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September 2014
Summary Sheet
Traci Brimhall, English, reading of 6 new poems at Poet Lore’s 125th Anniversary Reading at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C., 15 Sept. 2014. Link: http://www.folger.edu/wosummary.cfm?woid=951
Slawomir Dobrzanski, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance, presented a Lecture-recital “Chopin before Chopin: Inspirations and Influences” at the Polish Academy of Sciences, Paris Branch, Paris, France where he also performed a piano recital at the Polish Library in Paris. Dr. Dobrzanski also performed a piano recital on the “Great Spaces” Recital Series at Grace Cathedral in Topeka, Kansas.
Bimal Paul was named Head of Delegation for the 10-member delegation from the Association of American Geographers who will attend the Twentieth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 20) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Lima, Peru between 1 and 12 December, 2014.
Bell, Sam R and Michael Flynn, Political Science, (with Colin Barry, Univ of Oklahoma; K. Chad Clay, Univ. of Georgia; and Amanda Murdie, Univ of Missouri) Accepted and Forthcoming. “Choosing the Best House in a Bad Neighborhood: Location Strategies of Human Rights INGOs in the Non-Western World.” International Studies Quarterly. 58 (1): 187-198. ISQ is ranked 10th among all political science journals (Giles and Garrand 2007; Garrand et al 2009). ISQ is the flagship journal of the International Studies Association, the foremost association for political science scholars in the subfield of international relations. No K-State political science professor had been published in this prestigious outlet over the first forty years of the department’s history, from 1965 to 2005. Since 2005, we have published in ISQ over a dozen times.
US Patent Office: Tomich, JM (Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics), Iwamoto, T., Hiromasa, Y., and Gudlur, S. (2010) “Branched Amphipathic Oligo-Peptides that Self- Assemble into Vesicles.” Notice of Allowance dated September 3, 2014.
Matt Kirk, Geology, NSF EPSCoR proposal Experimental and Modeling Analysis of CO2 as a Control on Microbial Activity in Anoxic Environments Kansas EPSCoR – New Awards in Climate and Energy.
Video highlights NSF REU Program in Physics at Kansas State University See http://www.phys.ksu.edu/reu/news/reu-2014-video.html.
Brett DePaola, Physics, appears in the new SCIENCE 2034 podcast, Building a Better Atomic Clock. See http://a.cms.omniupdate.com/10/ - k-state/k-state/physics/previewedit/news/news- stories/2014/index.pcf
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September 2014
Arts & Humanities
English
Publications: Traci Brimhall, “How to Survive the Revolution” (poem). Best American Poetry 2014. NY: Scribner, 2014.11.
“In My Third Trimester, I Dream My Own Death” (poem). Crab Orchard Review 19.1 (2014): 19.
“The Old Miracles Return on Victoria Cruziana,” “The Fate of Maria Jose da Cruz’s Seven Faiths,” and “Belterra Exodus” (poems). Poet Lore 109.3/4 (2014): 111-114.
Elizabeth Dodd, “‘The Grand Word Whither’: Review of No Need of Sympathy by Fleda Brown.” Miramar 2 (2014): 180-83.
“Mirror Neurons” and “Inflection Studies” (poems). Miramar 2 (2014):47-49.
Katy Karlin, “How to Live in the Midwest” (story). New Letters 80.3/4 (2014): 59-63.
Jim Machor and Amy Blair, Editor’s Introduction, Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History 8 (2014): 1-3.
Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions: Traci Brimhall, reading of 6 new poems at Poet Lore’s 125th Anniversary Reading at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C., 15 Sept. 2014. Link: http://www.folger.edu/wosummary.cfm?woid=951
Mark Crosby, “‘Athenian Flaxman, car-borne wonder of many a triumph of the arts,’ and his Shield of Achilles.” Blake, Flaxman, and Romantic Sociability, Birbeck College, University of London. 18 July 2014.
Philip Nel, ““Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss: How an Unlikely Couple Found Love, Dodged the FBI, and Transformed Children’s Literature.” Rowayton Historical Society. Rowayton, CT. 26 Sept. 2014.
“Not So Simple: The Genius of Crockett Johnson’s Harold and the Purple Crayon” (invited talk). University of Connecticut. Storrs, CT. 24 Sept. 2014.
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Research:
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Awards: Hunter Gilson (BA ‘14, MA ‘16) and Kristin Selby (BA ‘14, MA ‘16) received Arts and Sciences Graduate Student Research Travel Awards.
Brent Weaver (BA ‘14) received an Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Student Research Travel Award.
Karin Westman has been selected by the Provost’s Office to attend the HERS Wellesley Institute for Women in Higher Education for 2014-2015. The Institute provides four three-day sessions during the academic year where participants share an intense, interactive curriculum designed to provide the knowledge, skills, and perspectives needed for advancing as leaders across all institution types.
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School of Music, Theatre, and Dance
Publications: Anna Marie Wytko saw the publication of her new book on saxophone pedagogy titled The Saxophonist As Rank Beginner And Beyond: A Guide for Saxophone Methods Class, Band Directors, and Private Instructors with RJ Upmarket Press.
Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions: Sally Bailey delivered a presentation on the Drama Therapy Program at the monthly Arts and Humanities Association (AHA) for Manhattan.
Slawomir Dobrzanski presented a Lecture-recital “Chopin before Chopin: Inspirations and Influences” at the Polish Academy of Sciences, Paris Branch, Paris, France where he also performed a piano recital at the Polish Library in Paris. Dr. Dobrzanski also performed a piano recital on the “Great Spaces” Recital Series at Grace Cathedral in Topeka, Kansas.
