Agronomy
Jianming Yu and colleagues published "Multilocus Epistasis, Linkage, and Genetic Variance in Breeding Populations with few Parents," Theoretical and Applied Genetics, Vol. 115, Issue 3.
Jianming Yu presented "Association Mapping in Sorghum: Progress and Prospects," 2007 Great Plains Sorghum Conference, July 19-20, College Station, Texas.
Architecture
Susanne Siepl-Coates presented "Slim Downtown: Reducing Obesity Through Community Redevelopment," 5th World Congress on Design and Health, June 27-July 1, Glasgow, Scotland.
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David Seamon presented "The Lived Hermetic of People and Place: Phenomenology and Space Syntax," 6th International
Space Syntax conference, June 11-15, Istanbul, Turkey.
Seamon and colleague presented "The Science of Space, the Art of Place," Middle East Technical Institute, June 18, Ankara, Turkey.
Biochemistry
Michael Kanost published "An Integrin-Tetraspanin Interaction Required for Cellular Innate Immune Responses of an Insect, Manduca sexta," Journal of Biological Chemistry, Vol. 282, Issue 31.
Biology
Mark Ungerer and colleagues published "Genetics of Microenvironmental Canalization in Arabidopsis thaliana," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 104, No. 34.
Clinical sciences
Hans Coetzee presented "Assessment of Pain and Analgesic Drug Efficacy in Food Animals," Academy of Veterinary Consultants meeting, Aug. 3, Kansas City, Mo.
Economics
E. Wayne Nafziger presented "The Economics of Nigeria's Chronic Deadly Political Violence," Economics and Security 11th annual conference, July 7, University of Bristol, Bristol, U.K.
English
The following K-State faculty members presented at Prophecy 2007: From Hero to Legend, August 3-4, Toronto, Ontario, Canada:
Philip Nel, "Lost in Translation?: Harry Potter, from Page to Screen."Karin Westman, "J. K. Rowling's Library: Harry Potter in Context."
Nel and Westman, "Canon: Its Context and Completion."
Human nutrition
The following K-State faculty members presented at Society of Nutrition Education annual conference, July 28-31, Chicago, Ill:
Tandalayo Kidd and Larry Simonson, "KNACK Online: Addressing Adolescent Obesity."
Kidd, "Assessing the Impact of Walk Kansas on the Sustainability of Fruit and Vegetable Intake."
Kidd, "Experiences Associated with Submitting General Education material to the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior for Publication."
Kinesiology
David Poole was appointed to the National Institutes of Health Hypertension and Micro-circulation Study Section.
Poole and colleagues published, "There is/is not Capillary Recruitment During Exercise," Journal of Applied Physiology, Vo. 103, No. 1.
Poole and colleagues published "Respiratory Control During Recovery in Rat Fast-twitch Muscle of Differing Oxidative Capacity,"Experimental Physiology, Vol. 92, No. 4.
Poole will present the keynote lecture to the Oxygen Transport to Tissue Society, Aug. 3, 2008, Sapporo, Japan.
Libraries
Rhondalyn Peairs, Donna Schenck-Hamlin, and Ellen Urton published "Movies on the Grass: Encouraging Epiphanies Through Experiential Learning at Kansas State University Libraries" College and Research Libraries News, Vo. 68, No. 7.
Psychology
Richard Harris and colleague presented "Autobiographical Memory for Watching Movies that Made us Uncomfortable: Where Does the Discomfort Come From?" Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition meeting, July 26, Bates College, Lewiston, ME.
Speech communication, theatre and dance
Sally Bailey presented "Identity and Healing Through Drama Therapy" Association for Theatre in Higher Education conference, July 27, New Orleans, La.
Bailey presented a workshop "The Art of Changing the Brain" and paneled "Seeking Understanding Through Art and Science: A Re-Search Forum" and "From Chaos to Catharsis: Playwriting as Therapy" National Association for Drama Therapy conference, August 10-12, Montreal, Canada.
Bailey has been elected to the National Association for Drama Therapy Board of Directors as the Education Chair for a 2 year term.
Women's studies
Angela Hubler published "Making 'Hope and History Rhyme': Josephine Herbst's Trexler Trilogy," Critical Survey, Vol. 19, No. 1.