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COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES ACHIEVEMENTS AND HIGHLIGHTS

November 2014

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Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics: USDA-NIFA “Targeted engineering of Camelina seed biochemistry to synthesize valuable oleochemical feedstocks” PI: Timothy Durrett; co-PI: Dr. Chaofu Lu (Montana State University), award: $490,000 for the period from 01-15-2015 to 01-14-2019. Dr. Jesse Nippert, Division of Biology, (associate professor) is an invited speaker at the Arab-American Frontiers of Science, Engineering and Medicine Symposium in Muscat, Oman from Dec 13-15, 2014. This conference is jointly organized by the US National Academy of Science and the Research Council of Oman. He will be giving a platform presentation in the panel: “Global Food Security: Adaptations for the Future”. The Arab American Frontiers of Science, Engineering and Medicine is based on the success of the long standing Kavli Frontiers of Science of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences aiming at promoting inter-disciplinary collaboration between young (under 45 years old) scientists and researchers on cutting edge S&T research. Guidelines for participant selection in this conference were: (1) a demonstrated accomplishment in science, engineering, medical research, or technical work with recognizable contributions to advancing their fields, (2) interest in development in other fields (and in engaging with people working on them) and the ability to consider how advances, techniques, and approaches in those areas relate to the nominee’s own field, (3) speakers possess the potential to be a future leader in the science, engineering, or medical field and (4) demonstrated impact on the development of their country (participation in scientific projects,/scientific meetings/contribution to the promotion of S&T within society). Lisa Tatonetti, Associate Professor of English, published her most recent book: The Queerness of Native American Literature (U of Minnesota P, 2014) Tom Hallaq, Journalism & Mass Communications, “Who left their video in my Photoshop?” Facilitated a workshop at Journalism Education Association annual conference, Washington D.C. November 8, 2014. Janice McGregor, Modern Languages, published an article "'Your mind says one thing but your emotions do another:' Language, emotion, and the development of transculturality in study abroad" in Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 47(2).


Jennifer Vellenga, Music, Theatre, and Dance, traveled to the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco to direct a play reading of Bustown by Lachlan Philpott. Philpott is an Australian Fulbright scholar who will be in residence at Kansas State University in the spring semester 2015. The American production of Bustown will premiere at K-State in the Chapman Theatre Feb. 5-15, 2015. Vellenga’s trip was funded by USRG.


November 2014

Arts & Humanities

Communication Studies Publications: Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions: Soo-Hye Han, Assistant Professor

• The Social Presence of Our Past(s): Examining the Integration of Communication Tradition(s) and Pedagogical Innovation(s)

• Who speaks with certainty? Examining verbal style in public discussion forums

Colene J. Lind, Assistant Professor

• The Language of Production and the Weekend Address • Who speaks with certainty? Examining verbal style in public discussion

forums Gregory Paul, Assistant Professor

• Restorative Justice and Emotions in the Workplace • Who Wants to Participate in Campus-Based Dialogic Deliberation? • Predicting Participation in Restorative Justice Conferences

Sarah Riforgiate, Assistant Professor

• Mothers Who Have it All? Communicating Motherhood through Portrayals of the Family “CEO” or Frantic Overambitious Professionals

• Restorative Justice and Emotions in the Workplace • Teaching the Master’s Level Communication Theory Course: Pedagogical

Practices for Examining Theory Inspired by the History of Our Discipline Tim Steffensmeier, Associate Professor,

• 100 Years of Interactions: Deliberation within and beyond Communication Craig Brown, Instructor, Director of Forensics,

• Speaking in the Digital Age: How Digital Technology has and is Transforming Competitive Forensics


Darren Epping, Instructor, Assistant Director of Forensics

• Teaching an Experienced Dog New Tricks: Coaching and Directing in the Information Age

• Leadership from the second in command Brock Ingmire, M.A. candidate

• Talking in Deliberation: A Roadmap of Deliberative Dialogue • Pre-Intra-team Competition within an Intercollegiate Forensic Squad,

Should We Foster or Neglect Our Competitive Ambitions? • Don't Call Me Doctor: Negotiating Credibility as a Graduate Teaching

Assistant Jordan Johnson, M.A. candidate

• Intra-team Competition within an Intercollegiate Forensic Squad, Should We Foster or Neglect Our Competitive Ambitions?

• Don't Call Me Doctor: Negotiating Credibility as a Graduate Teaching Assistant

Adam J. Mason, B.A. candidate,

• Influencing Public Perception of the News: The Question of User-Generated Content and Misattribution

Levi Smith. M.A. candidate, (Graduate Teaching Assistant)

• Does More Rehearsal Time Lead to Less Truth-Leakage? Research: Grants: Awards: Other:


