Oct. 25David Crowder Band performance“Remedy Club Tour,” perfor-mance, 7 p.m., McCain Audito-rium. For tickets call 532-6428.

Oct. 28Blues performanceSolid Blues, which brings together four blues masters, will be at 7:30 p.m., McCain Auditorium. For tickets call 532-6428.

Oct. 30Lou Douglas LectureRobert Egger, founder and presi-dent of the DC Central Kitchen, will present “Our 40-Year Journey From Charity to Change,” 7 p.m., Forum Hall, K-State Student Union.

Nov. 2Civics and civility summitThe summit will be from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., K-State Alumni Center. For more information, call 532-

5569.

Nov. 3Peter Pan performanceThe musical will be at 7:30 p.m. in McCain Auditorium. For tickets

call 532-6428.

Nov. 7Classified Senate meetingThe meeting will be at 12:45 p.m.,

K-State Student Union State-

rooms 1 and 2.

Nov. 9Hale Library concert seriesMia Vassilev, pianist, will perform selections from Liszt, Ravel and Rachmaninoff at 7:30 p.m., Hale Library. Tickets are $20. Season tickets for the series of three concerts are $55. For more infor-mation, contact Karen McCulloh, 532-5671.

Nov. 13Faculty Senate meetingThe meeting will be at 3:45 p.m., K-State Student Union, Big 12 Room.

Van operator trainingTraining will be from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., 213 K-State Student Union. National Safety Council training will be conducted for all operators and potential operators of motor pool vans operated by K-State faculty, staff and students. The training is mandatory for all operators.

Nov. 14Vernon Larson LectureDavid Norman will present “Living and Working Around the World” from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Holi-day Inn Ballroom (reservations required). The luncheon starts at 11:45 a.m. and the cost is $12. For reservations call 532-5990.

OngoingExhibit: “Not of This World! The David J. Williams III Science Fic-tion, Fantasy and Horror Collec-tion.” 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays, Oct. 12-Dec. 31. Fifth-floor gallery, Hale Library. The exhibit features more than 100 items by writers such as H.P. Lovecraft, Isaac Asimov, Anne Rice, Ste-phen King, Clark Ashton Smith, Jack Vance and L. Sprague de Camp.

Exhibit: “Nelly Don: Dresses that worked for women.” 1:30 to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Thursdays and 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesdays, Oct. 9 - Nov. 11, ATID Gallery, 328 Justin Hall. Experience her captivating story, observe her sense of style, and learn what made women loyal to her label.

These are all signs of a new era at K-State’s Marianna Kis-tler Beach Museum of Art.

After a two-year expansion project, Beach Museum staff recently unveiled the Mary and Morgan Jarvis Wing.

“We started talking about the need for another wing at the museum’s fifth anniversa-ry party in 2001,” said Martha Scott, the museum’s business and marketing manager.

“When the museum opened in 1996, there were under 1,500 pieces in the permanent collection. Now the collection has over 6,000 pieces. Even by the fifth anniversary we knew we would need more space.”

Funded with private dona-

tions, the new wing provides room for touring exhibits. It includes an outdoor gallery.

Museum staff members are excited about the new 17,000-square-foot, two-story wing, Scott said.

“We’ve had shows that were so large that we had no permanent collection on display,” she said. “Now se-lections from the museum’s collection will be up at all times.”

Currently, two exhibitions, “Paths to the Press: Printmak-

ing and American Women Artists, 1910-1960,” and “Let Me Show You the World: The Sewn Drawings of China

Marks,” are hanging in the new wing. Both shows origi-nated at the Beach. “Copper Truck,” by Elliott Pujol, K-State professor of art, domi-nates the outdoor sculpture garden.

In addition to the new gal-lery space, the wing provides more storage room and educa-tional opportunities.

The added capacity will allow staff to work with stu-dents more easily, Scott said.

“If a class needs to see pieces, we can showcase them in the Vanier Gallery,” she said. “It allows us to partner with K-State faculty and their classes.”

The Beach Museum of Art is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday; from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday; and from noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. For more information call 532-7718.✦✦

A copper-clad1960 Dodge pickup truck is parked in the sculp-

ture garden and a six-foot “toy” ship hangs inside ★ The walls still smell faintly of fresh paint, and a grand piano occu-pies the foyer.

