october 2014 summary sheet - kansas state...

COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES ACHIEVEMENTS AND HIGHLIGHTS

October 2014

Summary Sheet

Don Hedrick, English, published “Distracting Othello: Tragedy and the Rise of Magic” in PMLA, the premiere journal for the field of English, serving as the journal for our disciplinary organization, the Modern Language Association. M.J. Morgan, Research Director of Chapman Center (History Department), was quoted in the New York Times in an article that highlights work on lost towns and the broad popular interest in this kind of research: Mitch Smith, “A Nebraska Ghost Town, With a Name from Mars, May be Reborn,” NYT Oct 8, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/09/us/a-nebraska-ghost-town-with-a-name-from-mars-may-be-reborn.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes María Teresa DePaoli, Modern Languages, was one of only four, out of more than 400 nominated, awarded the Verizon Nueva Latina Estrella Award 2014. Dr. DePaoli was the recipient in the category of education. Four Geography graduate students received awards at the Southwest/Great Plains-Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Albuquerque, NM in October. William Wetherholt placed first in the graduate student paper presentation; Nickolas Patch and Thomas Larsen tied for first in the graduate student poster competition; and Megan McHaney placed second in the undergraduate student poster competition. The Political Science Department had their largest showing ever at the notable International Studies-Midwest Conference. Li, W. D., Psychological Sciences, with Fay, D., Frese, M., Harms, P. D., & Gao, X. (2014) had “Reciprocal relationships between proactive personality and work characteristics: A latent change score approach” published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, 99(5), 948-965. John Blair (PI), Divison of Biology - The Konza Prairie LTER program was awarded $6.76 million in funding from the National Science Foundation to continue and expand long-term ecological research at the Konza Prairie Biological Station. Brett Sandercock, Division of Biology, had one of his research articles selected for a National Publication Award as the Outstanding Article by The Wildlife Society (2014). All four coauthors were affiliated with the Division of Biology at Kansas State University. Division of Biology’s Kathrin Schrick’s publication recommended for Faculty of 1000. Uwe Thumm, professor of physics, is one of Kansas State University's newest Commerce Bank Distinguished Graduate Faculty Award recipients.


October 2014

Arts & Humanities

English Publications: Elizabeth Dodd, “Constellation” (essay). Reprinted in The Tallgrass Reader. Ed. John T. Price. University of Iowa Press, 2014: 333-345. Don Hedrick, “Distracting Othello: Tragedy and the Rise of Magic.” PMLA 129.4 (2014): 649-71. (PMLA is the premiere journal for the field of English, serving as the journal for our disciplinary organization, the Modern Language Association.) Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions: Traci Brimhall, “Tuning Your Tension” Writing Workshop. Raleigh, NC. 11 October 2014. 8th Street Taproom Reading Series. Lawrence, KS. 19 October 2014. Gregory Eiselein, Jenna Brack, Emily Lehning, Carlie Ness, and Charles Sanders. “Making a Case for Collaboration.” ACUHO-I Living-Learning Programs Conference. Kansas City, MO. 25 October 2014. Christina Hauck, “Alternating Currents: Film, Electricity and Narrative Duplicity in Brief Encounter.” Midwest Popular Culture Association and the Midwest American Studies Association. Indianapolis, IN. 5 October 2014. Elizabeth Hoyt (graduate student), “Saving Childhood: Pilot as Intermediary in Antoine de Saint Exupéry’s Le Petit Prince.” PAMLA. Riverside, CA. 31 October 2014. Abby Knoblauch, “Some Tips on Writing Exercise 2, Or, How to Improve Your Grade and Impress Your Professors.” Invited talk. College of Architecture, Planning, and Design: 160 Environmental Design Studies Studio. Kansas State University. 14 October 2014. Allison Kuehne (graduate student), “‘Daughters of the Air’: Transforming and Transcending the Page in Robert Sabuda’s Pop-Up Adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s ‘The Little Mermaid.’” Midwest Popular Culture Association. Indianapolis, IN. 5 October 2014. Jesse Lobbs (graduate student), “Garden Living: Welty’s ‘A Curtain of Green.’” South Central Modern Language Association Conference. Austin, TX. 19 October 2014.


Theresa Merrick, “Promoting Lifelong Writing Learning: Applications of the Johari Window in the Engineering Classroom.” IEEE International Professional Communication Conference. Pittsburgh, PA. 13 October 2014. David Smit and Richard Hoag, “The Rhetoric of Designing Graphic Displays Combining Text and Image.” Biannual Conference of the Design Communication Association. Marietta, GA. 3 October 2014. Adam Szetela (graduate student),“‘They Labored for Hours, Rep after Rep’: An Interdisciplinary Study of Labor Symbolism in American Bodybuilding.” South Central Modern Language Association Conference. Austin, TX. 19 October 2014. Research: Grants: Awards: Elizabeth Hoyt (M.A. 2015) received an Arts and Sciences Graduate Student Research Travel Grant and a PAMLA Graduate Student Scholarship for her presentation at PAMLA. Other: History Publications: Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions: Charles Sanders, “The Blue Death: How the Cholera Epidemics of the Nineteenth Century Shaped the History of the United States,” in Ghostmapping: A Public Lecture Series, K-State Book Network, Sept. 30.


