PEPPER CENTER Director receives award named after his mentor, 3 PSYCHOLOGY Study finds willpower to be greatest of human strengths, 4 WFSU-TV Producer set to attend national StateThe State University Faculty-Staff Bulletin production workshop, 6 Volume 46 • Number 5 October 10 - 30, 2011 FSU’s Army ROTC recruiter named best in nation By Jeffery Seay current military personnel, its staff of ci- EDITOR IN CHIEF vilian employees and the cadets. He also The U.S. Army’s Cadet Command lauded Florida State’s faculty and staff, named retired Army Capt. Bob Lovins, and the Tallahassee community at large — ’s Army ROTC groups he characterized as highly support- recruiting operations officer, the 2010 Re- ive of ROTC’s mission. cruiting Operations Officer of the Year. For the most part, Lovins focuses his The distinction signifies that under recruiting efforts on the Florida State Lovins’ watch, FSU’s Army ROTC pro- campus. He also spends a limited amount gram, the Seminole Battalion, met its mis- Lax Services/Bill Photography FSU of time discussing the advantages of the sion to transform Florida State and Talla- “This award is really not about me, but about core groups of people who work ROTC with high school students at college hassee Community College students into together to achieve the same goal.” fairs. lieutenants better than any of the other — Bob Lovins “This is the best place to recruit be- 273 Army ROTC battalions. cause the students here have already made “This award is really not about me, but Lovins, who received the same national the cut to get into Florida State,” Lovins about core groups of people who work distinction in 2006. said. “I do a lot of recruiting right here in together to achieve the same goal,” said Lovins praised the battalion’s past and Please see LOVINS, 7 Scientist’s Tibetan expedition ends with prehistoric find By Kathleen Laufenberg lished in Science, a prestigious journal estab- words majestic, wild and awesome all ap- NATIONAL HIGH MAGNETIC FIELD LABORATORY lished in 1880 by ply, yet fail to capture the landscape’s natu- Yang Wang is known for conducting Thomas Edison. ral wonder. complex research using highly sophisticat- Wang and What drew the researchers to the basin ed equipment. Yet the Florida State Uni- an international wasn’t its raw beauty, however. They came versity geochemist also spent days hiking group of paleon- to explore its buried treasures. The largely through the remote outback of Tibet and tologists set out untouched Zanda Basin is a fossil hunter’s camping in the foothills of the Himalayas in 2007 to explore paradise, and the team was determined to — all in the name of scientific discovery. one of the most make scientific breakthroughs. Because of that unique mix of skills, isolated places on They did just that, finding the com- Wang was chosen to take part in a team of earth: the Zanda plete skull and lower jaw of a previously FSU Photography Services Photography FSU researchers that uncovered the oldest prehis- Yang Wang (ZAH-dah) Basin unknown and long-extinct animal. They toric woolly rhino ever found. A paper de- in Tibet, located at christened it the Tibetan woolly rhino (Coe- scribing the team’s discovery was just pub- the feet of the Himalaya Mountains. The Please see WANG, 7

