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English Professor Don Hedrick had two conference presentations at the English
discipline's flagship conference, the Modern Language Association Conference,
in Vancouver, Canada: "Entertain Me: Civilizing the Renaissance Person" (9
Jan. 2015) and "Theorizing Shakespearian Sport" (10 Jan. 2015).
David Graff, History, published two works (Command, Control, and Castration:
Eunuch Supervisors in the Armies of the Tang Dynasty." In Chinese and Indian
Warfare: From the Classical Age to 1870 & "Brain over Brawn: Shared Beliefs
and Presumptions in Chinese and Western Strategemata" which appeared in a
special issue on “War in Perspective: History and Military Culture in China.”) as
well as co-edited the Journal of Chinese Military History 3.2 (December 2014).
Kathleen Antonioli, Modern Languages, had her article, "Classic and Modern:
Colette Criticism in the Interwar," published online by the journal Modern &
Contemporary France, and is slated to be published in print in Volume 23, Issue
3. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09639489.2014.988129#preview
Jennifer Vellenga, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance, traveled to Tromso,
Norway to direct Norwegian actors in a workshop production of the new play,
“Forward,” by Chantal Bilodeau. The travel and performance was funded by the
U.S. Embassy in Norway, Halogaland Theater in Tromso, and three K-State
awards: the Provost’s Academic Excellence award, an International Incentive
awards, and professional development support from the School of Music,
Theatre and Dance. New York-based playwright Chantal Bilodeau will be in
residence at K-State for part of 2016 and her play will have its premiere
production at K-State in February 2016. Negotiations have begun to include
Norwegian artists in the K-State production.
Bimal Paul, Geography, was appointed as a member of the Wrigley-Fairchild
Prize Committee by the American Geographical Society.
The US Department of Energy, Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
program awarded a $217,531 grant (sub award of $38,539 to KSU) to
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics. “Optimization and production of
acetyl-triacylglycerols for use as fuels, lubricants, and specialty chemicals” PI:
Steve Slater, Winnowgen LLC, co-PI: Timothy Durrett, KSU for the period from
2-1-2015 to 11-1-2015.
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University Distinguished Professor of Chemistry Ryszard Jankowiak was named
as an inaugural Distinguished Fellow of the Kosciuszko Foundation Collegium of
Eminent Scientists, an arm of the Kosciuszko Foundation in New York City.
Included in this distinguished company are 4 Nobel Prize winners, several
Members of the US National Academy of Sciences and 22 Members (Foreign) of
the Polish Academy of Sciences.
http://www.thekf.org/kf/programs/eminentscientists/
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Arts & Humanities
English
Publications:
Lindsay Base (BA ‘17), “The Song of the Morning Star” (short story). Nota Bene.
(2014).
Daniel A. Hoyt, “Laptop Diptych” (prose poem). Carbon Culture Review. 1.1
(2014): 9.
Jesse Lobbs (MA ’16), “Black Coffee” (poem). Cave Region Review 6.1 (2014):
3.
“Fin de Siecle” (poem). Nebo 33.1 (2014): 28.
Machor, “Reading for Humor or Realism: W. D. Howells and Mark Twain’s Early
Reception in the U.S. Public Sphere.” American Literary Realism 47.2 (2015):
136-50.
Phillip P. Marzluf. “The Pastoral Home School: Rural, Vernacular, and
Grassroots Literacies in Early Soviet Mongolia.” Central Asian Survey 2014:
<http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/02634937.2014.99161>
Brian S. McCarty, “Suburbia” (poem). Lunch Ticket Winter/Spring (2014):
<http://lunchticket.org/suburbia>
“Gardens” (poem). Your Impossible Voice 6 (2014):
<http://www.yourimpossiblevoice.com/impossible-voice-6/>
Kimball Smith has published the Kindle edition of his second novel Missing
Persons.
Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions:
Traci Brimhall, excerpts from “Our Lady of the Ruins.” Ohio Wesleyan.
Delaware, OH. 28 Oct. 2014.
Excerpts from “Our Lady of the Ruins.” The Big Thunder Reading Series.
Minnesota State University-Mankato. Mankato, MN. 29 Jan. 2015.
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Steffi Dippold, “A Mohawk Vomiting Stick: Odyssey of an Intercultural Object”
and panel organizer, British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. St. Hugh’s
College, Oxford, UK. 6 Jan. 2015.
Christina Hauck, “Alternating Currents: Electricity, Film and the Duplicitous
Narration of Brief Encounter.” Seminar: Cinema and Modernism. Modernist
Studies Association. Pittsburgh, PA. 9 Nov. 2014.
Don Hedrick, “Entertain Me: Civilizing the Renaissance Person.” Modern
Language Association. Vancouver, Canada. 9 Jan. 2015.
“Theorizing Shakespearian Sport.” Modern Language Association. Vancouver,
Canada. 10 Jan. 2015.
