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Engineering Faculty Publications (February 2025)

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Below is a list of College of Engineering Faculty that have published academic works in the past 30 days. 

Congratulations to all recently published authors! 

Note: Access to full text may be subject to library subscriptions. The below citations were pulled from Scopus. 

  1. Abdulredah, A. A., Fadhel, M. A., Alzubaidi, L., Duan, Y., Kherallah, M., & Charfi, F. (2025). Towards unbiased skin cancer classification using deep feature fusion. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 25(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-025-02889-w 
  2. Arowolo, M. O., Azam, M., He, F., Popescu, M., & Xu, D. (2024). Gene name recognition in gene pathway figures using siamese networks. 218–230. https://doi.org/10.1109/MedAI62885.2024.00035 
  3. Assadi, S., Khanna, S., & Kiss, P. (2025). Improved bounds for fully dynamic matching via ordered ruzsa-szemerédi graphs. 5, 2971–2990. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85216749936&partnerID=40&md5=ff0e51ff5b5f7e23abb82927b6c43412 
  4. Babanagar, N., Giriraju, R., Prabhugaonker, R., Gopalaratnam, V., Barde, A., & Pillai, R. G. (2024). Precast concrete building construction in India-challenges and opportunities. Indian Concrete Journal, 98(8), 7–24. Scopus. 
  5. Bateman, B., Xin, M., Tseng, H. E., & Liu, M. (2024). Nash or stackelberg? – A comparative study for game-theoretic autonomous vehicle decision-making. 58(28), 504–509. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2025.01.096 
  6. Behzadian, A., Muturi, T., Owor, N. J., & Adu-Gyamfi, Y. (2024). Optimizing road damage detection with yolov10: A resource-efficient approach utilizing augmentation, data sampling, and hyperparameter tuning. 8439–8446. https://doi.org/10.1109/BigData62323.2024.10825391 
  7. Calyam, P., Clemm, A., Pandey, A., Roy, U., Keller, A., Das, S. K., Calvert, K., & Li, Q. (2024). Softwarized networks in the age of generative artificial intelligence: use cases, challenges, and opportunities. IEEE Internet Computing, 28(6), 68–76. https://doi.org/10.1109/MIC.2024.3485954 
  8. Cannone Falchetto, A., Yin, F., Cavalli, M. C., Mangiafico, S., Biligiri, K. P., Cantot, J., Rath, P., Singh, A., Elwardany, M., Wang, D., Chen, C., Grenfell, J., Zhang, F., Sun, Y., & Krayushkina, K. (2024). On the new RILEM technical committee TC APD: alternative paving materials – design and performance. RILEM Technical Letters, 9, 68–75. https://doi.org/10.21809/rilemtechlett.2024.196 
  9. Catalano, A. J., Hall, D. M., & Gentil, G. M. (2025). Examining truth regimes reveals how local communities view flooding and river management in the lower missouri river basin, USA. Environmental Management. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-025-02110-8 
  10. Chen, J., Duan, H., & Huang, G. (2025). Transformer-based inverse-design model for optimal multilayer microperforated panels. Physical Review Applied, 23(2). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.23.024044 
  11. Chen, K., Han, X., Li, X., Liang, Y., Xu, D., & Guan, R. (2024). PNESR-DDI: an effective drug-drug interaction prediction model based on pretraining method and enhanced subgraph reconstruction. 1874–1881. https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBM62325.2024.10822475 
  12. Chen, Y., Xu, D., Hammer, R., & Popescu, M. (2024). Predicting gene relations with a graph transformer network integrating DNA, protein, and descriptive data. 3101–3104. https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBM62325.2024.10821812 
  13. Chintamaneni, V. K., Debbadi, S. K., Kandula, S. S., & Gargees, R. S. (2024). Hybrid deep learning/machine learning model for retinal diseases classifications using OCT images. 2024 2nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, and Internet of Things, AIBThings 2024 – Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.1109/AIBThings63359.2024.10863314 
  14. Das, M. J., Rao, P., & Xu, L. (2024). IMpact of the networking infrastructure on the performance of variant calling on human genomes in commodity clusters. ACM-BCB 2024 – 15th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics. https://doi.org/10.1145/3698587.3701354 