M.J. Morgan, “Lost Kansas Communities,” Kansas Historic Preservation Association Conference, Sept 12, Emporia, KS. Brent Maner, “Felix Dahn and the Migration of Peoples,” German Studies Association, Sept. 19. Jennifer Zoebelein (History Ph.d graduate student), “Lest Kansas City Forget its War Heroes: The Liberty Memorial and Early Postwar Memory Construction,” at a conference on “The Great War’s Shadow: New Perspectives on the First World War,” Alberta, Canada, Sept. 25-28. Research: M.J. Morgan, Research Director of Chapman Center, was quoted in the New York Times in an article that highlights work on lost towns and the broad popular interest in this kind of research: Mitch Smith, “A Nebraska Ghost Town, With a Name from Mars, May be Reborn,” NYT Oct 8, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/09/us/a-nebraska-ghost-town-with-a-name-from-mars-may-be-reborn.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes Grants: Awards: Other: Brent Maner served as Panel Moderator for “Geography, Nature, Ecology, and the German Spatial Imaginary,” at German Studies Association Meeting, Sept. 19. Modern Languages Publications: Kathleen Antonioli published a book review: “The Livres-Souvenirs of Colette: Genre and the Telling of Time.” Modern Language Review. 109.4 2014: 1088-1089.


Robert Clark published an essay, “Spiritual Exercises: The Making of Interior Faith.” in The Oxford Handbook of the Middle Ages (Oxford: Oxford UP) pp. 271-86.

Melinda A. Cro had an article, " Montaigne’s Italian Voyage: Alterity and Linguistic Appropriation in the Journal de Voyage," accepted to South Atlantic Review for their special issue, "Travel and Memoir" forthcoming next year. Derek Hillard published "Are There Painful Images? Ernst Jünger and Beholding Pain in Photography" in "Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies" Volume 50, Number 4 (461-82). Necia Chronister published an article titled "Narrating the Fault Lines: German Literature since the Fall of the Wall" as an online exclusive for the literary magazine World Literature Today. Robert Clark published an article entitled ‘Jacques Copeau médiéviste: Le Miracle du pain doré aux Hospices de Beaune (1943)’ (with Isabelle Ragnard). Nouveaux Cahiers de la Comédie-Française 2 (2014): 39-43. Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions: At the German Studies Association conference in Kansas City, four Modern Languages faculty members made presentations:

• Jan Oliver Jost-Fritz presented a paper, “Languages of the Self. Pietism, Affect, and Poetry in the Long Eighteenth Century.”

• Sara Luly presented a paper, "Observing Pain: Women, Physicians and the Case Studies of Animal Magnetism"

• Necia Chronister presented a paper, "Death in the New Economy: Reevaluating the Oberflächenästhetik in Judith Hermann’s Alice"

• Derek Hillard was on a roundtable, "Conclusions and Perspectives: The Body and Emotions, 1500–1990."

María Teresa DePaoli presented "Defying Culture: Women Screenwriters’ Struggle in the Mexican Film Industry, and the Dynamics of Fashion in the Workplace." Screenwriting Research Network 7th International Conference, Oct. 16-19, at the Film University Babelsberg-Konrad Wolf in Potsdam, Germany. Melinda A. Cro presented "The Function of Space in Honoré d'Urfé's L'Astrée: The Interplay of Physical, Textual, and Imaginary Spaces" at the annual meeting of the Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies in London, Ontario, Canada on October 16, 2014.


Laura Kanost presented “Exploring Kansas Service Learning Practitioners’ Usage of Best Practices.” With co-presenters Anna M. Page and Carrie J. Lane. Campus Compact Heartland Conference. Oct. 2, 2014. Research: Grants: Melinda Cro and Kathleen Antonioli, in collaboration with the French section, received a competitive "Tournees" grant from the French government to host a French film festival at K-State this Spring. Awards: María Teresa DePaoli was one of only four, out of more than 400 nominated, awarded the Verizon Nueva Latina Estrella Award 2014. Dr. DePaoli was the recipient in the category of education. Other: Angélique Courbou served as the Kansas Board of Regents Core Outcomes Group Chair for Spanish. On September 12, she met with representatives from twelve other institutions across the state of Kansas to discuss the core learning outcomes for Spanish III. They were charged to create 4-6 shared outcomes in order to facilitate transfer by the Transfer and Articulation Committee of the Board of Regents. Melinda A. Cro served as representative for French at the Kansas Board of Regents Core Outcomes Group for French 2 on September 12, 2014. She will serve as chair of the Core Outcome Group for French next year. Kumiko Nakamura organized and hosted the information table of Japanese language programs in the state of Kansas to promote Japanese language study at college level during the Greater Kansas City Japan Festival, held at Johnson County Community College on October 11, 2014. At the festival, she also supervised the public performance, by students of the Japanese Language Program, of the "kamishibai" (traditional Japanese paper story-telling theater). Pablo Martínez has been confirmed as a Peer Review of Teaching Program (PRTP) fellow for the 2014-2015 academic year.


Dr. Martínez has also joined the Editorial Board of the journal, Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, produced by the Modern Languages Department. School of Music, Theatre, and Dance Publications: Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions: Jerry Jay Cranford Presented “The Life and Choreography of Bob Fosse” master class in Jazz II for the K-State Dance Department; did three director talkbacks on the research and process of directing Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; and did a radio interview to discuss the research and history of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Laura Donnelly presented “Moving Strengths” workshops for the CAT Strengths Community. This was developed with Mike Finnegan. She gave a presentation titled “Site-specific Dance – Seen/Unseen” at the Beach Museum’s monthly Friends Meeting. Julie Pentz attended the Kansas Leadership Center’s (KLC) EDGE Intensive October 15th – 17th Wichita, KS. The K-State Tap Dance Ensemble, that Pentz oversees, performed for Parents as Teachers, did a full length show at the Beach Museum, performed at the Walk for Fragile X in Overland Park, KS, and completed the month’s activities with a full length performance at Spooktacular at the Sunset Zoo. Jennifer Vellenga directed a play reading of Chantal Bilodeau’s new play “Forward,” the second play in Bilodeau’s The Artic Cycle, at Akvavit Theatre company in Chicago. The play is set in Norway and the Scandinavian theatre company, Akvavit invited Vellenga and Bilodeau to collaborate with their company of artists to support the next phase of the project. Travel was a funded in part by a USRG. Patricia Thompson attended the West Central National Association of Teachers of Singing Annual Conference with eight members of her studio. Four students advanced to semi-final competitions and two advanced to the finals. One student received “Honorable Mention,” and one student received First Place in her division at the competition.


