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The Health Sciences Library will be running on holiday hours this weekend.
Sunday, May 26th: 1pm-5pm
All University Libraries are closed on Monday, May 27th, in observance of Memorial Day.
We will resume normal summer hours, 7am-10pm, on Tuesday, May 28th.
Check out this month’s new books at the Health Sciences Library. You can use the drop down menu to see previous month’s additions.
Have a purchase recommendation? You can request a book for your teaching or research using this form.
On May 13-17, the first floor will be restricted to 1st, 2nd and 3rd year medical students for testing between the hours of 8:00am-5:00pm.
If you need a book from the first floor, please visit the Service Desk.
Remember, if you need to print, use the Health Sciences Library Copy Room printers located on the main floor of the library.
Each month we provide an overview of University of Missouri authored articles in medicine and related fields as well as a featured article from a School of Medicine author with the highest journal impact factor.
This month’s featured article:
“A lipid-based partitioning mechanism for selective incorporation of proteins into membranes of HIV particles” was co-authored by Dr. Marc Johnson of the Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology. The article was published in Nature Cell Biology (impact factor of 19.064 in 2017).
See the list of publications in medicine and related fields we retrieved for this month: http://library.muhealth.org/resourcesfor/faculty/faculty-publications/apr2019/
Subscribe to Health Sciences Library News to receive the monthly recent publications update in your email.
*This list is not intended to be comprehensive.
Did we miss something? Email asklibrary@health.missouri.edu and we will add your publication to the list.
The Diversity and Inclusion Committee will send out upcoming opportunities every week we think will be of interest. We hope that you will help us continue to build a library culture of diversity and inclusion.
The Inclusive Excellence Mile Run
Saturday May 4th 10:00am-12:00pm, Stankowski Field
The Inclusive Excellence Mile is a collaborative effort with the Department of Athletics and the MU Division of Inclusion, Diversity & Equity.
Come out and run the Inclusive Excellence Mile! Afterwards, there will be free food, bounce houses, and interactive games on Stankowski Field.
For more info: https://secure.getmeregistered.com/get_information.php?event_id=132035
Unpacking Respectability Politics
Tuesday May 7th 12:00-1:30pm, Hill Hall 314
Join IDE’S Office of Inclusive Engagement for our Core Concept Series. Diversity and inclusion are labels used to express complex, multi-faceted organizational strategies, goals and values. The purpose of the Core Concepts Series is to provide members of the Mizzou community with a foundational understanding of essential ideas to promote diversity and inclusion at Mizzou.
Pre-registration is required for all sessions. Participants must attend all sessions to earn a Certificate of Completion.We welcome requests for ADA accommodations. Please contact Alejandra Gudiño at GudinoA@missouri.edu to make arrangements.
Compassion as a Workplace Skill
Wednesday May 8th 12:00pm-1:30pm, Hill Hall 314
Join IDE’s Office of Inclusive Engagement for our Communicating Across Differences Series. This series is designed to enhance the capacity of faculty, staff and students to engage in conversations about challenging, emotionally laden topics (i.e., race, discrimination, policy, politics, etc.). The skills learned in this series can be applied in the workplace, classroom, and interpersonal and community contexts. Participants are encouraged to bring real-life situations to the sessions to serve as practice and learning opportunities.
Pre-registration is required for all sessions. Participants must attend all sessions to earn a Certificate of Completion.We welcome requests for ADA accommodations. Please contact Alejandra Gudiño at GudinoA@missouri.edu to make arrangements.
Columbia Community Ethnographies
Wednesday May 8th 4pm-5:30pm, 220 Townsend Hall
All – faculty, staff, and students – are invited to join ELPA 9408 & The Bridge in 220 Townsend Hall.
Expand your local and critical inquiry perspectives with diverse Mizzou doctoral students as they present their final projects from Dr. Dache’s Spring 2019 Advanced Qualitative Methods course. In this graduate course, students conducted a 10-week ethnography within the City of Columbia. Guided by theories and constructs within Urban Ethnography, students will engage community members on their experiences studying spatially-specific cultural phenomena.
The Diversity and Inclusion Committee will send out upcoming opportunities every week we think will be of interest. We hope that you will help us continue to build a library culture of diversity and inclusion.