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2 • October 10 - 30, 2011 • State Pepper Center director receives statewide award By Jeffery Seay State EDITOR IN CHIEF In the mid-1980s, Lawrence J. “Larry” Po- Vol. 46 • No. 5 unicomm.fsu.edu/State-Faculty-Staff-Bulletin livka began thinking of research pioneer Carter Editor in Chief Osterbind as a mentor while working with him Jeffery Seay on former Gov. Bob Graham’s state Committee Writers Elizabeth Bettendorf on Aging. Libby Fairhurst Barry Ray This past August, Polivka received the Dr. Andrea Wolf Carter Osterbind Outstanding FCOA Mem- Interim Director of News and Research Communications ber Award from the Florida Council on Ag- Jill Elish ing during its 2011 annual conference. Polivka Assistant Vice President for University Relations and Director of is the executive director of the Claude Pepper Integrated Marketing and Communications Center and scholar-in-residence with the Claude Jeanette DeDiemar, Ph.D. Pepper Foundation at Florida State University. Vice President for “I have great regard for Carter,” Polivka said. University Relations Lawrence J. Polivka Liz Maryanski “He has been the model I have tried to emulate FSU Photography Services/Michele Edmunds Services/Michele Photography FSU President in my own professional life since 1984. Because Florida State University Eric J. Barron, Ph.D. this award is named for Carter Osterbind, I con- ship that he and Osterbind forged on the Florida Board of Trustees sider it the finest award that I could receive.” Committee on Aging as the key factor in deciding Chairman William “Andy” Haggard The Osterbind award is given to FCOA to spend his own career analyzing demographic Vice Chairman Susie Busch-Transou members in good standing whose activities on trends among Florida’s aging population. Aviram “Avi” Assidon behalf of older adults in Florida reflect a high “Carter taught me long ago that if you want Allan G. Bense Edward E. Burr level of individual commitment or high standard to know where aging policy is headed, you need Joseph Camps, M.D. Emily Fleming Duda of organizational excellence. In the award cita- to understand changes and trends in the econ- Joseph R. Gruters Mark Hillis tion, the Florida Council on Aging called Poliv- omy and the political environment,” Polivka James E. Kinsey Jr. Sandra Lewis, Ph.D. ka a “strong aging services policy advocate, re- said. “His research was rigorous and productive. Margaret “Peggy” Rolando Brent W. Sembler searcher and teacher who exemplifies the spirit Throughout my career, I have approached my

The deadline for the of Carter Osterbind.” own work by asking myself what Carter would Oct. 31 - Nov. 20, 2011, issue is 4:30 p.m., WEDNESDAY, OCT. 19. Osterbind was a University of Florida econo- have done, or what substantive policy questions mist who began conducting pioneering research he would have had. on age-related issues in 1950. “Much of the work I’ve done in developing “He was probably the first person to do any analytically based issue papers and advocacy pa- analytical work related to the growth of Florida’s pers, and in doing policy-related research into older population, which began to move here for areas such as long-term care, carries on in the retirement in the 1960s and 1970s,” Polivka said. tradition of Carter Osterbind as a scholar and as Polivka credits the close working relation- an advocate,” Polivka said. State is the faculty-staff bulletin and document of record of Florida State University. It is published 16 times annually by University Communications — every three weeks during the fall and spring semesters, and monthly during the summer. Employees can donate to WFSU through payroll deduction Submissions: [email protected]. Advertising is handled by the Florida State University As WFSU-FM prepares for its upcoming Under the menu option, select “Self Service”; Communications Group. For rates, call Crystal Cumbo at (850) 487-3170, Ext. 352. pledge drive on Oct. 12-21, the station’s man- Select “Payroll & Compensation”; Select “Vol- People with disabilities who require special accommodation for any event listed in State should call the unit sponsoring the agement is reminding Florida State University untary Deductions”; Click the “Add Deduction” event, or for the hearing or speech impaired, use the Florida Relay Service at 1-800-955-8770 (voice) or 1-800-955-8771 (TDD). employees that they can use payroll deduction to button; Click on the “Search” icon next to the Requests for accommodations must be received at least five working days before the event. To receive State in an alternative make a donation to WFSU at any time. “Type of Deduction” box; A look-up table will format, call the FSU Student Disability Resource Center at (850) 644-9566. “Many people in the university community appear; Select “WFSU-TV” or “WFSU-FM”; have expressed an interest in making donations Fill in the other fields under “Add Voluntary De-

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State • October 10 - 30, 2011 • 3 The greatest human strength? Believe it or not, it’s willpower

By Elizabeth Bettendorf NEWS AND RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS Repeat after me: “I will not eat ice cream, I will not eat ice cream,