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Laura Donnelly choreographed Crystalline Moments and Moving Portraits for the Beach Museum Gala. Both dances were presented again as part of “Brainstorming: Maximizing Learning in the K-State Classroom” sponsored by the Teaching and Learning Center and Faculty Exchange for Teaching.
Karen Large performed ‘Hardwood’ by Lansing McCloskey with the Konza Wind Quintet at the Beach Museum Gala.
Karen Large performed ‘Petrouchka’ by Igor Stravinsky as TSO piccoloist and flutist at the Topeka Symphony Concert, Topeka, KS.
Julie Pentz attended the National Association of Schools of Dance Conference in Snowbird, UT. The K-State Tap Ensemble performed at the Walk for ALS at Arrowhead Stadium.
Amy Rosine gave recitals featuring contemporary music for soprano and clarinet at Howard Payne University, Hardin-Simmons University, and Wayland Baptist University all in Texas. She also gave a master class at Wayland Baptist University. Dr. Rosine also performed at the Beach Museum Gala with Tod Kerstetter on clarinet and Jacquline Kerstetter on horn.
Frank Tracz served as a clinician at Seaman High School in Topeka and Bonner Springs in the greater Kansas City area.
Kathy Voecks and Sally Bailey presented in the Maker’s Fair in Aggieville. Kathy demonstrated model making with her sets for Vanya and Masha and Sonia and Spike and Sweeney Todd and Sally taught magic to everyone who stopped by the booth.
Anna Marie Wytko was a guest artist and did master classes at the University of North Texas, Sam Houston State University, Baylor University, the University of Denver, and the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Research: Laura Donnelly is developing choreographic material for Movement 2 “The Crystal Melts” for Crystal Ballet in collaboration with Amit Chakrabarti (K-State Physics) and Bryce Craig (composer). She is also mentoring dance students Courtney Hoover and Daniel Phillips on the A&S Undergraduate Research Projects.
Julie Pentz is developing her research titled Building Family Relations & Enhancing Child Development Through Tap Dance through a community partnership between
K-State Dance, Research and Extension, Early Childhood Development, and the Manhattan Kansas Parts as Teachers Organization.
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Amy Rosine is doing research on Teaching Spanish to young singers.
Grants: Laura Donnelly has submitted a grant application to the KU Choreography Fellowship Program. Professor Donnelly is also developing a project with Dr. Amit Chakrabarti and Dr. Sanjay Rebello for a Pathways Grant as part of the NSF’s Advancing informal STEM Learning (AISL) initiative.
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Other: Julie Pentz was featured in the fall edition of the Manhattan Magazine in a column titled “Get to Know Manhattan Artists.”
Frank Tracz, coordinated K-State’s annual Band Day at the KSU/UT-El Paso Football Game. He was also a guest speaker at Manhattan High School and for the ADP Sorority Chapter here on campus. His work as director of the K-State Marching Band included three home football games and a “surprise concert” for K-State benefactor Eric Stonestreet at the home of Eric’s parents in Kansas City.
Philosophy
Publications: "Particularism Doesn't Flatten," accepted, Journal of Moral Philosophy, Amelia Hicks.
‘Liberty, Fear and the State: Philosophical Perspectives on Security’ under contract for Security: Dialogue across disciplines, ed. P. Bourbeau. Cambridge University Press. Herington, Jonathan.
“The limits of global health diplomacy: Taiwan’s observer status at the World Health Assembly”, accepted Globalization and Health. Jonathan Herington & Kelley Lee.
"Game Theory and the Evolution of Meaning", accepted, Language and Linguistics Compass, Elliott Wagner.
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Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions: “Recognition and Justice," conference presentation at Paul Ricoeur: Thinker at the Margins, University of Antwerp, Charles Reagan.
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Social & Behavioral Sciences
Economics
Publications: 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, DOI:10.1007/s00148-013-0501-9.
Braymen, Charles B., Yang-Ming Chang, and Zijun Luo, "Tax Policies, Regional Trade Agreements, and FDI: A Welfare Analysis," Forthcoming in Pacific Economic Review.
Yang-Ming Chang, Hung-Yi Chen, Leonard F.S. Wang, and Shih-Jye Wu, "Corporate Social Responsibility and International Competition: A Welfare Analysis," Review of International Economics, 22(3), 2014, pp. 625–638.
Shih-jye Wu, Yang-Ming Chang, Hung-Yi Chen, "Antidumping Duties and Price Undertakings: A Welfare Analysis," International Review of Economics and Finance, 29, 2014, pp. 97-107.
Turner, Tracy. 9/29/14 -- Sage Publishers featured my recently published paper, titled, “Cigarette Taxes and Cross-border Revenue Effects: Evidence Using Retail Data” in the lead blog on the SAGE management blog – Management INK. This paper is co- authored with Eduardo Alvarado, a KSU Bachelors 2014, and Andrew Nicholson, KSU MA 2012.
Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions: Freeman, Amanda – Advisory Council Meeting Presentation: instructional technology with online students.
Kuester, Dan – Economics Club hosted Dennis Dautel (CEO of Landscapes USA) as a speaker Thursday, October 2. About eighty students attended.
