[an error occurred while processing this directive] Agronomy
Jianming Yu and colleague published "Prospect of Genomewide Selection for Quantitative Traits in Maize," Crop Science, Vol. 47, Issue 3.
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Mary Beth Kirkham has been named a top reviewer in 2006 for Industrial Crops and Products.
A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications
Angela Powers completed the Higher Education Resource Services at Bryn Mawr Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration. The summer institute is sponsored jointly by Bryn Mawr College and Higher Education Resource Services, an educational non-profit based at the University of Denver. The residential program took place June 23-July18, Bryn Mawr College, Pa.
Civil engineering
Robert Peterman published "The Effects of As-Cast Depth and Concrete Fluidity on Strand Bond," Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute Journal, Vol. 50, No. 3.
Peterman has been selected for the Charles C. Zollman Award. This award is given to the "best state-of-the-art precast and prestressed concrete paper appearing in the PCI Journal during a single year." He will be given the award in October at the PCI National Convention in Phoenix.
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Alok Bhandari edited "Case Studies in Environmental Engineering and Science," published by the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors.
Bhandari, David Steward and Steve Starrett contributed chapters to the volume.
Clinical sciences
The following K-State faculty members presented at the 2007 American College of Veterinary Surgeons symposium, Oct. 19, Chicago:
James Lillich, "Hyaluronic Acid-Peritoneal Fluid (Equine)."
Warren Beard, "Difficult Mandible Fractures."
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Greg Grauer presented "Nuts and Bolts of Azotemia: A case-based approach"; "Urinalysis: The Basics and Beyond"; "Use of NSAIDs in Dogs with Renal, Hepatic, and Cardiac Disease"; "Staging and Management of Chronic Kidney Disease in Dogs and Cats, Management of Complicated Urinary Tract Infections"; and "Disorders of Micturition" at the Alaska State Veterinary Medical Association meeting, Oct. 9, Anchorage, Alaska.
Greg Grauer presented "Chronic Kidney Disease and Osteoarthritis and Chronic Kidney Disease and Hypertension," Southern European Veterinary Conference, Oct. 19-20, Barcelona, Spain.
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Brad White presented on educational (producer and veterinary) efforts associated with control and management of BVD, Applied Animal and Public Health Research and Extension Conference and American Association of Extension Veterinarians, Oct. 20, Reno, Nev.
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Laura Armbrust presented several lectures on GI imaging and radiology and abdominal ultrasound in dogs and cats, Central Veterinary Conference West, Oct. 21-22, San Diego.
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Mike Apley, Johann Coetzee and Ronette Gehring discussed PharmCATS, Bayer Animal Health meeting, Sept. 24, Shawnee.
Diagnostic medicine/pathobiology
Chuanmin Cheng, Roman Ganta and students presented "Establishment of Molecular Tools Useful in Creating Mutations by Homologous Recombination in Ehrlichia chaffeensis," American Society for Rickettsiology 21st meeting, Sept. 8-11, Colorado Springs, Colo.
Economics
Michael Babcock and colleague published "A Model of Corn and Soybean Shipments on the Ohio River," Journal of the Transportation Research Forum, Vol. 46, No. 2.
English
Jonathan Holden published "Mama’s Boys: A Double Life," Lewis-Clark Press, 2007.
Holden also published nine poems in The Midwest Quarterly, Vol. 48, No. 4.
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Anne Longmuir published "Genre and Gender in Don DeLillo’s ‘Players’ and ‘Running Dog,’ " Journal of Narrative Theory, Vol. 37, No. 1.
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Elizabeth Dodd presented at the Ohioana Book Festival, Sept. 14-15, Columbus, Ohio.
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Don Hedrick presented "Transnational Entertainment Logic," Theater Without Borders conference, May 18, Prague, Czech Republic.
Hedrick lectured at Swarthmore College, May 25-27, Swarthmore, Pa.
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David Smit and colleague presented "Words and Images: Writing and Thinking in the Act of Design," Design Communication Association biannual conference, Sept. 13, Indianapolis.
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Phillip Nel presented "The Power of the Director: Harry Potter, from Page to Screen," 18th Biennial Conference of the International Research Society for Children’s Literature, Aug. 27, Kyoto, Japan.
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Michael Wesch gave the keynote address, Information: Design, Experience, Access 2007 conference, Oct. 3-5, New York.
Geography
Deborah Che published "Connecting the Dot to Urban Revitalization with the Heidelberg Project," Material Culture, Vol. 22, No. 1.
