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COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES ACHIEVEMENTS AND HIGHLIGHTS

April 2015

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Katherine Karlin, Cameron Leader-Picone, and Mark Croby (English) have received a Kansas Humanities Council Grant for their digital humanities project on Kansas-native photographer and filmmaker Gordon Parks. Lou Williams, History, won the best article prize from the Publications Committee of the Louisiana Historical Association for her article, "Federal Enforcement of African American Voting Rights in the Post-Redemption South: Louisiana and the Election of 1878." The award, known as the Presidents' Memorial Award, is given each spring to recognize the best article published during the previous calendar year in the journal Louisiana History. Lou's article appeared in the Summer, 2014 issue. Frank Tracz and Don Linn, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance, took the K-State Wind Ensemble to New York City where they performed in the Naumburg Band Shell in Central Park and in Carnegie Hall as the finale ensemble at the 2015 International Music Festival. Soloists on that program included David Littrell on cello and Anna Marie Wytko on saxophone. McLauchlan, K.K., Geography, (PI). SG: Continental and Century Scale Assessment of Forest Nutrient Cycling in the United States using Dendroisotopes. National Science Foundation, Ecosystems Science Program, 2015-2016, $149,963 grant. Kirkpatrick, K., Psychological Sciences, et al (2015). Mechanisms of individual differences in impulsive and risky choice. Comparative Cognition and Behavior Reviews, 10, 45-72. D. Ganguly and J. Chen, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, (2015), "Modulation of the Disordered Conformational Ensembles of the p53 Transactivation Domain by Cancer-Associated Mutations" PLoS Comput. Biol. 11(4): e1004247.

COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES ACHIEVEMENTS AND HIGHLIGHTS ACHIEVEMENTS AND HIGHLIGHTS

April 2015

Arts & Humanities

English Publications: Traci Brimhall, “Plantation Landscape with a Mob of Unwanted Children and Pollinating Rubber Trees” (poem). Fairy Tale Review 11 (2015): 26. “Virago” & “Our Lady Hippolyta Appears to Save Us All From the Wages of Cain” (poems). Court Green 12 (Spring 2015): 45-47. “On the Feast Day of Our Lady Hippolyta” (poem). Beloit Poetry Journal 65.3 (2015): 19-20. Mark Crosby, “Hayley, William.” The Encyclopedia of British Literature 1660–1789. Vol. I. Eds. Gary Day and Jack Lynch. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2015. 569-572. Daniel A. Hoyt, “The Best White Rapper in Berea, Ohio” (short story). The Iowa Review 45.1 (2015): 41-59. Katherine Karlin, “Sleeping Where Jean Seberg Slept” (story). Watchlist. Ed. Bryan Hurt. New York: OR Books, 2015. 9-19. Deborah Murray, “Comfort Food Pantoum,” “Stoicism is a Virtue,” and “Home Cooking” (poems). Meat for Tea: The Valley Review. 9:1 (2015): 87-88 Bonnie Nelson, “Female Authorship.” The Encyclopedia of British Literature 1660-1789. Vol. I. Eds. Gary Day and Jack Lynch. London: Blackwell Publishing, 2015. 472-479. Adam Szetela (MA ’15), Review of Andy Merrifield’s Magical Marxism: Subversive Politics and the Imagination. London: Pluto Press, 2011. Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society 18.1 (2015): 164-166. Han Yu and Marina Lin, “A Manager’s Best Practices to Coordinate Globally Distributed Teams.” Connexions: International Professional Communication Journal 3.1 (2015): 71-84.


Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions: Steffi Dippold, “Paper Horticulture: The Transatlantic Botanical Tropes of Pennsylvania Dutch Fraktur.” Fraktur and the Everyday Lives of Germans in Pennsylvania and the Atlantic World, 1683-1850. McNeil Center for Early American Studies. Philadelphia, PA. 8 Mar. 2015. Gregory Eiselein, “William James and Emotion’s Literary History.” Invited Talk. Department of English, Washington State University, Pullman, WA. 8 Apr. 2015. “First-Year / First-Generation: Pedagogies that Work.” Invited Talk. CLASP/First Scholars Program, Washington State University, Pullman, WA. 8 Apr. 2015. “The Ends of Undergraduate Study: How English Majors Can Prepare Themselves for What Comes Next.” Invited Workshop. Department of English, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID. 9 Apr. 2015. “The Fundamentals of Great Teaching.” Invited Workshop. Department of English, Washington State University, Pullman, WA. 9 Apr. 2015. Tanya González, “Gothic Utopias? Death, Hope, and What You See in the Dark.” 2nd Biennial Latina/o Literary Theory & Criticism Conference. John Jay College. New York, NY. 24 Apr. 2015 Donald Hedrick, “Opportunistic Gambling in Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew.” Renaissance Society of America. Berlin, Germany. 26 Mar. 2015. “Falstaff in Postmarxism.” Shakespeare Association of America. Vancouver, Canada. 4 Apr. 2015. Daniel A. Hoyt, excerpt from “Girl X” (fiction reading). Riot Act Reading Series. Minneapolis, MN. 9 Apr. 2015. Michele Janette, “A queer ‘personal equation’?: Non-normative investments, eccentric modes of being, and queer circuits of desire in Lily Hoang’s Parabola.” Association of Asian American Studies Annual Conference. Chicago. IL. 25 Apr. 2015. Mary Kohn, “(De)segregation: The Impact of De Facto and De Jure Segregation on African American English in the New South” (invited panelist). Language Variety in the South IV. Raleigh, NC. 11 Apr. 2015.


Tosha Sampson-Choma, “‘Shaft’s His Name, Shaft’s His Game’ because He’s Superhood, Superhigh, Superdude, Superfly: Performing Black British Male Identity through the Guise of Blaxploitation.” College Language Association. Dallas, TX. 10 Apr. 2015. David Smit, “Ward Just’s Vietnam: Method and Madness.” New England Modern Language Association. Toronto, Canada. 1 May 2015 Joe Sutliff Sanders, “The Arch-Nemesis of Comics Is…Comics?” Swan Arts Foundation. Ottawa, KS. 10 Apr. 2015. Lisa Tatonetti, “Affect, Female Masculinity, and the Embodied Space Between: Two-Spirit Traces in Thirza Cuthand’s Experimental Film.” MELUS Conference. Athens, Georgia. 10 Apr. 2015. Research: Grants: Elizabeth Dodd is a finalist for a Black Earth Institute Fellowship. Black Earth Institute is a community of artist-fellows and scholar-advisers creating a more ethical world. The Institute seeks to help create a more just and deeply interconnected world and promote the health of the planet. Gregory Eiselein received the Phi Kappa Phi Scholar Award from the Kansas State University chapter of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi at its 2015 Initiation Ceremony on April 22. The award is given annually to a Kansas State University scholar who is selected for the “(1) Quality of accomplishments in the nominee's field of study; (2) Achievements of regional, national and/or international scope (publications, research, invited lectures, etc.), and (3) Honors and other forms of recognition for excellence in scholarly work.” Anna Goins, Danielle Tarner, Cheryl Rauh, and Daniel Von Holten received funding from the Open/Alternative Textbook Initiative to create an alternative handbook for ENGL 417 “Written Communication for the Workplace.” Katherine Karlin, Cameron Leader-Picone, and Mark Croby have received a Kansas Humanities Council Grant for their digital humanities project on Kansas-native photographer and film maker Gordon Parks.


Awards: Carly Stithem (MA ’16), Adam Szetela (MA ’15), and Thomas Webb (MA ’16) each received an Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Research Travel Award. Catherine Strayhill (BA ‘16) is winner of the 2015 Arts & Sciences Sullivan Poetry Award. Adam Szetela (MA ’16) was awarded a National Honor Society Membership with Phi Kappa Phi. 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/> Christy Potroff (BA '08, MA '11) received a prestigious pre-doctoral fellowship at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. Christy's dissertation project is titled “The Mail Gaze: Early American Women's Literature, Letters, and the Post Office, 1790-1865.” 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: Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions: Kaitlyn Tietzen, graduate student, “The Falklands War After Thirty Years,” Culture and Conflict: The Second Annual Flint Hills History Conference, K-State. Jennifer Zoebelein, graduate student, “The Construction of Memorial Stadium,” Culture and Conflict: The Second Annual Flint Hills History Conference K-State. Robert Clark, graduate student, “Revolution and the Political Transformation of Isaac Backus,” Flint Hills Conference, K-State.