Research: Chang, Yang-Ming – “Green, Clubs, Heterogeneous Firms, and Green Consumers: A Welfare Analysis of Environmental Regulations” (with Jason Walter)
Chang, Yang-Ming – "Endogenous Destruction in Conflict: Theory and Extensions," Revise and Resubmit. (with Zijun Luo)
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Chang, Yang-Ming – “Imported Inputs, Privatization in Downstream Mixed Oligopoly, and Foreign Ownership,” Revise and Resubmit. (with Shih-Jye Wu and Hung Yi Chen)
Chang, Yang-Ming – "Digital Piracy: Price-Quality Competition between Legal Firms and P2P Network Hosts," Revise and Resubmit. (with Jason Walter)
Chang, Yang-Ming – "Direct, Third-Party Intervention in Conflict: Mechanism Design, Principal-Agency, Deterrence, and Welfare," under review. (with Shane Sanders)
Chang, Yang-Ming – "Technology Licensing and Environmental R&D Investments: Implications for Emissions Tax Policies," under review. (with Tsung-Hsiu Tsai) Chang, Yang-Ming. "Investment in Clean Technology: Compete, Cooperate, or Merge?" under review. (with Jason Walter)
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Geography
Publications (*graduate students): Blake, K. 2014. Zen Ervin selected for Pfeiffer Award. Zane Grey Review 29(2): 9.
Rahman, M.K., Paul, B.K., Curtis, A., and Schmidlin, T.W. 2014. Linking coastal disasters and migration: A case study of Kutubdia Island, Bangladesh. The Professional Geographer doi: 10.1080/00330124.2014.022020.
Tabor, L.* and Harrington, J., Jr. 2014. Lessons learned from professional development workshops using GIS to teach geography and history in the K-12 classroom. The Geography Teacher 11(2): 47-54.
Wolkovich, E.M., Cook, B.I., McLauchlan, K.K., and Davies, T.J. 2014. Temporal ecology in the Anthropocene. Ecology Letters doi:10.1111/ele.12353.
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Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions (*graduate students): Harrington, J.A., Jr. 2014. Opportunity knocks. Geography Underground Conference, Parkville, Missouri, September.
Kelly, K.E.*, Spaulding, S.A., and McLauchlan, K.K. 2014. Paleoecological reconstruction of a modern subalpine whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) community in Grand Teton National Park, USA. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Sacramento, California, August.
Tabor, L.*, Harrington, J., Jr., and Larsen, T.* 2014. Online mapping and GIS. Geography Underground Conference, Parkville, Missouri, September.
Tabor, L.*, Harrington, J., Jr., Everhart, C., and Everhart, D. 2014. Times are changing: Managing a successful geography awareness week. National Council for Geographic Education Annual Meeting, Memphis, Tennessee, August.
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Other (*graduate students): John Harrington, Jr. gave an invited talk “A Century of Climate Variability in northwest Kansas” at the KSU Northwest Research-Extension Center, Colby, Kansas, September 2014.
Kyleen Kelly* was awarded Honorable Mention for the 2014 Edward S. Deevey Award for best student presentation by the Ecological Society of America, August 2014.
Richard A. Marston gave an invited presentation titled “Spatial Distribution of Slope Failures, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, USA” at the University of Bern, Institute of Geological Sciences, Bern, Switzerland, September 2014.
Bimal Paul was named Head of Delegation for the 10-member delegation from the Association of American Geographers who will attend the Twentieth session of the
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Conference of the Parties (COP 20) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Lima, Peru between 1 and 12 December, 2014.
A.Q. Miller School of Journalism & Mass Communications
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Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions: Thomas Hallaq - South Central Broadcast Society / Broadcast Educators Association District 5 annual conference, Oklahoma Baptist University, Edmond, OK – Sept 26-27, 2014. Attended as representative of the JMC School for several student awards received: - Honorable Mention in Sports Package (Video) - Gardner Jordan, Sarah LaFerre, Sean Frye, Clay Pitzenberger. - Honorable Mention in Talent (Audio) - Caleb Jones. - Finalist in Talent (Audio) - Alex Achten & Bill Gurney. - Finalist in News Program (Audio) - Jason Beets - Finalist in Short film - Brian Broeckelman - Grand Prize in Radio Sports Program - John Forsee & Tanner Barth. - Grand Prize in Documentary (Video) - Brian Broeckelman, Danny Neely, J. Ryan Roberts, Jared Clark.
Research: Dissanayake, Sunanda and Hallaq, Tom. Effect of Vehicle Color and Background Visibility for Improving Safety on Rural Kansas Highways. Funded by Kansas Department of Transportation. Report due December 1, 2014.
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Political Science
Publications: Bell, Sam R and Michael Flynn (with Colin Barry, Univ of Oklahoma; K. Chad Clay, Univ. of Georgia; and Amanda Murdie, Univ of Missouri) Accepted and Forthcoming. “Choosing the Best House in a Bad Neighborhood: Location Strategies of Human Rights INGOs in the Non-Western World.” International Studies Quarterly. 58 (1): 187-198. ISQ is ranked 10th among all political science journals (Giles and Garrand 2007; Garrand et al 2009). ISQ is the flagship journal of the International Studies Association, the foremost association for political science scholars in the subfield of international relations. No KSU political science professor published in this prestigious outlet over the first forty years of the department’s history, from 1965 to 2005. Since 2005, we have published in ISQ over a dozen times.
Bell, Sam R. (with K. Chad Clay, Amanda Murdie, and James Piazza, Penn State U) Accepted and Forthcoming. “Opening Yourself Up: The Role of External and Internal Transparency in Terrorism Attacks”. Political Research Quarterly. PRQ is ranked 8th among all journals in political science (Giles and Garrand 2007; Garrand et al 2009).
Flynn, Michael E. 2014. “Military Leadership, Institutional Change, and Priorities in Military Spending.” Foreign Policy Analysis 10(2):103–126. Foreign Policy Analysis is one of the journals of the International Studies Association. FPA’s 2013 ISI ranking for international relations journals is 33 out of 82.
