Book

Erich Grotewold, Plant Biology, editor, Plant Functional Genomics: Methods & Protocols, (Totowa, N.J.: Humana Press, 2003).

Grants

Jennifer Desiderio, English, $8,000 Philanthropic Educational Opportunities Foundation grant for excellence in higher education for her dissertation, "'To Collect, Digest, and Arrange': Authorship in the Early American Republic, 1783-1827."

Marcia Dickson, English, Marion, $8,000 TELR 2002-2004 Faculty Collaboration grant for the "Modernism Project" (temporary name).

Erich Grotewold, Plant Biology, $210,000 U.S. Department of Agriculture grant for "Regulation of Anthocyanin Biosynthesis," October 2003-September 2006.

Michelle Herman, English, 2003 Greater Columbus Arts Council Grant for Fiction for an excerpt from a new novella, Dog.

Michael Ibba, Microbiology, $27,603 National Institute of General Medical Sciences grant for equipment for "Biochemistry of Class I Lysyl-tRNA Synthetases," January-December 2003.

Mo Yee Lee and Gilbert J. Greene, Social Work, $110,440 Ohio Department of Mental Health grant for "Intensive Community-Based Treatment of Children, Adolescents, and Their Families: The Effectiveness of Family-Community Systems Therapy," 2003-2005.

Anne Mentro, Nursing, $4,936 American Nurses Foundation grant to fund dissertation research "Antioxidant, Inflammatory, and Nutritional Correlates in Preterm Infants at High Risk for BPD," 2003-2004.

Douglas A. Nelson, Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, $8,810 OSU/Columbus Zoo Cooperative Grants Program grant for "Group Yip-howling in the Coyote (Canis latrans): Assessing Group Size from a Long-distance Signal," Co-PI: Karen Hallberg (graduate student).

Allison A. Snow, Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology (EEOB), $265,000 (including $88,333 to AAS) USDA/USAID grant for "Risk Assessment and Management of Gene Flow from Cultivated Sorghum to its Wild and Weedy Relatives in Africa," with Jeffrey Pedersen, Gebisa Ejeta and Gurling Bothma (Year 1 (out of 3)); and $250,000 USDA grant for "Evaluating and Mitigating Possible Effects of Gene Flow from Transgenic, Natural Rubber-Producing Sunflowers,"with Katrina Cornish and Calvin Pearson.

Presentations

The following individuals of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese gave presentations at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium VII, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, Oct. 16-18: Scott Schwenter and Gláucia Silva, "Discourse Accessibility and the Form of Anaphoric Direct Objects:  A Quantitative Study of Spoken Brazilian Portuguese"; Dieter Wanner, "A Comparative Romance Solution to Spanish soy, voy, doy, estoy"; Wayne Redenbarger and Amanda Reiter, "Quantitative Aspects of European Portuguese Prenasal Tensing"; Scott Schwenter and Patrícia Matos Amaral, "Contrast and The (Non-)occurrence of Subject Pronouns"; Fernando Martínez-Gil, "Hiatus Resolution in Chicano Spanish"; Magdalena Mejía, "Hasta Como Indicador Pragmático"; Amanda Reiter, "The Role of Prosody on Anaphora Resolution in Latin American Spanish"; and Gláucia Silva and Denise Santos (non-OSU), "The Spanish Speaker and the Development of Portuguese as the Emergence of New Voice."

Terry Barrett, Art Education, "Setting Standards for Responses to Art: Assessing Art Criticism," Ohio Arts Alliance for Education, Education Assessment Congress, Columbus, Oct. 17.

Helen M. Chamberlin, Molecular Genetics, presented "Evolution of Gene Expression Patterns in Caenorhabditis Species" to the Department of Biological Sciences, Wright State University, Dayton, Oct. 8; and "Combinatorial Control of Gene Expression During Organ Development in C. Elegans" at the Molecular and Human Genetics Conference, Children's Hospital Research Institute, Columbus, Sept. 25.