Mary Kohn and Erin Callahan, “Local and Supra-Local Variation in Latino
English.” American Dialect Society. Portland, OR. 10 Jan. 2015.
Deborah Murray & Charlesia McKinney (BA ’13), “Tutoring Writers is like
Playing Basketball - HOW?!?: What if tutors imagineered John Wooden’s
Pyramid of Success?” Workshop. International Writing Centers AssociationNational Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing Joint Conference. Orlando, FL.
1 Nov. 2014.
Research:
Grants:
Sierra Hale (MA ‘15) received an Arts & Sciences Travel Award.
Jamie Teixeira (BA ’15) and Rachel Nyhart (BA ’16) won grants from the Office
of Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Endeavor for projects
emerging from ENGL 500 “Writing Center Theory and Practice” (Fall 2014).
Cydney Alexis will serve as mentor.
Awards:
Carmen Schober (MA ’15) was a finalist for the 2014 Glimmer Train Family
Matters Contest for her short story, “The End of the World as We Know It.”
Elizabeth Dodd has been elected to the Executive Council of the Association for
the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE).
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Other:
James Machor and Amy Blair, editors, Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences,
History (Penn State UP), one issue per year, 2013-present.
<http://www.psupress.org/journals/jnls_Reception.html/>
Karin Westman, Naomi Wood, and David Russell, editors, The Lion and the
Unicorn (Johns Hopkins UP), three issues per year, 2008-present.
<http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/lion_and_the_unicorn/>
History
Publications:
David Graff, "Brain over Brawn: Shared Beliefs and Presumptions in Chinese
and Western Strategemata." Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident 38 (2014), 4764. Article appeared in a special issue on “War in Perspective: History and
Military Culture in China.”
David Graff, "Command, Control, and Castration: Eunuch Supervisors in the
Armies of the Tang Dynasty." In Chinese and Indian Warfare: From the Classical
Age to 1870, edited by Kaushik Roy and Peter Lorge. London and New York:
Routledge, 2014.
Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions:
Michael Krysko, “Teaching Basic English to the World: International
Broadcasting, Language Education, and Anglo-American Ideologies of
Civilization, 1935–43,” American Historical Society Annual Meeting, Jan. 5, 2015,
New York, NY.
Heather McCrea, “Transnational Medicine and the Creation of the Tropics in
Latin America,” American Historical Society Annual Meeting, Jan. 5, 2015, New
York, NY.
Bonnie Lynn-Sherow, “American Indian Imagery in Sports Mascots,” Kansas
Sports Hall of Fame, Wichita, KS, Jan. 19, 2015. Invited talk for MLK Day.
M.J. Morgan, “Lost Kansas Communities,” Harvey County Historical Society,
Walton, KS, Jan. 25, 2015, and Jan. 28, 2015. Two invited talks in honor of
Kansas Day.
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Research:
David Graff co-edited the Journal of Chinese Military History 3.2 (December
2014). Professor Graff has co-edited this journal, published by Brill, with David
Curtis Wright (Calgary) since 2012; the Dec., 2014 issue was the sixth to be
published.
Grants:
Awards:
Other:
Bonnie Lynn-Sherow, quoted in Beccy Tanner, “As Kansas turns 154, five
events that shaped our state” Wichita Eagle, Feb. 2, 2015.
Bonnie Lynn-Sherow appointed Chair of K-State’s AAUW “Elect Her” outreach,
Jan. 18, 2015.
Modern Languages
Publications:
Kathleen Antonioli, had her article, "Classic and Modern: Colette Criticism in
the Interwar," published online by the journal Modern & Contemporary France,
and is slated to be published in print in Volume 23, Issue 3.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09639489.2014.988129#preview
Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions:
Melinda A. Cro presented "Pastoral Galleries in Remy Belleau’s Bergerie
(1565): The Function of Collectionist Ekphrasis in Belleau’s Conception of the
Pastoral Mode" to the division on Sixteenth-Century French literature at the
Modern Language Association annual convention in Vancouver, British
Columbia, Canada.
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Robert Clark presented a paper, "In Your Skin: Incarnation and Our Humanity,"
at the meeting of the Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association,
Vancouver, Canada, January 12, 2015.
Research:
Grants:
Melinda A. Cro was awarded a Faculty Development Award in the amount of
$1000 to support her travel to the MLA annual convention in Vancouver, BC,
Canada to present her research.
Janice McGregor received partial FDA support to travel to Toronto, Ontario. She
will present the paper "Conflicting competences: Negotiating 'enoughness' in
study abroad" at AAAL (American Association for Applied Linguistics) in March
2015.
Awards:
Other:
As part of the Spanish in Action CAT Community, Angélique Courbou took a
group of 14 freshmen for 10 days to Atenas, Costa Rica, as part of a service
learning study abroad trip. Students used their leadership and Spanish skills to
negotiate and learn to build a partial playground out of concrete in a nutrition
center for children. They also painted and helped clean up the center.