StuffToDo – FREE Weekend Film: If Beale Street Could Talk
Saturday April 27th 8:00pm-11:00pm, Wrench Auditorium (Memorial Union)
A woman in Harlem embraces her pregnancy while she and her family struggle to prove her fiancé innocent of a crime.Co-sponsored by BCC.
Designing the Movement: Projection Design as Research for the Every 28 Hours Play
Tuesday April 30th 10:00am-11:00am, Townsend Hall 220
Xiomara Cornejo, Doctoral Student in Theatre and Associate Director for the Center of Applied Theatre and Dramatic Research, discusses her research process as projection designer for the MU Theatre department’s performance of the Every 28 Hours Plays, a series of 1-minute plays created by national theatre artists inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement. Cornejo examines her creative and research approach to design, which includes the integration of Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS), projection design as storytelling, and visual historiography.
African American Experience in Missouri Lecture: Dr. Greene
Tuesday April 30th 6:00-8:00pm, Memorial Union
The African American Press has a long history of agency and activism. Dating its founding from 1827 with the publication of Freedom’s Journal in New York, the press has a legacy of protest and a history of the struggle for survival. Between 1875 and 1970, Missouri was home to more than 60 black-owned newspapers. Join Debra Foster Greene, professor emeritus of history from Lincoln University and a noted scholar of African American Business History, for a look into the lives and works of several African American newspaper publishers and editors in the Show-Me State.
Sponsored by the State Historical Society of Missouri’s Center for Missouri Studies; University of Missouri’s Division of Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity; and the Missouri Humanities Council.
“Not In My Neighborhood”: Toward a Critical Race Reckoning of Higher Education
Wednesday May 1st 4:30pm-5:30pm, Wrench Auditorium (Memorial Union)
In this lecture, Dr. Lori Patton Davis will use Critical Race Theory to trace racist master narratives and events that have historically shaped and continue to perpetuate racism and white supremacy in higher education. She will offer a framework for understanding CRT in higher education and engage the audience in questions about the role and promise of critical race praxis in the academy. Dr. Patton Davis is a Full Professor at Indiana University and Immediate Past President of ASHE (Association for the Study of Higher Education). Dr. Patton Davis is best known for her important cross-cutting scholarship on African Americans in higher education, critical race theory, campus diversity initiatives on college campuses, girls and women of color in educational and social contexts, and college student development and graduate preparation.
Intergenerational Effects of Trauma: Distinguished Lecture Series in Psychology
Thursday Mary 2nd 3:30pm, Wrench Auditorium (Memorial Union)
Significant interest lies in trying to understand whether the effects of trauma are passed to the next, or even subsequent generations. Recent advances in molecular biology and epigenetics provide paradigms for understanding long term effects of stress. Epigenetic research provides animals models for how such effects might be transmitted and also raise great speculation about whether and to what extent such mechanisms can be applied to understanding enduring effects of trauma in offspring of survivors. This presentation focuses on consequences of parental trauma and examines whether such effects are biologically ‘transmitted.” Most of the research has been conducted on adult children of Holocaust survivors but is supported by observations of children born to pregnant women who survived the World Trade Center attack on 9/11. Findings demonstrating epigenetic marks associated with parental trauma effects of PTSD will be reviewed, and discussed in the context of whether they represent generational “damage” due to adversity or indicate attempts to adapt to environmental challenge to achieve resilience.
Culture Vultures: Navigating Cultural Appreciation and Cultural Appropriation
Thursday May 2nd 12:00pm-1:30pm, Hill Hall 305
Join IDE’S Office of Inclusive Engagement for our Inclusion and Belonging Series. The purpose of the series is to nurture personal, professional and community development to enhance belonging at Mizzou. The series seeks to create spaces for participants to develop inclusive strategies and deepen community connections on campus.
Pre-Registration is required for all sessions. Participants must attend at least three presentations to earn a Certificate of Completion.
We welcome requests for ADA accommodations. Please contact Alejandra Gudiño at GudinoA@missouri.edu to make arrangements.
The Diversity and Inclusion Committee will send out upcoming opportunities every week we think will be of interest. We hope that you will help us continue to build a library culture of diversity and inclusion.