Tien-Hsien Chang, Molecular Genetics, presented "Characterization of a Novel Splicing Factor Influencing the U1 snRNP/5' Splice Site Interaction during Pre-MRNA Splicing" at the Cold Spring Harbor Pre-mRNA Processing Meeting, Aug. 24; "Hypothesis-driven Investigation of Nuclear RNA Processing Using Splicing-sensitive Microarrays" at the School of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Aug. 9; and "Alive! DEAD-box Proteins: A Tale of Three Lives of an RNA Helicases" to the Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Medicine, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ), New Jersey Medical School, Newark, N.J., September 2003.

David Citino, English, participated in the following activities: master class and reading, Clarion University of Pennsylvania, March 13; talk, "The State of Ohio Poetry," Ohio Poetry Association, Columbus, March 22; "Coping with War," Fred Anderle show, WOSU-AM, April 4; poem, "Ladders," commissioned by Professor Susan Fisher for her Biology 101 class, videotaped by the Department of Biology,

April 10; reading, Celebration of Poetry, Upper Arlington High School, April 10; Right to Read Week guest reader, Indianola Informal Elementary School, May 2; reading, Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature Annual Conference, Michigan State University, May 9; reading and class, Ohio State Marion, May 19; reading, Investiture of President Karen Holbrook, Mershon Auditorium, May 29; reading of "The World Without," College of Humanities Baccalaureate, June 12; tapings of shows on Thurber and Ohio poetry, Think TV Ch. 14 and 16 Dayton, July 26; keynote remarks and reading, Ohioana Literary Homecoming: A Celebration of the First 200 Years of Ohio's Literary Legacy," State Library of Ohio, Sept. 20; narrator of Aaron Copeland's Lincoln Portrait, Columbus Symphony Orchestra, Mershon Auditorium, Oct. 7; and reading, Kent State University, Oct. 15.

Georgina Dodge, African American and African Studies Community Extension Center, presented "Visualizing Race in America," Columbus Public School Urban Academy Professional Development Day, Columbus, Oct. 17.

Thomas Dowling, Mathematics, presented "Dowling Lattices: Their Origins and History," in the New England Discrete Mathematics Day at SUNY Binghamton, Oct. 10; and "Minimal Obstructions to Representation in a Dowling Lattice" in a special session at the American Mathematical Society Eastern Section Meeting, Binghamton, N.Y., Oct. 12.

John Guilmartin, History, presented "Piston-engined Aircraft: Expanding the Technological Envelope," at the U.S. Air Force Academy Military History Symposium, USAF Academy, Colorado, Oct. 1-3.

Linda Harlow, French and Italian, presented "Assessment at the Intermediate Level of French: Tips for Doing it Right" at the American Association of Teachers of French Annual Meeting in Martinique, July 6.

Mark Headings, Agricultural Technical Institute, served as co-organizer of a symposium entitled "Eating Healthy — Nutritional Aspects of Insectivory" and "Availability of High Quality Protein in Food Insects: The Chitin Issue" at the Annual Conference of the Entomological Society of America, Cincinnati, Oct. 29.

Wendy Hesford, English, presented "The Afghan Girl: Visual Rhetoric, Human Rights, and the Politics of Pity" at the American Studies Association Annual Conference, Hartford, Conn., Oct. 17.

Sally Kitch, Women's Studies, presented "Gender in the Rhetoric of Race" at the Fourth Biennial Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference, Ohio State, Oct. 24.

Albert N. Mancini, French and Italian, taught a graduate seminar on "Boccaccio's Decameron and the Renaissance Novella" at the Italian School of Middlebury College, Vermont," Summer 2003.

Iris Meier, Plant Biology, presented "Targeting Proteins to the Arabidopsis Nuclear Envelope" at the SEB Symposium Communication and Gene Regulation at the Nuclear Envelope, The University of Durham, UK, July 16-19.

Dorothy Noyes, English, presented "Waiting for Mr. Marshall: Spanish American Dreams" at the American Culture in Europe: Americanization and Anti-Americanism After 1945, Rothermere American Institute, Oxford University, Oxford, Sept. 27.