  15. Demby’s, J., Farag, R., & Desouza, G. N. (2024). Inverse Kinematics of Robotic Manipulators Using a New Learning-by-Example Method. 9534–9541. https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS58592.2024.10802048 
  16. Dmonte, A., Oruche, R., Zampieri, M., Ko, E., & Calyam, P. (2025). GMU-MU at the Financial Misinformation Detection Challenge Task: Exploring LLMs for Financial Claim Verification. 308–312. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85217771948&partnerID=40&md5=6a79698f71779fff24e35a8ef31b0b60 
  17. Dostoglou, S., & Valettas, P. (2025). On the clustering of padé zeros and poles of random power series. International Mathematics Research Notices, 2025(3). https://doi.org/10.1093/imrn/rnaf007 
  18. Elbelbisi, A., Salim, H., Newberry, M., Weaver, M., & Elemam, H. (2024). Blast-resistant insulated laminated glass windows. 3. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85216748237&partnerID=40&md5=e59d3096eb64e88c0b2bfc84ec126b7d 
  19. Elemam, H., Elkilani, A., Elbelbisi, A., Elsisi, A., Bowman, A., & Salim, H. (2024). Strain rate material response of laminated glass interlayer polymers. 3. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85216726420&partnerID=40&md5=2404e158fd5ed0bfe19da8f407a03b0c 
  20. Elkilani, A., Salim, H., Elemam, H., Elbelbisi, A., Elsisi, A., Bowman, A., & Johnson, C. (2024). Modeling of multilayer laminated glass panels under blast. ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE )3. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85216810598&partnerID=40&md5=91a412afde2170669ffcd6140530b462 
  21. Elkilani, A., Elsisi, A., Knight, J., Elbelbisi, A., & Salim, H. (2025). Thermomechanical high strain rate behavior of LG polymeric interlayer materials. Construction and Building Materials, 464. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2025.140183 
  22. Fischer, S., & Neurath, M. F. (2025). Update on the pathophysiology, prediction and prevention of inflammatory bowel diseases. Innere Medizin 66(2), 137–145. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00108-024-01838-5 
  23. Gao, Z., Lv, M., Liu, M., Gu, C., Li, G., Liu, B., Singh, D. J., Zheng, W., & Fan, X. (2025). Novel layered As2Ge with a pentagonal structure for potential thermoelectrics. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. https://doi.org/10.1039/d4tc04065a 
  24. García Delgado, G., Shammi, U., Ruppel, M., Altes, T., Mugler, J., Meyer, C., Qing, K., de Lange, E., Mata, J., Ruset, I., Hersman, F. W., & Thomen, R. (2025). QUantification of spatial ventilation defect sparsity in hyperpolarized gas magnetic resonance imaging of lungs utilizing a three-dimensional clustering algorithm. NMR in Biomedicine, 38(3). https://doi.org/10.1002/nbm.70005 
  25. Giraldo-Londoño, O., Muñetón-López, R. A., Barclay, P. L., Zhuang, X., Zhang, D. Z., & Chen, Z. (2025). Toward engineering lattice structures with the material point method (MPM). Engineering with Computers. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00366-024-02098-5 
  26. Goel, V., Ding, J., Hatuwal, B., Giri, E., Deliberto, T. J., Lowe, J., Webby, R., Emch, M., & Wan, X.-F. (2025). Ecological drivers of evolution of swine influenza in the United States: A review. Emerging Microbes and Infections, 14(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/22221751.2025.2455598 
  27. Hawley, J., & Shyu, C.-R. (2024). Analysis of A Malicious Deutsch-Jozsa Circuit. 2, 602–603. https://doi.org/10.1109/QCE60285.2024.10425 
  28. Ismail, K. B. M., Kumar, M. A., Prasath, J., Mahalingam, S., Jayavel, R., Arivanandhan, M., & Kim, J. (2025). Enhanced supercapattery performance of hydrothermally synthesized MoS2/ZnS nanocomposites. Journal of Energy Storage, 113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2025.115555 
  29. Joby, J. A., Sikorski, P., Sultan, T., Akbarpour, H., Esposito, F., & Babaiasl, M. (2024). Emg-transnn-mha: a transformer-based model for enhanced motor intent recognition in assistive robotics. 8691–8693. https://doi.org/10.1109/BigData62323.2024.10825417 
