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Cameron Leader-Picone, English, received a 2015 NEH Summer Stipend award
for his project titled “Rearticulating Race in Twenty-First Century African
American Literature.” Leader-Picone is one of two people in Kansas to receive
an award from the NEH this spring.
Li Yang, Modern Languages, drafted a version of an online textbook on Chinese
pragmatics has gone live online (http://www.k-state.edu/chinesepragmatics),
which will be available to anyone who might be interested in learning about
Chinese pragmatics in the university community after it is finalized. Grounded in
the cognitive approaches to SLA and prior empirical research, the online
textbook provides students with explicit instruction on appropriate communication
in Chinese, various awareness-raising exercises/activities, and rich multimedia
resources (e.g., videos, images, etc.).
Bailey, H, Psychological Sciences, et al, (in press) APOE ε4 genotype status
predicts everyday memory. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition.
John Tomich, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, was inducted as
member of National Academy of Inventors.
Physics associate professor Dr. Kristan Corwin was quoted in an article entitled
“Looking back/Looking forward: Gas lasers: Durable survivors evolve new
forms" for LaserFocusWorld (http://www.laserfocusworld.com).
The article discusses the past, present and future prospects of gas lasers.
Kristan commented on using gas-filled hollow-core fibers as a laser medium.
An excerpt is below:
The concept grew from earlier studies of optical pumping and the use of
gas-filled hollow fibers as optical frequency references, says Kristan
Corwin of Kansas State University (Manhattan, KS). She, Brian
Washburn of Kansas State, and Wolfgang Rudolph of the University of
New Mexico (Albuquerque) led the team that demonstrated the first
hollow-core fiber gas laser, exciting 3 µm lasing from acetylene (C2H2)
with 1.5 µm pulses.1
"It's fun to have a new laser system to play around with," says Corwin.
"Gain was so high in acetylene that we could observe lasing, despite the
fiber's loss of 20 decibels/meter at 3 micron." Then Fetah Benabid, now
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at the Xlim Research Institute at the University of Limoges (France)
developed the hypocycloid core fiber (see Fig. 5), which reduces loss at
3 µm by keeping most of the light in the gas.
The full article can be viewed here.
Physics undergraduate, Joshua Nelson (advisor: Carlos Trallero) has been
selected as a Goldwater scholar for 2015. K-State has not yet made an official
announcement yet, but the Goldwater site lists Josh at
https://goldwater.scholarsapply.org/sch-2015.php.
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Arts & Humanities
English
Publications:
Traci Brimhall, “Family Portrait as Lullaby,” “Lullaby With Almost All the
Answers,” and “Things Which Will Not Appear in This Lullaby” (poems). Poetry
Northwest 11.2 (2015): 8-9.
“Artic Tempest, Or How to Appease the Kraken When It Comes For You”
(essay). Passages North 36 (2015): 45-46.
“Idyll” (poem). Indiana Review 36.2 (2015): 153.
Tim Dayton, Muriel Rukeyser’s the Book of the Dead (University of Missouri
Press, 2003) was released in paperback and as an e-book.
Elizabeth Dodd, “Sanctuary” (creative nonfiction column). Terrain.org: A Journal
of the Built + Natural Environments (15 Feb. 2015):
http://terrain.org/2015/columns/sanctuary-by-elizabeth-dodd.
Michele Janette, “Novels of Bảo Ninh and Dương Thu Hương.” Fictions of the
American War in Vietnam. Ed. Brenda Boyle. NY: Bloomsbury Academic Press,
2014. 47-70.
Katherine Karlin, “We Are the Polites” (story). The Cincinnati Review 11.2
(2015): 185-197.
“Recommendation: The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks” (essay). Post Road 28
(2015): 152-4.
Mary Kohn, “The Way I Communicate Changes but How I Speak Don’t”: A
Longitudinal Perspective on Adolescent Language Variation and Change.
Publication of the American Dialect Society 99. Durham, NC: Duke University
Press, 2015.
Kara Northway, Pam Bromley, and Eliana Schonberg, “Student Perceptions of
Intellectual Engagement in the Writing Center: Cognitive Challenge, Tutor
Involvement, and Productive Sessions.” The Writing Lab Newsletter 39.7-8
(March/April 2015): 1-6.
Kimball Smith’s second novel, Missing Persons, was released in paperback.
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Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions:
Traci Brimhall, Reading for Our Lady of Ruins. Carr Visiting Authors Series.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Champaign, IL. 17 Mar. 2015.
Gregory Eiselein with Donald Saucier, “Experiences of Academic Engagement
and Classroom Community in Learning Communities.” 34th Annual Conference
on the First-Year Experience. Dallas, TX. 17 Feb. 2015.