Claire L. Dehon reviewed two articles for "French Review".
Doug Benson was one of four University Distinguished Teaching Scholars
invited to participate in a panel on Staying Motivated as a Teacher for the Faculty
Excellence in Teaching Exchange (FETE) Teaching Workshop, sponsored by the
K-State Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) on January 30-31.
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School of Music, Theatre, and Dance
Publications:
Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions:
Sally Bailey directed a staged reading of Dunia, a non-fiction play by Joanna
Abillama in the Purple Masque Theatre.
Jerry Jay Cranford attended the Kennedy Center American College Theatre
Festival, Region V-Minneapolis, MN. He served as a chaperone for 13 K-State
student representatives and coached four Irene Ryan best actor nominees who
performed/competed with nearly 400 others from the 5 state region. Two K-State
students were selected for the 64 in semi-finals and Cat Huck was selected as
one of the 16 finalists to perform on the Guthrie Stage. While at the festival
Cranford was selected to present two 1 ½ hour workshops; one on theatre
movement had 38 participants and the other on theatre business scheduled for
40 people had 67. He was also chosen to direct one of the 6 pieces selected for
the New Plays Project which performed at the Guthrie Theatre.
Slawomir Dobrzanski delivered a lecture/recital at Western Michigan University
on the life and works of Polish pianist/composer Maria Szymanowska. He also
delivered a lecture about Chopin’s music to the Kalamazoo Music Teachers
Association.
Karen Large performed with the Topeka Symphony Orchestra on their Great
Masterpieces concert. She also presented five sessions at the Florida Flute
Association Annual Convention: Five Ways YouTube Can Change Your (Flute)
Life!, Performance with the Flute New Music Consortium, Performance with the
Florida Flute Orchestra, Performance with Traverso Colore: Baroque Ensemble,
and she Conducted an Open Flute Choir Reading Session.
Nora Lewis gave the paper, “Asian Traditions and Western Innovations” at the
International Composition in Asia Symposium and Festival/University of South
Florida School of Music Convocation, January 23, 2015 in Tampa, Florida. Lewis
also performed in the “Music of Gail Kubik” concert presented on the Hale Library
Series, January 30, 2015.
Patricia Thompson performed with Luminous Voices in Calgary, Alberta,
CANADA on a program titled Rapturous Renaissance. The performance included
the music of Dufay, Ockeghem, and Des Prez. Dr. Thompson served as the Alto
soloist on Responsio (Peter Togni, composer) scored for four voices and bass
clarinet based on a mass by Machaut.
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Jennifer Vellenga traveled to Tromso, Norway to direct Norwegian actors in a
workshop production of the new play, “Forward,” by Chantal Bilodeau. The travel
and performance was funded by the U.S. Embassy in Norway, Halogaland
Theater in Tromso, and three K-State awards: the Provost’s Academic
Excellence award, an International Incentive awards, and professional
development support from the School of Music, Theatre and Dance. New Yorkbased playwright Chantal Bilodeau will be in residence at K-State for part of 2016
and her play will have its premiere production at K-State in February 2016.
Negotiations have begun to include Norwegian artists in the K-State production.
Julie Yu presented at the Missouri Music Educators Association In-Service
Workshop/Conference in Osage Beach, MO on Thursday, January 29, 2015.
The title of her presentation was “Music Relevancy in Practice, Performance
and Practicality.”
Research:
Sally Bailey has been researching a study on Narrative Transportation in
Theatre and will be using the Theatre Programs spring/15 repertoire to determine
if audience members are “Narratively Transported” into the plays and if this
makes a difference in what they learn and/or in changing their attitudes towards
issues in the play. Actors who volunteer will also be surveyed at the end of each
night to see if they are narratively transported into and out of their roles. The
study will compare audience responses before and after the shows, between
productions and see if there is a relationship between actors being narratively
transported and audience members being transported.
Laura Donnelly continues to mentor Courtney Hoover on her A&S
Undergraduate Research Project 2 on applying the principles of Movement
Fundamentals to teaching differently-abled students. Professor Donnelly is also
working with Tannique-Kay Buchanan on her Senior Capstone research
investigating the intersection of color theory and the “black dancing body.” Ms.
Buchanan has submitted an abstract to the National Dance Education
Association.
Grants:
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Other:
Jerry Jay Cranford directed Les Miserables for the Circa ’21 Playhouse in Rock
Island, IL featuring K-State alum Joey Boos with a cast of 24 and run that goes
through March 21, 2015.
Julie Yu was the guest conductor of the 2015 North Texas Children’s Choir in
Dallas, TX on January 30-31, 2015. Over 250 elementary students from the
greater Dallas metroplex area rehearsed and performed a full concert with guest
collaborators (including the University of North Texas African Drumming
Ensemble and Bella Voce from Baylor University) at the Meyerson Symphony
Center.