  30. Kostage, K., Adepu, R., Monroe, J., Haughton, T., Mogollon, J., Poduvu, S., Palaniappan, K., Qu, C., Calyam, P., & Mitra, R. (2025). Federated learning-enabled network incident anomaly detection optimization for drone swarms. 104–114. https://doi.org/10.1145/3700838.3700857 
  31. Ling, C., Lou, X., Li, J., & Zhang, Y. (2019). Experimental investigation of a novel tidal supercharger driven by tidal energy for reverse osmosis seawater desalination (Vol. 2019, p. 194). https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85216333346&partnerID=40&md5=4f18e8c87eae810a75d39de7b0ea6014 
  32. Massa, H., & Uhlmann, J. (2025). Access-adaptive priority search tree. Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11334-025-00598-1 
  33. Mubarak, A. S., Salih, S. S., Kadhom, M., & Ghosh, T. K. (2025). Removal of heavy metals from contaminated water using Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs): A review on techniques and applications. Materials Science and Engineering: B, 315. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mseb.2025.118105 
  34. Mukherjee, S., Suresh, D., Zambre, A., Yadavilli, S., Ghoshdastidar, S., Upendran, A., & Kannan, R. (2025). Synergistic inhibition of drug resistant KRAS mutant non-small cell lung cancer by co-targeting AXL and SRC. Cancers, 17(3). https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers17030490 
  35. Oliva, G., Manin, L., Valić, S., Islam, S. K., Fiorillo, A. S., & Pullano, S. A. (2025). Zeolite 5 A mediated palmitic acid detection in tomato seed oil by photoionization detector. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 431. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2025.137428 
  36. Omelyusik, V., Shehzad, K., Banks, T., Rao, P., & Nair, S. S. (2024). On scaling neuronal network simulations using distributed computing. 745–749. https://doi.org/10.1109/SCW63240.2024.00105 
  37. Prasanna, S., Kumar, A., Rao, D., Simoes, E. J., & Rao, P. (2024). A scalable tool for analyzing genomic variants of humans using knowledge graphs and graph machine learning. Frontiers in Big Data, 7. https://doi.org/10.3389/fdata.2024.1466391 
  38. Salim, H., Elbelbisi, A., Knight, J., Chen, Z., Elemam, H., Bowman, A., & Kantrales, G. (2024). Computational and experimental calibration of material model for blast-resistant laminated glass systems. 3. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85216725453&partnerID=40&md5=a51b302705231105b4e2e1a7d5ad2b88 
  39. Singh, P., Kinkade, J. A., Verma, M., Khan, T., Ezashi, T., Bivens, N. J., Roberts, R. M., Rosenfeld, C. S., & Joshi, T. (2024). Impact of extracellular vesicles derived from human placenta cells on neural progenitor cell transcriptome dynamics. 457–462. https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBM62325.2024.10822491 
  40. Tali, S., Noguera, D., & Gargees, R. S. (2024). Comparative analysis of hate speech detection using various vectorization and classification techniques. 2024 2nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, and Internet of Things, AIBThings 2024 – Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.1109/AIBThings63359.2024.10863361 
  41. Tang, J., Guo, Q., Zhao, Y., & Shang, Y. (2024). DEcoding linguistic nuances in mental health text classification using expressive narrative stories. 207–216. https://doi.org/10.1109/CogMI62246.2024.00035 
  42. Ye, Z.-F., Jiang, H.-M., Liu, D. Y., Singh, D. J., & Huang, Y. N. (2025). Interlayer coupling of magnetism and electronic structure in two-dimensional superconducting systems: Fcc Fe on monolayer FeSe. Physical Review B, 111(7). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.111.075121 
  43. Ying, X., Reasad, M., & Wang, B. (2025). Development and laboratory assessment of a subsea particle image velocimetry system for bubble and turbulence measurements in marine seeps. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods. https://doi.org/10.1002/lom3.10670 
  44. Zhang, D., Stein, R., Lu, Y., Zhou, T., Lei, Y., Li, L., Chen, J., Arnold, J., Becich, M. J., Chrischilles, E. A., Chuang, C. H., Christakis, D. A., Fort, D., Geary, C. R., Hornig, M., Kaushal, R., Liebovitz, D. M., Mosa, A. S. M., Morizono, H., Chen, Y. (2025). Pediatric gastrointestinal tract outcomes during the postacute phase of COVID-19. JAMA Network Open, 8(2). Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.58366 