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on campus October-November

November issueof K-Statement to bedelayedA special edition of K-Statement will be released Nov. 15.

Nobel Peace Prize has K-State connectionThe Nobel Peace Prize won by Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has a Kansas connection.

Chuck Rice, K-State professor of agronomy, served with more than 100 other climate change experts from across the world to prepare the full report on mitigation.

The Nobel Prize Committee recog-nized the United Nations panel for its efforts to spread awareness of man-made climate change and to lay the foundations for counteracting it.

“This was a tremendous responsi-bility and honor,” Rice said. “Intergov-ernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment reports are often used to establish far-reaching policies and programs on climate change, and it’s critical to make sure that the reports are accurate, thorough and com-pletely objective.”

“It is a confirmation of the quality of our professors that Chuck Rice was one of the scientists responsible for this Nobel Prize-winning work,” said K-State President Jon Wefald. “Chuck was one of the lead authors of a chapter in the fourth assessment report. He worked on the chapter on agriculture, including carbon seques-tration and land use, and was the only scientist from the U.S. in that section. Chuck is one of the world’s top experts on this topic.”

Beach Museum of Art unveils 17,000-square-foot addition

Top: Looking toward the existing building from the new Hyle Family Gallery before exhibits were installed. Bottom: A view of the Hempler Gallery from the new Mary and Morgan Jarvis Wing. (Photos by K-State photographic services)

New wing takes flightOct. 25, 2007 Vol. 30, No. 8

OpportunitiesClassified• A list of employment opportunities is posted at http://www.k-state.edu/hr/• A recording of classified job opportunities is available 24 hours a day on the Employ-ment Information Line, 532-6271.• For additional information, call 532-6277 or visit the Division of Human Resources at 103 Edwards Hall. Applications are accepted 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays.

Unclassified• A complete listing of vacancies can be seen at http://www.k-state.edu/affact/• For additional information, call the office of affirmative action at 532-6220 or visit 214 Anderson Hall.

oh, by the way...Dark fiber initiative under wayThe University of Kansas and K-State have acquired a fiber optic network that runs along Interstate 70 from Kansas City to Smith Center. This “dark fiber,” when lighted (turned on), will boost the capacity for data transmission and foster collaboration and commu-nication among faculty and students. To read more about this initia-tive visit: http://www.news.ku.edu/2007/october/8/darkfiber.shtml

USB virus shows up on campusIn the past week, the IT Help Desk has received numerous re-quests from K-State faculty, staff and students to remove a virus on their USB drives. The virus is often listed by Trend Micro as PE_Luder.CH or a variant. Follow these directions to remove the virus from a USB drive.

1. On the Windows desktop, double-click My Computer to find the drive letter of the USB device. (Drive “E” is used as an example in the instructions below.) Close the window.

2. Click the Start menu and click Run. 3. In the Run box, type cmd and click OK. 4. A new window will appear. At the C:> prompt: • Type E: and press Enter. • Type attrib and press Enter. 5. The files on the USB device will be displayed. If you see the

files autorun.inf and setup.exe, then the USB device is infected. (If you don’t see the files, it’s not infected.)

6. To remove infected files, type the following commands: • attrib -s -h E:*.* (press Enter) • del E:autorun.inf (press Enter) • del E:setup.exe (press Enter)

Retirement comparison chart availableThe Division of Human Resources publishes a quarterly compari-son of the fixed and variable annuities and mutual funds available from the Kansas Board of Regents mandatory retirement plan. The chart is online at http://www.k-state.edu/hr/benefits/compar1.pdf For those unable to access the comparison chart via the Web, contact benefits administration at 532-6277 or send e-mail tobenadmin@k-state.edu

Points of pride

Four students nominated for Rhodes and Marshall scholarshipsFour K-State students have been selected to represent the university in competition for Rhodes and Marshall scholarships.

The nominees for both Rhodes and Marshall scholarships are Clemente Jaquez-Hererra, fifth year of the master of archi-tecture program, and Jenna Kennedy, senior in microbiology, natural resources and environmental science, and pre medi-cine. Also, Amy Twite, senior in chemistry, biochemistry and microbiology, is nominated for the Marshall and Janie Anthony, senior in music education with a vocal emphasis and secondary education-mathematics, is nominated for the Rhodes.

