw, History, "Using the WPA Ex-Slave Narratives to Study the Impact of the Great Depression," Journal of Southern History, Vol. LXIX, No. 3 (August 2003).

Dale Van Kley, History, "Un entretien avec Dale K Van Kley: paroles recuillis et retranscrits par Thomas Roman," Parutions.com, June 2003.

Dieter Wanner, Spanish and Portuguese,Ý"Romance Linguistics is Alive and Well," La CorÛnica, Vol. 31, No. 2, (2003), pp. 103-114; "Pathways of Change: 2nd Person Plural in Spanish," Theory, Practice, Acquisition, P. Kempchinsky and C.E. PiÒeros, eds., (Somerville: Cascadilla Press, 2003), pp. 102-120.

Wynne Wong, French and Italian, "The Evidence is IN: Drills are OUT," Foreign Language Annals, No. 36 (2003), co-author was Bill VanPatten, pp. 403-423.

Etsuyo Yuasa, East Asian Languages and Literatures, "Categorial Mismatch in a Multi-modular Theory of Grammar," co-author was Elaine Francis, Mismatch: Form-Function Incongruity and the Architecture of Grammar, Elaine Francis and Laura Michaelis. eds., (Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University, 2003).

Recognitions

Beth Blostein, Architecture, was a July 2003 winner in the SECCA (Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art) international competition, HOME House Project; her project was on exhibition at SECCA and will be published in a catalog with essays by the jurors, Michael Sorkin, Ben Nicholson and Steve Bandanes,.

Kevin Boyle, History, has been named to the advisory board of the Walter Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University.

Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu and Han-Wei Shen, Computer and Information Science, received the Early Career Principal Investigator award from the Department of Energy for Ferhatosmanoglu's "Scalable Storage and Efficient Retrieval of Large-scale, High Dimensional Scientific and Biomedical Data" and Shen's "An End-to-End Processing Pipeline for Large Scale Time-varying Data Visualization."

Mauro Ferrari, Biomedical Engineering, was recognized as a leading scientist of Italian origin for his contributions as "founder of medical nanotechnology," and received the prestigious Tremaglia Foundation Award in Rome, Italy,Sept. 3.

Wayne K. Hoy, Education, will be honored with the Roald Campbell Lifetime Achievement Award in Educational Administration from the University Council for Educational Administration, a consortium of leading universities who prepare educational leaders.

Rongxing Li, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science, received Honorable Mention for the Talbert Abrams Award from the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.

William S. Marras, Industrial, Welding and Systems Engineering, received the Liberty Mutual Prize from Liberty Mutual and the International Ergonomics Association for "Kinematic Compromise Predicts Spine Loading in Low Back Pain Patients During Lifting" at the International Ergonomics Association XVth Triennial Congress Seoul, Korea, August 2003, co-authors were Sue A. Ferguson, Deborah Burr, Kermit G. Davis and Purnendu Gupta.

Hazel Morrow-Jones, City and Regional Planning, represented OSU and OSU's president at the Technical University of Dresden's 175th Anniversary celebration, May 2003; received an ACSP/Fannie Mae Foundation Best Paper in Housing and Community Development award at the 2002 ACSP national meetings for "The Inside of Suburban Sprawl"; was a keynote speaker to the City of South Bend, Ind., in its Comprehensive Planning series, May 2003; and organized and moderated "Transformation of the Urban Economy and Challenges for Rehabilitation," a special session at the ACSP/AESOP joint meetings in Leuven, Belgium, 2003.

Burkhard Schaffrin, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science, was awarded the "Plaque of Appreciation" by Korean Association of Surveying and Mapping, August 2003.

W. Maurice Shipley, African American and African Studies, was awarded Ohio Magazine's Excellence in Education Award, which recognizes 100 of Ohio's top educators.

Ted E. Short, Food Agricultural and Biological Engineering, was named a Fellow of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers, for his contributions to the academic environment through classroom instruction, research and administration.

Vadim Utkin, Electrical Engineering, was selected to receive the 2003 Rufus Oldenburger Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Robert Wagoner, Materials Science and Engineering, will receive the 2004 Distinguished Service Award from the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to TMS, at the 133rd Annual Meeting of the society in Charlotte, N.C., March 2004.

Jim Williams, Engineering, was selected by the International Titanium Association to receive its Annual Achievement Award, and was the keynote speaker at the annual meeting.

Service

Paul R. Berger, Electrical Engineering and Physics, was session chair for "Nanoscale Fabrication and Self Assembled Systems" at the 2003 Electronic Materials Conference (EMC) in Salt Lake City, June 25-27.

Brooks Breeden, Landscape Architecture, was selected to serve as a 2003 Award Jury member for the ASLA 2003 Awards, Washington, D.C., May 2003.