 

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Reading Revelry (March 2025)

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Howdy Friends!

This month’s Reading Revelry, we have both non-fiction and fiction books relating to women in STEM!

You can request them by clicking on their hyperlinked titles below. If you have issues requesting the titles, please reach out to Amanda May at asmay@umsystem.edu

 

Our picks for March:

 

Hidden figures: the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race / Margot Lee Shetterly.

Before John Glenn orbited the earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as “human computers” used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in the South’s segregated public schools, they were called into service during the labor shortages of World War II, when America’s aeronautics industry was in dire need of anyone who had the right stuff. Suddenly, these overlooked math whizzes had a shot at jobs worthy of their skills, and they answered Uncle Sam’s call, moving to Hampton, Virginia, and the fascinating, high-energy world of the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory. Even as Virginia’s Jim Crow laws required them to be segregated from their white counterparts, the women of Langley’s all-black “West Computing” group helped America achieve one of the things it desired most: a decisive victory over the Soviet Union in the Cold War, and complete domination of the heavens

 

 

Her hidden genius : a novel / Marie Benedict.

Rosalind Franklin knows if she just takes one more X-ray picture–one more after thousands–she can unlock the building blocks of life. Never again will she have to listen to her colleagues complain about her, especially Maurice Wilkins who’d rather conspire about genetics with James Watson and Francis Crick than work alongside her. Then it finally happens–the double helix structure of DNA reveals itself to her with perfect clarity. But what happens next, Rosalind could have never predicted. Marie Benedict’s next powerful novel shines a light on a woman who died to discover our very DNA, a woman whose contributions were suppressed by the men around her but whose relentless drive advanced our understanding of humankind

 

 

 

Lessons in chemistry / Bonnie Garmus.

Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute take a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel-prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with of all things, her mind. True chemistry results. But like science, life is unpredictable. Which is why a few years later, Elizabeth Zott finds herself not only a single mother, but the reluctant star of America’s most beloved cooking show Supper at Six. Elizabeth’s unusual approach to cooking (‘combine one tablespoon acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride’) proves revolutionary. But as her following grows, not everyone is happy. Because as it turns out, Elizabeth Zott isn’t just teaching women to cook. She’s daring them to change the status quo. Meet the unconventional, uncompromising Elizabeth Zott.

 

 

Chemistry : a novel / Weike Wang.

Three years into her graduate studies at a demanding Boston university, the unnamed narrator of this nimbly wry, concise debut finds her one-time love for chemistry is more hypothesis than reality. She’s tormented by her failed research–and reminded of her delays by her peers, her advisor, and most of all by her Chinese parents, who have always expected nothing short of excellence from her throughout her life. But there’s another, nonscientific question the marriage proposal from her devoted boyfriend, a fellow scientist, whose path through academia has been relatively free of obstacles, and with whom she can’t make a life before finding success on her own.