English Publications: Mark Crosby, “‘till all law is annihilated’: Godwin versus the Bar.” Nineteenth-Century Prose 41: 1/2 (2014): 313-334. Philip Nel, Nightmare Neighbors, Dream Collaborators: Mark Newgarden and Megan Montague Cash on Bow-Wow, Comics, Picture Books and Telling Stories Without Words.” The Comics Journal 3 Nov. 2014: <http://www.tcj.com/nightmare-neighbors-dream-collaborators-mark-newgarden-and-megan-montague-cash-on-bow-wow-comics-picture-books-and-telling-stories-without-words/>. Lisa Tatonetti, The Queerness of Native American Literature. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2014. Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions: Cydney Alexis, Rebecca Nowacek, and Matthew Capdevielle, “On the Generative Power of Not Knowing,” International Writing Centers Association (IWCA) and National Conference on the Peer Tutoring of Writing (NCPTW) Conference. Orlando, FL. 31 Oct. 2014. Kristin Selby (graduate student) and alumni Alicia Beeson (MA ’14), Brittney Tyler Millholland (MA ’14), and Meggie Romick (MA ’14), “Imagining New Methods for Creating More Productive Long-term Tutoring Relationships.” International Writing Centers Association-National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing Joint Conference. Orlando, FL. 31 Oct. 2014. Susan Elder (undergraduate student), “Teaming to Fight for Writer Authority” Workshop. International Writing Centers Association-National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing Joint Conference. Orlando, FL. 1 Nov. 2014. James Hunter Gilson (graduate student), “Foucault’s Writing Center: The Writing Center as an Underground Heterotopic Space.” International Writing Centers Association-National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing Joint Conference. Orlando, FL. 1 Nov. 2014. Sara Hernandez (undergraduate student) and Brent Weaver (undergraduate student), “It’s a Small World After All: Writing Against Racism.” International Writing Centers Association-National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing Joint Conference. Orlando, FL. 31 Oct. 2014.


Michele Janette, “‘Transform and Transfigure Me’: Monique Truong’s Historical Refashionings in Bitter in the Mouth.” National Women's Studies Association Conference. San Juan, Puerto Rico. 14 Oct. 2014. Mary Kohn, “Acoustic Analysis, Data Extraction, and Data Visualization.” A Week-Long Linguistics Workshop at West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV. 17-21 Nov. 2014. “‘People Say I Sound Country’: African American English and the Localized Sound of an Ethnolect.” (Invited). West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV. 19 Nov. 2014. Philip Nel, How to Read Uncomfortably: Affect, Power, and Resisting Racist Children’s Books.”American Studies Association Annual Meeting. Los Angeles, CA. 9 Nov. 2014. Kara Northway, Pam Bromley, and Eliana Schonberg, “‘Something that stays with you’ or ‘Oh, I learned this in the Writing Center!’: A Mixed-Method, Cross-Institutional Study of Transfer,” International Writing Centers Association-National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing Joint Conference. Orlando, FL. 1 November 2014. Shana Schmidt (undergraduate student) and Kayla Smalley (undergraduate student), “The Writing Center as a ‘Borderland.’” International Writing Centers Association-National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing Joint Conference. Orlando, FL. 1 Nov. 2014. Grant Stucky (undergraduate student), “Creeping Shadows in the Writing Center: Gaining Awareness of Ineffective Writing Tutor Pedagogy.” International Writing Centers Association-National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing Joint Conference. Orlando, FL. 30 Oct. 2014. Joy Smith, “Mournful Melancholy: The Natural and Supernatural in Louisa May Alcott’s Elegies.” South Central MLA Conference, Austin, TX. 22 Oct. 2014. Lisa Tatonetti, “Female Masculinity, Affect, and Two-Spirit Traces in the Work of Thirza Cuthand.” Western Literature Association Conference. Victoria, British Columbia. 6 Nov. 2014. Naomi Wood, “A Lie, a Pretty Story, or a Map? Terry Pratchett’s Deconstruction of Religions of the Book in The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents.” The American Academy of Religion Conference. San Diego, CA. 24 Nov. 2014.


Research: Grants: Mary Kohn received a Big Twelve fellowship for her workshop on acoustic analysis at West Virginia University. Awards: Kara Northway was nominated for a 2013 Outstanding Article Award, sponsored by the International Writing Centers Association, for “How Important Is the Local, Really?: A Cross-Institutional Quantitative Assessment of Frequently Asked Questions in Writing Center Exit Surveys,” with Pam Bromley and Eliana Schonberg, Writing Center Journal 33.1 (Summer 2012): 13-37. Nominations were announced at the International Writing Centers Association 2014 Conference awards luncheon on October 31. 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/> 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/> History Publications: Kristin Mulready-Stone, Assistant Professor, published her first book, Mobilizing Shanghai Youth: CCP Internationalism, GMD Nationalism and Japanese Collaboration. (London: Routledge, 2014).


Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions: David Stone, Professor, participated in a Roundtable, “Russia Enters the War: New Interpretations 100 Years After the Fact,” at the annual conference of the Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies. The roundtable presented preliminary findings from the forthcoming book, The Russian Army in the Great War: The Eastern Front, 1914-1917. Andrew Orr, Assistant Professor, presented “The Double Plan: French Views of German and Soviet Influence in Post World War I Middle Eastern Insurgencies,” at the Western Society for French History, San Antonio, TX. Research: Grants: Awards: Other: Aaron Davis, graduate student, was invited (and has agreed) to write a 2500-word essay, “War and Religion: The Cold War,” for ABC-Clio. Michael Hankins, graduate student, formed a panel that was accepted by the Program committee of the Society for Military History for inclusion in its next annual meeting. Marsha Frey, Professor, co-authored with Linda Frey a review of Lashnore-Davies, ed., The Unpublished Letters of Henry St. John, in Teaching History 39 (Fall 2014): 108-109.