Philosophy
Publications:
“The Concept of Security”, reprinted in Security Ethics (forthcoming – March
2016), ed. T Sorell, K Hadjimatheou & J Guelke, Ashgate: London, Jon
Herington.
“Autonomy and Settling: Rehabilitating the relationship between autonomy and
paternalism”, forthcoming, Utilitas. Rosa Terlazzo
“The ‘uncanny valley’ and spectating animated objects" accepted, Performance
Research, Jim Hamilton.
“Towards a theory of spectating”, The Joournal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism,
Jim Hamilton.
Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions:
“Climate Vulnerability and The Value of Security” accepted at the 2nd Workshop
on Ethics and Adaptation: Loss, Damage, and Harm, 8-9 May 2015, University of
Buffalo, N.Y, Jon Herington.
Research:
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Social & Behavioral Sciences
Economics
Publications:
Babcock, Mike & Gayle, Philip. “State Variation in Railroad Wheat Rates.”
Journal of the Transportation Research Forum, Fall 2014.
Yang-Ming Chang and Zijun Luo, "Endogenous Division Rules as a Family
Constitution: Strategic Altruistic Transfers and Sibling Competition," Forthcoming
in Journal of Population Economics, 2015.
Braymen, Charles B., Yang-Ming Chang, and Zijun Luo, "Tax Policies, Regional
Trade Agreements, and FDI: A Welfare Analysis," Forthcoming in Pacific
Economic Review, 2015.
Yang-Ming Chang and Zijun Luo, "Endogenous Destruction in Conflict: Theory
and Extensions," Revise and Resubmit, Economic Inquiry.
Shih-Jye Wu, Yang-Ming Chang, and Hung Yi Chen “Imported Inputs,
Privatization in Downstream Mixed Oligopoly, and Foreign Ownership,” Revise
and Resubmit, Canadian Journal of Economics.
Yang-Ming Chang and Jason Walter, "Digital Piracy: Price-Quality Competition
between Legal Firms and P2P Network Hosts," Revise and Resubmit,
Information Economics and Policy.
Yang-Ming Chang and Renfeng Xiao, “Preferential Trade Agreements between
Asymmetric Countries: Free Trade Areas (with Rules of Origin) vs. Customs
Unions,” Revise and Resubmit, Japan and the World Economy.
"Investment in Clean Technology: Compete, Cooperate, or Merge?" submitted to
Energy and Resource Economics for review. (with Jason Walter)
"Social Welfare Implications of Direct Third-Party Intervention in Conflict:
Mechanism Design, Principal-Agency, and Deterrence," under review at Social
Choice and Welfare. (with Shane Sanders)
"Technology Licensing and Environmental R&D Investments: Implications for
Emissions Tax Policies," under review at Environmental and Resource
Economics. (with Tsung-Hsiu Tsai)
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“Green, Clubs, Heterogeneous Firms, and Green Consumers: A Welfare
Analysis of Environmental Regulations” under review at Journal of Environmental
and Economic Management. (with Jason Walter)
Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions:
Freeman, Amanda submitted a proposal for the 2015 SIDLIT conference on
teaching international students online.
Shen, Leilei - “Value-Added Trade and U.S. Local Labor Markets: Does China
Really Matter?” Presented at the ASSA Annual Meeting in Boston and at the
CeMENT Workshop, January 2015.
Shen, Leilei - “Are Rising College Premiums Capitalized into House Prices in
China.” Presented at the ASSA Annual Meeting in Boston, January 2015.
Research:
Grants:
Babcock, Mike. received a $35,000 grant from the U.S. Department of
Agriculture, “Intramodal Railroad Competition Impacts on Railroad Wheat Rates.”
Awards:
Other:
Geography
Publications (*graduate students):
Blake, K. 2014. Geography of The Light of Western Stars. Zane Grey Review
29(3/4): 20-21.
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Maezumi, S.Y., Power, M.J., Mayle, F.E., McLauchlan, K.K., and Iriarte, J.
2015. The effects of post climate variability on fire and vegetation in the cerrãdo
savanna ecosystem of the Huanchaca Mesetta, Noel Kempff Mercado National
Park, NE Bolivia. Climate of the Past Discussions 11:135-180.
Pankl, L.* and Blake, K. 2015. Frida Kahlo’s bodily geographies. The
International Journal of Critical Cultural Studies 12(3-4): 11-24.
Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions:
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Other:
Bimal Paul, Geography, was appointed as a member of the Wrigley-Fairchild
Prize Committee by the American Geographical Society.
Psychological Sciences
Publications:
Barnett, M. A., Wadian, T. W., Sonnentag, T. L., & Nichols, M. B. (2015). Role
of various fault attributions and other factors in children's anticipated response to
hypothetical peers with undesirable characteristics. Social Development, 24, 113127.
