Agronomy
Jianming Yu and colleagues published "Power to Detect High-Order Epistatic Interactions in a Metabolic Pathway Using a New Mapping Strategy," Genetics, Vol. 176, Issue 2.
Yu and colleagues published "Prospect of Genomewide Selection for Quantitative Traits in Maize," Crop Science, Vol. 47, No. 3.
Yu and colleagues published "Reviews of Association Analysis of Quantitative Traits in Plants," Acta Agronomica Sinica, Vol. 33, No. 4.
Clinical sciences
Hans Coetzee presented "Therapy of Bovine Mastitis. A Critical Appraisal of the Literature," "Evidence-based Medicine: What Does it Mean and How Does this Apply to the Rural Veterinarian in South Africa?" "Treatment and Prevention of Calf Diarrhea: What Works and What Doesn't? What is the Evidence?" "Bovine Anaplasmosis. An Old Disease has 'learnt' some New Tricks!"
"Antimicrobial Therapy of Bovine Respiratory Disease. How do we Choose what Drug to use?" "Pain Management and Analgesia. What Options do we have and how do we use them?" Livestock Health and Production conference, June 21-22, Pretoria, Gauteng Province, South Africa.
Coetzee presented an update on Bovine Anaplasmosis and Bovine Therapeutics, Kwazulu-Natal Midlands Farmers Day, June 10, Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
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Gregory Grauer presented "Urinalysis: Basic and Advanced Techniques, Proteinuria and Hypertension Associated with Chronic Kidney Disease," "Urinary Tract Infections: Top 10 Questions," and "A Different Approach to Urine Leakage and Urine Retention." Denver Area Veterinary Medical Society Summit meeting, June 22, Vail, Colo.
Grauer also presented 11 hours on Upper and Lower Urinary Tract Disorders, Georgia State Summer meeting, June 28-29, Ponte Verde, Fla.
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Kenneth Harkin presented on Leptospirosis to the Denver Vet Group, June 28, Denver.
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Daniel Thomson presented to Dairy Practitioners on the Effects of SRP Salmonella Vaccine on Performance and Health of Dairy Cows, July 10, Breckenridge, Colo.
Economics
E. Wayne Nafziger published Economics, "From Seers to Sen: The Meaning of Economic Development," Eds. George Mavrotas and Anthony Shorrocks, Advancing Development: Core Themes in Global Economics, Studies in Development Economics and Policy, New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
English
The following K-State faculty members presented at the Children's Literature Association 34th Annual Conference, June 14-16, Newport News, Va.:
Philip Nel and colleague, "Inventing a Radical Tradition in Children's Literature."
Nel also chaired the panel "Recovering a Radical Tradition of Children's Literature."
Anne Phillips, "'The Scene Fitted Mrs. Wilder's Description Perfectly': Illustrating and Re-Illustrating the Little House Series."
Phillips also chaired the panel "Illustrations."
Karin Westman, "Children's Literature and Modernism: Past, Present, and Future."
Westman also chaired the panel "Children's Literature and Modernism."
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Nel presented "A Hole to Dig, a Purple Crayon, and the FBI: Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss in the 1950s," Futures of American Studies Institute 2007: Reconfigurations of American Studies, June 19, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H.
Grain science
Hulya Dogan and colleagues presented "Wheat Genetic Discrimination by Indium Antimonide Focal Plane Chemical Imaging" Fourth International Conference on Advanced Vibrational Spectroscopy, June 10-15, Corfu, Greece.
K-State at Salina
Pedro Leite presented "Problem-Based Learning: A Hybrid Approach Experiment with a Computer Systems Technology Course" ED-MEDIA 2007 World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, June 25-29, Vancouver, Canada.
Multiple departments
Laszlo Kulcsar, sociology, anthropology and social work, and Eric Bernard, landscape architecture/ regional and community planning, presented "Hyperextraction, Path Dependence and Community: Social Transformation and Land Use Change in Western Kansas" 13th International Symposium on Society & Resource Management, June 17-21, Park City, Utah.