Flynn, Michael E (with Michael A. Allen and Julie VanDusky–Allen, both at Boise State Univ). Accepted and Forthcoming. “The Localized and Spatial Effects of US Troop Deployments on Host-state Defense Spending.” Foreign Policy Analysis.
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Other: Media exposure: Sabri Ciftici was featured in a top of the fold, front page article on ISIS in the Sunday edition of the Manhattan Mercury, Sept 27.
Nate Birkhead has been quoted by CNN, Bloomberg News and other outlets on electoral races Kansas.
Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work
Publications: 2014 Kurtz, Don L.,Travis Linnemann and Eddy Green. “Support, Coercion, and Delinquency: Testing Aspects of an Emerging Theory.” Journal of Crime and Justice, v37, n3.
2014 Linnemann, Travis and Don L. Kurtz. “Beyond the Ghetto: police power, methamphetamine and the rural war on drugs.” Critical Criminology v22 n3.
Steinmetz, K. F. (2014, Online First). Craft(y)ness: An ethnographic study of hacking. British Journal of Criminology.
Donna C. Roper. “Assessing the Radiocarbon Age Determinations Dataset and Revising the Chronology for the Central Plains Tradition.” Central Plains Archeology 14:17-63, 2014.
Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions: Steinmetz, K. F. (2014, September). Technological tedium: Boredom, hacking, and popular culture. Presentation at the 2014 International Crime, Media, & Popular Culture Studies Conference. Terra Haute, IN.
Donna C. Roper, “How Pawnee Women Made and Used Pottery at the Kansas Monument Site.” Shawnee Chapter, Kansas Anthropological Association, Topeka.
Donna C. Roper, Basic Archaeology class at the Becoming an Outdoors Woman Program. Rock Springs 4H Camp, Geary County, Kansas.
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Research:
Grants: Donna C. Roper, Completion of Testing Archaeological Sites and Re-examination of Existing Collections at Hugh Butler Lake, Nebraska. Nebraska-Kansas Area Office, U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation. $52,997.
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Other: L. Susan Williams, with Captain Tim Hegarty of Riley County Police Department, is showcased by the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy in Virginia as among only 130 scholars in the nation scientifically demonstrating strategies that actually work in reducing crime and disorder in policing; the study is listed as "highly rigorous," demonstrating statistically significant decrease in crimes.
Women’s Studies
Publications: Singer, Benjamin – “ARCHIVE: Trans Art in the 1990s.” Special Issue on Trans* Cultural Production. TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 1.4 (2014): 620-626.
Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions: Janette, Michele – “Lily Hoang’s Parabola: A Literary/Geometric Experiment in Queer Time.” “The States of Southeast Asian American Studies:” 4th Tri-Annual Southeast Asians in the Diaspora Conference. University of Minnesota. October 3-4, 2014.
Singer, Benjamin – Workshop presentation at the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association’s Annual Conference: “The “Trans Buddy Program: Increasing Transgender People’s Access to Medical Care at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.” Baltimore, MD. September 10-14, 2014.
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Natural & Quantitative Sciences
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics
Publications: Varahan, S., Harms, N., Gilmore, MS., Tomich, JM., and Hancock, LE. (2014) “An ABC Transporter Is Required for Secretion of Peptide Sex Pheromones in Enterococcus faecalis.” MBio. Sep 23;5(5). pii: e01726-14. doi: 10.1128/mBio.01726-14.
Khosla, A., Paper, JM., Boehler, AP., Bradley AM., Neumann, TR., and Schrick, K. (2014) “HD-Zip Proteins GL2 and HDG11 Have Redundant Functions in Arabidopsis Trichomes, and GL2 Activates a Positive Feedback Loop via MYB23.” The Plant Cell May vol. 26 no. 5 2184-2200.
Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions: Phillip E. Klebba presented a seminar, “Fluorescence spectroscopic studies of the mechanism of Gram-negative bacterial iron transport”, at the University of California Berkeley, on September 15, 2014.
Tim Durrett presented a seminar, “Targeted Metabolic Engineering of Oilseed Crops to Produce High Levels of Industrial Lipids”, at the 12th Euro Fed Lipid Congress in Montpellier, France on September 15, 2014.
Jianhan Chen presented a seminar, “Multi-scale enhanced sampling of protein structure and interactions”, in the Department of Physics at Xiamen University, Shanghai, China on September 17-18, 2014.
Phillip E. Klebba presented a seminar, “Fluorescence spectroscopic studies of the mechanism of Gram-negative bacterial iron transport”, at the University of California UCLA, on September 19, 2014.
Jianhan Chen presented a seminar, “Multi-scale enhanced sampling of protein structure and interaction”, in the Institute of Natural Sciences at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China on September 21-22, 2014.
Jianhan Chen presented a seminar, “Orderly Chaos of Proteins”, in the Department of Chemistry at Fudan University, China on September 23, 2014.
Om Prakash, Daisuke Takahashi, Kyeong-OK Chang, Yunjeong Kim, William C. Groutas, presented “NMR Insights into the Ligand Binding and Molecular Function of Norovirus Protease, an Essential Enzyme for Antiviral Drug Designing” at 26th
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International Conference on Magnetic Resonance in Biological System, Dallas, TX, August 24-29, 2014.
Alvaro I. Herrera, Yanjing Xiao, Yugendar R. Bommineni, Jose L. Soulages, Guolong Zhang, Om Prakash, presented “Structural Determinants of Host Defense Peptide Fowlicidin-2 for Antimicrobial Potency and Target Cell Selectivity” at 26th International Conference on Magnetic Resonance in Biological System, Dallas, TX, August 24-29, 2014.
Timothy Durrett presented a seminar, "Elucidating and Exploiting the Unusual Substrate Specificity of a Membrane Bound O-acyltransferase (MBOAT)" on August 29, 2014 at the KSU Entomology Department.