Research: Laura Donnelly mentored Courtney Hoover’s undergraduate Research Project applying movement fundamentals to learning ballet technique and Daniel Phillips undergraduate Research Project work on investigating the embodiment of physics theories through dance. Donnelly is doing further research on the combination of physics and dance through her ongoing work on The Crystal Ballet that will be presented at the National Dance Education Association Conference in Chicago. She is also continuing work on her “moving science” concepts and plans to present that work in “Beyond the Classroom” and “GROW” events for middle school students. Grants: Awards: Jerry Jay Cranford Was selected as influential LGBT Faculty to be featured in the semi-annual LGBT Resource Center’s Alumni Newsletter. Other: Slawomir Dobrzanski served as a judge for the Nebraska Music Educators Association’s State Piano Auditions. Jerry Jay Cranford Ran rehearsals for KSTO graduating senior showcase production of The SantaLand Diaries, serving as director; served as a fight consultant for K-State Theatre productions on Monkey, Monkey Bottle of Beer and Sweeney Todd; hosted a post mortem with the company of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; served as host for the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival respondent; and did actor coaching and advising direction for Minneapolis’ Maple Grove High’s Cinderella, Nikki Swoboda.


Social & Behavioral Sciences Geography Publications (*graduate students): Hilburn, A. 2014. The awakening coast: An anthology of Moravian writings from Mosquitia and eastern Nicaragua, 1849-1899. Journal of Latin American Geography 13(3): 245-247. Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions (*graduate students): DeCapo, M.* 2014. Comparative analysis of waste management at Kansas State University and the University of Ghana, Legon. Southwest/Great Plains-Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Albuquerque, New Mexico, October. Haddock, B.H.* 2014. Beyond the Ma and Pa: Navigating rural sexuality and gender identification networks. Southwest/Great Plains-Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Albuquerque, New Mexico, October. Harrington, J.A., Jr. 2014. Temporal and spatial variation in temperature seasonality for Kansas. 37th Applied Geography Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, October. Harrington, J.A., Jr., Dye, C.*, and Howard, I. 2014. Understanding variations in precipitation seasonality in Kansas. Southwest/Great Plains-Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Albuquerque, New Mexico, October. Harrington, J.A., Jr., Dye, C.*, and Howard, I. 2014. Temporal and spatial variation in precipitation seasonality in Kansas. 37th Applied Geography Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, October. Howard, I. and Harrington, J.A., Jr. 2014. Spatial and temporal variability of precipitation seasonality for the southern United States. 37th Applied Geography Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, October. Hutchinson, J.M.S., Jacquin, A., Hutchinson, S.L. and Verbesselt, J. 2014. Monitoring inter- and intra-annual vegetation dynamics on U.S. Army training lands using MODIS composite imagery and temporal decomposition methods. Southwest/Great Plains-Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Albuquerque, New Mexico, October. Larsen, T.B.* 2014. Spreading it faster than we can shovel it: Local perceptions of power and controversy in the management of the Ozark National Scenic Riverways. Southwest/Great


Plains-Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Albuquerque, New Mexico, October. McHaney, M.*, Hutchinson, J.M.S., and Swamy, A. 2014. Spatiotemporal analysis of growing season length and freeze dates as a measure of climate change for agricultural producers in Kansas. Southwest/Great Plains-Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Albuquerque, New Mexico, October. Patch, N.L.* 2014. Variables affecting meander bend migration of a regulated stream, Kansas River, USA. Southwest/Great Plains-Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Albuquerque, New Mexico, October. Paul, B. 2014. Internal migration in Bangladesh: A comparative study of coastal, environmentally challenged, and other districts. Southwest/Great Plains-Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Albuquerque, New Mexico, October. Ramekar, A.* 2014. Access to emergency healthcare in Wyandotte County, Kansas, 2010. Southwest/Great Plains-Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Albuquerque, New Mexico, October. Su, L.* and Hutchinson, J.M.S. 2014. Engaging agricultural stakeholders and communicating climate change risk with a webGIS-based crop calendar. Southwest/Great Plains-Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Albuquerque, New Mexico, October. Wallace, L.* and Harrington, L.M.B. 2014. Condit Dam removal, Washington: Perceptions and decision-making. Southwest/Great Plains-Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Albuquerque, New Mexico, October. Wetherholt. W.* 2014. Exploring place attachment in Kansas’ central Great Plains: A Jewell County pilot study. Southwest/Great Plains-Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Albuquerque, New Mexico, October. Research (*graduate students): Grants (*graduate students): Awards (*graduate students):


Other (*graduate students): William Wetherholt* placed first in the graduate student paper presentation competition at the Southwest/Great Plains-Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Albuquerque, New Mexico, October. Nickolas Patch* and Thomas Larsen* tied for first in the graduate student poster competition at the Southwest/Great Plains-Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Albuquerque, New Mexico, October. Megan McHaney* placed second in the undergraduate student poster competition at the Southwest/Great Plains-Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Albuquerque, New Mexico, October. Political Science Publications: Flynn, Michael E (with Colin Barry, K. Chad Clay, and Gregory Robinson) Accepted and Forthcoming. “Freedom of Foreign Movement, Economic Opportunities Abroad, and Protest in Non-Democratic Regimes.” 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). Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions: Annual meeting of Peace Science Society at the University of Pennsylvania, Oct 9-11: Assistant Professor of Political Science Carla Martinez Machain and Security Studies MA student Jared Oestman presented the co-authored paper “Does Counterterrorism Militarize Foreign Aid?” Annual meeting of the International Studies-Midwest meeting in St. Louis, MO, November 7-9. This is our largest showing at this notable conference in the department’s history: Sam Bell and Carla Martinez Machain, assistant professors, presented a paper entitled “The Effect of U.S. Troop Deployments on Host States’ Human Rights.”