“Engagement, Challenge, and Student Success” (invited keynote lecture).
Enhancing Teaching and Learning Conference: Kansas City Professional
Development Council. Kansas City, MO. 7 Mar. 2015.
Carol Franko, “Nnedi Okorafor’s Genre-Blended Intertextual, and Utopian Vision
for West Africa.” Midwest Conference on Utopian Studies. Valparaiso, IN. 20
Mar. 2015.
Philip Nel, “Rollins Book Award Winners Q&A” (invited panelist). Southwest
Popular / American Culture Association. Albuquerque, NM. 13 Feb. 2015.
“Was the Cat in the Hat Black?: Structural Racism in Children’s Literature”
(invited talk). DePauw University. Greencastle, IN. 10 Mar. 2015.
Bonnie Nelson, “The Alternate Universe of Sarah Scott and Charlotte Perkins
Gilman.” The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Los Angeles,
CA. 20 Mar. 2015.
Joy Smith, “Mourning, Memory, and Melancholy in Edgar Allan Poe’s Elegies.”
Poe Studies Association’s Fourth International Edgar Allan Poe Conference. New
York, NY. 27 Feb. 2015.
Tosha Sampson-Choma, “Resisting Hegemonic Black Male Identity in Andrea
Levy’s Fruit of the Lemon.” National Council for Black Studies. Los Angeles, CA.
13 Mar. 2015.
Joe Sutliff-Sanders, “Choose Your Own Syllabus: How Contract Grading Can
Help Students Make Material Meaningful.” Faculty Exchange for Teaching
Excellence. Manhattan, KS. 30 January 2015.
Dan Von Holten, “Chatting about ePortfolios” (panelist), Digital Rhetoric
Collaborative. Online. 5 Feb. 2015.
http://www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org/2015/02/05/drcchat-on-air-2-chattingabout-eportfolios.
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Research:
Grants:
Cydney Alexis, Traci Brimhall, and Mary Kohn received Faculty Enhancement
Awards from the College of Arts and Sciences.
Alexis and Kara Northway received Student Governing Association Student
Centered Tuition Enhancement Funding in the amount of $26,500 for the Writing
Center for 2015-2016.
Megan Birdsey (MA ’15), Elizabeth Case (MA ’16), Sierra Hale (MA ’15),
Elizabeth Krausher (MA ’16), Erica Ruscio (MA ’15), Robert Sanders (MA
’16), Alyxis Smith (MA ’15), and Brent Weaver (MA ’16) each received an Arts
& Sciences Graduate Student Research Travel Award.
Cameron Leader-Picone received a 2015 NEH Summer Stipend award for his
project titled “Rearticulating Race in Twenty-First Century African American
Literature.” Leader-Picone is one of two people in Kansas to receive an award
from the NEH this spring.
Northway and Shay Dodson (Pilots Program) were awarded a Spring 2015
Kansas State University Tilford Incentive Grant for Totally Tutoring.
Awards:
Elizabeth Dodd has been awarded a residency from Oregon State University’s
Spring Creek Foundation for the 35-year Research Pulse at Mount St. Helens.
Alex Stinson and Chris Sims (MA ’16) received scholarships to attend the 2015
Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) at the University of Victoria in British
Columbia, Canada.
Karin Westman received the Children’s Literature Association 2013 Article
Honor Award for her essay “Beyond Periodization: Children’s Literature, Genre,
and Remediating Literary History” as part of the “Forums: Manifestos” published
in the Children’s Literature Association Quarterly.
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/>
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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
Thanks to a collaborative application initiated by Don Hedrick, Kansas State
University has been selected as the host site in Kansas for “First Folio! The Book
that Gave Us Shakespeare,” a national traveling exhibition of the Shakespeare
First Folio, one of the world’s most treasured books. The Folger Shakespeare
Library, in partnership with the Cincinnati Museum Center and the American
Library Association, is touring a First Folio of Shakespeare in 2016 to all 50
states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico.
Karin Westman completed the 2014-2015 Wellesley Institute for Women in
Higher Education. The Institute provided four three-day sessions during the
academic year where participants share an intense, interactive curriculum
designed to provide the knowledge, skills, and perspectives for advancing as
leaders across all institution types.
Modern Languages
Publications:
Volume 39 issue number 1 of the department's open access journal, Studies in
20th & 21st Century Literature (STTCL), appeared in March 2015
at http://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/
Editor: Laura Kanost; Assistant Editors: Kathleen Antonioli and Derek Hillard;
Book Review Editors: Necia Chronister, Mayte DePaoli, and Sara Luly; Board
Members: Earl Brown, Robert Clark, Melinda Cro, Lucía Garavito, Rossana
Fialdini Zambrano, Pablo Martínez Diente, and Benjamín Torrico; Graduate
Student Editorial Assistant, Sara Brady
Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions:
Melinda A. Cro presented “Onomastic Deviations and Metaliterary
Consequences in the Gascon extravagant (1637)” to the seventeenth-century
French literature panel at the Southeast Coastal Conference on Languages and
Literatures in Savannah, GA on Friday, March 27.