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Awards: Prashant S. Wani (graduate, Roelofs-Biology) has received the Ruby Newhall Scholarship for 2014-2015.
Alvaro Herrera (graduate, Prakash) received an Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Research Travel Award to present his research studies at 26th International Conference on Magnetic Resonance in Biological System, Dallas, TX, August 24-29, 2014.
Other: US Patent Office: Tomich, JM, Iwamoto, T., Hiromasa, Y., and Gudlur, S. (2010) “Branched Amphipathic Oligo-Peptides that Self- Assemble into Vesicles.” Notice of Allowance dated September 3, 2014.
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Biology
Publications: Hiroyuki Hiraishi, Jamie Oatman, Sherry Haller, Logan Blunk, Benton McGivern, Jacob Morris, Evangelos Papadopoulos, Wade Gutierrez, Michelle Gordon, Wahaj Bokhari, Yuka Ikeda, David Miles, John Fellers, Masayo Asano, Gerhard Wagner, Loubna Tazi, Stefan Rothenburg, Susan J Brown, and Katsura Asano. Essential role of eIF5-mimic protein in animal development is linked to control of ATF4 expression. Nucl Acids Res 42, 10321–10330.
Veach, A.M., W. K. Dodds, and A. Skibbee. 2014 Fire and grazing influences on rates of riparian woody plant expansion along grassland streams PLOS ONE 10.1371/journal.pone.0030527.
Brett Sandercock: Highlights: Our recently published article was highlighted in the ‘Science in Short’ section of the fall 2014 issue of the Wildlife Professional 8(3):15, a quarterly magazine published by The Wildlife Society with a circulation of ~10,000 members.
McNew, L.B., L.M. Hunt, A.J. Gregory, S.M. Wisely, and B.K. Sandercock. 2014. Effects of wind energy development on the nesting ecology of Greater Prairie-Chickens in fragmented grasslands. Conservation Biology 28:1089-1099.
Morehouse, R. L. & M. Tobler (2014): Striped Shiner (Luxilus chrysocephalus Rafinesque 1820). In: D. A. Distler, M. E. Eberle, D. R. Edds, K. B. Gido, S. G. Haslouer, D. G. Huggins, T. D. Mosher, W. J. Stark, J. R. Tomelleri, J. R. Triplett & E. O. Wiley (eds.): Kansas Fishes. University Press of Kansas, Lawrence KS: 171-172.
Greenway, R., L. Arias-Rodriguez, P. Diaz & M. Tobler (2014): Patterns of macroinvertebrate and fish diversity in freshwater sulphide springs. Diversity 6 (3):597- 632.
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. In Press. Implications of the circumpolar genetic structure of polar bears for their ecology, evolution and conservation in a rapidly warming Arctic. PLoS ONE.
Lorena Passarelli - None published – five manuscripts are in preparation.
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Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions: John Blair presented an invited seminar “Assessing Multiple Controls of Primary Productivity in Tallgrass Prairie: The Konza Prairie LTER Program” for the Distinguished Scientist Seminar Series at The Ecosystem Center, part of the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, MA. This seminar series is done in conjunction with the MBL Semester in Environmental Science program, and includes opportunities to meet and interact with undergraduate student participants from around the country.
W. A. Boyle - Co-organized symposium “Alpine Ornithology in 2014: ecological adaptations and challenges for birds breeding in mountain ecosystems”; AOU/COS/SCO-SOC Joint Annual Meeting, Estes Park, Colorado, 23-27 September 2014.
W. A. Boyle - Boyle, W. A. “Altitudinal migration in the Americas”, invited 30-min presentation AOU/COS/SCO-SOC Joint Annual Meeting, Estes Park, Colorado, 24 September 2014.
W. A. Boyle - Williams, E. J. and W. A. Boyle. “Grasshopper Sparrows on the move: what explains variation in within-season dispersal in a declining songbird?” AOU/COS/SCO-SOC Joint Annual Meeting, Estes Park, Colorado, 27 September 2014.
W. A. Boyle - Ross, J. D., J. F. Kelly, E. S. Bridge, W. A. Boyle. “Severe weather, fault bars, and stable isotope signatures of stress”. AOU/COS/SCO-SOC Joint Annual Meeting, Estes Park, Colorado, 24 September 2014.
Walter Dodds - The Value of Water. Sigma Xi Kansas State University Chapter. University Distinguished Researcher lecture.
Brett Sandercock - Sandercock, B.K. Effects of wind energy and rangeland management on grassland birds in Kansas. Departmental Seminar, Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability and Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University. September 2014.
Brett Sandercock - Sandercock, B.K., and V. Ruiz-Gutiérrez. Bird demography in Program R. Joint Meeting of the American Ornithologists’ Union (132nd), Cooper Ornithological Society (84th), and Society for Canadian Ornithologists (32nd), Estes Park, Colorado. September 2014 (1-day workshop in demographic statistics).
Brett Sandercock - Grond, K., R.B. Lanctot, J.W. Santo Domingo, H. Ryu, and B.K. Sandercock. Linking gut microbiota composition to life-history and individual quality of arctic-breeding shorebirds. Joint Meeting of the American Ornithologists’ Union (132nd), Cooper Ornithological Society (84th), and Society for Canadian Ornithologists (32nd), Estes Park, Colorado. September 2014 (poster).
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Brett Sandercock - Kwon, E., and B.K. Sandercock. Test of ecological mismatches in an arctic network. Joint Meeting of the American Ornithologists’ Union (132nd), Cooper Ornithological Society (84th), and Society for Canadian Ornithologists (32nd), Estes Park, Colorado. September 2014.