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Bimal Paul, Deborah Che and colleague published "Emergency Responses for High Plains Cattle Affected by the December 28-31, 2006, Blizzard," Quick Response Report No. 191, Boulder: Natural Hazards Center, 2007.
Paul presented "Earthquake Awareness and Preparedness in Dhaka, Cittagong and Sylhet: An Overview," North American Bangladeshi Organizations annual convention, Aug. 31-Sept. 2, Wichita.
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Shawn Hutchinson presented a digital cartography workshop at the Kansas Association of Mappers meeting, Sept. 24, Manhattan.
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The following K-State faculty members presented at Great Plains-Rocky Mountain Division of the Association of American Geographers, Sept. 28-29, Denver:
Kevin Blake, "Postcard Iconography of the Colorado Front Range Fourteeners."
Deborah Che, Bimal Paul and colleague, "Emergency Responses for High Plains Cattle Affected by the December 28-31, 2006, Blizzard."
Che, Paul and students, "Emergency Responses to Disaster in Kansas: The Tornado in Greensburg."
Paul, "Public Response to the August 2007 Bangladesh Flood: Is Amartya Sen Smiling?"
Paul and Che organized a session on disasters and disaster responses.
Karen De Bres, Che and student, "Whose City? Or, Do only Models Live in Miami? A Quantitative/Qualitative Investigation of Urban Tourism Brochures."
De Bres and Che each chaired a paper session.
Sohini Dutt, "Disaster-Induced Gender Inequality: A Case Study of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami."
Lisa Harrington delivered a brief status report about the division.
Richard Marston organized a panel session on healthy departments.
Jeffrey Smith, "The Impact that Transnational Migrants have on Mexico’s Rural Village Life."
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Matthew Totten and colleague published "The Importance of Heavy Mineral Studies in Shales: An Under-utilized Provenance Strategy," Heavy Minerals in Use, Developments in Sedimentology, Vol. 58, edited by Maria Mange and David Wright, Oxford, England, Elsevier Science.
Matthew Totten, Iris Totten and colleague published "The Effect of Provenance on Clay-Mineral Diagenesis in Gulf of Mexico Shales," Gulf Coast Association Geological Society Transactions, Vol. 57.
Matthew Totten, Iris Totten and colleagues published "The Occurrence and Distribution of Sedimentary Zeolites in the Main Pass Area, Gulf of Mexico Basin," Gulf Coast Association Geological Society Transactions, Vol. 57.
Matthew Totten and colleagues published "Natural Remediation of Marsh Soil Contaminated by Oil-field Brine Containing Elevated Radium Levels, Southern Louisiana," Environmental Geosciences, Vol. 14, No. 3.
Iris Totten and Matthew Totten published "Project Based Learning Approach to Shale Diagenesis: A Better Avenue to the Big Picture," Journal of Geoscience Education, Vol. 55, No. 4.
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The following K-State faculty members will present at Geological Society of America meeting, Oct. 27-31, Philadelphia:
Matthew Brueseke, "More Than Just McDermitt and Steens Mountain: Temporal-Spatial Relationships of Mid-Miocene Magmatism on the Oregon Plateau."
Juli Moore, "A Preliminary Geocognitive Study Used to Analyze Spatial Visual Learning Between Geology Majors and Non-Majors."
Jesse Nippert, "Tamarix Ramosissima Physiology and Groundwater Use During a Record Drought."
Charles Oviatt, "Stratigraphy of Lake Manix Beds in the Manix Subbasin, Mojave Desert, Calif."
Joel Spencer, "Assessment of the Maximum Age Limit for Luminescence Dating of Sedimentary Quartz."
Human nutrition
Koushik Adhikari presented "Multivariate 101: Applications of Statistics to Complex Sensory Analysis Problems" Big 12 Faculty Fellow Lecture at Texas A&M University, June 7, College Station, Texas.
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The following K-State faculty members presented at 5th Hands-on Workshop on Sensory and Consumer Testing, Sept. 1-13, Shanghai, China:
Edgar Chambers IV, "Consumer Research Applications and Methods – Scope and Objectives."
Delores Chambers, "Sensory and Consumer Project Management Case Studies."
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The following K-State faculty members presented at New Trends in Sensory Evaluation of Food and Non-Food Products conference, July 25-26, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam:
Edgar Chambers IV, "Sensory Properties and Consumer Segmentation for Sweet Tamarind."
Delores Chambers, "A Lexicon of Flavor Descriptive Analysis for Green Tea."
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The following K-State faculty members presented at 10th European Nutrition conference, July 8-12, Paris:
Edgar Chambers IV, "Portion Size Estimation is not Dependent on Weight Status."