Modern Languages Publications: Janice McGregor published an article "'Your mind says one thing but your emotions do another:' Language, emotion, and the development of transculturality in study abroad" in Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 47(2). Dr. McGregor also published a book review of “Self and Identity in Adolescent Foreign Language Learning” (Florentina Taylor) in the Modern Language Journal, 98(4). Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions: Kathleen Antonioli presented “Classicism, Gender, Frenchness: Colette in Interwar Literary History” at the Western Society for French History Annual Conference in San Antonio, TX. Janice McGregor presented the paper "Intercultural development in interaction in study abroad" at the American Association of Teachers of German (AATG) meeting at ACTFL in San Antonio, TX. Dr. McGregor also presented on "Using dynamic assessment in the classroom" at the Institute for Student Learning Assessment at Kansas State University. Earl Brown presented a paper entitled "Constructing an L2 Phonological Grammar: Evidence from Spanish and English /p, t, k/" that he and Mary Copple are working on at the biennial conference Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language, held this year in Santa Barbara, California between November 4-6. Dr. Brown also participated in the presentation of another paper that he and Richard File-Muriel (Univ of New Mexico) and Michael Gradoville (Spelman College) are working on, entitled "Speaker physiology and sociophonetic variation in s-realization", at the same conference. Li Yang presented a paper “Development of Pragmatic and Grammatical Awareness in CFL Settings” at the 2014 ACTFL Annual Convention held at San Antonio, Texas on Nov. 21-23. This study further explores the relationship of pragmatic and grammatical competence by examining the effects of L2 learners’ overall proficiency in Chinese on the development of their pragmatic and grammatical awareness in foreign language settings.


Laura Kanost organized the panel "Service-Learning as Translation Pedagogy: Models and Best Practices" and presented the paper "Student Translators, Community Clients, Faculty Mentor" at the American Translators Association annual conference, Chicago, November 6. Research: Grants: Awards: Other: School of Music, Theatre, and Dance Publications: Sally Bailey published a review titled “Trauma-informed drama therapy: Transforming clinics, classrooms, and communities” in Drama Therapy Review, 1(1). Nora Lewis published the following in the month of November:

• Bradbury, William. “5*4*3 (except after C).” In PEN Trio Collection. Edited by Nora Lewis, Phillip O. Paglialonga, and Eric Varner. Tallevast, Florida: TrevCo Music Publishing, 2014.

• Brandon, Jenni. “Found Objects: On the Beach.” In PEN Trio Collection. Edited by Nora Lewis, Phillip O. Paglialonga, and Eric Varner. Tallevast, Florida: TrevCo Music Publishing, 2014.

• Cohen, Allen. “Crossing the Cotswald Hills.” In PEN Trio Collection. Edited by Nora Lewis, Phillip O. Paglialonga, and Eric Varner. Tallevast, Florida: TrevCo Music Publishing, 2014.


• Grier, Jon Jeffrey. “Triple Dances.” In PEN Trio Collection. Edited by Nora Lewis, Phillip O. Paglialonga, and Eric Varner. Tallevast, Florida: TrevCo Music Publishing, in progress, 2014.

• Sternfeld-Dunn, Aleksander. “Oblique Strategies.” In PEN Trio Collection. Edited by Nora Lewis, Phillip O. Paglialonga, and Eric Varner. Tallevast, Florida: TrevCo Music Publishing, 2014.

Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions: Sally Bailey gave a North American Drama Therapy Association National Conference, workshop presentation November 1 for 90 minutes titled “Improving Executive Function in ASD Children through Magic: Is it Natural?” Cora Cooper gave a Lecture-recital titled, “Short and Suite: Three Americana Suites by 20th-century Women Composers” Nov. 8, Kirmser Hall Jerry Jay Cranford did a musical theatre movement workshop for KSU Theatre High School Workshop Day. Laura Donnelly presented (a + b) x c = ?*!: Dynamic Collaborative Exchange Leads to Unexpected Creativity. The panel included Choreographer Laura Donnelly, physicist Dr. Amit Chakrabarti, composer Bryce Craig, and Daniel Phillips, physics major and dancer, will conduct a panel discussion at the National Dance Education Organization Conference detailing their collaborative work and research that has led to the creation of the Crystal Ballet. She also presented Beyond the Classroom “Crystalline Moments – Moving Science” in a Lecture/Demonstration/Engagement event presented to approximately 40 students in the Boyd Hall meeting room. Students participated in movement related experiments exploring physics concepts. (Part of K-State First) Tod Kerstetter presented a duet performance (clarinet and bass clarinet) at the International Clarinet Association Mid-America Regional Festival with Kansas clarinetist Jeff Pelischek, November 15, 2014 at Ohio State University. Kerstetter also performed Black (for two bass clarinets) by Marc Mellits with renowned Belgian bass clarinetist Stephan Vermeersch; and New York Counterpoint by Steve Reich in an ensemble with renowned American clarinet soloist Richard Stoltzman. Kerstetter’s and Vermeersch’s performance of Black was broadcast on Umbria Radio in Perugia, Italy on Monday, December 1. Nora Lewis toured with the PEN Trio on their Mid-Atlantic Tour: Music on Mondays at Virginia Tech, PEN Trio & Friends, with pianist Tracy Cowden and hornist Wallace Easter, Squires Recital Salon, November 3, 2014; Jacksonville Center for the Arts, SMILES Concert, educational concert sponsored by friends