Robin Ottoson, graduate student, “Flag-Waving and Protest in Small-Town America: Three Mennonite Colleges in Kansas and Their Protests, 1961-1975,” Culture and Conflict: The Second Annual Flint Hills History Conference, KSU. Tony Demchak, graduate student, “Foreign Technology and the Russian Imperial Fleet During the Russo-Japanese War, 1882-1905,” Culture and Conflict: The Second Annual Flint Hills History Conference, K-State. Eric Dudley, graduate student, “To Know Him was But to Love Him: General James Birdseye McPherson and His Relationship with Ulysses S. Grant,” Culture and Conflict: The Second Annual Flint Hills History Conference, K-State. Haley Claxton, undergraduate student, “Revolt in Revolution: Preventing and Promoting Slave Revolt in Revolutionary South Carolina,” Culture and Conflict: The Second Annual Flint Hills History Conference, K-State. Research: Grants: Marsha Frey, Professor, received a research grant from the Hagley Library at the Winterthur Museum in Delaware. Awards: Lou Williams, won the best article prize from the Publications Committee of the Louisiana Historical Association for her article, "Federal Enforcement of African American Voting Rights in the Post-Redemption South: Louisiana and the Election of 1878." The award, known as the Presidents' Memorial Award, is given each spring to recognize the best article published during the previous calendar year in the journal Louisiana History. Lou's article appeared in the Summer, 2014 issue. Other: Graduate students in the History Department at KSU collaborated with graduate students in the KU History Department to plan a conference, Culture and Conflict: The Second Annual Flint Hills History Conference, that brought participants from the Air Force Academy, University of Nebraska, Texas Tech University, KU, and KSU together for a weekend of scholarly exchange, March 27-28.


Modern Languages Publications: Laura Kanost published with co-author Elvira Sánchez-Blake the book Latin American Women and the Literature of Madness: Narratives at the Crossroads of Gender, Politics and the Mind. McFarland, 2015. Rossana Fialdini Zambrano published an article in a peer reviewed theatre journal: “Carmen Resino y Sabina Berman: diálogos sobre la Inquisición española.” Hecho Teatral 15 (2015): 63-76. Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions: Derek Hillard presented "Narrated Emotion and Narrative Anxiety." European Narratology Network. Ghent, Belgium, April 2015. Rossana Fialdini Zambrano presented a paper at NeMLA 2015 (Toronto, ON, Canada), April 30 - May 3. "Whatsapp de Juana Escabias: representando lo irrepresentable" / "Juana Escabias Whatsapp: staging what cannot be staged." Pablo Martínez Diente presented a paper, "Melancolía y redención estética en los poemas de internet de Luis Antonio de Villena," at the University of Kentucky's The Languages, Literatures and Cultures Conference, April 23-25. Research: Grants: Awards: Other: Melinda A. Cro hosted the Modern Languages Professional Development Workshop on April 10. Her presentation, "'Down the Rabbit Hole': The Role of Literature in the Second Language Classroom," focused on the importance of literature in the second language curriculum at all levels.


Kumiko Nakamura hosted an annual showcase event of Japanese Language Program on April 18, 2015 at K-State Alumni Center. The students of Japanese language presented speech performance and rakugo or Japanese traditional sit down comedy and learned Japanese stretching exercises. The showcase event was followed by Japanese dinner party at ISC, where the students learned and enjoyed gyuudon or Japanese beef bowls. School of Music, Theatre, and Dance Publications: Steve Maxwell has received a book contract with Kendall/Hunt Publishing to write a textbook about the History of Rock and Roll. The tentative release date is Fall 2017. He has also had an article published in the International Tuba and Euphonium Association Journal titled “The Marine Band’s Mark Jenkins.” Craig Weston has had the following original publications released by R.J. Upmarket Press: Unbroken Lines--flute, clarinet; Stehekin Sonata--clarinet, piano; Aspects--clarinet, horn, piano; Glancing Spirals--clarinet, violin, piano; …into all crevices of my world--piano w/ fixed media electronics; Demented Dances--oboe, violin, cello, piano; Aix--flute, clarinet, violin, cello, marimba, piano; Sleeping in the Forest--Mezzo-soprano with harp, piano, two percussion + strings; Paradox Found--soprano saxophone, baritone saxophone, piano. Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions: Sally Bailey gave a K-State presentation titled “Communicating with Intention” at the Personhood with Dementia Conference (sponsored by the Center on Aging). Frederick Burrack presented “Documenting Campus-wide Student Learning Achievement in Critical Thinking,” at the Texas A&M Assessment Conference, College Station, Texas and “Integrated Communications Strategies to Further a Culture of Assessment” at the same conference and at The Annual Conference for Higher Learning Commission. Dr. Burrack also re-orchestrated the Mikado for a performance at the Manhattan Arts Center. Jerry Jay Cranford organized a performance of selected scenes and music for the Beach Museum featuring students from Intermediate and Advanced Acting as part of the “Dinner and a Midnight Snack” Exhibit. Cranford also hosted and performed two sold out musical theatre cabarets in Kansas City for Musical