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Peterson, J. P., Hill, C. C., & Kirkpatrick, K. (2015). Measurement of impulsive
choice in rats: Same and alternate form test-retest reliability and temporal
tracking. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 103, 166-179, doi:
10.1002/jeab.124.
Rung, J., & Young, M.E. (2015). Learning to wait for more likely or just more:
Greater tolerance to delays of reward with increasingly longer delays. Journal of
the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 103, 108-124.
Young, M.E., & *McCoy, A.W. (2015). A delay discounting task produces a
greater likelihood of waiting than a deferred gratification task. Journal of the
Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 103, 180-195.
Webster, R. J., & Saucier, D. A. (2015). Demons everywhere: The effects of
belief in pure evil, demonization, and retribution on punishing criminal
perpetrators. Personality and Individual Differences, 74, 72-77.
Strain, M. L., Saucier, D. A., & *Martens, A. L. (2015). Sexist humor in Facebook
profiles: Perceptions of humor targeting men and women. HUMOR: International
Journal of Humor Research, 28 (1), 119-141.
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Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work
Publications:
2015 Zavala, Egbert, Lisa Melander, and Don L. Kurtz, “The Importance of
Social Learning and Job-Related Stress on Police Officers’ Perpetration of
Intimate Partner Violence” Victims & Offenders: An International Journal of
Evidence-based Research, Policy, and Practice, v10, n1
Falcone, Jessica. (2015) “Our Virtual Materials: The Substance of Buddhist Holy
Objects in a Virtual World” in Buddhism, the Internet and Digital Media: The Pixel
in the Lotus. Veidlinger, Daniel and Gregory Grieve, ed. Routledge: New York.
Nolasco, C., del Carmen, R. V., Steinmetz, K. F., Vaughn, M. S., & Spaic, A.
(2015, Online First). The need for law courses in criminal justice and criminology
doctoral programs. Journal of Criminal Justice Education.
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Natural & Quantitative Sciences
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics
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Journal Articles:
Tetreau, G., Cao, X., Chen, YR., Muthukrishnan, S., Haobo, J., Blissard, GW.,
Kanost, MR., and Wang, P. (2015) “Overview of chitin metabolism enzymes in
Manduce sexta: Identification, domain organization, phylogenetic analysis and
gene expression.” Insect Biochem Mol Biol. Jan 20. Pii:S0965-1748(15)00013-2
doi:10,1016/j.ibmb.2015.01.006. [Epub ahead of print] PMID:25616108.
Noh, MY., Kramer, KJ., Muthukrishnan, S., Beeman, RW., Kanost, MR., and
Arakane, Y., (2015) “Loss of function of the yellow-e gene causes dehydrationinduced mortality of adult Tribolium castaneum.” Dev Biol. Jan 19. Pii:S00121606(15)00017-2. Doi:10.1016/jdbio.2015.01.009. [Epub ahead of print]
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Tetreau, G., Dittmer, NT., Cao, X., Agrawal, S., Chen, Y., Muthukrishnan, S.,
Haobo, J., Blissard, GW., Kanost, MR., and Wang, P. (2014) “Analysis of chitinbinding proteins from Manduca sexta provides new insights into evolution of
peritrophin A-type chitin-binding domains in insects.” Insect Biochem Mol Biol.
Dec 15. Pii:S0965-1748(14)00195-7. Doi:10.1016/j.ibmb.2014.12.002.[Epub
ahead of print] PMID:25524298.
Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions:
Lawrence Davis was invited to do a presentation on “Phytoremediation with
miscanthus produced for bioenergy” at the international workshop “Current
issues in phytoremediation with biomass production.” Held at the Department of
the Environment, Faculty of Natural Resources, Matej Bel University, the Solvak
Republic, January 12, 2015.
Michal Zolkiewski presented a poster, “Detachment-induced upregulation of
PDI-family ER chaperones in breast cancer cells,” at the 20th Annual Midwest
Stress Response and Molecular Chaperone Meeting at Northwestern University
in Evanston, IL on January 17, 2015.
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Prashant Wani (graduate, Roelofs Biology) received the ASBMB 2015
Graduate/Postdoctoral Travel Award to attend the ASBMB 2015 Annual Meeting
in Boston Massachusetts, March 28th to April 1st 2015.
Awards:
Agency: US Department of Energy, Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
program. “Optimization and production of acetyl-triacylglycerols for use as fuels,
lubricants, and specialty chemicals” PI: Steve Slater, Winnowgen LLC, co-PI:
Timothy Durrett, KSU. Amount $217,531 (sub award of $38,539 to KSU) for the
period from 2-1-2015 to 11-1-2015.
Other:
Jianhan Chen served as a Panelist for NSF CTMC Biomolecular Simulations
Panel, on January 16, 2015.