Brett Sandercock - Raynor, E.J., T. Cable, and B.K. Sandercock. Effects of Tamarix removal on community dynamics of riparian birds. Joint Meeting of the American Ornithologists’ Union (132nd), Cooper Ornithological Society (84th), and Society for Canadian Ornithologists (32nd), Estes Park, Colorado. September 2014.
Brett Sandercock - Sandercock, B.K., V.L. Winder, A.E. Casey, T.W. Mong, T.N. Johnson, K.J. Odom, K.M. Strum, M. Alfaro. Blazing and grazing for conservation: habitat use by Upland Sandpipers in an experimental landscape. Joint Meeting of the American Ornithologists’ Union (132nd), Cooper Ornithological Society (84th), and Society for Canadian Ornithologists (32nd), Estes Park, Colorado. September 2014.
Brett Sandercock - Sandercock, B.K., V.L. Winder, C.A. Hagen, D.A. Haukos, D.C. Kesler, M.A. Patten, and L.A. Powell. Regional variation in the seasonal survival of prairie chickens. Joint Meeting of the American Ornithologists’ Union (132nd), Cooper Ornithological Society (84th), and Society for Canadian Ornithologists (32nd), Estes Park, Colorado. September 2014.
Brett Sandercock - Verheijen, B.H., and B.K. Sandercock. Effects of patch-burn grazing management on nest survival and brood parasitism rates of declining species of grassland songbirds. Joint Meeting of the American Ornithologists’ Union (132nd), Cooper Ornithological Society (84th), and Society for Canadian Ornithologists (32nd), Estes Park, Colorado. September 2014.
Brett Sandercock - Winder, V.L., C.A. Hagen, D.A. Haukos, D.C. Kesler, M.A. Patten, L.A. Powell, and B.K. Sandercock. Lek sites drive female resource use in ten populations of prairie-chickens. Joint Meeting of the American Ornithologists’ Union (132nd), Cooper Ornithological Society (84th), and Society for Canadian Ornithologists (32nd), Estes Park, Colorado. September 2014.
Brett Sandercock - Winder, V.L., L.B. McNew, and B.K. Sandercock. Demographic and movement responses of Greater Prairie-Chickens to patch-burn grazing on private lands. Joint Meeting of the American Ornithologists’ Union (132nd), Cooper Ornithological Society (84th), and Society for Canadian Ornithologists (32nd), Estes Park, Colorado. September 2014.
Zhilong Yang - Attended 2014 International Conference on Poxvirus, Asfarvirus & Iridovirus (Sep. 26-Oct. 1, 2014) and presented a poster entitled “A Genome-wide Analysis of Vaccinia Virus Translation Reveals Alternative Start Codons and Novel Open Reading Frames That Expand the Proteome”.
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Research: Lorena Passarelli - I maintained an active research program during this period to study baculovirus and Sindbis virus pathogenesis. My group includes a research assistant supported by an active NIH grant, a graduate student, and an undergraduate student. All are minorities – African American, African, and Hispanic.
Grants:
Awards:
Other: Katsura Asano - Dr. Asano is an expert on control and mechanism of eukaryotic gene expression. The published research started out by Dr. Asano’s collaboration with Dr. Susan Brown, a Tribolium expert in the Division. Drs. Asano and Brown co-mentored several undergrad students to study “translational control” in insects, which is an important yet unexplored area of study. Dr. Asano did some experiments in Brown lab, too. The results of these studies revealed an important role of eIF5-mimic protein (5MP) in insect development and gene regulation. This was not only reported in a leading journal in molecular biology but also became an important preliminary data for funding of Dr. Asano’s further research from the NSF, which started this fall.
Lorena Passarelli - Member, American Society for Virology Archives Committee.
Michael Tobler lab research was featured in a 16-page article in GEO magazine, the European equivalent to National Geographic. GEO has over 500,000 subscribers in German speaking countries alone. The article will subsequently appear in fifteen language editions.
Peter Wong - I started teaching Biology 455 (General Microbiology) with an enrollment of 280 students. The course has six lab sections. I also co-teach a section of Biology 198, Principles of Biology, with an enrollment of 72 students.
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Geology
Publications: Ashley, G.M., Ndiema, E., Spencer, J.Q.G., Du, A., Lordan, P.T., Kiura, P.W., Dibble, L., Harris, J.W.K., accepted August 2014. Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of Dongodien, Lake Turkana, Kenya and OSL Dating of Site Occupation during Late Holocene Climate Change. Journal of Archaeological Science
Brueseke, M.E., Bulen, C.L., and Mertzman, S.A., 2014, Major- and trace-element constraints on Cambrian basalt volcanism from well cuttings in the Arbuckle Province, Oklahoma (U.S.A.): in, Suneson, N., Igneous and Tectonic history of the Southern Oklahoma Aulacogen, Guidebook 38, Oklahoma Geological Survey, p. 1-10.
Brueseke, M.E., Callicoat, J.S., Hames, W., and Larson, P.B., 2014, Mid-Miocene rhyolite volcanism in northeastern Nevada: the Jarbidge Rhyolite and its relationship to the Cenozoic evolution of the northern Great Basin (U.S.A.): Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 126, p. 1047-1067.
Puckett, R.E. Jr., Hanson, R., Eschberger, A., Brueseke, M.E., *Bulen, C., and Price, J., 2014, New insights into the Early Cambrian igneous and sedimentary history of the Arbuckle Mountains area of the Southern Oklahoma Aulacogen from Basement Well Penetrations in the Arbuckle Mountains Area: in, Suneson, N., Igneous and Tectonic history of the Southern Oklahoma Aulacogen, Guidebook 38, Oklahoma Geological Survey, p. 61-94.