Theatre Heritage and arranged complimentary tickets and KSU motor pool for 9 theatre students to attend. The performance included KSU Advanced Acting student Mary Wahlmeier to perform (She was cheered and a huge success, so proud!). Cranford also served as soloist for the start of 2015 Kansas City AIDS Walk opening ceremony. His other April activities included a workshop on auditioning and movement for Theatre Concepts, and a Directed Advanced Acting musical performance for the School of Music Advisory Council meeting at the new Purple Masque. Karen Large performed on the Spring Salon Concert in Kirmser Hall with the Konza Wind Quintet, conduced the KSU Flute Ensemble at the Music Memory event in McCain Auditorium and in All Faiths Chapel, performed a movement of Bloch’s Suite Modale at the First Methodist Church, and performed with the Topeka Symphony. David Littrell performed as cello soloist with the K-State Wind Ensemble in Carnegie Hall on April 7th performing David Maslanka’s Remember Me, with Frank Tracz conducting. Frank Tracz and Don Linn took the K-State Wind Ensemble to New York City where they performed in the Naumburg Band Shell in Central Park and in Carnegie Hall as the finale ensemble at the 2015 International Music Festival. Soloists on that program included David Littrell on cello and Anna Marie Wytko on saxophone. Research: Sally Bailey served as the primary investigator for “Narrative Transportation into and out of Theatrical Productions.” This included research on six plays done during the Spring/15 semester by the K-State Theatre Program. Julie Pentz continues work on Tap To Togetherness “T3.” This is collaborative research with Bradford Wiles through the Early Development and Research Extension at K-State. Grants: Steve Maxwell, Jacqueline Kerstetter, Paul Hunt, and James Johnson were awarded $5,000 by the K-State Open/Alternative Textbook Panel to write and publish an e-text for use in brass methods and technique courses.


Julie Pentz received an online development grant to adapt DANCE 181: Beginning Tap Dance as an online course. Awards: Karen Large was nominated for the 2014-15 Housing and Dining Services Professor of the Year Award. Frank Tracz received the Professor of the Month Award from Kappa Alpha Theta. Other:


Social & Behavioral Sciences Economics Publications: Philippe Belley published the paper “Wage Growth and Job Mobility in the Early Career: Testing a Statistical Discrimination Model of the Gender Wage Gap,” coauthored with Nathalie Havet (GATE Lyon-Saint-Etienne, Université de Lyon) and Guy Lacroix (Département d'économique, Université Laval, CIRPÉE and CIRANO), in Research in Labor Economics. Yang-Ming Chang, Shane Sanders, and Bhavneet Walia, "The Costs of Conflict: A Choice-Theoretic, Equilibrium Analysis," Economics Letters, Date of Acceptance: March 19, 2015. Yang-Ming Chang and Renfeng Xiao, "Preferential Trade Agreements between Asymmetric Countries: Free Trade Areas (with Rules of Origin) versus Customs Unions," 2015 Forthcoming in Japan and the World Economy. Yang-Ming Chang and Zijun Luo, "Endogenous Division Rules as a Family Constitution: Strategic Altruistic Transfers and Sibling Competition," 2015 Forthcoming in Journal of Population Economics. Braymen, Charles B., Yang-Ming Chang, and Zijun Luo, "Tax Policies, Regional Trade Agreements, and FDI: A Welfare Analysis," 2015 Forthcoming in Pacific Economic Review. Yang-Ming Chang and Zijun Luo, "Endogenous Destruction in Conflict: Theory and Extensions," Revise and Resubmit, Economic Inquiry. Shih-Jye Wu, Yang-Ming Chang, and Hung Yi Chen “Imported Inputs, Privatization in Downstream Mixed Oligopoly, and Foreign Ownership,” Revise and Resubmit, Canadian Journal of Economics. Yang-Ming Chang and Jason Walter, "Digital Piracy: Price-Quality Competition between Legal Firms and P2P Network Hosts," Revise and Resubmit, Information Economics and Policy. Yang-Ming Chang "Social Welfare Implications of Direct Third-Party Intervention in Conflict: Mechanism Design, Principal-Agency, and Deterrence," under review at Social Choice and Welfare. (with Shane Sanders).