Janice McGregor was invited to give a talk on "The interactional
accomplishment of authenticity in study abroad" at The Pennsylvania State
University on March 6, 2015 as a part of the alumni lecture series.
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Dr. McGregor also presented the paper "Conflicting competences: Negotiating
'enoughness' in study abroad" at the American Association for Applied Linguistics
on March 23, 2015.
Sara Luly presented the paper "The Role of Quacks in Legitimizing Animal
Magnetism" at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies annual
meeting on March 19th.
Derek Hillard presented: "Emotions and the Divided Self in 1900 Austria."
Association of Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting. Seattle,
March 2015.
Benjamin McCloskey presented a paper titled "Cowards and Slaves: Greeks on
the Periphery in the Cyropaedia" at the 111th annual meeting of the Classical
Association of the Middle West and South in Boulder, CO, which met from March
25-28th.
Christopher E. Renner, K-State instructor of Italian, chaired a panel exploring
the relationship between food studies and Italian studies, and presented a paper
as part of that panel, entitled “Italia in Bocca: The History and Culture of Food in
Italy,” at the 2015 American Association of Italian Studies Conference at the
University of Colorado, Boulder, March 26 - 29.
Research:
Li Yang: A draft version of an online textbook on Chinese pragmatics has gone
live online (http://www.k-state.edu/chinesepragmatics), which will be available to
anyone who might be interested in learning about Chinese pragmatics in the
university community after it is finalized. Grounded in the cognitive approaches to
SLA and prior empirical research, the online textbook provides students with
explicit instruction on appropriate communication in Chinese, various awarenessraising exercises/activities, and rich multimedia resources (e.g., videos, images,
etc.).
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Other:
Kumiko Nakamura, with two of her students from Japanese 6, attended the 29th
annual Japanese language speech contest at Consulate General of Japan at
Chicago on March 21, 2015. Tori Matta and Weiyuan Xu delivered their speech
flawlessly and received awards, respectively.
She also met with a group of gifted student facilitators at Manhattan High School
to discuss opportunities for their students to start Japanese language study
before college. Kumiko explained the proficiency development of language
learning and how critical to start learning difficult languages earlier. She also
shared the information provided by Japan Foundation on Japanese language
education advocacy program, summer study abroad program in Japan for high
school students, online materials available for self-study as well as the Japanese
language courses offered at K-State.
School of Music, Theatre, and Dance
Publications:
Patricia Thompson recorded and released Luminous Voices: Timothy Shantz,
Music Director, Patricia Thompson, Mezzo-Soprano soloist. Mendelssohn’s Te
Deum, Schubert’s Ständchen. Commercial recording with support from the
Rosza Foundation, released March 31, 2015.
Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions:
Sally Bailey gave a presentation titled “The Embodied Student” in Spotlight
K-State.
Cora Cooper performed Spohr, Duo in D major Op. 67 No. 2 with guest artist
Charles Castleman (Eastman School of Music) on sponsored recital sponsored
by MTD and an Academic Excellence Grant in All Faiths Chapel.
Julie L. Pentz presented Building Family Relations & Enhancing Childhood
Development through Tap Dance, T3 Tap To Togetherness, at the Kansas
Parents as Teachers Association Conference.
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Patricia Thompson was Alto soloist on Handel’s Messiah with the St. Louis
Bach Society, St. Louis, MO. She also performed with the Spire Chamber
Ensemble, Monteverdi Vespers of 1610. Concerts presented at Church of the
Visitation, Kansas City, MO, March 21, 2015 and Grace Episcopal Cathedral,
Topeka, KS, March 22, 2015.
Research:
Cora Cooper acquired license to publish Beatrice Mattei Viola Sonata in
forthcoming “Viola Music by Women” anthology
Julie Pentz continues to develop Tap To Togetherness, T3. Collaborative
research with Dr. Bradford Wiles, Early Childhood Development and Research
and Extension.