Publications

Gregory A. Armstrong, Plant Biology, "An Arabidopsis PorB PorC Double Mutant Lacking Light-dependent NADPH:protochlorophyllide oxidoreductases B and C is Highly Chlorophyll-Deficient and Developmentally Arrested," Plant J., Vol. 33 (2003), pp. 141-153, co-authors were G. Frick, Q. Su, and K. Apel.

V. Bouchard, M. Tessier, F. Digaire, J.P. Vivier, L. Valery, J.C. Gloaguen and J.C. Lefeuvre, School of Natural Resources, "Sheep Grazing as a Management Tool in Western European Saltmarshes," Comptes Rendus Biologies, Vol. 326, No. 1 (2003), pp. S148-S157.

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," in Two Millenia of Psychiatry in West and East, Hamanaka and Berrios, eds. (Tokyo: Gakuju Shoin, 2003), pp. 183-192.

J.M. Cackowski, Journal of Planning Literature, and J.L. Nasar, City and Regional Planning, "Restorative Effects of Roadside Vegetation: Implications for Automobile Driver Anger and Frustration," Environment and Behavior, Vol. 35, No. 6 (November 2003), pp. 736-751.

Helen M. Chamberlin, Molecular Genetics, "Developmental Patterning in the Caenorhabditis Elegans Hindgut," Developmental Biology, Vol. 262 (2003), pp. 88-93, co-authors were S.T. Sewell, G. Zhang and A. Uttam.

Tien-Hsien Chang, Molecular Genetics, "Functional Conservation of Dhh1p, a DExD/H-box Protein in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae," Nucl. Acids Res., Vol. 31 (2003), pp. 4995-5002, co-authors were S.S.-I. Tseng-Rogenski, J.-L. Chong, C.B. Thomas, S. Enomoto and J. Berman.

David Citino, English, "Fat Poem," poem reprinted in O Taste and See: Food Poems (Huron, Ohio: Bottom Dog Press, 2003); "Walt Whitman in New Orleans, 1848," poem reprinted in Visiting Walk: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Walt Whitman, Sheila Coghill and Thom Tammaro, eds. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2003); "The Last Cricket in Ohio Sings a Song of Wilderness," poem, reprint, Verse Daily, Oct. 13, www.versedaily.org/tlciosasow.shtml; review of Stolen Figs, And Other Adventures in Calabria by Mark Rotella, Columbus Dispatch, Oct. 19, p. F5; "The Art of Fireflies," essay, "Lampyridae: Shining Fire, Firefly," poem, Columbus Dispatch, Aug. 31, 2003, p. H7; and "Hair," poem, read by Garrison Keillor, on The Writer's Almanac, Sept. 2.

P.C. Goebel, K.S. Pregitzer and B.J. Palik, School of Natural Resources, "Geomorphic Influences on Large Wood Dam Loadings, Particulate Organic Matter and Dissolved Organic Matter in an Old-growth Northern Hardwood Watershed," Journal of Freshwater Ecology, Vol. 18 (2003), pp. 479-490.

Dale Van Kley, History, "Christianity as Casualty and Chrysalis of Modernity: The Problem of Dechristianization in the French Revolution," American Historical Review, Vol. 108, No. 4 (Oct. 2003), pp. 1081-1104.

Erich Grotewold, Plant Biology, "AGRIS: Arabidopsis Gene Regulatory Information Server, an Information Resource of Arabidopsis Cis-regulatory Elements and Transcription Factors," BMC Bioinformatics, Vol. 4 (2003), pp. 25-35, co-authors were R.V. Davuluri, H. Sun, S.K. Palaniswamy, N. Matthews, C. Molina and M. Kurtz; "Recently Duplicated Maize R2R3 Myb Genes Provide Evidence for Distinct Mechanisms of Evolutionary Divergence After Duplication," Plant Physiol., Vol. 131 (2003), pp. 610-620, co-authors were E.P. Dias, E.L. Braun and M.D. McMullen; and "Manipulating the Accumulation of Phenolics in Maize Cultured Cells Using Transcription Factors," Biochem. Engineering J., Vol. 14 (2003), pp. 207-216, co-author was A.P. Dias.