Biology
Publications:
Pope, M. R., and S. D. Fleming. 2015. TLR2 Modulates Antibodies Required for
Intestinal Ischemia/Reperfusion-Induced Damage and Inflammation. J. Immunol.
194:1190-1198.
Dodds, W. K., K. Gido, M. R. Whiles, M. D. Daniels and G. P. Gruzinski. (in
press) The Stream Biome Gradient Concept: Controlling factors of lotic systems
across broad biogeographic Scales. Freshwater Science DOI: 10.1086/679756.
Stucky, D.F., Arpin, J.C., and Schrick, K. (2015) Functional diversification of two
UGT80 enzymes required for steryl glucoside synthesis in Arabidopsis. J. Exp.
Bot. 66(1):189-201. (published in print in January 2015).
Peacock E, Sonsthagen SA, Obbard ME, Boltunov A, Regehr EV, Ovsyanikov N,
Aars J, Atkinson SN, Sage GK, Hope AG, Zeyl E, Bachmann L, Ehrich D,
Scribner KT, Amstrup SC, Belikov S, Born E, Derocher AE, Stirling I, Taylor MK,
Wiig Ø, Paetkau D, Talbot SL. 2015. Implications of the circumpolar genetic
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structure of polar bears for their ecology, evolution and conservation in a rapidly
warming Arctic. PLoS ONE, 10(1), e112021.
Sandercock, B.K., M. Alfaro-Barrios, A.E. Casey, T.N. Johnson, T.W. Mong,
K.J. Odom, K.M. Strum, and V.L. Winder. 2015. Effects of grazing and
prescribed fire on resource selection and nest survival of Upland Sandpipers in
an experimental landscape. Landscape Ecology 30:325-337.
Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions:
Kathrin Schrick - 13th Annual K-INBRE Symposium, Capitol Plaza Hotel,
Topeka, KS, Jan. 17-18, 2015. Erika Peters, Aashima Khosla, and Kathrin
Schrick. “Characterization of START Domains and Co-regulators Linking
Metabolism to Development.” Poster Presentation Award to Erika Peters, junior
in Microbiology.
Kathrin Schrick - 13th Annual K-INBRE Symposium, Capitol Plaza Hotel,
Topeka, KS, Jan. 17-18, 2015. Amanda Bradley, Daniel L. Boyle, Elizabeth S.
Mays, Janet M. Paper, and Kathrin Schrick, “Role of Glucosylceramide Synthase
in Cell-Type Differentiation in Plants.” Poster Presentation Award to Amanda
Bradley, senior in Biology.
Kathrin Schrick - Press release on presentation awards:
K-State students earn honors for presentations at annual K-INBRE bioscience
symposium By Communications and Marketing.
http://www.k-state.edu/today/announcement.php?id=17867
Andrew Hope - Specimen-based science in the Anthropocene: future prospects
for biodiversity, considering evolutionary responses to past environmental
change. 2015. Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates and Department of
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University. Invited Research Seminar.
Andrew Hope - Integrated evolutionary ecology: a framework for investigating
wildlife community changes. 2015. Kansas Natural Resources Conference,
Wichita, KS. Oral Presentation.
Ari Jumpponen gave two presentations in University of Helsinki, Finland.
1. Metabarcodes for target locus sequencing. University of Helsinki, Lahti,
Finland. January 20, 2015.
2. Ecology of Snow. University of Helsinki, Lahti, Finland. January 23, 2015.
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Ricketts, A.M., and B.K. Sandercock. Coyote space use in tallgrass prairie.
Kansas Natural Resources Conference, Wichita, Kansas. January 2015.
Verheijen, B.H.F, and B.K. Sandercock. Effects of patch-burn grazing
management on nest survival and brood parasitism rates of declining species of
grassland songbirds. Kansas Natural Resources Conference, Wichita, Kansas.
January 2015.
Winder, V.L., and B.K. Sandercock. Demographic and movement responses of
Greater Prairie-Chickens to patch-burn grazing. Kansas Natural Resources
Conference, Wichita, Kansas. January 2015.
Research:
Grants:
Bruce Snyder - Submitted NSF preliminary proposal to DEB core programs.
Ari Jumpponen - Graduate Student, Kirsten Grond, was awarded a NSF-DDIG
grant on which Ari serves as a co-PI.
DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Intra-annual dynamics in gut microbiota of
migratory shorebirds. NSF-DDIG, $18,030, June 1, 2015 - May 31, 2016. PI Brett
Sandercock, co-PI Ari Jumpponen.
Sandercock, B.K., K. Grond, and A.M. Jumpponen. Dissertation Research:
Intraannual dynamics in the gut microbiota of migratory shorebirds. Division of
Environmental Biology, National Science Foundation (DEB-1501479), $18,030,
6/01/2015 to 5/31/2016.
Sandercock, B.K., and B.H.F. Verheijen. Dissertation Research: Effects of
habitat heterogeneity on songbird fecundity in an experimental landscape.