Spencer, J.Q.G., Oviatt, C.G., Pathak*, M., Fan†, Y., accepted July 2014. Testing and refining the timing of hydrologic evolution during the latest Pleistocene regressive phase of Lake Bonneville. Quaternary International.
Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions: Benowitz, J., Davis, Kailyn N., Brueseke, M.E., Trop, J.M., and Layer, P., 2014, Investigating the lost arc: Geological constraints on ~25 million years of magmatism along an arc-transform junction, Wrangell volcanic belt, Alaska: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 46, p. 363. (GSA Annual Meeting, Vancouver, B.C. Canada).
Downey, A.C., Brueseke, M.E., Hart, W.K., and Mertzman, S.A., 2014, New Geochemical constraints on Quaternary mafic volcanism in the Upper Wind River Basin, Wyoming (U.S.A.): Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 46, p. 82. (Rocky Mountain/Cordilleran Section Meeting, Bozeman, MT).
Hart, W.K., Brueseke, M.E., Brudzinski, M.R., 2014, Neogene basaltic volcanism and mantle evolution in the Idaho-Oregon-Nevada region: Implications for northwestern USA
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tectonomagmatic development: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 46, p. 824. (GSA Annual Meeting, Vancouver, B.C. Canada).
Ingalls, A.S., Brueseke, M.E., and Hames, W., 2014, Chemical and temporal constraints on the Cenozoic volcanic geology of the Little Goose Creek area, northeastern Elko County, NV: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 46, p. 88. (Rocky Mountain/Cordilleran Section Meeting, Bozeman, MT).
Kempton, P.D., Downes, Spence, A., 2014, Fate of immobile elements in subduction systems: a Hf isotope study of southern Sardinia, Goldschmidt Annual Conference, Sacramento, CA, 1229.
Kibria, M., Kirk, M., Hossain, M., Bhattacharya, P., Ahmet, K., Von Bromssen, M., Jacks, G., Datta, S. (06/2014). Relation between microbiology, hydrogeochemistry and sediment chemistry in explaining occurrences of high groundwater arsenic sites in Matlab, SE Bangladesh. Goldschmidt Annual Meeting, Sacramento, CA.
Kirk, M., Wilson, B., Marquart, K., Villani, G., Vinson, D., 2014, Biogeochemical controls on methane formation in Cherokee Basin coalbeds. Goldschmidt Annual Conference, Sacramento, CA.
Kirk, M., Wilson, B., Marquart, K., Villani, G., Vinson, D., Flynn, T., 2014, Geochemistry and microbiology of Cherokee Basin coalbeds: summary of preliminary findings. Results presented to industry collaborators, PostRock Energy Corporation, Oklahoma City, OK.
Kirk, M., Wilson, B., Marquart, K., Villani, G., Vinson, D., 2014, Biogeochemical controls on methane formation in Cherokee Basin coalbeds. Goldschmidt Annual Meeting, Sacramento, CA. Invited presentation.
Miller, K., 2014, Responding to Climate Change Questions and Challenges, KATS Kamp, Kansas Association of Teachers in Science
Miller, K., Weiss, M, Miller, I, Douglas Miller, R., DePaolo, B., and Wu, J., 2014, Programming Using the RaspberryPi: Enabling Innovation in STEM Fields, KATS Kamp, Kansas Association of Teachers in Science
Mladenov, N., Kulkarni, H., Kirk, M., McKnight, D. (06/2014) Electron shuttling capacity of humic substances in reducing aquifers and their potential role in arsenic mobilization. Goldschmidt Annual Conference, Sacramento, CA.
Roozeboom, J.E., Spencer, J.Q.G., Prentice, C.S., DeLong, S.B., 2014c. Correlation of marine terraces using pIRIR dating techniques to test Quaternary slip rates of the northern San Andreas Fault. 14th International Conference on Luminescence and Electron Spin Resonance Dating, 7-11 July 2014, Montréal, Canada
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Sanderson, D.C.W., Kinnaird, T.C., Turner, C., Stephens, W.E., Kukkonen, I.T., Spencer, J.Q.G., 2014. TL methods for geothermal resource evaluation: appraising onset temperature methods for recovering thermal histories. 14th International Conference on Luminescence and Electron Spin Resonance Dating, 7-11 July 2014, Montréal, Canada.
Saunders, J.A., Mathur, R., Kamenov, G., Shimizu, T., and Brueseke, M.E., 2014, Textural and isotopic evidence for metallic nanoparticles in bonanza epithermal ores: Society of Economic Geologists, SEG 2104 Annual Conference, Keystone, CO.
Spencer, J.Q.G., Huot, S., Archer, A.W., Caldas, M.M., 2014. Amazonian super-quartz revisited: methodological dating aspects for small samples of very young fluvial deposits. 14th International Conference on Luminescence and Electron Spin Resonance Dating, 7-11 July 2014, Montréal, Canada.
Research:
Grants: Matt Kirk, NSF EPSCoR proposal Experimental and Modeling Analysis of CO2 as a Control on Microbial Activity in Anoxic Environments Kansas EPSCoR – New Awards in Climate and Energy
Matt Brueseke, university small research grant Rare Earth Element Economic Potential of Pilot Knob, a Pliocene(?) Alkaline Intrusive Complex in the Greater Yellowstone Region, Northwestern Wyoming have both been funded.