Grants:
Awards:
Other:
Sally Bailey gave a guest presentation titled “Dramatizing Research through
Ethnotheatre” in EDCEP 938 Advanced Data Analysis in Qualitative Methods
and gave a guest presentation on “Creative Group Trust and Cohesion” in SOWK
570 Social Work in Groups.
Jerry Jay Cranford organized a week professional development trip for K-State
Theatre majors to Los Angeles including backstage access to Disneyland’s major
performance venue and talkbacks with members of the stage management
teams (joined by advisory council member, Harry Watts and his wife) , a tour of
the Disney Burbank Studios (we held one of Walt Disney’s academy awards),
two new plays with an impromptu talkback with the playwright, a trip to the Getty
museum and a networking event in the Hollywood Hills at a friend’s home that
had been the home of Rudolph Valentino (we also attended a day of taping on
the MODERN FAMILY set with Eric Stonestreet which was the impetus for
scheduling this trip). Cranford also Directed/Choreographed three dance
numbers for Sara Stoulil’s senior recital Musical staging for the Heartland Men’s
Chorus Spring Concert, MODERN FAMILIES.
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Amy Rosine served as the Music Director for the Music Man at the Columbian
Theatre in Wamego. This production ran from Jan 5- March 8. She aided in
casting the show, rehearsing the singers and pit musicians (some performers
were from K-State), and conducted six performances of the show. Dr. Rosine
also Recorded music for the Sorores Duo at Tempest Studios in Tempe, Arizona.
The music on the recording consisted of chamber pieces for soprano and clarinet
that included selections from a Holocaust program and two other twentieth
century works.
Philosophy
Publications:
“Conceptualizing Adaptive Preferences Respectfully: An Indirectly Substantive
Account” accepted, Journal of Political Philosophy, Rosa Terlazzo.
“When is Non-Ideal Theory too Ideal? Adaptive Preferences, Children, and Ideal
Theory”, Ideal and Non-ideal Theory, Oxford University Press. Rosa Terlazzo.
Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions:
“Democracy and Religious Freedom In Central Asia”, South and Central Asia
Fulbright Conference, Hyderabad, India, March 2nd, Jon Mahoney.
“Respect for Autonomy or Promotion of Autonomy: Is the Question Which we
should Privilege or When?” American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division,
Rosa Terlazzo.
“More Murder & Mayhem” at the pacific American Philosophical Association,
Pacific Division, Donald Wilson.
“Kindness, Moral Health & Moral Prosperity,” Eastern Study Group of the North
American Kant Society, Georgetown University, Donald Wilson.
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Social & Behavioral Sciences
Geography
Publications (*graduate students):
Martin, C.W. 2015. Trace metal storage in recent floodplain sediments along the
Dill River, central Germany. Geomorphology 235:52-62.
Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions (*graduate students):
Granco, G.*, Caldas, M.M., and Bergtold, J. 2015. How sugarcane ethanol
expansion impacts the Brazilian Cerrado land use: Intensification or
extensification? 20th Kansas State University Research Forum, Manhattan,
March.
Patch, N.* 2015. The use of water infrastructure as weapons and political levers
in the Middle East. Annual Industry Day Meeting of the Greater Kansas City Post
Society of American Military Engineers, March.
Research (*graduate students):
Grants (*graduate students):
Awards (*graduate students):
Other (*graduate students):
Robert Briwa* received an Association of American Geographers/Gamma Theta
Upsilon Travel Award to present at the annual Association of American
Geographers Meeting in Chicago in April.
Gabriel Granco* received a Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers
(CLAG) 2015 Travel Award to present at the organization’s annual conference in
Brazil this May.
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Max Lu was appointed interim director of the Confucius Institute at Kansas State
University.
Bimal Paul gave an invited lecture on “Bangladesh: An Introduction” at Topeka
West High School in Topeka, KS, March.
Political Science
Publications:
Emizet F Kisangani, professor, Accepted and Forthcoming. “Social Cleavages
and Politics of Exclusion: Instability in the Central African Republic” International
Journal of World Peace.
Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions:
Sam Bell, associate professor, KSU Oz to Oz talk at Australian National University entitled “The Effect of US Troop Deployments on Human Rights.” Canberra, Australia. March 12, 2015. Research:
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Psychological Sciences
Publications:
Park, Y., & Fritz, C. (2015). Spousal recovery support, recovery experiences,
and life satisfaction crossover among dual-earner couples. Journal of Applied
Psychology,100, 557-566.
Park, Y., Fritz, C., & Jex, S. M. (2015, March 24). Daily cyber incivility and
distress: The moderating roles of resources at work and home. Journal of
Management. Advance online publication. doi:10.1177/0149206315576796
Brase, G.L. & Hill, W.T. (2015). Good fences make for good neighbors but bad
science: A review of what improves Bayesian reasoning and why. Frontiers in
Psychology, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00340.
Bailey, H., Sargent, J. Q., Flores, S., Zacks, J. M., Nowotony, P., & Goate, A. (in
press). APOE ε4 genotype status predicts everyday memory. Aging,
Neuropsychology, and Cognition.
Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions:
Wadian, T. W., Barnett, M. A., Sonnentag, T. L., Jones, T. L., & Brandt, S. R.