I will not eat ice cream.” Lax Services/Bill Photography FSU Now, behold the luscious waffle cone heaped with scoops of rocky Roy F. Baumeister road and vanilla caramel ripple? Information lists Baumeister among the Repeat after me: “Well … maybe just a little taste … .” handful of most cited (and most influen- Arrgh — don’t do it! tial) psychologists in the world. Baumeister’s groundbreaking research At least not until you’ve read the in- to persevere, how they lose self-control as into willpower — which dates to the 1990s triguing new book by Florida State Univer- their willpower is depleted, how this men- —shows that self-regulation is a little bit sity Professor Roy F. Baumeister and New tal energy is fueled by the glucose in the like a muscle: It can sometimes be worn York Times science writer John Tierney. body’s bloodstream.” down. When subjects were given a task “Willpower: Rediscovering the He began scrutinizing issues such as that required them to resist something — Greatest Human Strength” (The Pen- self-esteem in the 1970s while still in gradu- like a sweet treat or not thinking about a guin Press) recently climbed to the top ate school, when it was fashionable to study certain kind of animal — they didn’t per- of the charts on the New York Times “the self in general and identity crisis,” form as well on a subsequent assigned task Bestseller List, making the soft-spoken Baumeister said. But self-esteem proved involving willpower, a result of what Bau- Baumeister an instant literary celebrity to be disappointing in terms of “not pro- meister calls “ego depletion.” and bringing attention to his decades of viding the consequences and benefits” he Even more interesting was that when research on self-control. In recent weeks, had hoped for, he said, so he moved on to the subjects were given a sugar-sweetened “Willpower” has been reviewed glowingly other areas of study, including willpower, drink, self-control was actually improved. in the New York Times Sunday Book Review which he points out is actually a folk term Apparently, the sugar provided fuel for as well as by NPR and the hip website The referring to a particular strength needed in the brain to get back to work and re- Daily Beast. order to resist temptation. store the person’s willpower. And when Baumeister, the Francis Eppes Profes- Baumeister’s current research focuses subjects were asked to make moderate sor of Psychology at FSU and head of the on self-control, choice and decision-mak- lifestyle changes, such as exercising or department’s graduate program in social ing. He has also investigated how people tracking dietary habits, they eventually dis- psychology, has made a career of research- regulate their emotions, resist temptation, played greater overall self-control in their ing self and identity, emotion, social rejec- break bad habits and perform up to their lives, which showed that willpower can be tion and belongingness. potential — and why they often fail to do beefed up much like an unused muscle. Interest in self-regulation or “willpow- so. In the 1990s, he was part of a social Those experiments, which ultimately er” has been around since the 19th century, psychology movement that developed a defined willpower as “a limited resource,” a popular topic mulled by the Victorians theory about “depletable self-control.” made Baumeister realize that he had un- (who thought of it as a form of mental Experiments Baumeister conducted covered something important. energy) and even Charles Darwin, who with researchers at Case Western Reserve “This was something quite new to the considered it in “The Descent of Man.” University — where subjects were offered field, in the way we were thinking about the In his new book, Baumeister admits he cookies or radishes and then asked to deci- self — and even the way I had understood was “something of a skeptic” about the pher unsolvable geometric puzzles (guess it,” he explained, adding that he knew at subject at first. But after examining will- which group gave up first?) — were cor- the time the research had uncovered some- power in a laboratory setting, he under- roborated in more than 100 subsequent thing significant. “This was a change,” he stood “how it gives people the strength experiments. The Institute for Scientific said. “An exciting new development.”