Bell presented a second paper entitled “Deadly Triangles: The Implications of Regional Competition on Demands between Asymmetric States,” he chaired a professional development roundtable on publishing in political science, and he served as discussant on a panel entitled “The Justice Cascade.” Martinez Machain and Political Science MA students Leo Rosenberg and Rachel James presented a paper entitled “The Choice between Domestic and External Diversion.” Martinez Machain chaired a professional development panel on “Challenges that Women Face in the Profession” Craig S. Stapley, assistant professor, presented a paper entitled “The Irony of Action: Terrorism and Small Arms” David Mitchell, Security Studies PhD Student, presented a paper entitled “Blurred Lines? : A Quantitative Assessment of the PRT-NGO Proximity Debate in Afghanistan” Muhammad Nawaz, Security Studies PhD Student, presented a paper entitled “How Terrorism Ends: Impact of Group’s Lethality on its Survival” Jared Oestman, Security Studies MA student, presented a paper entitled, “The Effect of Security Assistance on Terrorism” Research: Grants: Awards: Other:


Psychological Sciences Publications: Dillon, H.M., Adair, L.E., & Brase, G.L. (2015). A threatening exchange: Gender and life history strategy predict perceptions and reasoning about sexual harassment. Personality and Individual Differences,72,195-199. http://10.1016/j.paid.2014.09.002 [published online this month at: http://authors.elsevier.com/a/1PnWtheKdMAWc Brase, G.L. (in press). Using statistical reasoning performance to reveal information parsing preferences in the mind. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2014.944920 published online this month at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17470218.2014.944920 Adair, L. E., Dillon, H. M., & Brase, G. L. (in press). I’ll have who she’s having: Mate copying, mate poaching, and mate retention. In M. L. Fisher-MacDonnell (Ed.) Handbook on Women and Competition. New York, NY: Oxford University Press [published online this month at: http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/newsitem/40/september-update-live;jsessionid=230C9689179284DE6F42898883012F4D] Dillon, H. M., Adair, L. E., & Brase, G. L. (in press). Operational Sex Ratio and Female Competition: Scarcity Breeds Intensity. In M. L. Fisher-MacDonnell (Ed.) Handbook on Women and Competition. New York, NY: Oxford University Press [published online this month at: http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/newsitem/40/september-update-live;jsessionid=230C9689179284DE6F42898883012F4D] Park, Y., & Sprung, J. (2014, September 16). Weekly work-school conflict, sleep quality, and fatigue: Recovery self-efficacy as a cross-level moderator. Journal of Organizational Behavior. Advance online publication. doi:10.1002/job.1953 Park, Y., & Fritz, C. (2014, September 15). Spousal recovery support, recovery experiences, and life satisfaction crossover among dual-earner couples. Journal of Applied Psychology. Advance online publication. doi.org/10.1037/a0037894 Li, W. D., Fay, D., Frese, M., Harms, P. D., & Gao, X. (2014). Reciprocal relationships between proactive personality and work characteristics: A latent change score approach. Journal of Applied Psychology, 99(5), 948-965. Robinson, J., Brase, G., Griswold, W., Jackson, C., & Erickson, L. (in press). Business Models for Solar Powered Charging Stations to Develop Infrastructure for Electric Vehicles. Sustainability. 6, 7358-7387. http://10.3390/su6107358


Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions: Research: Grants: Awards: Other: During the month of September, excerpts from interviews with Dr. Mark Barnett appeared in Time magazine, the Huffington Post, and the Manhattan Mercury. Dr. Kimberly Kirkpatrick’s paper, Mechanisms of Impulsive Choice: I. Individual Differences in Interval Timing and Reward Processing (July 2014), was featured in K-State Today. Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work Publications: Steiner, J. L., Engle, D. M., Xiao, X., Saleh, A., Tomlinson, P., Rice, C. W., Cole, N. A., Coleman, S. W., Osei, E., Basara, J., Middendorf, G., Gowda, P., Todd, R., Moffet, C., Anandhi, A., Starks, P. J., Ocshner, T., Reuter, R. and Devlin, D. 2014. “Knowledge and tools to enhance resilience of beef grazing systems for sustainable animal protein production.” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1328: 10–17. doi: 10.1111/nyas.12572 Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions: Brad Logan and Lauren W. Ritterbush presented “An Archaeological Panorama in the Central Plains” at the 72nd Plains Anthropological Conference in Fayetteville, Arkansas, October 30. Logan chaired the session in which the paper was presented. Brad Logan also attended the Midwest Archaeological Conference in Champaign, Illinois, October 2-4.


Ritterbush, Lauren W. (2014) Identifying and Understanding the Early Kanza along the Kaw, 1790-1825. Presented in the Symposium “Hidden in Plain Sight II: Early Nineteenth Century Native American Sites and Material Culture in the Midwest” at the 58th Annual Midwest Archaeological Conference, Champaign, Illinois, October 2-4, 2014. Ritterbush, Lauren W. (2014) Kanza Stability and Change, 1790-1830. Invited participant in the Symposium “Culture Change in Kanza Society during the Contact Period: Insights from Recent Archeological and Ethnohistorical Investigations” at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Plains Anthropological Society, Fayetteville, Arkansas, October 29-November 1, 2014. Logan, Brad and Lauren W. Ritterbush (2014) An Archaeological Panorama in the Central Plains. Presented at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Plains Anthropological Society, Fayetteville, Arkansas, October 29-November 1, 2014. Becerra, Terrie and Gerad Middendorf. 2014. “Attitudes of Extension Educators Regarding Climate Change.” Poster presented at the K-State Research and Extension Annual Conference, October 21-23, 2014. Research: Grants: Awards: Other:


Natural & Quantitative Sciences Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics Publications: Malmirchegini, GR., Sjodt M., Shnitkind S., Sawaya MR., Rosinski J., Newton SM., Klebba PE., and Clubb RT. (2014) “Novel mechanism of hemin capture by Hbp2, the hemoglobin-binding hemophore from Listeria monoctogenes” J Biol Chem 2014 Oct 14. Pii:jbc.M114.583013 Peng, Z., Green, P.G., Kanost, M.R., and Gorman, M.J. (2014) “A multicopper oxidase-related protein plays a role in insect molting, life span and ovary development.” PloS ONE, 9(10): e111344. Takahashi, D., Dai, H., Hiromasa, Y., Krishnamoorthi, R., and Kanost, M.R. (2014) “Self-association of an insect β-1,3 glucan recognition protein upon binding laminarin stimulates prophenoloxidase activation as an innate immune response.” J. Biol. Chem. 289, 28399-183410. Xu, J,. Su, X., Lim, S., Griffin, J., Carey, E., Katz, B., Tomich, J.M., Smith, J.S., and Wang, W. (2014) “Characterization and Stability of Anthocyanins in Purple-fleshed Sweet Potato” P40. In press Food Science e-print ahead of publication http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2014.08.123 Avila, L.A, Lee, S. and Tomich J.M. (2014) “Synthetic in vitro delivery systems for plasmid DNA in eukaryotes” (review) J. Nanopharmaceutics and Drug Delivery 2: 17-35. Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions: Tim Durrett presented a seminar, "From Burning Bushes to Chocolate Vines: Using Sequence Diversity to Explore MBOAT Substrate Specificity and Increase Production of Low Viscosity Oil", at the Department of Biochemistry & Redox Biology Center Fall 2014 Seminar Series, University of Nebraska, Lincoln NE. on October 28, 2014. Tim Durrett presented a seminar, "Elucidating the Regulation of Storage Lipid Synthesis in Developing Plant Seeds", at KUMC-Illumina NextGen Sequencing Research Symposium, Kansas City, KS, on October 29, 2014. Defenses: Luz Adriana Avila Flores (graduate, Tomich) presented her PhD. Defense, “Branched Amphiphilic Peptides: An Alternative Non-Viral Gene Delivery System”, October 17, 2014.


Research: Karanbir S. Aulakh and Timothy P. Durrett presented a poster, "Elucidating the Regulation of Storage Lipid Synthesis in Developing Plant Seeds", at the KUMC-Illumina NextGen Sequencing Research Symposium, Kansas City, KS. October 29, 2014 Grants: Awards: Sara Duhachek Muggy (graduate, Zolkiewska) received the Sarachek Travel Award to attend a workshop entitled Translational Cancer Research for Basic Scientists in Boston, Massachusetts October 26-31. 2014. Other: Patent: Fleming S.D. and Tomich, J. M. (submitted 2010) “b2-Glycoprotein I Peptide Inhibitors.” U.S. provisional patent Serial No. 61/379,257 filed July 13, 2010. Notice of Allowance dated September 15, 2014 Biology Publications: Michael Veeman – “Quantitative and in toto imaging in ascidians: Working toward a systems biology of chordate morphogenesis. Veeman and Reeves, 2014. Journal: Genesis. Ciblis-Stewart, X., B.K. Sandercock, and B.P. McCornack. Feeding location affects demographic performance of cabbage aphids on winter canola. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, in press. La Pierre, K.J., A. Joern, M. D. Smith. 2014. Invertebrate, not small vertebrate, herbivores impact plant community composition and forb biomass in tallgrass prairie. Oikos doi 10.1111/oik.01869 Stucky DF, Arpin JC, Schrick K. Functional diversification of two UGT80 enzymes required for steryl glucoside synthesis in Arabidopsis. J Exp Bot. 2014 Oct 14. pii: eru410 [Epub ahead of print]


Dodds, W. K., Collins, S.M., Hamilton, S.K.,Tank, J. L., Johnson, S. ,Webster, J. R., Simon, K. S.,Whiles, M. R., Rantala, H. M, McDowell, W. H., Peterson, S.D., Riis, T, Crenshaw, C. L., Thomas, S. A., Kristensen, P. B., Cheever, B. M., Flecker, A. S., Griffiths, N.A., Crowl, T. , Rosi-Marshall, E. J., El-Sabaawi, R., Martí, E. 2014 You are not always what we think you eat: selective assimilation across multiple whole-stream isotopic tracer studies. Ecology. 95:2757–2767

Ratajczak, Z, J.B. Nippert, J.M. Briggs and J.M. Blair. 2014. Fire dynamics distinguish grasslands, shrublands and woodlands as alternative attractors in the Central Great Plains of North America. Journal of Ecology 102:1374-1385.

This synthesis is part of a Special Feature on Grass-Woodland Transitions in the November 2014 issue of Journal of Ecology, which grew out of an NSF-supported international workshop (attended by Blair and Ratajczak).

Kaufman, G.A. and D. W. Kaufman. 2014. Plains harvest mice in tallgrass prairie: Abundance, habitat association and individual attributes. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, 117:167-180.

Kaufman, D. W. and G.A. Kaufman. 2014. Observations of the nine-banded armadillo in northeastern and central Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, 117:287-290.

Zhang X, Mysore K, Flannery E, Michel K, Severson DW, Zhu KY, Duman-Scheel M Chitosan/interfering RNA nanoparticle mediated gene silencing in disease vector mosquito larvae. JoVE. In press.

Mills MK, Nayduch D, Michel, K* Inducing RNA interference in the arbovirus vector, Culicoides sonorensis. Insect Mol Biol. Oct 7 2014 doi: 10.1111/imb.12139. PMID: 25293805; NIHMSID # 627034.