of the Roanoke Symphony, November 3, 2014; North Carolina School of the Arts, November 4, 2014; Greenville Fine Arts Center, concerts, workshops, and master classes, November 5, 2014; University of North Carolina-Charlotte, November 6, 2014; Master Class and Workshop, Greenville Fine Arts Center, South Carolina, November 5, 2014; Master Class, North Carolina School of the Arts, November 4, 2014 Patricia Thompson performed with Luminous Voices in Calgary, Alberta, Canada on works which included: The Far West for tenor solo, chorus, and string ensemble by Zachary Wordsworth (World Premiere); and as Alto Soloist on the J.S. Bach cantata Bringt den Hugriegen dein Brot BWV 39. Jennifer Vellenga, traveled to the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco to direct a play reading of Bustown by Lachlan Philpott. Philpott is an Australian Fulbright scholar who will be in residence at Kansas State University in the spring semester 2015. The American production of Bustown will premiere at K-State in the Chapman Theatre Feb. 5-15, 2015. Vellenga’s trip was funded by USRG. Research: Laura Donnelly continued her work mentoring Courtney Hoover’s A&S Undergraduate Research project utilizing Movement Fundamentals with regard to teaching ballet technique and Daniel Phillips’ A&S Undergraduate Research Project investigation the learning of physics through dance. Grants: Cora Cooper received an Academic Excellence Fund grant to bring Charles Castleman, professor of violin at the Eastman School of Music to K-State for a recital and master class in March 2015. Nora Lewis Virginia Tech Music on Monday’s Concert Series, sponsored by Main Street Inn, $1,500, 2014; SMILES Educational Concert Series sponsored by friends of Roanoke Symphony, $1,000, 2014; University of Arkansas-Beebe, Concert-Lecture series sponsored by Centennial Bank, $3,000, 2014 Greenville Fine Arts Center, Greenville, South Carolina, $800, 2014.


Awards: Jerry Jay Cranford was selected as the influential LBBT faculty member to be featured in the LGBT Center’s Alumni News. Other: Sally Bailey adapted a play titled Adventures of Robin Hood and his Merry Men to be performed by the Barrier-Free Theatre in April of 2015. Jerry Jay Cranford is preparing the production of The Saintland Diaries by David Sadaris. He is also served as the fight coordinator for the K-State Theatre production of Sweeney Todd. Cranford organized a trip and “talkback” for the Kansas City performance of The Book of Mormon national touring company. Cranford also coordinated the directing and coaching of K-State’s four entries in the Ryan Acting Award scenes and monologues for the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. Philosophy Publications: “On the Innocence and Determinacy of Plural Quantification”, accepted for publication, Noûs. Øystein Linnebo and Salvatore Florio. “Particularism Doesn’t Flatten”, Journal of Moral Philosophy, DOI: 10.1163/17455243-4681058, Amelia Hicks. “Obesity, Liberty, and Public Health Emergencies” The Hastings Center Report (2014), Volume 44, Issue 6: 26-35, Jonathan Herington, Angus Dawson and Heather Draper. Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions: Comments on Brock Rough’s “Videogames as a test case for the Institutional Theory of Art”, American Society for Aesthetics, Annual Meeting. 10/30/14, James Hamilton.


“Generalizing the Boolos-Heck Theorem”, Sixth Annual French Philosophy of Math Workshop, Toulouse Mathematics Institute, 10/11/14, 2014. Graham Leach-Krouse. "Religion and Politics", Religion and Peace conference, Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University, Bishkek, 10/25/14, Jonathan Mahoney. "American Politics and Latin America," International Politics Program, Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University, 10/23/14, Jonathan Mahoney. "Plural Logic and Sensitivity to Order", Salvatore Florio and David Nicolas (presenter), MIT Department of Philosophy. "Plural Logic and Sensitivity to Order", Salvatore Florio and David Nicolas (presenter), NYU department of philosophy. “Hedging Moral Bets”, KU Philosophy Department, Amelia Hicks. Research: Grants: Awards: Other:


Social & Behavioral Sciences A.Q. Miller School of Journalism & Mass Communications Publications: Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions: Tom Hallaq - “Who left their video in my Photoshop?” Facilitated a workshop at Journalism Education Association annual conference, Washington D.C. November 8, 2014 Tom Hallaq - “Interviewing; The Job Talk; Teaching/Research Pitch Panel.” Kansas State University Graduate Student Council, Manhattan, KS. November 4, 2014. (Invited presentation) Debra Skidmore - November 17, 2014 - spoke to Gloria Freeland's MC 200 class about military writing. Kimetris Baltrip - held a journalism workshop for the Boy Scouts' merit badge conference at Highland Community College on November 1, 2014. David Thompson - Delivered a Brown Bag lecture on Information graphics and Publication Design, November 13, 2014, Union Flint hills room. Research: Tom Hallaq - Vehicle Coloring for Crash Prevention on Kansas Highways - Kansas Department of Transportation proposal, with Dr. Sunanda Dissanayake, Ph.D., P.E., Department of Civil Engineering, Kansas State University. $45,000 research grant. Final report submitted December 1, 2014. Angela Powers - Media Coverage of "The Most Trusted Man' in America, paper accepted at the national conference of the Popular Culture Association, April 2015. Grants: Tom Hallaq - submitted November 25, 2014 - KSU College of Arts & Sciences Large Equipment Purchases grant. $60,000 – Studio camera pedestal upgrade for Dole Hall Studio B.