Using storybooks to improve children’s attitudes toward obese peers: Role of
character popularity and children's popularity. Society for Research in Child
Development, Philadelphia, March, 2015. (Also presented at the K-State
Research Forum, March 31, 2015.)
Jones, T.L., Barnett, M. A., Wadian, T. W., & Sonnentag, T. L. Factors
associated with emotional and behavioral responses to ambiguous social
interactions in which rejection may (or may not) be perceived. K-State Research
Forum, March 31, 2015.
Kirkpatrick, K. (2014). Individual differences in impulsive and risky choice.
Invited colloquium presented at the Center for Visual and Cognitive
Neuroscience, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND.
Research:
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Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work
Publications:
Steinmetz, K. F. & Gerber, J. (2015). “It doesn’t have to be this way”: Hacker
perspectives on privacy. Social Justice, 41(3).
Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions:
Brad Logan presented (with Grace Bagley, KSU undergraduate) “Points and
Potsherds from Quarry Creek: Chronological Implications for Kansas City
Hopewell” at the 37th Annual Flint Hills Archaeological Conference, Iowa Tribal
Complex, White Cloud, Kansas, March 20th.
Nolasco, C. R. I., del Carmen, R. V., Steinmetz, K. F., Vaughn, M. S., & Spaic,
A. (2015, March). Building legal competency: Foundations for a more effective
criminology and criminal justice discipline. Presentation at the 2015 meeting of
the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. Orlando, FL.
Establishing a Qualitative Methods Section at ACJS. (2015, March). Facilitated
by Kevin F. Steinmetz. Open Seminar at the 2015 meeting of the Academy of
Criminal Justice Sciences. Orlando, FL.
Loyd, Heather. Love that Binds: Gendered expectations for love and romance in
inner city Naples (Italy) and their implications for socioeconomic vulnerability.
Anthropology of Children and Youth Conference. Long Beach, CA, March 2015.
Donna C. Roper. “Making and Using Pottery at the Kansas Monument Site,
14RP1.” Paper presented at the 37th Annual Flint Hills Conference, White Cloud,
Kansas.
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Grants:
Jessica Falcone. NEH Faculty Development Grant to participate in Summer
Seminar at the East-West Center at University of Hawaii-Manoa in Buddhist Asia:
Traditions, Transmissions, and Transformations ($3900).
Awards:
Other:
From Brad Logan: This month word was received that the National Park
Service (NPS) had listed the Young Buck site on the National Register of Historic
Places. The site, located on Wildcat Creek in Manhattan and occupied during
the Woodland (AD 1-1000) and Late Prehistoric (AD 1000-1500) periods, was
investigated by the Kansas Archaeological Field School-2104, a KSU research
and educational program. Investigations at the site in 2012-2013 were supported
by grants to the university from the Historic Preservation Fund awarded by the
NPS through the Kansas Historical Society.
Gerad Middendorf was recently invited to join the Social Science Editorial
Advisory Panel for the journal Nature Plants, a journal from Nature Publishing
Group.
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Natural & Quantitative Sciences
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics
Publications:
Journal Articles:
Durrett, TP., et al (2015). “Metabolic engineering of oilseed crops top produce
high levels of novel acetyl glyceride oils with reduced viscosity, freezing point and
calorific value”. Plant Biotechnology Journal DOI: 10.1111/pbi.12325.
Durrett, TP., et al (2015) “Field production, purification and analysis of high-oleic
acetyl-triacylglycerols from transgenic Camelina sativa.” Industrial Crops and
Products 65: 259-268.
Muthukrishnan, S., Kramer, KJ., et al (2015) “Tribolium castaneum RR-1
cuticular protein TcCPR4 is required for formation of pore canals in rigid cuticle.”
PLoS Genet 2015 Feb 9; 11(2):e1004963. Doi:
10.1371/journal.pgen.1004963.eCollection 2015 Feb.
Geisbrecht, BV, et al (2014) “Inhibition of bacterial mevalonate diphosphate
decarboxylase by eriochrome compounds.” Arch Biochem Biophys. 2015 Jan 15;
566:1-6. doi: 10.1016/j.abb.2014.12.002. Epub 2014 Dec 11.
Dittmer, NT., Brummett, LM., Davis, LC., Kanost, MR., and Gorman, MJ., et
al (2015) “Multicopper oxidase-1 orthologs from diverse insect species have
ascorbate oxidase activity” Insect Biochem and Mol Biol, Feb 17; 59C:58-71. doi:
10.1016/j.ibmb.2015.02.005.
Tomich, J., et al (2015) The protein Armet/MANF is responsive to endoplasmic
reticulum stress in insects. FASEB J [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 25678626.