Eventually, the pressure mounts so high that she must leave everything she thought she knew about her future, and herself, behind. And for the first time, she’s confronted with a question she won’t find the answer to in a What do I really want? Over the next two years, this winningly flawed, disarmingly insightful heroine learns the formulas and equations for a different kind of chemistry–one in which the reactions can’t be quantified, measured, and analyzed; one that can be studied only in the mysterious language of the heart. Taking us deep inside her scattered, searching mind, here is a brilliant new literary voice that astutely juxtaposes the elegance of science, the anxieties of finding a place in the world, and the sacrifices made for love and family.

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Celebrating Black Engineers

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Hello everyone! 

Happy Black History Month! This month, we’re showcasing items in the University of Missouri’s collection about African American engineers. You can request them by clicking on their hyperlinked titles below. If you have issues requesting the titles, please reach out to Amanda May at asmay@umsystem.edu

Celebrating Black Engineers:

Bridging deep south rivers : the life and legend of Horace King / John S. Lupold and Thomas L. French, Jr
Both when he was enslaved and when he gained his freedom, Horace King built bridges, courthouses, warehouses, factories, and houses in Georgia, Alabama, and eastern Mississippi. The authors separate legend from facts as they carefully document King’s life in the Chattahoochee Valley on the Georgia-Alabama border. The story does not end with Horace, however, because he passed his skills on to his three sons, who also became prominent builders and businessmen.

Overnight code : the life of Raye Montague, the woman who revolutionized naval engineering

The inspiring story of a groundbreaking African American female engineer who created the first computer-designed ship for the US Navy. Equal parts coming-of-age tale, civil rights history, and reflection on the power of education, Overnight Code is a tale about persistence and perseverance when the odds against you seem insurmountable.

 

 

 

 

 

Changing the face of engineering : the African American experience / edited by John Brooks Slaughter, Yu Tao, and Willie Pearson, Jr.

Changing the Face of Engineering argues that the continued underrepresentation of African Americans in engineering impairs the ability of the United States to compete successfully in the global marketplace. This volume will be of interest to STEM scholars and students, as well as policymakers, corporations, and higher education institutions.

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Reading Revelry: February 2025

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Howdy everyone!
We hope everyone has had a wonderful start to the semester! For this month’s Reading Revelry, we are three books perfect for Valentine’s month 🙂 You can request them by clicking on their hyperlinked titles below. If you have issues requesting the titles, please reach out to Amanda May at asmay@umsystem.edu

Our picks for February:

 

A Lady For A Duke by Alexis Hall 

When Viola Caroll was presumed dead at Waterloo she took the opportunity to live, at last, as herself. But freedom does not come without a price, and Viola paid for hers with the loss of her wealth, her title, and her closest companion, Justin de Vere, the Duke of Gracewood. Only when their families reconnect, years after the war, does Viola learn how deep that loss truly was. Shattered without her, Gracewood has retreated so far into grief that Viola barely recognizes her old friend in the lonely, brooding man he has become. As Viola strives to bring Gracewood back to himself, fresh desires give new names to old feelings. Feelings that would have

 been impossible once and may be impossible still, but which Viola cannot deny. Even if they cost her everything, all over again. 

 

 

One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston 

Twenty-three-year old August doesn’t believe in much. She doesn’t believe in psychics, or easily forged friendships, or finding the kind of love they make movies about. And she certainly doesn’t believe her ragtag band of new roommates, her night shifts at a 24-hour pancake diner, or her daily subway commute full of electrical outages are going to change that. But then, there’s Jane. Beautiful, impossible Jane. All hard edges with a soft smile and swoopy hair and saving August’s day when she needed it most. The person August looks forward to seeing on the train every day. The one who makes her forget about the cities she lived in that never seemed to fit, and her fear of what happens when she finally graduates, and even her cold-case obsessed mother who won’t quite let her go. And when August realizes her subway crush is impossible in more ways than one-namely, displaced in time from the 1970s-she thinks maybe it’s time to start believing. Casey McQuiston’s One Last Stop is a sexy, big-hearted romance where the impossible becomes possible as August does everything in her power to save the girl lost in time.