K. J. Goodman, S. M. Parker, J. W. Edmonds and L. H. Zeglin. 2014. Expanding the scale of aquatic sciences: The role of the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON). In press: Freshwater Science. In press.

Brett Sandercock: Highlights: One of my research articles was selected for a National Publication Award as the Outstanding Article by The Wildlife Society (2014). All four coauthors were affiliated with the Division of Biology at Kansas State University. The award was profiled in K-State Today and The Collegian (October 28) http://www.k-state.edu/media/newsreleases/oct14/wildlifesocietyaward102714.html McNew, L.B., A.J. Gregory, S.M. Wisely, and B.K. Sandercock. 2012. Demography of Greater Prairie-Chickens: regional variation in vital rates, sensitivity values, and population dynamics. Journal of Wildlife Management 76:987-1000.


Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions: Walter Dodds - Humanity’s Footprint. NRES Seminar Series. Kansas State University Sandercock, B.K. Effects of wind energy and rangeland management on grassland birds in Kansas. Departmental Seminar, Department of Biology, Truman State University. October 24, 2014. Ricketts, A.M. and B.K. Sandercock. Small mammal responses to patch-burn grazing in tallgrass prairie. The Wildlife Society Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. October 25-30, 2014. Clipp, H.L., A. Bartolo, B.H.F. Verheijen, and B.K. Sandercock. The effects of patch burn grazing on dickcissel territory size and selection in an experimental tallgrass prairie. The Wildlife Society Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. October 25 30, 2014 (poster). Sandercock, B.K. and V.L. Winder. Blazing and grazing for conservation: habitat use by Upland Sandpipers in an experimental landscape. Kansas Ornithological Society, 66th Annual Meeting, Kansas Wesleyan University, October 4, 2014. Jeroen Roelofs was the invited regional speaker at Midwest Regional SUMO Symposium at KU Lawrence on October 13, 2014, title talk: “Quality control of proteasome assembly by an inhibitor of the proteasome”. Jumpponen, A. 2014. Fungal communities in urban settings – do humans alter their composition and function. 12th Annual Ecological Genomics Symposium, Kansas City, Missouri. October 31 – November 2, 2014. Oral Presentation and an Abstract. Jumpponen, A., Cortez, A., Herman, M., and Rotenberg, D. 2014. Ecological Genomics URM – fostering effective learning through hands-on experiences and frequent evaluation. 12th Annual Ecological Genomics Symposium, Kansas City, Missouri. October 31 – November 2, 2014. Poster Presentation and an Abstract. Partridge, S., Brown, S.P., Jumpponen, A. 2014. Fungal communities of the emerging leaves of Quercus macrocarpa. 12th Annual Ecological Genomics Symposium, Kansas City, Missouri. October 31 – November 2, 2014. Poster Presentation.

Veach, A.M., Dodds, W.K., Brown, S. and Jumpponen, A. 2014. Microbial community succession in a tallgrass prairie stream. 12th Annual Ecological Genomics Symposium, Kansas City, Missouri. October 31 – November 2, 2014. Poster Presentation and an Abstract. Rollie Clem presented a lecture on October 1, 2014 in the Department of Microbiology at Miami University of Ohio, titled “Factors affecting arbovirus infection of mosquitoes”.


Ashley Rhodes - KSU Libraries e-text workshop – invited speaker - “Using a constructivist approach to design effective e-texts for physiology courses”. Kristin Michel - Invited seminar: Department of Entomology Seminar series, University of Georgia, KS, USA; Presentation title: “Mosquito health: How innate immunity is regulated in blood-feeding insects”; Oct. 6, 2014. Lydia Zeglin - Invited Departmental Seminar at K-State Department of Geology. Title: Microbial colonization and activity on recent tephra deposits, Kasatochi Volcano, Alaska. The Kansas State University Ecological Genomics Institute hosted its 12th annual symposium October 31 – November 2, 2014 in Kansas City. Research: Ari Jumpponen Laboratory completed an undergraduate research project to explore the use of phyllosphere as an ecological model. This project was supported by funds from KSU Undergraduate Research Awards and Kansas Agricultural Experimental Station. The undergraduate student (Shelli Partridge) is preparing a manuscript and presented her results at Ecological Genomics Symposium in Kansas City. 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 is under revision for Fungal Ecology, second is in its final stages to be submitted to Forest Ecosystems and Management. Grants: NSF LTER. Konza Prairie LTER VII: Grassland dynamics and long-term trajectories of change. ($5,400,000, 11/2014-10/2020) (J. Blair, PI, Co-PIs: Sara Baer, W.K. Dodds, A. Joern, J. B. Nippert). Walter Dodds - 2014-202 LTER: Long-Term Research on Grassland Dynamics- Assessing Mechanisms of Sensitivity and Resilience to Global Change National Science Foundation, $6,700,000 (co-PI). John Blair - LTER VII: Long-Term Research on Grassland Dynamics- Assessing Mechanisms of Sensitivity and Resilience to Global Change. PI: J.M. Blair, Co-PIs: S.G. Baer, W.K. Dodds, A. Joern, and J.B. Nippert. NSF Long-Term Ecological Research Program, 2014 – 2024, $6,762,000.


