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Grants

Ramesh Agarwal, executive director, National Institute for Aviation Research, and Bloomfield Distinguished Professor of Aerospace Engineering, was awarded $34,607 by the Aircraft Design and Manufacturing Research Center for "Project #19, KSU Subcontract."

Bob Carper, professor, chemistry, was awarded $47,885 by the Environmental Protection Agency/EPSCoR/Kansas State University/Center for Research Inc. for the project "The Role of Natural Organic Material in the Disposition and Binding of Organic Contaminants and Heavy Metals."

Jharna Chaudhuri, professor, industrial and mechanical engineering, was awarded $63,828 by the National Science Foundation/KSU for the project "Advanced Semiconductor Research Group in the State of Kansas."

Randy Ellsworth, associate dean, College of Education, was awarded $111,184 by the Department of Education for "Project EXCITE: Expanding Curriculum Integration Through Technology Education."

William Hendry, associate professor, biological sciences, was awarded $107,247 by the Department of Health and Human Services/National Institutes of Health for the project "Molecular Targets of Perinatal Endocrine Disruption."

Rhonda Lewis, assistant professor, sociology, was awarded $222,612 by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration for the project "Risk Reduction Among African-American Adolescents."

Michael Long, professor, public health sciences, was awarded $11,220 by the Kansas Joint Replacement Institute for the project "Graduate Research Assistant Support."

Mark McCain, general manager, KMUW, was awarded $5,538 by the Department of Commerce for the project "Public Telecommunications Facilities Program." 

Wendy Clemeña, a summer 1999 graduate, will present a poster, "Medicaid long-term care reimbursement methods and rates after repeal of the Boren Amendment," at the American Public Health Association meeting in Chicago this month. The poster was developed with senior author James Swan, associate professor, public health sciences. In October she presented "Medicaid nursing facility reimbursement in Kansas and nearby states" at the Kansas Public Health Association meetings in Topeka. That paper also developed from a project for which Swan is the principal investigator.

Michael Rogers, assistant professor, kinesiology and sport studies, presented a one-hour symposium, "An Internet-based health and functional status assessment for use in older adult placement and intervention programs," at the Fifth World Congress on Physical Activity, Aging and Sport in Orlando, Fla. He also co-conducted a workshop, "Vitaband exercise protocol for the elderly." Another paper he co-authored, "Range of motion of the wrist in older adults: implications for computer input devices," also was presented.

WSU’s opera program has been invited to perform at the National Opera Association Convention Feb. 10-13 at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Marie Allyn King, opera program director, will stage scenes from "I pagliacci" and "Lucia di Lammermoor" with four WSU students. 

Albert Goldbarth, Adele Davis Distinguished Professor of Humanities, was named to the arts advisory board of the Judah L. Magnes Jewish Museum in Berkeley, Calif.

Scott Kardel, assistant director, Fairmount Center for Science and Mathematics Education, has been selected as a solar system ambassador by the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab. As one of three such ambassadors in Kansas and the only one in the Wichita area, Kardel will speak to community groups about solar system exploration.

Michael Rogers, assistant professor, kinesiology and sport studies, was one of six people appointed to the national steering committee for the American College of Sports Medicine Special Interest Group on Aging. The group facilitates communication and collaboration among ACSM members interested in the exercise science or sports medicine aspects of aging. 

Lonnie Quattlebaum has joined the Media Resources Center as a videographer. He worked at the MRC as a student assistant for four years and most recently worked for KAKE-TV. 

Transitions

Nikki Hansson, formerly director of alumni events, has joined the Office of University Communications as director of special events and community relations. Previous director Tisha Cannizzo returned to the Office of Admissions to become associate director, replacing Jennifer Chapman who has left WSU. 

Albert Goldbarth, Adele Davis Distinguished Professor of Humanities, was on the faculty of the Catskills Poetry Workshop where he lectured on the "Strategic Kinship in Poetry" and conducted tutorial workshops this summer. He also was the judge for the annual poetry competition of the Dyer-Ives Foundation. 

Karen Moore, physical therapy clinical instructor, recently received the 1999 Central Academic Coordinators of Clinical Education Consortium Award for Excellence in Clinical Teaching. The consortium represents 27 physical therapist and physical therapist assistant programs in Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma. 

Ron Christ, professor of painting and drawing, has an exhibition of new paintings at the van de Griff Galley, Santa Fe, N.M., Oct. 15-Nov. 5. His work was featured and illustrated in the Oct. 15 edition of Pasatiempo, a weekly arts magazine of the Santa Fe New Mexican paper. Christ recently was selected as a finalist for the Richard C. Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship in Painting at the San Francisco Art Institute in a national nomination and selection process. 

Albert Goldbarth, Adele Davis Distinguished Professor of Humanities, has had his latest book of essays, "Dark Waves and Light Matter," published this summer. His poems recently appeared in The Paris Review, The Iowa Review and The Kenyon Review. His 65-page essay "Many Circles" will appear in the spring 2000 issue of Quarterly West. The summer 1999 issue of The Georgia Review contained a 16-page special feature on him. One of his poems is being set to chamber music by the composer Charles Griffin for a multimedia show next year.

Ken Pitetti, professor, public health sciences, presented a paper, "Feasibility of a treadmill test for adolescents with multiple disabilities," in the journal Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly. 

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