Yang-Ming Chang “Green, Clubs, Heterogeneous Firms, and Green Consumers: A Welfare Analysis of Environmental Regulations” under review at Journal of Environmental and Economic Management. (with Jason Walter). Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions: On May 1, 2015 Philip Gayle presented a paper in the Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, in Bloomington Indiana. The title of the paper I presented is: “Measuring Merger Cost Effects: Evidence from a Dynamic Structural Econometric Model,” coauthored with Huubinh Le. Dan Kuester presented “Tax Policies and Economic Freedom in Arid States” at the Western Social Science Association Meetings on April 10 in Portland, OR. He also served as a moderator at this conference. Research: Grants: Awards: Hugh Cassidy received the T.M. Brown Thesis Prize for best doctoral dissertation in Economics at the University of Western Ontario, 2014. Philippe Belley. My paper “Post-Secondary Attendance by Parental Income in the U.S. and Canada: What Role for Financial Aid Policy?”, coauthored with Marc Frenette (Statistics Canada) and Lance Lochner (Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario), published in the Canadian Journal of Economics, was awarded the Harry Johnson Prize. The Harry Johnson Prize is given to the author or authors of the article judged to be the best paper published in the Canadian Journal of Economics in the preceding calendar year. Other:


Geography Publications (*graduate students): Paul, B.K., and Huang, B. 2015. Predictions for public response to tornado warnings: The May 4, 2003 tornadoes in Kansas. In Evolving Approaches to Understanding Natural Hazards. G.A. Tobin and B.E. Montz (Eds.), pp. 387-395. Newcastle-Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Rahmani, V., Hutchinson, S.L., Harrington, J.A., Jr., Hutchinson, J.M.S., and Anandhi, A. 2015. Analysis of temporal and spatial distribution and change points for annual precipitation in Kansas, USA. International Journal of Climatology doi: 10.1002/joc.4252. Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions (*graduate students): Briwa, R*. 2015. Geographic perspectives on the Provencal literary tradition. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, April 2015. Caldas, M.M., Granco, G.*, Bergtold, J., and Brown, C. 2015. How sugarcane ethanol expansion impacts the Brazilian Cerrado land use: Intensification or extensification? Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, April 2015. Ghimire, K.*, Paul, B.K., and Goodin, D.G. 2015. Malaria-related knowledge, perceptions and practices among adults in Nepal. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, April 2015. Granco, G.*, Caldas, M.M., Sant’Anna, A., and Bergtold, J. 2015. Spatial explicit model of ethanol plant location in the Brazilian Cerrado. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. Chicago, Illinois, April 2015. Grudzinski, B., Ruffing, C., Barnes, P., and Daniels, M. 2015. Climatic influences and temporal variability in suspended sediment dynamics in actively grazed grassland streams. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, April 2015. Howard, I. and Harrington, J.A., Jr. 2015. Precipitation seasonality in the United States. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, April 2015.