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Douglas Powell, associate professor of diagnostic medicine and pathobiol-ogy and scientific direc-tor of International Food Safety Week, will host the first monthly food science cafe from 7-9 p.m. Oct. 29 at Bluestem Bistro, 1219 Moro St., in Aggieville. This is a public conversa-tion about food safety.

Ganging up on pathogens continuedthat probiotics — beneficial bacteria, like those humans can get though eating yogurt — can reduce 0157 because they out-compete the bacteria for resources.

Salmonella is one of the most common causes of gas-troenteritis; it’s spread through contaminated ground beef and manure-fertilized produce. It also harms livestock. It causes bloody diarrhea in feedlot cat-tle and causes dairy cattle to abort. Renter’s work centers

on finding out why feedlot cattle treated for other infec-tions may show a higher rate of salmonella than do healthy cattle.

To identify the serotype of the salmonella, veterinar-ians and researchers currently have to send samples to a laboratory in Iowa. Naray-anan is working to develop a rapid, molecular-based testing method that is more acces-sible. ✦✦

Pilots programGabriela Diaz de Sabates presented “Immigration and Identity: Latina Women and College Education in the United States,” Mexican na-tional Institute of Anthropol-ogy and History conference, Sept. 6-15, Mexico City.

PsychologyAndrew Wefald, Ronald Downey and students pre-sented “An Examination of Student Engagement, Vigor, Academic Satisfaction and

Cognitive Ability,” Midwest Academy of Management 50th annual conference, Oct. 4-6, Kansas City, Mo.

Sociology, anthropology and social workLaszlo Kulcsar and colleague published “Politics Without Frontiers: The Impact of Hun-garian Domestic Politics on the Minority Question in Ro-mania,” Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Vol. 40, No. 3.

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Landscape architecture, regional and commu-nity planningLarry Lawhon published “Development Impact Fees: Survey of Local Government Use,” Practicing Planner, Vol. 5, No. 3.

LibrariesMichael North was present-ed with the national award of merit for his contributions to the EndUser community.

MarketingKevin Gwinner, David An-drus, Bruce Prince and col-league published “Unique Ed-ucational Methods to Improve the Veterinary Employment Selection Process for Rural Mixed Animal Practices,” Journal of Veterinary Medical Education, Vol. 34, No. 4.

Modern languagesPeter Arnds published “Wan-dering in the Field of Lethe: A Heideggerian Reading of W.G. Sebald’s ‘Austerlitz,’ ” Gegenwartsliteratur: Ein Ger-manistisches Jahrbuch, edited by P.M. Lützeler.

Arnds presented “Har-lekin, Rattenfänger und Erlkönig: Zur Mythologie der Opfer/Täter Dualität bei Günt-er Grass und Michel Tourni-er,” Günter Grass: Literatur – Kunst – Politik conference, October, Gdansk, Poland.

✦✦✦Douglas Benson presented “Conexiones: la poesía reli-giosa de Ernestina de Cham-

pourcin y Gloria Fuertes” and collaborated in designing and organizing a session on Span-ish poetry in honor of former Kansas University Spanish professor Andrew P. Debicki, Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature, Oct. 4-6, Madison, Wis.

✦✦✦Amy Hubbell published “An Amputated Elsewhere: Sustaining and Relieving the Phantom Limb of Algeria,” Life Writing, Vol. 4.

✦✦✦Silvia Sauter presented “Jose Watanabe: Ancestral Cosmo-vision in his Creative Pro-cess,” International Congress: Demarginalization of the Literary and Linguistic Ten-dencies in America, August, Lima, Peru.

Sauter presented “Eco-

logical consciousness in Indo-Spanish American Literature in the Face of Metropolitan and Feminine Configura-tions,” 29th International Symposium of Literature: Pos-sible Worlds, New Paradigms, August, Luján, Argentina.

Multiple departmentsShawn Hutchinson, geogra-phy, and Stacy Hutchinson, biological and agricultural engineering, presented “Vali-dating the Kinematic Wave Approach for Rapid Soil Erosion Assessment and Im-proved BMP Site Selection to Enhance Training Land Suit-ability,” Department of De-fense Environmental Science and Technology Certification Program, Sept. 21, Washing-ton, D.C.