 

This Modern Love by Will Darbyshire 

Seeking closure after a tough break-up, Will Darbyshire was driven to strike up an intimate conversation with his online audience. Posting a series of questions via his YouTube, Twitter and Instagram channels, Will asked his followers to share their innermost thoughts about their relationship experiences, in the form of hand-written letters, poems, photographs, and emails. 

After 6 months and over 15,000 heartfelt submissions later, from over 100 countries, This Modern Love collects these letters together to form a compendium of 21st century love, structured into the beginning, middle and end of a relationship. 

Tender, funny and cathartic, This Modern Love is a compelling portrait of individual desires, resentments and fears that reminds us that, whether we’re in or out of love, we’re not alone. 

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Reading Revelry: January 2025

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Howdy!

Happy New Year everyone! We hope everyone has had a restful break. Here are two books to ease you back into the semester. You can request them by clicking on their hyperlinked titles below. If you have issues requesting the titles, please reach out to Amanda May at asmx67@umsystem.edu

Our picks for January:

The Archive of Alternate Endings by Lindsey Drager 

Tracking the evolution of Hansel and Gretel at seventy-five-year intervals that correspond with earth’s visits by Halley’s Comet, The Archive of Alternate Endings explores how stories are disseminated and shared, edited and censored, voiced and left untold. 

In 1456, Johannes Gutenberg’s sister uses the tale as a surrogate for sharing a family secret only her brother believes. In 1835, The Brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm revise the tale to bury a truth about Jacob even he can’t come to face. In 1986, a folklore scholar and her brother come to find the record is wrong about the figurative witch in the woods, while in 2211, twin space probes aiming to find earth’s sister planet disseminate the narrative in binary code. Breadcrumbing back in time from 2365 to 1378, siblings reimagine, reinvent, and recycle the narrative of Hansel and Gretel to articulate personal, regional, and ultimately cosmic experiences of tragedy. 

Through a relay of speculative pieces that oscillate between eco-fiction and psychological horror, The Archive of Alternate Endings explores sibling love in the face of trauma over the course of a millennium, in the vein of Richard McGuire’s Here and Lars von Trier’s Melancholia. 

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Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy 

Franny Stone has always been the kind of woman who is able to love but unable to stay. Leaving behind everything but her research gear, she arrives in Greenland with a singular purpose: to follow the last Arctic terns in the world on what might be their final migration to Antarctica. Franny talks her way onto a fishing boat, and she and the crew set sail, traveling ever further from shore and safety. But as Franny’s history begins to unspool—a passionate love affair, an absent family, a devastating crime—it becomes clear that she is chasing more than just the birds. When Franny’s dark secrets catch up with her, how much is she willing to risk for one more chance at redemption? 

Epic and intimate, heartbreaking and galvanizing, Charlotte McConaghy’s Migrations is an ode to a disappearing world and a breathtaking page-turner about the possibility of hope against all odds.

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Do you have a book recommendation you want to see in a future Reading Revelry? Reach out to Amanda May at asmx67@umsystem.edu

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Engineering Library Door Renovation Project Expected to Start December 16th

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A project to renovate the Engineering Library’s door so it meets ADA’s accessibility requirements is scheduled for Monday, December 16th. The project is expected to be completed by the following Monday, December 23rd. This schedule is subject to change, and the Engineering Library will provide updates as needed.

During this time, the Engineering Library will be closed. All virtual services will be available, but the Engineering Library print collection will not be available for circulation. If you have any questions, contact Noël Kopriva at koprivan@missouri.edu.

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Reading Revelry: December 2024

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Howdy everyone!

We hope everyone has had a wonderful semester! For post-finals reading, we have two books to recommend this month. Want other recommendations? Go back to the previous Reading Revelries! Have a book you want to recommend for a future Reading Revelry? Contact Amanda May at asmx67@umsystem.edu. 

 

We hope everyone has a fabulous winter break! 