Delores Chambers, "Know-ledge and Practice of In-Home Food Safety by Consumers."
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Edgar Chambers IV presented "Effective Advertising Claims Substantiation" and "Tomatoes and the Impact of Processing on the Sensory Characteristics of Tomatoes," 7th International Sensory Sciences Symposium, Aug. 13-15, Minneapolis, Minn.
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Delores Chambers presented "Development of Consumer Messages for Storage Time of Ready-to-Eat Foods" 3rd European Symposium on Food Safety, Oct. 17-18.
Kinesiology
Melissa Bopp published "Evaluation of a Faith-Based Physical Activity Intervention Using the RE-AIM Framework," Preventing Chronic Disease, Vol. 4, No.4.
Landscape architecture, regional and community planning
Larry Lawhon published "Development Impact Fees: Survey of Local Government Use," Practicing Planner, Vol. 5, No. 3.
Libraries
Michael North was presented with the national award of merit for his contributions to the EndUser community.
Marketing
Kevin Gwinner, David Andrus, Bruce Prince and colleague published "Unique Educational Methods to Improve the Veterinary Employment Selection Process for Rural Mixed Animal Practices," Journal of Veterinary Medical Education, Vol. 34, No. 4.
Modern languages
Peter Arnds published "Wandering in the Field of Lethe: A Heideggerian Reading of W.G. Sebald’s ‘Austerlitz,’ " Gegenwartsliteratur: Ein Germanistisches Jahrbuch, edited by P.M. Lützeler.
Arnds presented "Harlekin, Rattenfänger und Erlkönig: Zur Mythologie der Opfer/Täter Dualität bei Günter Grass und Michel Tournier," Günter Grass: Literatur – Kunst – Politik conference, October, Gdansk, Poland.
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Douglas Benson presented "Conexiones: la poesía religiosa de Ernestina de Champourcin y Gloria Fuertes" and collaborated in designing and organizing a session on Spanish poetry in honor of former Kansas University Spanish professor Andrew P. Debicki, Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature, Oct. 4-6, Madison, Wis.
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Amy Hubbell published "An Amputated Elsewhere: Sustaining and Relieving the Phantom Limb of Algeria," Life Writing, Vol. 4.
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Silvia Sauter presented "Jose Watanabe: Ancestral Cosmovision in his Creative Process," International Congress: Demarginalization of the Literary and Linguistic Tendencies in America, August, Lima, Peru.
Sauter presented "Ecological consciousness in Indo-Spanish American Literature in the Face of Metropolitan and Feminine Configurations," 29th International Symposium of Literature: Possible Worlds, New Paradigms, August, Luján, Argentina.
Multiple departments
Shawn Hutchinson, geography, and Stacy Hutchinson, biological and agricultural engineering, presented "Validating the Kinematic Wave Approach for Rapid Soil Erosion Assessment and Improved BMP Site Selection to Enhance Training Land Suitability," Department of Defense Environmental Science and Technology Certification Program, Sept. 21, Washington, D.C.
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The following K-State faculty members presented at Great Plains-Rocky Mountain Division of the Association of American Geographers, Sept. 28-29, Denver:
Max Lu, geography, Lance Noll, plant pathology, and student presented "Spatial Patterns of Cancer Mortality Among White Males and Females in the Great Plains."
Richard Marston, geography, Jeffrey Neel, agronomy, and student presented a poster on "Channel Change on a Legally Contested Reach of the Big Blue River, Kansas."
Pilots program
Gabriela Diaz de Sabates presented "Immigration and Identity: Latina Women and College Education in the United States," Mexican national Institute of Anthropology and History conference, Sept. 6-15, Mexico City.
Psychology
Andrew Wefald, Ronald Downey and students presented "An Examination of Student Engagement, Vigor, Academic Satisfaction and Cognitive Ability," Midwest Academy of Management 50th annual conference, Oct. 4-6, Kansas City, Mo.
Sociology, anthropology and social work
Laszlo Kulcsar and colleague published "Politics Without Frontiers: The Impact of Hungarian Domestic Politics on the Minority Question in Romania," Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Vol. 40, No. 3.
Special education, counseling and student affairs
The following K-State faculty members presented at Council for Children with Behavior Disorders international conference, Oct. 6, Dallas:
Marily Kaff and James Teagarden, "Looking Back to Move the Profession Forward: Conversations with influential Voices."
Teagarden, "The Positive Role of Students with Behavioral Disorders in Violence Prevention Training."