Harrington, J.A., Jr. and Howard, I. 2015. Seasonality and climate change in Kansas. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, April 2015. Harrington, L.M.B.H. and Wallace, L.A. 2015. Condit dam removal: A decision-making comparison with removal of Elwha River dams. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, April 2015. Hilburn, A. 2015. At home or to the dump? Household garbage management and the trajectories of waste in a rural-but-urbanizing Mexican municipio. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, April 2015. Hutchinson, J.M.S., Pockrandt, B.*, Jacquin, A., Bloedow, N. and Murray, L. 2015. Sensitivity of TIMESAT-derived phenometrics to adaptive Savitzky-Golay filters applied to MODIS time series data. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, April 2015. Jacquin, A., Goulard, M., Hutchinson, J.M.S., and Hutchinson, S.L. 2015. Spatial tools in action: Fire regime and military training activity explain grassland degradation. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, April 2015. Jean, C.* 2015. Hydrological transitions: A story of Kansas watersheds. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, April 2015. Larsen, T.* 2015. Culture, experience, and geo-progressions: K-12 student pathways to imagining places and regions. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, April 2015. Lu, M., Yang, J., and Guo, M. 2015. Land expropriation, demolition and displacement in China's rapid urbanization drive. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, April 2015. Luo, L.* and Goodin, D. 2015. Simulating and predicting the urban heat island effect in Rugao, China by using artificial neural network model. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, April 2015. Marston, R.A. and Pellicciotti, F. 2015. Recent advances in understanding glacial meltwater: Production, pathways, impacts. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, April 2015.


Martin, C.W. 2015. Trace metal storage in recent floodplain sediments along the Dill River, central Germany. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, April 2015. Mehl, H.E.*, Annett, C., De Vos, A. 2015. Cultural ecosystem services: Where do they fit in ecosystem service monetization? Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, April 2015. Paul, B.K. and Rahman, M. 2015. Preventing anthrax infection: Response to the 2010 anthrax outbreaks by residents of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, April 2015. Ramekar, A.A.* and Paul, B.K. 2015. Will the growing oil and gas industries help revive Kansas population? Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, April 2015. Ruffing. C., Marston, B.*, Daniels, M., and Albertson, L. 2015. Reconstructing river and watershed restoration: Physical geography and a new restoration design science. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, April 2015. Smith, J.S. 2015. The characteristics of a microclimate along the Rio Grande gorge in north-central New Mexico. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, April 2015. Zhang, L., Su, L.*, and Hutchinson, J.M.S. 2015. Change of amount of CO2 absorbed by forest in Heilongjiang Province of the 20th century. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, April 2015. Tabor, L.K.* 2015. An exploration of climate change education in the K-12 classroom. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, April 2015. Wang, J., Ford, S.*, Urano,T.*, Sartori, P.*, Sheng, Y., and Song, C. 2015. Towards a global assessment of lake water resource: Differentiating freshwater and saline types from a high-resolution global lake inventory. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, April 2015. Wetherholt, W.A.* 2015. Exploring rootedness in the very rural Great Plains counties of Kansas and Nebraska. Association of American Geographers, Chicago, Illinois, April 2015.


Research (*graduate students): Grants (*graduate students): McLauchlan, K.K. (PI). SG: Continental and Century Scale Assessment of Forest Nutrient Cycling in the United States using Dendroisotopes. National Science Foundation, Ecosystems Science Program, 2015-2016, $149,963. Awards (*graduate students): Other (*graduate students): Psychological Sciences Publications: Kirkpatrick, K., Marshall, A. T., Smith, A. P. (2015). Mechanisms of individual differences in impulsive and risky choice. Comparative Cognition and Behavior Reviews, 10, 45-72. Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions: Waples, C. J., & Knight, P. A. (2015, April). The Influence of Normative Performance Feedback on Self-reported Flow. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Philadelphia. Young, M.E. (2015, April). How categorical thinking limits scientific progress in psychology. Invited paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL. Crumer, A., & Young, M.E. (2015, April). Investigating the effects of truncation and aggregation on reaction time data. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Psychological Association, Wichita, KS.