Tom Hallaq - submitted November 25, 2014 – KSU College of Arts & Sciences Large Equipment Purchases grant. $25,000 – JMC videoconference cart. Awards: Other: Kimetris Baltrip - attended the K-State Diversity Summit on November 14, 2014. Steve Harvey - With the importance of the election of the Governor and U.S. Senator, the students from the A. Q Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communication who take classes that create the Channel 8 News newscast produced a live "Special Election Edition" of Channel 8 News. The Special went on, live, right after the end of the regular newscast creating a one hour block of news, live. During the Election Special, students did a live interview via Skype with the Chief Political Analyst for CBS NEWS in Washington D.C. The students focused their questions and discussion on the impact of the two major races in Kansas on the national agenda and national politics. The students also did a live Skype interview with the political reporter for the Associated Press in Oklahoma City discussing regional politics and elections. The students also did a live Skype interview with a student at the University of Nebraska about the elections and issues in Nebraska. Students did in studio interviews with a Kansas State political expert from Washburn University and local Manhattan party leaders. The live half hour election special examined the importance and issues of these two state races before the voters went to the polls. Steve Harvey - Two weeks later, the students produced another extra live half hour special, "A Soldier's Day." This half hour special focused on the military and the troops deploying for combat assignments in the Middle east to fight the new ISIS threat. Our students visited with a family in their home as the husband packed his bags for a year deployment. During the live half hour special, the students did a live Skype interview with that soldier from Kuwait. After the student reporter talked to the soldier during the live show, his wife was in the studio and talked to her husband while the audience had the opportunity to watch a family deal with a year long combat deployment. Other stories the students produced were about PTSD issues with soldiers who have returned from deployment and are trying to get back into living a 'normal' live in our society. We then brought an expert on PTSD and family issues with deployment from KSU into the studio for a live interview about the struggles families have when pulled apart by military deployments.


Political Science Publications: Kisangani, Emizet and Jeffrey Pickering. Accepted and Forthcoming in March 2015 issue. “Soldiers and Development Aid: Military Intervention and Foreign Aid Flows.” Journal of Peace Research. JPR has been ranked as high as 10th among all political science journals, and is typically ranked in the top 30 journals in the discipline (Giles and Garrand 2007; Garrand et al 2009).

Ciftci, Sabri and Gunes Murat Tezcur, Loyola University Chicago, Accepted and Forthcoming. “Soft Power, Religion and anti-Americanism in the Middle East.” Foreign Policy Analysis. 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. Ciftci, Sabri and Gunes Murat Tezcur, Loyola University Chicago. “Radical Turks: Why Turkish Citizens are Joining ISIS,” opinion piece in Foreign Affairs. Web address: http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/142352/gunes-murat-tezcur-and-sabri-ciftci/radical-turks Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions: Research: Grants: Awards: Other:


Psychological Sciences Publications: Brase, G.L. (2014, November). Using statistical reasoning performance to reveal information parsing preferences in the mind. Talk presented at 53rd Annual Meeting of The Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA. Brase, G.L., Vasserman, E.Y., & Hsu, W. (2014, November). Would an SSL warning by any other name sound just as scary? Understanding cybersecurity reasoning in terms of mental models versus signal detection. Poster presented at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making Conference, Long Beach, CA. Wang, Z., Marshall, A. T., & Kirkpatrick, K. (2014). Environmental rearing effects on impulsivity in rats. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC. Peterson, J. R., Hill, C. C., & Kirkpatrick, K. (2014). The role of timing processes in three different impulsive choice procedures. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC. Harris, R.J. We’re All Experts on the Media…but Psychological Research Tells Us Much of What We “Know” Is Wrong. Invited keynote speaker, Joint meeting of Psychological and Educational Research in Kansas/Nebraska Psychological Society (PERK/NPS), Hays KS November 15, 2014. Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions: Research: Grants: Awards: Other:


Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work Publications: Schaefer, B. P. & Steinmetz, K. F. (2014). Cop-watching and McLuhan’s tetrad: The limits of video-activism in the Internet age. Surveillance & Society, 12(4), 502 – 515.