4 • October 10 - 30, 2011 • State 25, Nancy Horan’s “Loving Frank” or T.C. Boyles’ “The Women,” led by Deborah Coxwell-Teague of btw by the way the Department of English; Feb. 24, Jean Kwok’s “Girl in Translation,” by led by Suzanne Sinke, associate >>Brown-bag talk: Scott Minos, a senior professor of history; March 21, Jennifer Egan’s “A Visit policy and communications specialist with the U.S. from the Goon Squad,” led by Ned Stuckey-French, Department of Energy, will discuss “Looking Forward: assistant professor of English; and April 25, Abraham An Overview of Fiscal Year 2012 Priorities for the U.S. Verghese’s “Cutting for Stone” (discussion leader yet Department of Energy” for a brown-bag luncheon to be announced). hosted by the Institute for Energy Systems, Economics and Sustainability on Wednesday, >>Passport office extends hours: As a Oct. 26, from noon to 1 p.m., in the DeVoe Moore convenience to the university community, FSU Conference Room, 150 Bellamy Building. International Programs will extend the hours of its Passport Acceptance Facility during an open house >>Book discussion series: The 2011-2012 Book on Friday, Oct. 28, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., at A5500 Discussion Series at Strozier Library will feature University Center. The extended hours will give faculty, Florida State faculty members leading a lively dialogue staff and students more time to submit applications between students, faculty and staff. The discussions for U.S. passports and passport cards. The office’s will be held on the third Wednesday of the month at regular hours are 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. noon in 005B Strozier Library (Scholars Commons). Information: (850) 645-9714. The dates, books and discussion leaders are: Oct. 26, Emma Donoghue’s “Room,” led by Peggy Wright- >>Museum now open: The Florida State Cleveland, director, Office of Faculty Recognition; Nov. University Heritage Museum, located in Dodd Hall’s 30, Nicholas Kristof’s “Half the Sky,” led by Rachel Werkmeister Reading Room, is open weekdays from Sutz-Pienta of the Women’s Studies Program; Jan. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

State • October 10 - 30, 2011 • 5 WFSU producer chosen to attend prestigious workshop By Jeffery Seay to pitch a project; fundraising; EDITOR IN CHIEF and promotion and audience WFSU-TV producer Ro- engagement. berto Diaz de Villegas is one Diaz de Villegas’ latest of 25 producers from across documentary is “In the Grass, the country — and the only On the Reef: Testing the Ecol- one from Florida — to be se- ogy of Fear,” which will be lected to attend the 2011 Cor- screened at the academy. It poration for Public Broad- chronicles the oyster reef re- casting/Public Broadcast- search of David Kimbro and ing Service Producers Acad- Randall Hughes, scholar- emy at WGBH in Boston, Oct. scientists with the Florida State 15 to 21. University Coastal and Ma- The annual academy gives rine Laboratory. up-and-coming producers the “I’m looking forward to Roberto Diaz de Villegas opportunity to hone their doc- having producers of national umentary filmmaking skills by PBS programs critique my Lax Services/Bill Photography FSU interacting with some of the work,” Diaz de Villegas said. describes himself as a “hands- he said. “It’s fun to see all the best practitioners in the nation. “I’m also looking forward to on” producer who likes to bits and pieces turn into a co- The training will cover writing; what advice the other 24 pro- shoot and edit his own mate- herent show. It is a process that standards and ethics in produc- ducers will have for me, and rial. I enjoy immensely.” ing and directing; editing and how I could improve my proj- “I like gathering and as- “In the Grass, On the Reef: post-production; legal issues; ect.” sembling all of the video clips, Testing the Ecology of Fear” digital and new media produc- Diaz de Villegas, who has interviews and still images, and can be seen at www.wfsu.org/ tion; project management; how worked at WFSU since 2002, building them into something,” coastalecology.

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from ago). But the Tibetan woolly rhino found by tains to lower altitudes. WANG page 1 the team is 3.7 million years old. That means The expedition team also found horse, it lived during the Pliocene epoch (5.3 mil- elephant and deer fossils. Most of the fos- lodonta thibetana). lion to 2.6 million years ago). sils, including the Tibetan woolly rhino’s “This is the oldest, most primitive woolly The new time frame also indicates that complete skull, are being kept at the Chinese rhino every found,” Wang said of the team’s the Tibetan woolly rhino was alive before the Academy of Sciences in Beijing, at its Insti- discovery. last Ice Age. Wang examined the chemistry tute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleo- The ancient beast stood perhaps 6 feet of the rhino’s fossilized teeth using a special anthropology. tall and 12 to 14 feet long. It bore two great instrument, a mass spectrometer, at the Na- Wang and other members of the team, horns — one grew from the tip of its nose tional High Magnetic Field Laboratory led by Xiaoming Wang, curator of the Natu- and was about 3 feet long. A much smaller at Florida State. ral History Museum of Los Angeles, plan to horn arose from between its eyes. The Ti- “We look at the chemistry of the teeth return to the basin again in the summer of betan woolly rhino was stocky like today’s and bones, to see what the animals ate and 2012. rhino, but had long, thick hair. It is often what kind of environment they lived in,” said “Cold places, such as Tibet, the Arctic mentioned in the same breath with woolly Wang, a professor in the university’s Depart- and the Antarctic, are where the most un- mammoths, giant sloths and sabertooth cats, ment of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric expected discoveries will be made in the fu- all giant mammals of the period that became Science. ture — these are the remaining frontiers that extinct. Her detailed analysis revealed that the are still largely unexplored,” said Xiaoming Prior to the team’s discovery, the oldest creature ate grasses that grew at high alti- Wang. woolly rhino ever found was 2.6 million years tudes. That suggests, according to Wang, that To view a related video, visit www.fsu. old, making it an inhabitant of the Pleisto- when the Ice Age arrived, the Tibetan woolly com and click the “Videos” button on the cene era (2.6 million years ago to 11,700 years rhino adapted by moving from the moun- left side of the page, then select “Research.”