Division of Environmental Biology, National Science Foundation (DEB-1501903),
$19,407, 6/01/2015 to 5/31/2016.
Brett Sandercock - Highlights:
Two PhD Candidates in my lab, Kirsten Grond and Bram Verheijen, have been
recommended for funding for Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants by the
National Science Foundation. Contracts are in progress with SPA.
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Kathrin Schrick - Poster presentation awards at the K-INBRE conference – see
above.
Other:
Walter Dodds - Press releases:
K-State:
http://www.k-state.edu/media/newsreleases/jan15/dodds12115.html
Univ Chicago Press:
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/pressReleases/2015/January/150123_FWS_dod
ds.html
US National Science Foundation:
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=133904&org=NSF&from=new
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Chemistry
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Research:
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Awards:
University Distinguished Professor of Chemistry Ryszard Jankowiak was
named as an inaugural Distinguished Fellow of the Kosciuszko Foundation
Collegium of Eminent Scientists, an arm of the Kosciuszko Foundation in New
York City. Included in this distinguished company are 4 Nobel Prize winners,
several Members of the US National Academy of Sciences and 22 Members
(Foreign) of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
http://www.thekf.org/kf/programs/eminentscientists/
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Physics
Publications:
T. Miti, M. Mulaj, J.D. Schmit, and M. Muschol, “Stable, Metastable, and
Kinetically Trapped Amyloid Aggregate Phases”, Biomacromolecules, 16, 326335 (2015). DOI: 10.1021/bm501521r.
Uwe Thumm, Qing Liao, Elisabeth M. Bothschafter, Frederik Sussmann,
Matthias F. Kling and Reinhard Kienberger (2015) . Attosecond Physics:
Attosecond Streaking Spectroscopy of Atoms and Solids. In Photonics Volume
1: Fundamental of Photonics and Physics (387-411). John Wiley & Sons,
Inc.:Hoboken, NJ.
U. Ablikim, M. Zohrabi, Bethany Jochim, B. Berry, T. Severt, K.D. Carnes, and I.
Ben-Itzhak, “Note: Position dependence of time signals picked of a microchannel
plate detector”, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 86, 016111 (2015). DOI: 10.1063/1.4906327.
Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions:
Chii-Dong Lin gave talks at the Hanoi Univ. of Science & Technology and
Institute of Physics, Vietnam Academic of Science & Technology (1/4-1/6).
A-T Le presented a seminar at Ho-Chi Minh Univ. of Pedagogy in Ho-Chi Minh
City, Vietnam.
“Does the Pedagogical Learning Bicycle Promote Transfer?”, Contributed Talk by
Claudia Fracchiolla and N. Sanjay Rebello, American Association of Physics
Teachers Winter Meeting, San Diego, CA (1/4/15).
“Effect of Verbal and Visual Cueing on Conceptual Task Performance”,
Contributed Talk by Xian Wu, Tianlong Zu, Bahar Modir, Lester Loschky and N.
S. Rebello, American Association of Physics Teachers Winter Meeting, San
Diego, CA (1/6/15).
“Self-Explanations Influencing Performance on Tasks with Feedback or Visual
Cues”, Contributed talk by Elise Agra, Bahar Modir, John Hutson, Lester C.
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Loschky and N. Sanjay Rebello, American Association of Physics Teachers
Winter Meeting, San Diego, CA (1/6/15).
“How Do Verbal and Visual Cueing Affect Student Reasoning?”, Poster
presented by Xian Wu, Tianlong Zu, Bahar Modir, Lester Loschky and N. S.
Rebello, American Association of Physics Teachers Winter Meeting, San Diego,
CA (1/5/15).
“Self-Explanations Influencing Reasoning on Tasks with Feedback or Visual
Cues”, Poster presented by Elise Agra, Tianlong Zu, John Hutson, Lester C.
Loschky and N. Sanjay Rebello, American Association of Physics Teachers
Winter Meeting, San Diego, CA (1/5/15).
“Social Context in a Physics Class for Future Elementary Teachers”, Poster
presented by Claudia Fracchiolla and N. Sanjay Rebello, American Association
of Physics Teachers Winter Meeting, San Diego, CA (1/5/15).
“Quantum control of H2+ photodissociation using shaped intense pulses”, L.
Graham, U. Lev, B.D. Bruner, H. Frostig, V.S. Prabhudesai, A. Natan, D.
Schwalm, O. Heber, I. Ben-Itzhak, C.B. Madsen, B.D. Esry, Y. Silberberg, and
D. Zajfman, Presentation at Coherence and Control in the Quantum World
(CCQW-2014), Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel (12/15-18, 2014).
Research:
Grants:
Chii-Dong Lin: Isolated Soft X-Ray Attosecond Pulse Generation Using
Synthesized Strong-Field Infrared Pulses, MIT subaward from AFOSR, $40,000.