Avila, L.A., Aps, L. R. M. M., Sukthankar, Tomich, J. M., et al (2015) Alternate
supramolecular structures for different ratios of branched amphiphilic cationic
peptide /DNA assemblies: Correlation with gene delivery Mol Pharm. 12(3):70615. PMID: 25647162.
Tomich, J.M., et al (2015) Trapping of Intermediates with Substrate Analog
HBOCoA in the Polymerizations Catalyzed by Class III Polyhydroxybutyrate
(PHB) Synthase from Allochromatium Vinosum ACS Chem Biol. Feb 16. [Epub
ahead of print] PMID: 25686368.
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Sukthankar, P, Whitaker, S.K., Garcia, M., Herrera, A., Boatwright, M.,
Prakash, O., and Tomich, J.M. (2015) Thermally Induced Conformational
Transitions in Branched Amphiphilic Peptide Capsules. Langmuir Feb 26. [Epub
ahead of print] PMID: 25719598.
Duhachek-Muggy, S. and Zolkiewska A. (2015) ADAM12-L is a direct target of
the miR-29 and miR-200 families in breast cancer. BMC Cancer 15:93.
Muthukrishnan, S., et al (2015) Chitin is a necessary component to maintain the
barrier function of the peritrophic matrix in the insect midgut. Insect Biochem and
Mol. Biol. 56:21e28.
Kramer, KJ., Muthukrishnan, S., et al (2015) Knickkopf and Retroactive
proteins are required for formation of laminar serosal procuticle during embryonic
development of Tribolium castaneum. Insect Biochem. And Mol. Biol.
Doi:10.1016/j.ibmb.2015.02.013.
Prakash, O., et al (2015) Lignins of Bioenergy Crops. Natural Products
Communication 10:201-208.
Wani, PS., et al (2015) Maturation of the proteasome core particle induces an
affinity switch that controls regulatory particle association. Nature
Communications 6:6384 doi: 10.1038/ncomms7384.
Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions:
Timothy Durrett gave an oral presentation, “Using Sequence Diversity to
Explore MBOAT Substrate Specificity and Increase Production of Low Viscosity
Oil,” at the BMB Departmental Seminar on March 4, 2015
Om Prakash presented an invited talk entitled, “Understanding of Molecular
Recognition and Function of an Essential Enzyme for antiviral Drug
Developments” at the international conference on “Current trends in Drug
Discovery and Developments”, held in Lucknow, India, February 25-28, 2015
Timothy Durrett gave an oral presentation, “Using a Novel Acetyltransferase to
Alter the Structure of Seed Storage Lipids,” at the Plant Lipids: Structure,
Metabolism & Function 2015 Gordon Conference in Galveston, TX, February 2,
2015.
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Mark Boatwright (graduate, Tomich) gave two oral presentations, “Triple
Quadrupole Tandem Mass Spectrometric Determination of Desirable Glycolipid
Population in Bread Quality Hard Wheat Breeding Nurseries” and “Near Infrared
Chemical Imaging as a Tool for Analyzing the Purity of Flour Milling Streams,” at
the Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy in
New Orleans, LA, March 8-12, 2015.
Research:
Zhi Guang Jia (postdoc, Chen) presented a poster, “Necessity of high physical
resolution in the development of flexible coarse-grained protein models,” at the
2015 Biophysical Society Meeting in Baltimore, MD, February 7-11, 2014.
Kuo Hao Lee (postdoc, Chen) presented a poster, “Refining Multi-scale
Enhanced Sampling for Simulating Disordered Protein Conformations,” at the
2015 Biophysical Society Meeting in Baltimore, MD, February 7-11, 2014.
Tam Tran Nguyen (graduate, Durrett) presented a poster, “Identifiying functional
residues involved in substrate specificity of Diacylglycerol Acetyltransferase”, at
the Gordon Research Conference, “Plant Lipids: Structure, Metabolism &
Function” in Galveston, TX, February, 1-6, 2015.
Sunil Bansal (graduate, Durrett) presented a poster, “Generating reduced
viscosity plant oils: A step towards the production of an advanced biofuel” at the
Gordon Research Conference, “Plant Lipids: Structure, Metabolism & Function”
in Galveston, TX, February, 1-6, 2015.
Sunil Bansal and Timothy Durrett presented a poster, “Demonstrating
Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of Pennycress (Thlaspi arvense) by
expressing EaDacT to alter seed oil composition” at the Gordon Research
Conference, “Plant Lipids: Structure, Metabolism & Function” in Galveston, TX,
February, 1-6, 2015.
Zhiguang Jia and Jianhan Chen presented a poster, “Necessity of high
physical resolution in the development of flexible coarse-grained protein models”
at the 59th Biophysical Society annual Meeting, in Baltimore, Ma, February 7-11,
2015.