from “Most officers say their favorite time any other challenge they will have in life. LOVINS page 1 in the Army was serving as a lieuten- When they finish their service, they’ll ant, when they had the opportunity to have a proven track record.” my office with assistance from the cadets lead and have a direct influence on their As platoon leaders, lieutenants also are who are in the program already. They are troops,” Lovins said. responsible for equipment worth hun- the best recruiters because they tell their A lieutenant’s first job is usually as a dreds of thousands or millions of dollars, peers about the training they’ve received platoon leader, leading 40 to 50 soldiers. and the battlefield decisions they make in order to be able to do a certain job two Most businesses in America have fewer can easily have international ramifications. or three years down the road.” employees than a typical 22-year-old sec- “Our lieutenants must be agile, smart When it comes to explaining the ond lieutenant manages. and morally upright,” he said. ROTC to potential recruits, Lovins tells “I tell potential recruits they cannot When Lovins started at FSU in 1997, them that being a lieutenant is the tough- beat the experience, regardless of what the Seminole Battalion had about 75 ca- est job in America, but also the most re- their technical skill sets are,” Lovins dets. Despite being a nation at war, the warding. said. “This is going to prepare them for battalion has grown to about 180 cadets.

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State • October 10 - 30, 2011 • 9 BYLINES “A University Evaluation of the Patricia Roberts Harris Frederick Abbott, LL.M. Fellowship Program for Tra- (Law), was interviewed for CAMPUS ditionally Underrepresented an article by Pharmalot.com, Graduate Students,” pub- “Essential Meds, Patents lished in the American Jour- and NCDs,” about a two-day nal of Social and Manage- meeting held at the United IN ACTION ment Sciences; “Does Indi- Nations in September to dis- vidual Development Account cuss ways to combat non- Participation Help the Poor? communicable diseases, Kaufman also wrote a book, structor Antonieta Reyes A Review,” published in the including the adoption of “The Manager’s Pocket Echezuria journal Research on Social language that would allow Guide to Mega Thinking Bruce A. Thyer, Ph.D. Work Practice; “Evidence- countries to use compulsory and Planning,” published by (Social Work), recently wrote Based Practices Do Not Ex- licenses to override patents HRD Press, 2011. In addition, the following four articles: ist,” published in the Clinical and secure supplies of need- Kaufman wrote an opinion “Twenty Years of Publish- Social Work Journal; “Clinical ed medicines. piece, “Ideal Vision Can Lead ing Research on Social Work Social Work and Evidence- Juan Carlos Galeano, Us from Politics as Usual,” Practice: Past Accomplish- Based Practice,” published in Ph.D. (Modern Languages published in the Tallahassee ments, New initiatives,” pub- the Clinical Social Work Jour- and Linguistics), has had a Democrat, Sept. 28, 2011. lished in the journal Research nal; “Do Regular Social Work Chinese edition of his book Gary Knight, Ph.D. (Busi- on Social Work Practice; Faculty Earn Better Student “Folktales of the Amazon” ness), co-wrote an opinion “Social Justice: A Conserva- Course Evaluations Than Do published by Hunan Arts column titled “Terrorism tive Perspective,” published Adjunct Faculty or Doctoral Press, 2011. Yilan Zheng and International Business,” in the Journal of Compara- Students?” published in the translated the text into Chi- published in Japan Today tive Social Welfare; “LCSW Journal of Teaching in Social nese. and The Korea Times, and Examination Pass