✦✦✦The following K-State faculty members presented at Great Plains-Rocky Mountain Di-vision of the Association of American Geographers, Sept. 28-29, Denver: Max Lu, geography, Lance

Noll, plant pathology, and student presented “Spatial Patterns of Cancer Mortality Among White Males and Fe-males in the Great Plains.”Richard Marston, geogra-

phy, Jeffrey Neel, agronomy, and student presented a poster on “Channel Change on a Le-gally Contested Reach of the Big Blue River, Kansas.”

Classified employee sees impact of making All-University giftUnderstanding the ecol-ogy of two dangerous foodborne pathogens

and devising ways to combat them is a big job. That’s why K-State has a team of seven researchers and six collabo-rators taking on E. coli 0157 and salmonella.

“It’s becoming more and more difficult to study these pathogens because you have to be a jack of all trades,” said T.G. Nagaraja, professor of diagnostic medicine pathobi-ology at K-State’s College of Veterinary Medicine.

Nagaraja leads a research group that includes epidemi-ologists, molecular biologists, production animal medicine experts and feedlot nutrition-ists. For the past five years, Nagaraja has been leading the team on an E. coli 0157 research project that goes back more than a decade at K-State. E. coli 0157 doesn’t cause problems for livestock, but it’s zoonotic — that is, it can be passed on to humans through the food supply.

“Our goals are fairly sim-ple,” Nagaraja said. “We want to understand the ecology of E. coli 0157 in cattle and come up with practical, on-farm in-tervention strategies.”

The rest of the research team includes Sanjeev Na-rayanan, assistant professor of pathology and molecular biology; Richard Oberst, pro-fessor of microbiology; David Renter, assistant professor in epidemiology; Mike Sand-erson, associate professor of

epidemiology and produc-tion animal medicine; Daniel Thomson, assistant professor of feedlot production medi-cine; and Ludek Zurek, as-sociate professor of entomol-ogy.

Collaborators include K-State’s Mike Apley, associate professor of production ani-mal medicine; Jim Drouillard, professor of feedlot nutrition; Larry Hollis, professor in animal sciences and indus-try; Justin Kastner, assistant professor of food safety and security; and Abby Nutsch, assistant professor of food mi-crobiology; as well as Kelly Lechtenberg, director of Mid-west Veterinary Research Inc.

in Oakland, Neb.The research team is work-

ing to answer questions like why some cattle have E. coli 0157 and some don’t, and why some shed the bacteria for a longer time or at higher levels than others.

The K-State researchers also want to understand why the presence of 0157 is higher during some months, and why animals under stress shed more of the bacteria.

“If we find out answers to these questions, we can come up with intervention strate-gies,” Nagaraja said. “The first part of the research is to look at the ecology, and the second part is to develop tests and practical intervention strategies.”

For instance, Thomson is doing research with a com-pany in Minnesota on a vac-cine with antibodies that pre-vent the bacteria from getting iron, which they need to live. All three studies have shown a reduction in the prevalence of 0157 when the vaccine is used, Nagaraja said.

He also said that research-ers are looking at what chang-es they could make in cattle diets that would make the ani-mals’ digestive systems less hospitable to 0157. Because the bacteria seem to congre-gate in the hindgut, Nagaraja said feeding cattle a diet that will reach the hindgut and produce acid will be effective in killing 0157. He also said

Plaudits K-State political science professor joins journalʼs editorial team

Jeff Pickering, associate professor of political science, has been selected for the editorial team of Foreign Policy Analysis. The jour-nal is published by the International Studies Association, the largest multidisciplinary group that studies international issues. It has a wide circulation, and the members of its editorial team are an exclusive group, representing top scholars in this area. Pickering has taught classes in world politics, international conflict and international secu-rity, among others, in the last 11 years at K-State.

Architecture professorʼs work appears on HGTVWork by Larry Bowne, assistant professor of architecture in the

College of Architecture, Planning and Design, was featured in an episode of “Small Space Big Style” on Home & Garden Television.

Bowne’s project is a New York City apartment for David Depoalo, a consultant for the food-service industry. The apartment features an elaborate series of built-in cabinets and furniture that open to reveal all the conveniences of contemporary living in a compressed space.