Kuohao Jia and Jianhan Chen presented a poster, “Refining Multi-scale
Enhanced Sampling for Simulating Disordered Protein Conformations” at the 59th
Biophysical Society annual Meeting, in Baltimore, Ma, February 7-11, 2015.
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Cheryl Clark (research assistant, E. Geisbrecht) presented a poster, “F-box
proteins in Drosophila muscle,” at the 56th Annual Drosophila Research
Conference in Chicago, IL, March 4-8, 2015.
Nicole Green (graduate, E. Geisbrecht) presented a research poster, “A novel
role for secreted hemolymph proteins in Drosophila muscle attachment,” at the
56th Annual Drosophila Research Conference in Chicago, IL, March 4-8, 2015.
Nicole Green [co-author] (graduate, E. Geisbrecht) presented a poster on
educational initiative, “Evidence-Based Inquiry into the Remote: Using
Drosophila's Phenoloxidase to Open the Door to Research-Based Experiences in
a High School Classroom,” at the 56th Annual Drosophila Research Conference
in Chicago, IL, March 4-8, 2015.
Grants:
Awards:
Other:
Anna Zolkiewska served on an NIH study section panel “Molecular
Oncogenesis”, February 19-20, 2015, in Washington DC.
John Tomich: was inducted as member of National Academy of Inventors.
Physics
Publications:
A recent paper from Carlos Trallero’s group is feature in Nature Photonics, under
Research Highlights at
http://www.nature.com/nphoton/journal/v9/n4/pdf/nphoton.2015.47.pdf --- look
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“Identification of a Previously Unobserved Dissociative Ionization Pathway in
Time-Resolved Photospectroscopy of the Deuterium Molecule,” Wei Cao,
Guillaume Laurent, Itzik Ben-Itzhak, and C. Lewis Cocke, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114,
113001 – Published 16 March 2015.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.113001
“Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of the Giant Mimivirus Particle with an X-Ray
Free-Electron Laser,” Daniel Rolles, Artem Rudenko, et al, Phys. Rev. Lett.
114, 098102 – Published 2 March 2015
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.098102
“Coherent electronic wave packet motion in C60 controlled by the waveform and
polarization of few-cycle laser fields”, I. Ben-Itzhak, C.L. Cocke, et al Phys. Rev.
Lett. 114, 123004 - Published 27 March 2015.
http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.123004 Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions:
“Of Soot and Sunflowers,” CHRIS SORENSEN, Colloquium at CU Boulder,
Boulder, CO (3/4/15).
“Adhesion of D. discoideum on Hydrophobic Substrate,” Bret Flanders and
Nicoleta Ploscariu, March Meeting of the American Physical Society, San
Antonio, TX (3/2/15).
“Shapes of Swiftly Spinning Superfluid He Nanodroplets,” Daniel Rolles, Artem
Rudenko, et al, March Meeting of the American Physical Society, San Antonio,
TX (3/4/15).
“Two-color x-ray pump x-ray probe study of the core-hole decay dynamics in
XeF2,” Artem Rudenko, et al, March Meeting of the American Physical Society,
San Antonio, TX (3/5/15).
“AFM Studies of Conformational Changes in Proteins and Peptides,” Robert
Szoszkiewicz, et al, March Meeting of the American Physical Society, San
Antonio, TX (3/5/15).
“Bridging the multiple timescales of amyloid aggregation,” Jeremy Schmit,
Poster presented at Scialog 2015: Molecules Come to Life, Oracle, AZ (3/15/15).
“Manipulating coherent electronic wave packet dynamics in C60 with few-cycle
laser pulses”, I. Ben-Itzhak, C.L. Cocke, et al, “Ultrafast Dynamic Imaging of
Matter, Grindelwald, Switzerland, March 8-12, 2015.
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Amit Chakrabarti presented with Laura Donnelly at SPOTLIGHT K-State 2015
(3/24/15).
“Digestive ripening of gold nanorods in aqueous solution: Effect of CTAB and Au
concentration,” Pablo Guimera Coll and Christopher Sorensen, 249th ACS
National Meeting & Exposition, Denver, CO (3/24/15).
“Formation of Ag nanoclusters via the direct dissolution of bulk Ag,” Jessica
Changstrom and Christopher Sorensen, 249th ACS National Meeting &
Exposition, Denver, CO (3/22/15).
“Highly oxidized graphene nanosheets from the oxidization of detonation carbon,”
Arjun Nepal and Christopher Sorensen, 249th ACS National Meeting &
Exposition, Denver, CO (3/25/15).