John Blair - The Konza Prairie LTER program was awarded $6.76 million in funding from the National Science Foundation to continue and expand long-term ecological research at the Konza Prairie Biological Station. Konza Prairie was one of the first six LTER sites funded by NSF in 1980, and this is the seventh successful renewal of that program, making this one of the longest running ecological research programs in the country. The renewal covers the period 2014-2020, and increases total NSF LTER funding for the Konza program to $29.25 million. LTER renewals are not automatic, and are based on an extensive proposal and rigorous review process. In the current round of reviews one LTER site was terminated (bringing the total number of defunded sites to five), and another site was given only limited funding for a probationary period. Important factors in our success include the unique research infrastructure provided by the Konza Prairie Biological Station, the strong institutional support provided by K-State, and the dedication of a collaborative and creative group of investigators. Kristin Michel - USDA-ARS SCA 58-5430-4-022 (PI: Michel) “The impact of insect immunity on vector competence in changing environments”; the overall aim of this Cooperative agreement is to assess the impact of environmental variables on anti-pathogen immunity in mosquitoes and biting midges. 2014-2019 ($ 247,328). Awards: Brett Sandercock - National publication award from The Wildlife Society, see highlight at top. Anthony Joern - Visiting Senior Research Scientist/Scholar, Colorado State University. Zhilong Yang - Johnson Cancer Center Innovative Research Award, $25,000. Ashley Rhodes - Motor Board Senior Honorary - Outstanding KSU Faculty Award. Other: Ruth Welti (Biology) and Tim Durrett (Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics) hosted a visit from Professor Sten Stymne of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences from October 16-19, 2014. Kathrin Schrick, assistant professor in the Division of Biology, is the lead investigator on a publication that has been recommended by the Faculty of 1000 for special significance in its field. The Faculty of 1000 is an international group of biomedical scientists that designate new research articles for potential high impact. http://www.k-state.edu/today/announcement.php?id=16652.


The publication, "Shared functions of plant and mammalian StAR-related lipid transfer (START) domains in modulating transcription factor activity," was originally published in the August issue of BMC Biology.” Peter Wong - I am teaching Biology 455 (General Microbiology) with an enrollment of 278 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. I met and helped ten of my advisees to enroll for next semester. Ari Jumpponen - The Undergraduate Research Mentoring (URM) program that I coordinate supported a total of 11 undergraduate students (Breanna Canning, Sarah Cossey, Obdulia Covarrubias, Matthew Galliart, Katherine Johnson, Shelli Partridge, Ella Popova, Matthew Ramos, Mercedes Santiago, Jasmine Sharp, Halle Sparks) to the 12th Annual Ecological Genomics Symposium, Kansas City, Missouri. October 31 – November 2, 2014. Each of these students presented a poster at the meeting. On October 31, 2014, Rollie Clem hosted a group of visiting high school students from Shawnee Mission West High School in Overland Park, KS. The students listened to a presentation about the importance of cell death in health and disease, and toured the laboratory of Dr. Clem. W.A. Boyle - Nothing spectacular this month—just did my job: reviewed (3) and served as editor (2) for other people’s manuscript, resubmitted 1 and submitted 1 new manuscript of my own, advised students, participated in journal clubs and seminars, attended a regional conference where my grad student won an award. Kristin Michel - Selection of cover photo for the 2015 editions of the journal Insect Molecular Biology. Physics Publications: Backpack Weight and the Scaling of the Human Frame, M O’Shea, Phys. Teach. 52, 479 (2014); http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.4897584.


Primordial magnetic helicity constraints from WMAP nine-year data, Kahniashvili, T.; Maravin, Y.; Lavrelashvili, G.; Kosowsky, A., Physical Review D (Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and Cosmology), v 90, n 8, p 083004 (9 pp.), 15 Oct. 2014. Adiabatic hyperspherical representation for the three-body problem in two dimensions D'Incao, J.P. (JILA, Univ. of Colorado & NIST, Boulder, CO, United States); Esry, B.D. Source: Physical Review A (Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics), v 90, n 4, p 042707 (13 pp.), Oct. 2014. Rydberg states in the strong field ionization of hydrogen by 800, 1200 and 1600 nm lasers, Li, Qianguang, Tong, Xiao-Min; Morishita, Toru; Jin, Cheng; Wei, Hui; Lin, C.D. Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, v 47, n 20, October 28, 2014. Waveforms for Optimal Enhancement of High-order Harmonics by Synthesizing Two-or three-color Laser Fields, CD Lin, C Jin, AT Le - Laser Science, 2014. Strong field processes inside gallium arsenide, S M Golin, S E Kirkwood, D D Klug, D M Villeneuve, D M Rayner, C A Tralllero Herrero and P B Corkum et al 2014 J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 47 204025, doi:10.1088/0953-4075/47/20/204025. Femtosecond photoelectron diffraction: a new approach to image molecular structure during photochemical reactions, Daniel Rolles, et al. Proc. SPIE 9198, Ultrafast Nonlinear Imaging and Spectroscopy II, 91980O (September 5, 2014); doi:10.1117/12.2061783. Chemical reaction dynamics I and electron dynamics in molecules: general discussion Daniel Rolles, et al. Faraday Discuss., 2014, Advance Article, doi: 10.1039/C4FD90014F. Improved measurements of the neutrino mixing angle &thetas;13 with the Double Chooz detector, Horton-Smith, G.A., et al. Source: Journal of High Energy Physics, n 10, p 086 (44 pp.), Oct. 2014. Ortho-positronium observation in the Double Chooz experiment, G. A. Horton-Smith, et al. The Double Chooz collaboration, Journal of High Energy Physics October 2014, 2014:32, 10.1007/JHEP10(2014)032. Analysis of AFM Phase Data to Dynamically Detect Adsorbed Hydrogen at Ambient Conditions, MJ Young, PH Pfromm, ME Rezac, BM Law - Langmuir, 2014. Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions: Itzik Ben-Itzhak submitted an abstract to and attended the 2014 Atomic, Molecular & Optical Sciences Research Meeting in Potomac, MD, October 26-29, 2014


