FACULTY & STAFF
Recognition
Richard Goldberg, OSUCCC – James, received the 2015 Bob Pinedo Cancer Care Prize from the Society for Translational Oncology (STO) at the STO Fifth Annual Meeting, Columbus, April 10-11. The $50,000 award recognizes Goldberg’s clinical and research leadership in gastrointestinal oncology, as well as his compassionate care of cancer patients. He delivered the keynote address at the annual meeting, and his presentation will be published in The Oncologist, STO’s official journal.
Presentation
Sarah Nerad, Collegiate Recovery Community and Recovery for the Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Drug Misuse Prevention and Recovery at Ohio State, spoke at the national “Preventing Opioid Deaths among Young People” conference on Capitol Hill. Her presentation focused on her personal recovery story and the need for collegiate recovery programs on college campuses, Washington D.C., June 10.
Recognition
Mingyu (Max) Joo, Marketing, received the John D.C. Little Award from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. The award recognizes the best marketing paper published in Marketing Science or Management Science.
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Books
Scott Levi, History, Caravans: Indian Merchants on the Silk Road (India: Allen Lane/Penguin Press, February 2015).
Margaret Newell, History, Brethren by Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery (New York: Cornell University Press, 2015).
Grants
Kun Huang, Biomedical Informatics, received $399,919 from the National Cancer Institute for “Informatics Links Between Histological Features and Genetics in Cancer.” The study will be used to develop a novel set of software tools that will enable researchers and clinicians to integrate a collection of data from numerous cancer modalities. Such tools are likely to foster the development of personalized treatment schemes for cancer patients.
Stuart Ludsin, Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, received a two-year, $162,598 Ohio Board of Regents grant to study fish flesh and fresh produce as sources of human exposure to a liver toxin, microcystin. Along with associate investigators Jiyoung Lee, Public Health and Food Science and Technology; Jay Martin, Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering; and Kenneth Riedl and Steven Schwartz, Food Science and Technology, their overarching goal is to determine if consumption of fish from Lake Erie or fresh produce grown with water from Lake Erie and its region, poses a risk to human health.
Quintin Pan, Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery and the Translational Therapeutics Program, received $499,289 from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research for “Role of P300 in HPV-positive Head and Neck Cancer.” The study looks to reveal actionable “druggable” targets for the development of HPV-directed anti-cancer therapeutics.
Esther Vanderknaap, Horticulture and Crop Science, and Biao Ding, Molecular Genetics, were awarded $5,080,274 from the National Science Foundation, NSF Integrative Organismal Biology program to research “Exploitation of Genetic and Epigenetic Variation in the Regulation of Tomato Fruit Quality Traits.”
Presentations
Darcy Haag Granello and Paul Granello, Counselor Education, led the workshop “Suicide Prevention in School Settings” at the Suicide and Self-harm Prevention Conference 2015. Paul Granello also led the plenary session “Suicide Assessment Strategies, Cairns, Australia, June 24-26. Norman Jones, English, presented “Literature, Sexuality and the Postsecular: Intersections and Possibilities” at the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, April 29.
Jack Nasar, City and Regional Planning, presented “Impressions of Plaza Lighting after Dark” at EDRA 46, Brainstorm: Dynamic Interaction of Environment-Behavior and Neuroscience, Los Angeles, Calif., May 27-30.
Martin Ponce, English, presented “Burning Money: Queer Desi Losers in Rahul Mehta’s Quarantine” at the Association for Asian American Studies, Evanston, Ill., April 23.
Publication
Martin Ponce, English, “Queer/Feminist/Narrative: On the Limits of Reciprocal Engagement,” Narrative Theory Unbound: Queer and Feminist Interventions (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2015), pp. 334-39, eds. Robyn Warhol and Susan Lanser.
Recognition
Cheryl Achterberg, Education and Human Ecology, was named by Mometrix Test Preparation to its 2015 list of “30 most influential deans of education in the United States.” Achterberg is No. 18 in the nation, according to Mometrix. She has been dean of EHE since 2007. Researchers analyzed a number of different factors including state and national awards and honors, education program rankings, individual degree program rankings and the level of pay received by graduated teachers from the schools examined.
Robert Brodkey and Jacques Zakin, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, were welcomed into the inaugural class of Ohio State’s Emeritus Academy. They join an elite group of 71 emeritus faculty members who represent just 3 percent of the total number of emeritus professors at The Ohio State University.
Yizhou Dong, Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, was one of 17 recipients from nine countries to be awarded a Bayer Hemophilia Award, an initiative that supports basic and clinical research and education in hemophilia. Dong received the Early Career Investigator Award, which provides salary support and research funds for junior faculty members to undertake mentored and/or basic research projects. This funding will help him investigate the potential of mRNA nanomedicines, a novel platform for the production of factor VIII, that leverage the missing Factor VIII in hemophilia A patients.
Ronald Solomon, Mathematics, is featured in the article “The Whole Universe Catalog,” which appeared in the July 2015 issue of Scientific American. This article explains in simple terms the classification of finite simple groups, termed ‘the Enormous Theorem’. It gives an account on the history of the proof, and describes the ongoing effort of producing a more streamlined proof of the classification that is more accessible.
Nina Yun, English, had her creative nonfiction story “The Great Middle” selected for a 2015 Pinch Literary Award.
Carl Zulauf, Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, was bestowed the 2015-16 Outstanding Professor award by the Ohio State Agribusiness Club and its annual banquet, April 20.
Service
Arnab Chakravarti, Radiation Oncology, has been appointed to chair the National Institutes of Health Cancer Biomarkers Study Section. Chakravarti is the first radiation oncologist to chair this NIH-National Cancer Institute extramural program. In addition, he received the American College of Radiation Oncology (ACRO) Distinguished Service Award at ACRO’s 2015 annual meeting, Washington, D.C., May 14-16. The award recognizes his sentinel leadership contributions to ACRO, especially in chairing the past two ACRO annual meetings.
Levent Guvenc, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, was elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Guvenc is recognized for significant contributions in applied robust control, mechatronics, cooperative mobility of road vehicles, automotive control, and control applications in AFM.
Ani Katchova, Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, was named executive board director of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
Fabio Leite, Psychology, Ohio State Lima, has been named associate dean at the Lima campus. In his new role, he will be responsible for the strategic planning of academic programming across all disciplines, directly connected with the education of all Ohio State Lima students. He began July 1.
Ramteen Sioshansi, Integrated Systems Engineering, was selected by the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia to participate in a working group on financing renewable energy development in ASEAN and East Asian countries.
Compiled by
Adam King