Awards:
Other:
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Physics
Publications: Shun Wu, Chenchen Wang, Coralie Fourcade-Dutin, Brian R. Washburn, Fetah Benabid, and Kristan L. Corwin Direct fiber comb stabilization to a gas-filled hollow- core photonic crystal fiber Opt. Express 22, 23704-23715 (2014) http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-22-19-23704
Amy Rouinfar, Elise Agra, Adam M. Larson, N. Sanjay Rebello, and Lester C. Loschky, Linking attentional processes and conceptual problem solving: visual cues facilitate the automaticity of extracting relevant information from diagrams Front. Psychol. 5, 01094, (2014) DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01094
R. Boll, A. Rouzee, M. Adolf, D. Anielski, A. Aquila, S. Bari, C. Bomme, C. Bostedt, J. D. Bozek, H.N. Chapman, L. Christensen, R. Coffee, N. Coppola, S. De, P. Decleva, S. W. Epp, B. Erk, F.Filsinger, L. Foucar, T. Gorkhover, L. Gumprecht, A. Homke, L. Holmegaard, P. Johnsson, J.S. Kienitz, T. Kierspel, F. Krasniqi, K.-U. Kühnel, J. 7Maurer, M. Messerschmidt, R. Moshammer, N.L.M. Müller, B. Rudek, E. Savelyev, I. Schlichting, C. Schmidt, F. Scholz, S. Schorb, J. Schulz, J. Seltmann, M. Stener, S. Stern, S. Techert, J. Thøgersen S. Trippel, J. Viefhaus, M.J.J. Vrakking, H. Stapelfeldt, J. Küpper, J. Ullrich, A. Rudenko, and D. Rolles, Imaging molecular structure through femtosecond photoelectron diffraction on aligned and oriented gas-phase molecules Faraday Discussions, 171, DOI: 10.1039/c4fd00037d (2014).
K. Schnorr, A. Senftleben, G. Schmid, A. Rudenko, M. Kurka, K.Meyer, L. Foucar, M. Kübel, M.F. Kling, Y.H. Jiang, S. Düsterer, R. Treusch, C. D. Schröter, J. Ullrich, T. Pfeifer, R. Moshammer, Multiple ionization and fragmentation dynamics of molecular iodine studied in IR-XUV pump-probe experiments Faraday Discussions, 171, DOI: 10.1039/c4fd00031e (2014).
S. Stern, L. Holmegaard, F. Filsinger, A. Rouzee, A. Rudenko, P. Johnsson, A. V. Martin, A. Barty, C. Bostedt, J. Bozek, R. Coffee, S. Epp, B. Erk, L. Foucar, R. Hartmann, N. Kimmel, K-U. Kühnel, J. Maurer, M. Messerschmidt, B. Rudek, D. Starodub, J. Thøgersen, G. Weidenspointner, T. A. White, H. Stapelfeldt, D. Rolles, H. N. Chapman and J. Küpper, Towards atomic resolution diffractive imaging of isolated molecules with X-ray free-electron lasers Faraday Discussions, 171, DOI: 10.1039/c4fd00028e (2014).
Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions: Amit Chakrabarti, Brainstorming: Maximizing Learning in the K-State Classroom" from 3-4:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 12, in Hale Library's Hemisphere Room.
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Uwe Thumm, “Femtosecond physics: Imaging intramolecular forces and nuclear wave functions in small molecules with ultrashort laser and XUV pulses,” Invited FAST Fellow talk at ETH in Zurich (9/29)
Research:
Grants: Christopher M. Sorensen, “Direct Dissolution Synthesis of Nanoparticles” from KSU Research Foundation, $22,200.
Awards:
Other: Video highlights NSF REU Program in Physics at Kansas State University See http://www.phys.ksu.edu/reu/news/reu-2014-video.html.
Brett DePaola appears in the new SCIENCE 2034 podcast, Building a Better Atomic Clock See http://a.cms.omniupdate.com/10/#k-state/k- state/physics/previewedit/news/news-stories/2014/index.pcf
Statistics
Publications: Davis, E. G.*, N. M. Bello, A. J. Bryangs, K. Hankins, M. Wilkerson. “Characterization of immune responses in healthy foals when a multivalent vaccine protocol was initiated at 90 and 180 days of age”. Equine Veterinary Journal. doi: 10.1111/evj.12350. [Epub ahead of print].
M.P. Anderson and S.R. Dubnicka (2014). A sequential naive Bayes classifier for DNA barcodes. Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology, 13:423–434.
Hieu Sy Vu, Sunitha Shiva, Mary R. Roth, Pamela Tamura, Lianqing Zheng, Maoyin Li, Sujon Sarowar, Samuel Honey, Dedan McEllhiney, Paul Hinkes, Lawrence Seib, Todd D. Williams, Gary Gadbury, Xuemin Wang, Jyoti Shah and Ruth Welti (2014). Lipid
COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES ACHIEVEMENTS AND HIGHLIGHTS changes after leaf wounding in Arabidopsis thaliana: expanded lipidomic data form the basis for lipid co-occurrence analysis, The Plant Journal, DOI: 10.1111/tpj.12659, [Epub ahead of print].
Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions:
Research:
Grants: Active grants (ongoing). 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, CO-I --- Zoetis (formerly Pfizer Animal Health) $39,611 Grant proposal: “Evaluation of immunologic response following oral vaccination with a USDA approved, attenuated, live Streptococcus equi vaccine”. Principal Investigator: Elizabeth Davis, Dept. of Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University. Role: co-PI. Timeline: 2013-2014.
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: 2013-2014.
Gary Gadbury: Co-I. Ade, PI. Determining the Effect of Space Flight on the Incidence of Cardiovasculaar Risk Factors and Disease. NASA. 9/04/13 – 12/31/14. $100,000 total. Internal budget for Gadbury allocated at 40% of expenses.
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.
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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.
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: 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.