“Temperature dependent solubility of gold nanoparticle suspensions,” Jeffrey
Powell, Kyle Bayliff, Emily Herman and Christopher Sorensen, 249th ACS
National Meeting & Exposition, Denver, CO (3/25/15).
“Electron dynamics in gold nanoparticles under strong laser fields,” Jeffrey
Powell, Artem Rudenko and Christopher Sorensen, 249th ACS National
Meeting & Exposition, Denver, CO (3/25/15).
CAMP at BL1 - a Permanent User Endstation for X-Ray Imaging and PumpProbe Experiments at FLASH — Daniel Rolles, et al, poster presented at the
Spring Meeting of the German Physical Society, Heidelberg, Germany (3/23/15).
X-ray movie of light induced dynamics in free nano particles — Daniel Rolles, et
al. Poster presented at the Spring Meeting of the German Physical Society,
Heidelberg, Germany (3/23/15).
Commissioning the Microfocus Optics for the CAMP Chamber at FLASH —
Daniel Rolles, et al. Poster presented at the Spring Meeting of the German
Physical Society, Heidelberg, Germany (3/23/15).
Diffraction effects in the Recoil-Frame Photoelectron Angular Distributions of
Halomethanes. — Daniel Rolles, et al. Poster presented at the Spring Meeting
of the German Physical Society, Heidelberg, Germany (3/23/15).
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Grants:
Glenn Horton-Smith - “Intensity Frontier Fellow Program for Sowjanya
Gollapinni” from the US Department of Energy (Fermi National Accelerator
Laboratory Intensity Frontier Fellow Program), 1/1/15-12/31/15 in the amount of
$33,911.
Andrew Ivanov - "LPC Distinguished Researcher Fellowship for Sadia Khalil"
from the US Department of Energy (US CMS), 1/1/15-12/31/15 in the amount of
$43,663.
Andrew Ivanov - “LHC CMS Detector Upgrade. FPIX Subsystem.” The US
Department of Energy, Fermi National Accelerator Lab, 1/1/ 2015 - 12/31/2015 in
the amount of$95,504.
Keti Kaadze - KSU Mentoring Fellowship, $6000.
Awards:
Other:
Jeremy Schmit was selected as a Scialog Fellow, a distinction that includes a
multi-year invitation to participate in the Scialog meeting series co-sponsored by
the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and Research Corporation for Science
Advancement.
Eleanor Sayre participated in a National Science Foundation panel review (3/253/27).
Uwe Thumm attended the 43rd Symposium for Research Award Winners in
Bamberg, Germany (3/26-3/29/15).
Statistics
Publications:
Yuan Chen, Wei Zhou, Haiyan Wang & Zheming Yuan (2015) Prediction of Oglycosylation sites based on multi-scale composition of amino acids and feature
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selection. Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing. 2015 Mar 10. DOI
10.1007/s11517-015-1268-9.
Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions:
Abstracts:
N. M. Bello, et al. “Trait variation and genetic divergence of a widespread grass
Andropogon gerardii across a Great Plains climate gradient”. Abstract. 2015 American
Society of Plant Biologists Midwestern Section Meeting. Lincoln, Nebraska. March 2425, 2015.
N. M. Bello, et al. “Effect of lysing and energy intake during late gestation on weight gain
and reproductive performance of gilts and sows under commercial conditions”. Abstract.
Joint Midwest Meetings of the American Dairy Science Association and the American
Society of Animal Science. Des Moines, Iowa. March, 15th to 18th, 2015.
N. M. Bello, et al. “Effect of standardized ileal digestible (SID) tryptophan:lysine ratio on
growth performance of 11- to 20-kg nursery pigs”. Abstract. Joint Midwest Meetings of
the American Dairy Science Association and the American Society of Animal Science.
Des Moines, Iowa. March, 15th to 18th, 2015.
N. M. Bello, et al. “Effect of standardized ileal digestible (SID) tryptophan:lysine ratio on
growth performance of finishing pigs”. Abstract. Joint Midwest Meetings of the American
Dairy Science Association and the American Society of Animal Science. Des Moines,
Iowa. March, 15th to 18th, 2015.
N. M. Bello, et al. "Efficacy of a vaccine and a direct-fed microbial against fecal
shedding ofEscherichia coli O157:H7 and corresponding impacts on cattle performance
in a commercial feedlot" Abstract. Kansas State University Cattlemen's Day. Manhattan,
KS. March 6, 2015.
Research:
Grants:
Active Grants (ongoing):
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.
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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 $ 41,446 – 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.
Awards:
Other:
Haiyan Wang: Associate Editor for Journal of Nonparametric Statistics.
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Nora Bello: Associate Editor for the Journal of Biological, Agricultural, and
Environmental Statistics.
Weixing Song: Associate Editor, Journal of Statistics and Probability Letters.