Steinmetz, K. F., Schaefer, B. P., del Carmen, R. V., & Hemmens, C. (2014). Assessing the boundaries between criminal justice and criminology. Criminal Justice Review, 39(4), 357-376. Kurtz, Don, Zavala, Egbert and Melander, Lisa A. “The Influence of Early Strain on Later Strain and Stress Responses by Police Officers.” Forthcoming in Criminal Justice Review. Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions: Steinmetz, K. F. (2014, November). Hacking as craft(y): An ethnographic exploration of high-tech transgression. Presentation at the 2014 meeting of the American Society of Criminology. San Francisco, CA. Williams, L. Susan (together with Edward L.W. Green) presented “Trying on Gender in a Carceral Regime” as part of a peer reviewed panel at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminologists in San Francisco (November 2014). Loyd, Heather. "Adventures in Love: Modern romances and their implications for a gendered ‘conservative project’ in inner city Napoli.” Conference paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington D.C., December 4, 2014. Loyd, Heather. Co-organizer (with Merav Shohet) of a panel for the 2014 Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association entitled “Language, Love, and Romance: ‘Modern’ productions of gender, morality, and courtship through everyday interaction and narrative discourse.” Washington D.C., December 4, 2014. Research:


Grants: Roper, Donna C. Trileaf Cell Towers Project. Trileaf. $10,500. Awards: Other:


Natural & Quantitative Sciences Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics Publications: Journal Articles: Stapels, DA., Geisbrecht, BV., and Rooijakkers, SH. (2014) “Neutrophil serine proteases in antibacterial defense.” Curr Opin Microbiol. Nov 18:23C:42-48. Doi: 10.1016/j.mib.2014.11.002 [Epub ahead of print] Woehl, JL., Stapels, DA., Garcia, BL., Ramyar, KX., Keightley, A., Ruyken, M., Syriga, M., Sfyroera, G., Weber, AB., Zolkiewski, M., Ricklin, D., Lambris, JD., Rooijakkers, SH., and Geisbrecht, BV. (2014) “The Extracellular Adherence Protein from Staphylococcus aureus Inhibits the Classical and Lectin Pathways of Complement by Blocking Formation of the C3 Proconvertase.” J Immunol Nov 7. Pii:1401600. [Epub ahead of print] This paper was selected to be highlighted in the “In This Issue” section of the journal. Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions: Phillip E. Klebba was the session chair and was invited to do a presentation on “Spectroscopic analyses of Gram-negative bacterial iron transport reactions.” At the 2nd International Congress on Bacteriology and Infectious Diseases (Bacteriology, 2014) Chicago, IL, November 17-19, 2014. Defenses: Sara Duhachek Muggy (graduate, Zolkiewska) presented her PhD. Defense, “Multiple isoforms of ADAM12 in breast cancer: Differential regulation of expression and unique roles in cancer progression”, November 6, 2014 Research: Obdulia Covarrubias Zambrano (graduate, Rotenberg) presented a poster, “Quantitative association between Tomato spotted wilt virus accumulation, transmission, and expression of putative heat-shock protein genes in the insect vector, Frankliniella occidentalis, at elevated temperatures" at the 12th annual Ecological Genomics Institute international symposium, Kansas City, KS October 31- November 2, 2014.


Maureen Gorman presented a poster, “Multicopper oxidase-1 orthologs from diverse insect species have ascorbate oxidase activity,” at Entomology 2014: Grand Challenges Beyond Our Horizons in Portland, OR November 16-19, 2014. Grants: USDA-NIFA “Targeted engineering of Camelina seed biochemistry to synthesize valuable oleochemical feedstocks” PI: Timothy Durrett; co-PI: Dr. Chaofu Lu (Montana State University), award: $490,000 for the period from 01-15-2015 to 01-14-2019. Awards: Other: Patents: Provisional patent submitted: Tomich, J.M. and Sukthankar, P.R. Multifunctional Gold Nanoparticle-Peptide Bilayer Complexes. U.S. Provisional Patent Application Submitted November 5, 2014. Application Serial # 62/075,455 Biology Publications: El-Sherif E, Zhu X, Fu J, Brown SJ (2014) Caudal Regulates the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Pair-Rule Waves in Tribolium. PLoS Genet 10(10): e1004677. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1004677, Brett Sandercock - Thomas, Alaina D. (MSc, 2014). Benefits of the State Acres for Wildlife Enhancement program for bird populations in Kansas. M.Sc. thesis, Kansas State University, 62 pages. (https://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/18720 Accepted for publication: Nippert, JB, Holdo, RM. “Challenging the maximum rooting depth paradigm in grasslands and savannas”. Functional Ecology [FE impact factor – 4.86]