Our picks for December: 

 

One Day in December: Reese's Book Club: A Novel

One Day in December by Josie Silver

Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn’t exist anywhere but the movies. But then, through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day, she sees a man who she knows instantly is the one. Their eyes meet, there’s a moment of pure magic… and then her bus drives away. 

Certain they’re fated to find each other again, Laurie spends a year scanning every bus stop and cafe in London for him. But she doesn’t find him, not when it matters anyway. Instead they “reunite” at a Christmas party, when her best friend Sarah giddily introduces her new boyfriend to Laurie. It’s Jack, the man from the bus. It would be. 

What follows for Laurie, Sarah and Jack is ten years of friendship, heartbreak, missed opportunities, roads not taken, and destinies reconsidered. One Day in December is a joyous, heartwarming and immensely moving love story to escape into and a reminder that fate takes inexplicable turns along the route to happiness. 

 

Small Things Like These [Book]

 

 

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan 

It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church. 

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Reading Revelry: November 2024

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Howdy! This month’s Reading Revelry include three short, uncanny books perfect for Fall reading! If you are interested in requesting these books, click on the hyperlink in the title, and on the blue “Place Request” button on the left side of the page. 

Our picks for November:

 

 

 

Comfort Me with Apples by Catherynne M. Valente 
ISBN: 9781250816214 
Publication Date: 2021 

Sophia was made for him. Her perfect husband. She can feel it in her bones. He is perfect. Their home together in Arcadia Gardens is perfect. Everything is perfect. 

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It’s just that he’s away so much. So often. He works so hard. She misses him. And he misses her. He says he does, so it must be true. He is the perfect husband, and everything is perfect. 

But sometimes Sophia wonders about things. Strange things. Dark things. The look on her husband’s face when he comes back fr

om a long business trip. The questions he will not answer. The locked basement she is never allowed to enter. And whenever she asks the neighbors, they can’t quite meet her gaze… 

But everything is perfect. Isn’t it? 

 

Bunny by Mona Awad 
ISBN: 9780525559757 
Publication Date: 2019 

Samantha Heather Mackey couldn’t be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England’

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s Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort–a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other Bunny, and seem to move and speak as one.

But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies’ fabled Smut Salon, and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door–ditching her only friend, Ava, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies’ sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus Workshop where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision. 

The spellbinding new novel from one of our most fearless chroniclers of the female experience, Bunny is a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic and terrible power of the imagination. 

 

 

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We Have Always Lived In The Castle by Shirley Jackson ISBN: 0143039970 
Publication Date: 1962 

Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate. 

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Happy Mole Day!

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 On behalf of the Engineering Library and Technology Commons (ELTC),
Happy Mole Day!

 

This day commemorates Avogadro’s Constant: 6.02214 \times 10^{23}\, mol^{-1}

Celebrations run from 6:02AM to 6:02PM

Stop by the ELTC Circulation Desk for a FREE Mole Day button while supplies last! 

 

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Reading Revelry: October 2024

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Happy October everyone! We hope your classes are going well! For this month’s Reading Revelry, we have three sinisterly scary books to get you in the mood for Halloween. 

To learn more about the books, click on the hyperlink in the title. If you have questions or issues requesting items, please contact us at (573) 882-2379.

Happy reading!

Our picks for October:

 

The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
ISBN: 9780321398925 
Publication Date: 1764 

This book is often considered the first “gothic” novel.
Despite its short length, Walpole expertly crafts an uncanny and unforgettable story about a wedding gone wrong.  

 

 

 

Tender Is The Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica 
ISBN: 9781982150921
Publication
Date: 2017 (English translation 2020) 

In a world where animals carry a virus that makes them
poisonous and deadly for human consumption, society has moved on to a new protein source…humans.
This book is NOT for the faint of heart. 

 

 

 

 

 

The Harpy by Megan Hunter
ISBN: 9780802148162
Publication Date: 2020

This book follows Lucy, a loving wife and mother to two children.
When her husband, Jake, is found to be having an affair,
Lucy decides to stay with Jake on one condition:
she gets to have her revenge three times.