Young, M.E. (2015, April). The problem with categorical thinking by psychologists. Invited paper presented at the annual meeting of the Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL. Brase, G.L. (2015, April). Consumer perceptions and decision making about electric vehicles. Talk presented at Southwestern Psychological Association Annual Conference, Wichita, KS. Smith, C.A. & Brase, G.L. (2015, April). The influence of risk in interpreting base rates. Poster presented at Southwestern Psychological Association Annual Conference, Wichita, KS. Hill, C. C., & Kirkpatrick, K. (2015). Mechanisms of impulsive choice: IV. Individual differences in timing and reward processes. Spring Meeting of the International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL. Lott, J. R., Peterson, J. R., & Kirkpatrick, K. (2015). The effect of dominance on risky and impulsive choice. Spring Meeting of the International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL. Marshall, A. T., Wang, Z., & Kirkpatrick, K. (2015). Individual differences in impulsivity and behavioral flexibility: Effects of early rearing environment. Spring Meeting of the International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL. Peterson, J. R., & Kirkpatrick, K. (2015). A time-based intervention to promote self-control in middle-aged rats. Spring Meeting of the International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL. Kirkpatrick, K., & Marshall, A. T. (2015). Mechanisms of impulsive choice: III. The role of reward processes. Invited symposium contribution at the Spring Meeting of the International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL. Research: Grants: Gary Brase (Co-PI) received $60,000 for the 2015-2016 Global Food Systems Initiative at Kansas State University.


Awards: Dr. Wendong Li’s paper (with a student co-author in China) and Sooyeol’s paper (with Dr. YoungAh Park and Lucy Headrick) were accepted as “Best Papers” for the 2015 Academy of Management meeting. Dr. Lora Adair is this year’s recipient of the College of Arts and Sciences William Stamey GTA Teaching Award. Dr. Mary Cain is this year’s recipient of the University Distinguished Faculty Award for Mentoring of Undergraduate Students in Research. Dr. Don Saucier has been announced as the 2015-2016 Coffman Chair and University Distinguished Scholar. Other: Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work Publications: Steinmetz, K. F. (2015). Becoming a hacker: Background characteristics and developmental factors. Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice and Criminology, 3(1), 31-60.

Steinmetz, K. F. & Henderson, H. (2015, Online First). On the precipice of intersectionality: Race, gender, and offense level interactions on probation failure. Criminal Justice Review.

Ritterbush, Lauren W. (2015) “A Visit to Blue Earth.” Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains vol. 38 (spring):2-21. Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions: Lockett, Lorenza, Dissertation Defense April 15, 2015. Research:


Grants: Awards: 2014 Outstanding Dissertation Award, College of Criminal Justice, Sam Houston State University, presented April 23rd, 2015. Other: Women’s Studies Publications: Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions: Michele Janette: “A Queerly ‘Personal Equation’: Non-Normative Investments, Eccentric Modes of Being, and Queer Circuits of Desire in Lily Hoang’s Parabola.” Association for Asian American Studies, Evanston, IL, 24 April 2015. Tom Sarmiento: " '[T]he unmistakable scent of apples': Queering and Filipinizing Kansas through Bienvenido Santos's Exile Literature," Gender and Sexuality in Kansas Conference, Wichita State University, 3 April 2015. Tom Sarmiento: “Roundtable: The Great Third Coast: How Teaching in the Midwest and the South Challenges Asian American Studies," Association for Asian American Studies, Evanston, IL, 24 April 2015. Tom Sarmiento: "Filipina/o Excessibility: Queerness, Midwestern-ness, and the Cultural Politics of Legibility," Association for Asian American Studies, Evanston, IL, 25 April 2015. Research: Grants:


Awards: Other: Tom Sarmiento: Selected Participant, East of California/Association for Asian American Studies Junior Faculty Retreat, Evanston, IL, 22 April 2015. Tom Sarmiento: Manuscript-in-progress workshop, "Introduction: Imagining a Queer Filipina/o America," Women's Studies Intellectual Circle, Kansas State University, 27 April 2015.


Natural & Quantitative Sciences Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics Publications: D. Ganguly and J. Chen (2015), "Modulation of the Disordered Conformational Ensembles of the p53 Transactivation Domain by Cancer-Associated Mutations" PLoS Comput. Biol. 11(4): e1004247. Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions: Daisuke Takahashi (post doctorate, Kanost) presented, “Molecular basis for the initiation of innate immune responses in Manduca sexta” at Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan on April 27, 2015. Research: Grants: Awards: Jacob Hodge (BS/MS, Zolkiewska) received a 2015/2016 Summer/Semester Scholar Award from the the Kansas IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (K-INBRE). His project is entitled: "Paracrine signaling by ADAM12 in breast cancer”. Other:


Physics Publications: “Induction balance study for metal detection,” Johannes V. D. Wirjawan, Dean A. Zollman and Egidius Mau, AIP Conf. Proc. 1656, 040010 (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4917117 “Probing calculated O2

+ potential-energy curves with an XUV-IR pump-probe experiment” Philipp Cörlin, Andreas Fischer, Michael Schönwald, Alexander Sperl, Tomoya Mizuno, Uwe Thumm, Thomas Pfeifer, and Robert Moshammer, Phys. Rev. A 91, 043415 – Published 22 April 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.91.043415 “Laser-assisted XUV double ionization of helium: Energy-sharing dependence of joint angular distributions,” Aihua Liu and Uwe Thumm, Phys. Rev. A 91, 043416 – Published 23 April 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.91.043416 Determining the detection efficiency of excited neutral atoms by a microchannel plate detector”, Ben Berry, M. Zohrabi, D. Hayes, U. Ablikim, Bethany Jochim, T. Severt, K.D. Carnes, and I. Ben-Itzhak, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 86, 046103 (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4916953 Presentations, Lectures, Conferences & Exhibitions: Lado Samushia presented an invited talk “Title of Talk” at the 2015 MidAmerican regional Astrophysics Conference at University of Missouri Kansas City (4/17/15). Elise Agra, Mitchell Brukett, John Hutson, Lester C. Loschky and N. Sanjay Rebello presented “Student Reasoning During Conceptual Physics Problem Solving with Visual Cues or Feedback” at the 2015 National Association for Research in Science Teaching International Conference in Chicago, IL (4/12/15). Mary Bridget Kustusch, Corey Ptak, Eleanor C. Sayre and Scott V. Franklin presented “Student decision making in large group discussion” at the APS April Meeting in Baltimore, MD (4/12/15). Eleanor C. Sayre, Benjamin Archibeque, K Alison Gomez, Tyler Heckendorf, Adrian M. Madsen, Sarah B. McKagan, Edward W. Schenk, Chase Shepard, Lane Sorell and Joshua Von Korff presented “Meta-analysis of teaching methods: a 50k+ student study” at the APS April Meeting in Baltimore, MD (4/12/15).


Dean Zollman presided over an invited session “AAPT Research-based Instruction in Quantum Mechanics” at the APS April Meeting in Baltimore, MD (4/13/15). Xian Wu, Tianlong Zu, Elise Agra and N. Sanjay Rebello presented “Perceptual Salience Influencing Undergraduate Students’ Reasoning Resources on Introductory Physics Problems” at the 2015 National Association for Research in Science Teaching International Conference in Chicago, IL (4/14/15) N. Sanjay Rebello, Lili Cui and Dong-Hai Nguyen, presented “Transfer Across Disciplines” at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association in Chicago, IL (4/18/15). Uwe Thumm presented a public lecture on “Tracing and steering electrons with ultra-short laser pulses: How atomic movies help us to unravel the interplay of light and matter at the basis of life” at the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Kansas State University (4/29/15). Chris Sorensen visited Colorado State U Physics, Chemistry and Atmospheric sciences and gave a colloquium “The Kansas State Interpretation of Light Scattering” (4/30/15). Research: Grants: Keti Kaadze was awarded project funds for US CMS-Kansas State University Activities Related to the LHC CMS Detector Upgrade HCAL Subsystem for Year 2015, $110 682, U.S. Department of Energy (Fermilab). Awards: Other: Dean Zollman organized a session on quantum mechanics teaching for the 2015 APS April Meeting. It is included in the APS Physics Focus which spotlights exceptional research. It is highlighted in APS April meeting section https://physics.aps.org/articles/v8/38.


Kristan Corwin served on the National Academies Committee on Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics Meeting in Washington, DC (4/14-4/16/15). Tim Bolton led a Q&A session following the film screening of “Particle Fever” at the Little Theatre, K-State Union (4/23/15). Bruce Law (Chair) and Chris Sorensen (Co-Chair) organized a Faraday Discussion of the Royal Society of Chemistry meeting in collaboration with Argonne National Lab (4/20-4/22/15). This was only the third Faraday Discussion meeting held in the US and attracted 120 attendees from around the world. https://www.phys.ksu.edu/news/news-stories/2015/faraday.html

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