Rates: Work; and “Novel Unsup- Carter Hay, Ph.D. (Crimi- titled “Global Business Over- Implications for Social Work ported and Empirically Sup- nology and Criminal Jus- hauled Since September 11,” Education,” published in the ported Therapies: Patterns tice), has co-written a paper, published in Shanghai Daily, Clinical Social Work Journal; of Usage Among Licensed “Does Self-Control Mediate with Michael Czinkota of and “Harmful Effects of Fed- Clinical Social Workers,” the Effects of Life-Course Georgetown University and eral Research Grants,” pub- published in the journal Be- Transitions on Desistance Gabriele Suder of SKEMA lished in the journal Social havioural and Cognitive Psy- from Crime?” with crimi- Business School in France, Work Research. Thyer also chotherapy. nologist Walter Forrest of September. The same col- recently co-wrote the fol- Rob Wilson (Intercol- Monash University, Austra- umn was translated into lowing 11 articles: “Does Eye legiate Athletics) co-wrote lia, published in the Aug. French and published in Le Movement Desensitization a book, “Bobby Bowden on 24, 2011, online edition of Figaro, which is considered and Reprocessing (EMDR) Leadership: Life Lessons the journal Criminology and the USA Today of France. Reduce Posttraumatic from a Two-Time National Criminal Justice, and also Felipe Korzenny, Ph.D., Stress Disorder in Combat Championship Coach,” with slated for publication in a and Betty Ann Korzenny, Veterans?” published in the Pat Williams, published by forthcoming print edition of Ph.D. (School of Communi- journal Behavioral Interven- Advantage Press, 2011. the journal. cation), have co-written the tions; “EMDR Is Not an Em- Brian D. Inouye, Ph.D. second edition of their text- pirically Supported Treat- PRESENTATIONS (Biological Science), co- book “Hispanic Marketing: ment for Combat-Related wrote a paper, “Disentan- Connecting with the New La- PTSD … Yet,” published in the Don Latham, Ph.D., and gling the Drivers of β Diver- tino Customer,” about using journal Behavioral Interven- Melissa Gross, Ph.D. (Li- sity Along Latitudinal and cultural insights to connect tions; “Science and Pseudo- brary and Information Stud- Elevational Gradients,” pub- with Latino consumers and science in Developmental ies), gave a presentation, “In- lished in the journal Science, developing strategies that Disabilities: Guidelines for troducing the ASE Process Vol. 333, No. 6050. help marketers establish Social Workers,” published Model: IL Instruction for Roger Kaufman, Ph.D., connections for success- in the Journal of Social Work Students with Below-profi- emeritus (Educational Re- ful campaigns, published in Disability and Rehabilita- cient Skills,” at the Georgia search), co-wrote an article, by Routledge, 2011. It con- tion; “A Test of the Validity of International Conference on “Practical and Effective tains research excerpts and the LCSW Examination: Quis Information Literacy, Savan- Leadership and Policy: Les- acknowledgments by Cen- Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?” nah, Ga., September. sons We Can Learn from ter for Hispanic Marketing published in the journal So- Agnes Muhongerwa Macbeth, Schumpeter, Communication and School cial Work Research; “The (Social Work) had a poster, Sun Tzu, and Drucker,” with of Communication adjunct Quest for Evidence-Based “Gender-Based Violence Stephanie Moore, pub- instructors Natalie Kates of Practice: A View from the Laws In Rwanda,” accepted lished in the journal Proven, the Career Center and Holly United States,” published in for the poster session at the Vol. 4, No. 4, October 2011. McGavock, and doctoral in- the Journal of Social Work; Please see CIA, 12

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