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Agronomy
Jianming Yu and colleagues
published “Major Regulatory
Genes in Maize Contribute to
Standing Variation in Teosinte
(Zea mays ssp. parviglumis),”
Genetics, Vol. 177, No. 4.
Yu and colleagues published “Genetic Design and
Statistical Power of Nested
Association Mapping in
Maize,” Genetics, Vol. 178,
No. 1.
Apparel, textiles
and interior design
Barbara G. Anderson, Peggy L. Honey and Michael
T. Dudek published “Interior Design’s Social Compact:
Key to the Quest for Professional Status,” Journal of Interior Design, Vol. 33, No. 2,
December 2007.
Architecture
Mick Charney presented
“The Architect, The Apprentice, His Wife, and Her Mother; Following The Trail of a
True Kansas Tale,” Hawaii
International Conference on
Arts and Humanities, Jan. 11,
Honolulu.
Biology
Ruth Welti and colleagues
published “Differential Degradation of Extraplastidic and
Plastidic Lipids During Freez-
ing and Post-freezing Recovery in Arabidopsis thaliana,”
the Journal of Biological
Chemistry, Vol. 283, No. 1,
January 2008.
uria and Hypertension Associated with Chronic Kidney
Disease,” “Heart Failure and
Chronic Kidney Disease:
When Worlds Collide.”
Anthony Joern and colleague published “Coexisting
Generalist Herbivores Occupy Unique Nutritional Feeding Niches,” Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of
America, Jan. 28-Feb. 1.
The following K-State faculty members presented at the
Oklahoma Veterinary Medical Association meeting, Jan.
25, Tulsa:
Brad White, “Beef Calf
Management.”
Bob Larson, “Future of
Rural Practice,” “What Are
New Graduates Looking for
in a Practice” and “Heifer
Development as a Practice
Builder.”
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Katsura Asano and colleagues published “Eukaryotic Initiation Factor (eIF) 1
Carries Two Distinct eIF5binding Faces Important for
Multifactor Assembly and
AUG Selection,” the Journal
of Biological Chemistry, Vol.
283, No. 2, January 2008.
Chemistry
Mark D. Hollingsworth and
colleagues published “Hidden
Degrees of Freedom in Aperiodic Materials,” Science, Vol.
319, January 2008.
Clinical sciences
Mike Apley and Brian Lubbers presented “In Vitro Characteristics of Oxytetracycline
in a Hollow Fiber Infection
Model,” Clinical and Laboratory Standards InstituteVAST, Jan. 24, Tampa, Fla.
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Chuck Rice, agronomy,
was elected as a member of the
American Association for the
Advancement of Scienceʼs electorate nominating committee of
the section on agriculture, food
and renewable resources. His
term will begin Feb. 19 and will
run through Feb. 21, 2011.
The following K-State faculty members presented at the
North American Veterinary
Conference, Jan. 19-23, Orlando, Fla.:
Brad White, “Vaccinations in Beef Cattle.”
Greg Grauer, “Mature
Mysteries: Old Age Ain’t
No Place for Sissies,” “Nutritional and Fluid Therapy
Management of Acute and
Chronic Kidney Disease,”
“Staging and Management
of Chronic Kidney Disease,”
and “Management of Protein-
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Mike Apley presented “Characterizing and Understanding
Pain in Food Animals,” “Pharmacological Considerations
Related to the Use of NSAIDs
in Treatment of Inflammatory
Disease Processes and for
Alleviation of Pain in Food
Animals,”
“Pharmacological Considerations Related to
the Use of NSAIDs in Treatment of Infectious Disease
Processes in Food Animals,”
“Rational Application of Antimicrobials in Food Animals:
Using Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing,” and “Putting
It All Together in Therapeutic
Protocols for Your Clients,”
Ontario Veterinary Medical
Association, Jan. 31.
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Bob Larson presented “Pneumonia in Cattle,” “Strategies
to Improve Stocker Health
and Performance,” “Mass
Medication for Incoming Cattle,” “Economics of First-line
BRD Treatment Selection,”
“The Economics of Diagnostic Testing in Stocker Operations,” “Impact of Pre-Weaning Vaccination Programs on
Post-Weaning Performance”
and “Mass Medication for
Incoming Cattle,” Mid-South
Stocker Conference, Feb.
12, University of Tennessee,
Knoxville.
Controllerʼs office
Fran Willbrant has been appointed to the annual meeting
program committee of the
Central Association of College and University Business
Officers.
Economics
E. Wayne Nafziger published
“Capitalism and Commercialization: Privatization,” New
Encyclopedia of Africa, Vol.
1, 2008, edited by John Middleton and Joseph C. Miller.