Bowne and the design team collaborated extensively with local artisans in creating the customized apartment. Closets, appliances and cabinetry appear mysteriously abstract. The aesthetics are enhanced by design innova-tions, including lighting recessed throughout

the apartment, matte surfaces that refract light, and translucent panels that veil objects and seem to

glow from within.

Cereal chemist receives KU research awardPaul Seib, professor emeritus of grain science and industry, has

received the Irvin Youngberg Award for Applied Sciences from the University of Kansas. The honor includes a $10,000 award, which must be used for research materials, summer salaries, fellowship matching funds, research assistance or other research-related support.

A cereal chemist, Seib has expertise in cereal carbohydrates, wheat-based foods and stable forms of vitamin C. He has writ-ten more than 200 journal articles, several book chapters and a monograph. He also holds 18 U.S. patents, including two involving a stabilized form of vitamin C used in animal feeds, particularly aquaculture feed.

Seib’s work has earned numerous honors, including the Melville L. Wolfrom Award from the Division of Carbohydrate Chemistry of the American Chemical Society; award of merit from the Japanese Society of Applied Glycoscience; and the excellence in teaching award and the Alsberg-Schoch Memorial Lectureship Award, both from the American Association of Cereal Chemists.

Larry Bowne

T.G. Nagaraja is leading a research group studying E. coli 0157 and salmonella, two common foodborne pathogens. (Photo by David Adams, College of Veterinary Medicine)

Team tackles ecology of E. coli and salmonella in food animals

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A habit of giving

Phillip Gerdes has made sev-eral charitable gifts to worthy causes such as the American

Cancer Society and United Way. But the K-State network control techni-cian’s gift to the K-State All-Univer-sity Campaign is special to him.

“This gift actually affects me more directly than any other,” said Gerdes, who has worked at K-State since 1989. “This way I can help my co-workers, my department.”

Gerdes has been giving to K-State since 1999 when he enrolled in a $1-per-pay-period payroll deduc-tion benefiting the Classified Senate. He recently decided to continue his gift during the second All-Univer-sity Campaign, a faculty and staff fundraising effort to benefit the uni-versity.

“I figured I could contribute, and it was easy. This way, it’s not like I’ll ever forget,” he said. “This is my way to participate. It helps to be involved, and if you don’t have the time, this is one great way you can be involved.”

Jennyfer Owensby, All-Universi-ty Campaign co-chair and Classified Senate president-elect, said that gifts of any amount, such as Gerdes’, can make a big difference. The Classified Senate has already used additional funds towards special projects.

“This year, one of the most im-portant things has been working with the State Employee Compensation Oversight Commission,” Owensby said. “We’ve been able to attend those meetings [in Topeka] mostly

because of the extra funds the Clas-sified Senate has received over the course of the campaign.”

Pleased by the news that his gift was making a difference, Gerdes said he chose to designate the Clas-sified Senate as the recipient of his gift because he knew that it would affect his work environment.

“I know exactly where my mon-ey is going. It means that I’m really helping and at the same time, they [Classified Senate] are helping me,” Gerdes said.

Gerdes, who works at East Sta-dium in computing and telecom-munications services, helps provide phone and Internet service for every-one on campus, including K-State at Salina. He said he often encourages

colleagues to support the university.“If they ask me, I tell them, ‘It’s

an easy way to help,’ ” he said.And there is still time. “It’s not

too late to participate in this year’s campaign,” Owensby said. “Phil’s gift is just one example of how an individual can improve the lives of fellow K-Staters.”

Funds raised during the All-Uni-versity Campaign benefit K-State’s Changing Lives Campaign, the uni-versity’s most ambitious fundraising initiative with a goal of $500 million to enhance student success, faculty development and the learning envi-ronment.

For more information, visit www.found.ksu.edu/alluniv or con-tact your work group representative.

Phil Gerdes, K-state network control technician, has maintained a payroll deduction to benefit the Classi-fied Senate since 1999.

(Photo and story courtesy of Flavia G. Hulsey, develop-ment publications coordinator, Kansas State University Foundation)

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Diane Swanson, man-agement, published “A Historical Viewpoint,” in Shaping Tomorrowʼs Business Leaders: Prin-ciples and Practices for a Model Business Ethics Program, Business Round-table Institute for Corpo-rate Ethics, Oct. 3.

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