Ari Jumpponen - Two publications have passed their final stages of publication and are now available. Brown et al. includes four graduate students and two undergraduates. Brown, S.P., Veach, A.M., Grond, K., Lickteig, S.K., Lothamer, K., Oliver, A.K., Rigdon-Huss, A.R., Jumpponen, A. 2015. Scraping the bottom of the barrel: are rare high throughput sequences artifacts? Fungal Ecology 13: 221-225. DOI: 10.1016/j.funeco.2014.08.006. Prestat, E.; David, M., Hultman, J., Taş, N., Lamendella, R., Dvornik, J., Mackelprang, R., Myrold, D., Jumpponen, A., Tringe, S., Holman, E., Mavromatis, K., Jansson, J.K. 2014. FOAM: Functional Ontology Assignments for Metagenomes: a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) database with environmental focus. Nucleic Acids Research 19: e145. DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku702. Raynor, E.J., A. Joern, and J. Briggs. 2015. Behavioral mechanisms of bison in response to fire and drought in nutritionally heterogeneous grassland. Ecology (In press). Welti, E.L. and A. Joern. 2014. Structure of trophic and mutualistic networks across broad environmental gradients. Ecology and Evolution (in press). Jonas, J.L, A. Joern, W. Wolesensky. 2014. Weather affects grasshopper population dynamics in continental grassland. Rangeland Ecology and Management (In press). Michel K, et al. Highly evolvable malaria vectors: the genomes of 16 Anopheles mosquitoes. Science. 1258522 Published online 27 November 2014 [DOI:10.1126/science.1258522]. Atkinson PW and Michel K (Nov 2014) Drosophila melanogaster Germ‐line Transformation. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. http://www.els.net [doi: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0002671.pub2]. Smith, V. H. W. K. Dodds, K. E. Havens, D. R. Engstrom, H. W. Paerl, B. Moss and G. E. Likens. 2014. Comment: Cultural eutrophication of natural lakes in the United States is real and widespread. Limnology and Oceanography 59:2217-2225. Boyle, W. A., and B. J. Sigel. Accepted Ongoing changes in the avifauna of La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica: twenty-three years of Christmas Bird Counts. Biological Conservation.


Ross, J. D., J. F. Kelly, E. S. Bridge, M. H. Engle, D. L. Reinking, and W. A. Boyle. in review. Fault bars and stable isotope signatures reveal effects of severe weather stressors on fledgling sparrows. PeerJ. Visco, D. M., N. L. Michel, W. A. Boyle, B. J. Sigel, S. Woltmann, and T. W. Sherry. in review. Patterns and causes of understory bird declines in human-disturbed tropical forest landscapes: a case study from Central America. Biological Conservation. Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions: Ruth Welti presented an invited talk in the Mass Spectrometry and Targeted Proteomics Symposium at the 2014 Midwest Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Columbia, MO, November 12-15, 2014. The talk was entitled, “Using lipidomics to probe lipid metabolism.” by R. Welti, H. Vu, S. Shiva, M. Roth, P. Tamura, M. Li, S. Sarowar, G. Gadbury, X. Wang, and J. Shah. Brett Sandercock - Grond, Kirsten. Gut microbiota in Alaskan shorebirds. Departmental Seminar, Department of Biology, Benedictine College, Atchison, Kansas. November 10, 2014. Brett Sandercock - Verheihen, Bram. Demographic responses of songbirds to fire and grazing in the Flint Hills of Kansas. Departmental Seminar, Department of Biology, Benedictine College, Atchison, Kansas. November 10, 2014. Joern, A. et al. 2014. Ecological determinants of arthropod diversity in North American grasslands: fire, grazing and stoichiometry. Invited Symposium. Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting (Portland OR). Laws, A.N. and A. Joern. 2014. Grasshopper community responses to bison grazing and fire frequency (oral presentation). Annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting (Portland OR). Welti, E.L. and A. Joern. 2014. Structure of insect-plant networks across broad environmental gradients (poster presentation). Annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting (Portland OR). Jesse Nippert - Nov. 20, 2014 – invited presentation for: Nature Conservancy of Kansas Annual Meeting. Title: “Adaptive management of water resources in grasslands: Challenges in a changing world.”


Jesse Nippert - Invited speaker at the Arab-American Frontiers of Science, Engineering and Medicine Symposium in Muscat, Oman from Dec 13-15, 2014. This conference is jointly organized by the US National Academy of Science and the Research Council of Oman. Will be giving a platform presentation in the panel: “Global Food Security: Adaptations for the Future”. The Arab American Frontiers of Science, Engineering and Medicine is based on the success of the long standing Kavli Frontiers of Science of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences aiming at promoting inter-disciplinary collaboration between young (under 45 years old) scientists and researchers on cutting edge S&T research. Guidelines for participant selection in this conference were: (1) a demonstrated accomplishment in science, engineering, medical research, or technical work with recognizable contributions to advancing their fields, (2) interest in development in other fields (and in engaging with people working on them) and the ability to consider how advances, techniques, and approaches in those areas relate to the nominee’s own field, (3) speakers possess the potential to be a future leader in the science, engineering, or medical field and (4) demonstrated impact on the development of their country (participation in scientific projects,/scientific meetings/contribution to the promotion of S&T within society). Zhang X*, Lovell S, Michel K “Mutagenesis analysis of the partial hinge insertion of the reactive center loop of an insect serpin from Anopheles gambiae.” Oral presentation at the ESA 62ND annual meeting Nov. 16 –19, 2014; Portland, OR. Victoria Davidson*, Robert Waterhouse, Jake Tu, Igor V. Sharakhov, Kristin Michel “Annotation of the Toll and IMD Pathways in Anopheles stephensi.” Oral presentation at the ESA 62ND annual meeting Nov. 16 –19, 2014; Portland, OR. Kristin Michel, Bart Bryant* “Effects of blood meal on mosquito cellular immunity” Oral presentation at the ESA 62ND annual meeting Nov. 16 –19, 2014; Portland, OR. Mary Mills*, Dana Nayduch, Kristin Michel “Inducing RNA interference in the arbovirus vector, Culicoides sonorensis” Oral presentation at the ESA 62ND annual meeting Nov. 16 –19, 2014; Portland, OR. Kristin Michel*, W. Bart Bryant “The Role of RAS-Signaling in Blood Meal-Induced Hemocyte Activation” Oral presentation at the ASTMH 63rd annual meeting Nov. 2 –6, 2014; New Orleans, LA. Walter Dodds - Battles and Skirmishes: Nutrient pollution in Freshwaters. University of Georgia.