K.A. Harper, E. Etkina and Y. Lin, Faculty and TA Development, "Encouraging and Analyzing Student Questions in a Large Physics Course: Meaningful Patterns for Instructors," Journal of Research Science Teaching, Vol. 40 (2003), pp. 776-791.

Albert N. Mancini, French and Italian, "The Forms of Long Prose Fiction in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italian Literature," Cambridge Companion of Italian to the Italian Novel, P. Bondanella and A. Ciccarelli, eds., (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003) pp. 20-41; and "Sperone Speroni revisore del Costante di Francesco Bolognetti," Studi di Letterature Comparate in Onore di Remo Ceserani, Vol. I, "Letture e Riflessioni Critiche" (Manziana-Roma: Vecchiarelli Editore, 2003), pp. 241-264.

Alamin Mazrui, African American and African Studies, "Maintaining Linguo-diversity: Africa in the Twenty-first Century," Humphrey Tonkin and Timothy Reagan, eds., Language in the Twenty-first Century, (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2003), pp. 99-113.

Iris Meier, Plant Biology, "A Proteomic Study of the Arabidopsis Nuclear Matrix," J. Cell. Biochem., Vol. 90 (2003), pp. 361-378, co-authors were T.T. Calikowski and T. Meulia.

Recognitions

Mansel Blackford, History, History of Small Business in America, 2nd edition (University of North Carolina Press, 2003), has been named an "Outstanding Book" of the year.

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

Samuel Chu, History, emeritus, is the recipient of the Hackson and Caroline Bailey Public Service Award, which was presented to him at the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, May 2003.

Maria Manta Conroy, City and Regional Planning, was selected to participate in the 2003-04 OSTEP Early Career Faculty Program.

Jon Erickson, English, performed "Milwaukee Impromptu," Walker's Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, Oct. 2.

Jerald Greenberg, Management and Human Resources, were elected a Fellow of the Academy of Management, August 2003.

Charles Gribble, Slavic and East European Languages, was honored by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences for his scholarly, pedagogical, and public service to the field of Bulgarian Studies. The Academy presented him with a certificate of recognition Sept. 24.

Brian Joseph, Linguistics and Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures, was selected as a winner of Ohio Magazine's Excellence in Education Award.

Ken Kaiser, Student Affairs, received a Distinguished Service Award from the National Kidney Foundation during the annual meeting in recognition of his contributions to organization and presentation of the U.S. Transplant Games, Baltimore, Oct. 3.

Jeff Kipnis, Architecture, film, A Constructive Madness, has been showing at film festivals throughout the world, most recently at the Melbourne, Australia Film Festival.

Danielle Marx-Scouras, French and Italian, served a third term as CIC resident director at Laval University in Quebec, July-August 2003.

Erin McGraw, English, taught in the summer writing workshop, Denison University, Granville, June 15-21, and in the summer writing workshop, Kenyon College, Gambier, June 22-28.

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, as collaboration between the Rothermere American Institute and the Mershon Center at OSU, "American Culture in Europe: Americanization and Anti-Americanism After 1945," University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, September 2003.

Lisa Tilder, Architecture, award-winning Simulacra Server Chapel project will be featured in several upcoming publications including the book Developing Digital Architecture: 2002 FEIDAD Award, Speculative Chicago: A Compendium of Architectural Invention, and the exhibition catalogue, Critical Mass: Art, Architecture, Design; her project, HOME: Habitat Guide to Shopping was featured in the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) HOME: House Project Competition Exhibition, and has been selected for its extended exhibition this fall; she served as co-chair of the Architecture and Media Session of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) Annual Meeting in Louisville, K.Y.; she served as co-chair of the Digital Representation Session of the 2003 ACADIA Conference, October 2003; and she was elected to the Board of Directors of the ACSA as East Central Regional Director Elect, where she will serve as representative to the 12 schools within the region.

Robert H. Wagoner, Engineering, has been chosen to receive the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society's (TMS) 2004 Distinguished Service award, to be given at the 2004 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Charlotte, N.C., March 14-18, 2004.