English
The following K-State faculty
members presented at the Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the West-
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in Motion, Oct. 26, Boulder,
Colo.:
Anne Longmuir, “ ‘Reader, Perhaps You Were Never
in Belgium?’: Negotiating
British National Identity in
Charlotte Bronte’s ‘The Professor’ and ‘Villette.’”
Naomi Wood, “Branches,
Veins, and Progress: Charles
Kingsley’s
Anastomosing
Narrative in ‘The Water-Babies.’ ”
Wood also presented
“‘You’ll Not Get Nowt ’Til
You Pay’: History, Pedagogy
and Imagination in David
Almond’s ‘The Fire-Eaters,’” Fantasy Matters, Nov.
17, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis.
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Tanya Gonzalez published
“The (Gothic) Gift of Death
in Cherrie Moraga’s ‘The
Hungry Woman: A Mexican
Medea’ (2001).” Chicana/Latina Studies, Vol. 7 No. 1 (Fall
2007).
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Donna Potts published “Water from Stone: The Spirit
of Place in Moya Cannon’s
Poetry,” in An Sionnach: A
Journal of Literature, Arts and
Culture. Vol. 3, No. 2 (Fall
2007): 46-54.
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Karin Westman edited and
wrote the introduction to
“Children’s Literature and
Modernism,” a special issue
of Children’s Literature Association Quarterly. Vol. 34, No.
4 (2007).
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The following K-State faculty members presented at the
Modern Language Association Convention, Dec. 28-30,
Chicago:
Gergory Eiselein presented “Emma Lazarus and Jewish Poetry.”
Erica Hately presented
“From Jindabyne to ‘Jindabyn’: Immigrant and Indigenous Specters.”
Philip Nel presented “The
Cat in the Hat at 50” (panel
chair).
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Michele Janette presented
“Colloquium: Vietnamese and
American Cross-Cultural Perceptions,” Nov. 22, at Vietnam
National University, Hanoi.
Janette also presented
“Student Engagement and
Active Learning,” Vietnam
National University, University of Social Sciences and
Humanities, Nov. 28, Ho Chi
Minh City.
Janette also presented
“Vietnamese American Literature,” Nov. 30, University
of Can Tho, Vietnam.
Geography
Richard Marston and colleague published “The Geomorphic Adjustment of the
Conference, Dec. 27-29, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Business and Economy Conference.
Human nutrition
Modern languages
Sandra Procter and Carol
Ann Holcomb published
“Breastfeeding
Duration
and Childhood Overweight
Among Low-Income Children in Kansas: 1998-2002,”
American Journal of Public
Health, Vol. 98, No. 1.
Bimal Paul, geography,
published “Economics: Industrial Labor - North America,” in the Institute for
Encyclopedia of Women and Is- Academic Alliances
lamic Culture, 181-182. Leiden, Dana Reinert presented
the Netherlands: Brill Academic “Who’s Ever Heard of a
Publishers, 2007.
Student-Centered
Pricing
Washita River, Washita Battlefield National Historical
Site, Oklahoma,” an 82-page
Natural Resource Technical
Report of the National Park
Service, Natural Resource
Program Center: Fort Collins,
Colo.
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Bimal Paul presented “Patterns of Compliance with
Public Evacuation Order: The
Case of Bangladesh’s Cyclone
Sidr,” seminar organized Jan.
13 by the department of geography and environment at
Jagannath University, Dhaka,
Bangladesh.
Paul and colleague presented “Determinants of
Flood-Induced Deaths in Bangladesh, 1972-2007,” First
Non-Resident
Bangladeshi
Model?” U.S. Department of
Education Fund for the Improvement of Post-secondary
Education Project directors
meeting, Jan. 11, Washington,
D.C.
Management
Diane L. Swanson was appointed to the Academy of
Management Review editorial
board for a three-year term.
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Amir Tavakkol presented
“International
Corporate
Transfer Policies and the Dual
Perspectives in Evaluating
Cross-Border Investments,”
International Business and
Economy Conference, Jan.
10-13, San Francisco. This
also was published in the Proceedings of the International
Derek Hillard presented
“Brecht and the Politics of the
Body,” Pacific Modern Language Association Conference, November 2007, Bellingham, Wash.
Multiple departments
T.G. Nagaraja, David Renter, diagnostic medicine/pathobiology; James Drouillard,
animal science and industry;
and students published “Effects of Dried Distillers Grain
on Fecal Prevalence and
Growth of Escherichia coli
O157 in Batch Culture Fermentations from Cattle,” Applied and Environmental Microbiology, January 2008.
Physics
Igor V. Litvinyuk and colleagues published “StrongField Non-Sequential Double
Ionization: Wavelength Dependence of Ion Momentum
Distributions For Neon and
Argon,” Journal of Physics B:
Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Vol. 41, No. 3,
February 2008.
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