Research: Ari Jumpponen - M.Sc. student Alena Oliver is in the final stages of completing her thesis in recurring prescribed fire effects on fungal communities. First of the three manuscripts was revised and resubmitted to Fungal Ecology, second was finished and submitted to Forest Ecosystems and Management. Anthony Joern - Sabbatical Research Leave, Colorado State University. Grants: Awards: Sue Brown - Higuchi Research Acheivement Award: Olin Petefish Award in Basic Sciences. Zhilong Yang - Laura VanLerberg, an undergraduate researcher in Yang’s lab, was awarded an SCTE-sponsored Undergraduate Research Scholarship, and a Johnson Cancer Center Cancer Research Award. Other: Ruth Welti attended the annual meeting of the USDA-NIFA-NCRA group NC1200: Regulation of Photosynthetic Processes on November 15, 2014 in Kansas City, MO. Peter Wong - Teaching Biology 455 (General Microbiology) with an enrollment of 278 students. The course has six lab sections. Also co-teaching a section of Biology 198, Principles of Biology, with an enrollment of 72 students. Wong met and helped five advisees to enroll for next semester. Sherry Fleming - US Patent No 8,895,502 issued November 25, 2014 b2-glycoprotein I peptide inhibitors.


Statistics Publications: Fisher, S., Reynolds, J., Hsu, W.-W., Barnes, J. and Tyler, K. (2014). Examining Multiracial Youth in Context: Ethnic Identity Development and Mental Health Outcomes. Journal of Youth and Adolescence 43(10):1688-99. (DOI) 10.1007/s10964-014-0163-2. Graygs, M., P. St. Amandgs, N. M. Bello, M. B. Galliart, M. Knapp, K. Garrett, T. J. Morgan, S. G. Baer, B. R. Maricle, E. Akhunov and L. Johnson*. 2014. "Ecotypes of an ecologically dominant prairie grass (Andropogon gerardii) exhibit genetic divergence across the U.S. Midwest grasslands environmental gradient". Molecular Ecology. DOI: 10.1111/mec.12993. Cravergs, J. K., C. T. Miller*, K.A. Williams* and N. M. Bello. 2014. “UVB radiation affects intumescence development in ornamental sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)”. HortScience 49(10):1277-1283. Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions: Bello: 12th Annual Ecological Genomics Symposium, sponsored by the Ecological Genomics Institute at Kansas State University. Kansas City, Missouri. October 31 to November 2, 2014. Wei-Wen Hsu. Invited seminar speaker. Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Nov. 14, 2014. Kivettgs, J., N. M. Bello and R. Cloyd*. “Efficacy of rotation programs against the western flower trhips, Frankliniella occidentalis, that include entomopathogenic fungi”. 2014 Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting. Portland, Oregon. November 16-19, 2014. Raithelgs, S., L. Johnson, M. Galliartgs, S. Brown, J. Shelton, N. Herndon and N. M. Bello*. “Assessing gene filtering strategies in RNA-Seq differential expression analysis of an edaphic subspecies of dominant prairie grass Andropogon gerardii”. 12th Annual Ecological Genomics Symposium. Kansas City, Missouri. October 31 - November 2, 2014.


Galliartgs, M., P. St. Amand, J. Polland, N. M. Bello, S. Sabates, H. Tetreault, A. DeLaCruz, J. Bryant, T. J. Morgan, M. Knapp, S. G. Baer, D. Gibson, L. Wilson, B. R. Maricle and L. Johnson*. “Trait variation and genetic divergence of a widespread grass Andropogon gerardii across a Great Plains climate gradient”. 12th AnnualEcological Genomics Symposium. Kansas City, Missouri. October 31 - November 2, 2014. Juan Du. Invited guest lecture on spatial covariance modeling, graduate seminar in the department of Biological & Agricultural Engineering, Seaton 133, Kansas State University. Nov 6. 2014. Juan Du. Invited talk, Spatio-Temporal Models for Some Data Sets in Continuous Space and Discrete Time, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis, Nov. 21, 2014. Dr. Perla Reyes. Invited Seminar: "Bayesian Methods for Pathogen Detection and Network Modeling.” Center for Computational Genetics and Genomics, Department of Biology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, Nov 25, 2014. Research: Grants: New Grants: 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. Status: Recommended for funding. *******Ranked Outstanding and the #1 ranked grant for this review panel 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.


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. 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: Bello, Co-presenter on “The Red Herring Project: Studying attentional behavior for medication safety in children” in a CDC Protect Meeting (Medication Safety Program, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Center for Disease Control and Prevention). Project: PI: Laura Bix, Michigan State University. November 13 2014. Washington DC. 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.

Documents

COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCESartsci.k-state.edu/news/docs/reports/2014.11_Nov.pdfTimothy Durrett; co-PI: Dr. Chaofu Lu (Montana State University), award: $490,000 for the period from