Awards:
Other:
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Statistics
Publications:
Moore, M. C., R.D. Davis, Q. Kang, C.I. Vahl, R.M. Wallace, C.A. Hanlon, and
D.A. Mosier (2015). Comparison of anamnestic responses to rabies vaccination
in dogs and cats with current and out-of-date vaccination status. JAVMA, Vol
246:205-211 (accepted November 20, 2014).
Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions:
Johnson*, L., J. Sheltongs, N. M. Bello, S. Raithelgs, M. Galliertgs, S. J. Brown, N.
Herndon, R. Welti, B. Nikolau, T. Samarakoon, Z. Song and R. Jeannotte.
“Divergent epicuticular wax and transcriptome of edaphically differentiated
Andropogon grasses in the US Midwest prairies”. Abstract. XXIII International
Plant & Animal Genome Conference. San Diego, California. January10-14, 2015.
Johnson*, L., M. M. Graygs, P. St. Amand, M. Galliartgs, S. Brown, J. Poland,
K.Garret, E. Ekhunov, N. M. Bello, T. Morgan, S. G. Baer and B. Maricle.
“Genetic differentiation, transcriptome variation, and local adaptation of dominant
prairie grass Andropogon gerardii along the climate gradient of the US Midwest:
Implications for climate change and restoration” Abstract. XXIII International
Plant & Animal Genome Conference. San Diego, California. January10-14, 2015.
Galliartgs, M., P. St. Amand, J. Polland, N. M. Bello, S. Sabates, H. Tetreault, A.
DeLaCruz, J. Bryant, T. J. Morgan, M. Knapp, S. G. Baer, D. Gibson, L. Wilson,
B. R. Maricle and L. Johnson*. “Trait variation and genetic divergence of a
widespread grass Andropogon gerardii across a Great Plains climate
gradient”. Abstract. XXIII International Plant & Animal Genome Conference. San
Diego, California. January 10-14, 2015.
Pallavi Sawant. Robust Principal Components For Multivariate Functional Data,
Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Antonio, Texas.
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Grants:
U.S. Department of Agriculture - Agriculture and Food Research Initiative
(USDA - AFRI) Foundational Program A1221 $498,500.
Nora Bello, Co-PI. Grant proposal: "Risk Management Strategies to Reduce the
Impacts of Bovine Respiratory Disease Complex in Commercial Feeder Cattle".
Principal Investigator: David Renter, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas
State University. Timeline: 2014-2018. Status: Recommended for funding.
Nora Bello, Co-PI. “The effects of SID Lysine and Intellibond C (TBCC) feeding
strategy in finishing pigs on growth performance, carcass characteristics and
economics”. Principal investigator: Steve Dritz, College of Veterinary Medicine,
Kansas State University. Role: co-PI. Timeline: 2014-2015. Awarded. $25,000.
Nora Bello: Grant proposal: “The effects of SID Lysine and Intellibond C (TBCC)
feeding strategy in finishing pigs on growth performance, carcass characteristics
and economics”. Principal investigator: Steve Dritz, College of Veterinary
Medicine, Kansas State University. Role: co-PI. Timeline: 2014-2015. Awarded.
Nora Bello: Morris Animal Foundation $35,000 – Awarded June 2013. Grant
proposal: “The effects of ophthalmic prednisolone and diclofenac on diabetes
mellitus regulation in dogs”. Principal Investigator: Amy Rankin, College of
Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University. Role: Co-investigator. Timeline:
2/1/14-1/31/16.
Gary Gadbury, Co-I. Welti PI. Collaborative Research: Lipidomic profiling,
dynamics, and funtions of head-group acylation of membrane lipids in plant
stress response. NSF. 8/1/14 – 7/31/15. $145,466.
Nora Bello: United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agriculture and
Food Research Initiative (AFRI) - Foundational Program A1201 $677,108 Grant
proposal: "Statistical Methods And Bioinformatics Tools For Multiple Trait Whole
Genome Precision Selection For Heterogeneous Environments". Principal
Investigator: Robert Tempelman, Michigan State University. Role: co-PI.
Timeline: 2011-2016. Award #2010-04538.
Weixing Song: NSF DMS 1205276. Model Diagnostics in Regression and Tobit
Regression Models with Measurement Errors. Sept 2012 – Sept 2015.
Haiyan Wang. Collaboration Grant Proposal on Methods for High Dimensional
DataAward Number: 246077. The Simons Foundation. 09/1/12 to 08/31/17. Role:
PI. Total amount: $35,000.
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Gary Gadbury: Associate Editor for the Annals of Applied Statistics, 2009 –
present.
Haiyan Wang: Associate Editor for Journal of Nonparametric Statistics.
Nora Bello: Associate Editor for the Journal of Biological, Agricultural, and
Environmental Statistics.
Weixing Song: Associate Editor, Journal of Statistics and Probability Letters.