“Structure and Dynamics of Atoms, Ions, Molecules, and Surfaces: Molecular Dynamics with Ion and Laser Beams.” Amit Chakrabarti attended the 33rd Annual Conference of the American Association of Aerosol Research in Orlando, FL, October 20-24, 2014. Kristan Corwin attended the Optical Society of America Annual Meeting & American Physics Society Division of Laser Sciences in Tucson, AZ, October 20-23, 2014 Attended Executive Committee Meeting, judged the thesis prize competition, and presided over a session of the Undergraduate Research Symposium. Brett Esry submitted an abstract to and attended the 2014 Atomic, Molecular & Optical Sciences Research Meeting in Potomac, MD, October 26-29, 2014 “Strong-field dynamics of few-body atomic and molecular systems.” Vinod Kumarappan attended and gave an invited talk at the 13th International Symposium on Ultrafast Intense Laser Science in Jodhpur, India, October 5-10, 2014 “Molecular frame measurements with asymmetric top molecules. Also, submitted an abstract to and attended the 2014 Atomic, Molecular & Optical Sciences Research Meeting in Potomac, MD, October 26-29, 2014 “Ultrafast Processes in Aligned Molecules.” Anh-Thu Le attended the 2014 Atomic, Molecular & Optical Sciences Research Meeting in Potomac, MD, October 26-29, 2014. C.D. Lin submitted an abstract to and attended the 2014 Atomic, Molecular & Optical Sciences Research Meeting in Potomac, MD, October 26-29, 2014 “Strong Field Rescattering Physics and Attosecond Physics.” Presented a talk (and conference paper) at the 2014 Optical Society of America Conference in Tucson, AZ, October 19-23, 2014 “Waveforms for Optimal Enhancement of High-order Harmonics by Synthesizing Two- or three-color Laser Fields.” C.D. Lin gave an Invited Talk at the International Workshop on Strong Field Physics and Ultrafast Phenomena (SFPUP 2014) in Zhangjiajie, China, October 31-November 4. Daniel Rolles attended the 2014 Atomic, Molecular & Optical Sciences Research Meeting in Potomac, MD, October 26-29, 2014. Artem Rudenko attended and presented a talk at the 2014 Atomic, Molecular & Optical Sciences Research Meeting in Potomac, MD, October 26-29, 2014 “Electronic Rearrangement and Nuclear Dynamics After Inner-Shell Photoionization.” Eleanor Sayre presented a Physics Colloquium at Creighton University Physics Department in Creighton, NE, October 30, 2014 “Math dialects and becoming a physicist.”


Uwe Thumm attended and presented a talk at the 2014 Atomic, Molecular & Optical Sciences Research Meeting in Potomac, MD, October 26-29, 2014. “Imaging and Controlling the Nuclear and Electronic Motion in Atoms, Molecules and Nanostructures with Ultrashort XUV and IR Pulses: from Femto to Attosecond Timescales and Back.” Submitted the following abstract at the meeting as well: “Structure and Dynamics of Atoms, Ions, Molecules and Surfaces.” Carlos Trallero submitted an abstract to and attended the 2014 Atomic, Molecular & Optical Sciences Research Meeting in Potomac, MD, October 26-29, 2014 “Strong-Field-Time-Dependent Spectroscopy.” Christopher M. Sorensen presented a Physics colloquium at UT-Dallas in Dallas, TX, September 24, 2014 “Of Soot and Sunflowers.” Attended and presented the following talks at the American Physical Society Fall 2014 Joint Meeting of the Texas Section of the APS, Texas Section of the AAPT, and Zone 13 of the Society of Physics Students in College Station, TX, October 17-19, 2014. Presented an invited plenary session: “Incorporation of Studio Exercises for Physics Instruction at all Levels.” Presented a talk: Divine Proportion Shape Invariance of DLCA Fractal Aggregates: An Analytical Theory. Christopher M. Sorensen attended and presented a paper at the American Association for Aerosol Research 33rd Annual Conference in Orlando, FL, October 20-24, 2014 “Divine Proportion Shape Invariance of DLCA Fractal Aggregates: An Analytical Theory.” Research: Grants: Awards: Other:


Statistics Publications: Vahl, C.I. and Kang, Q. Analysis of an outcome-dependent enriched sample: hypothesis tests. Stat Methods Appl. DOI 10.1007/s10260-014-0285-4. C. D. Reinhardt, C. I. Vahl, B. E. Depenbusch, J. P. Hutcheson and D. U. Thomson Feeding zilpaterol hydrochloride is associated with decreased dry matter intake shortly after initiation of feeding dependent on season and previous intake. J ANIM SCI 2014, 92:4751-4760. doi: 10.2527/jas.2014-7562 originally published online September 2, 2014. Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions: Nora 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. Gary Gadbury, Hsu, Johnson, Boyer, Milliken: Attendance as ASA Chapter Meeting in Kansas City along with 15 students. October 23rd. George Milliken. Workshop: "Nonlinear and nonlinear mixed models". October 15, 2014. Monsanto, St. Louis. Raithel, S.gs, 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. Cull, C.A.gs, D.G. Renter, N. M. Bello, A. H. Babcock and T. G Nagaraja. “Efficacy of a vaccine and a direct-fed microbial against fecal shedding of Escherichia coliO157:H7 and corresponding impacts on cattle performance in a commercial feedlot”. 10th Annual Applied Animal and Public Health Research and Extension Symposium. Kansas, City, Missouri. October 18th, 2014.


Gardhouse, S., D. Eshar, N. M. Bello and D. Mason. “Evaluation of changes in critical care blood analytes during isoflurane anesthesia in zoo-kept black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus)”. 2014 American Association of Zoo Veterinarians Annual Conference. Orlando, Florida. October 18-24, 2014. Gadbury: Individual Effects and Subject-Treatment Interaction. Invited Talk at KU Medical Center, October 24, 2014. 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. 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: 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. Bello, Reviewer for USDA-AFRI grant review panel on animal breeding and genetics.

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