UnBound Book Festival
Friday-Saturday April19th-April 20th, Stephens College
Nationally-recognized and bestselling authors across many different genres will come to mid-Missouri to discuss their work and participate in a variety of stimulating events and environments. The fourth annual event will take place in Columbia, Missouri from April 18th to April 20th, 2019 at various venues around Columbia, including our keynote address on Friday night at the Missouri Theatre and our full day of events on the campus of Stephens College on Saturday. There will be separate programs for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Children’s Events. And for you, dear guest, it’s all completely free.
Allyship Series: Non-Binary Folx
Monday April 22nd 1:00pm-2:30pm The Bridge (220 Townsend)
With more and more people finding the language to describe themselves, we see an increase in the number of people who identify as something other than man or woman. Today we will explore a few questions you may have never asked before. Please join us to talk openly about how we define gender, how our definitions affect how we interact with others, and how we can queer up and complicate these definitions.
“I didn’t mean anything by it”: How racial microaggressions are perceived
Tuesday April 23rd 1:00pm2:00pm, Free Webinar
This is a free webinar. Diversity, inclusion, and equity are key words that are considered important aspects to the library profession. Although attempts seemed to be made towards that end, what is really causing some librarians of color to leave or thinking of leaving the profession? The work environment may be the problem. Librarians of color encounter racial microaggressions on a daily basis. In this presentation, I will define microaggressions and what librarians of color and the dominant culture should know about them. Registration Link
Building Perspective-Taking
Wednesday April 24th 12:00pm-1:30pm Hill Hall 314
oin IDE’s Office of Inclusive Engagement for our Communicating Across Differences Series. This series is designed to enhance the capacity of faculty, staff and students to engage in conversations about challenging, emotionally laden topics (i.e., race, discrimination, policy, politics, etc.). The skills learned in this series can be applied in the workplace, classroom, and interpersonal and community contexts. Participants are encouraged to bring real-life situations to the sessions to serve as practice and learning opportunities. Register Here
Africa Week 2019 Africa Hub Film Screening of A United Kingdom
Thursday April 25th 6:00pm-9:00pm, Ellis Library 114A
A United Kingdom is a 2016 biographical film based on extraordinary true events. Seretse Khama played by David Oyelowo and Ruth Williams, played by Rosamund Pike, fall in love and forever change the course of history for Bostwana.
In the late 1940s, Prince Seretse Khama of Bechuanaland is studying law in Britain in preparation for his eventual ascension to the throne. There, the dashing prince falls in love with a white British clerk, Ruth Williams, and they plan to marry. While they suspect that his uncle, the Regent, would disapprove, nothing prepares them for the diplomatic firestorm and domestic political tumult their defiant love would spark. Now facing a citizenry leery of a white Briton as their Queen, the international opposition is even more unyielding from the British holding their land as a protectorate and fearful of South Africa’s racist backlash to this affront to their apartheid domination. Against all odds, King Khama and Ruth must struggle to maintain their love and help their people in a land that would become the Republic of Botswana.
Doors open at 5:30 pm and event starts at 6 pm. Free and open to the public. Food served.
If Beale Street Could Talk: Free Weekend Film
Friday April 26th 8:00pm-11:00pm, Wrench Auditorium (Memorial Union)
A woman in Harlem embraces her pregnancy while she and her family struggle to prove her fiancé innocent of a crime.Co-sponsored by StuffToDo and BCC.
“The health sciences library is a jewel in the Mizzou library system,” says Dr. Vicki Conn, Professor Emerita at the Sinclair School of Nursing.
As a faculty member at the nursing school, Dr. Conn focused on why patients wouldn’t take their prescribed medications and finding ways to increase exercise in chronically ill adults. Her research spanned over many years and credits Diane Johnson with helping her throughout the journey.
“I was the principal investigator of three National Institutes of Health [NIH] R01 grants for enormous projects and [Diane’s] expertise was critical for securing funding,” relays Dr. Conn. Diane remained on the grants after the funding was secured, being named a co-investigator to assist with the “hard work,” as Dr. Conn calls it.
“[Diane] worked with my research staff to facilitate our easy access to the results of searches. For one of our projects, we evaluated over 37,000 potential studies for inclusion. The vast majority of those 37,000 were located by Diane. Diane was a central member of our research team.” With Diane as a member of the research team and closely working with the other researchers, allowed her to completely understand the project. Diane could easily adapt and change with search as needed and know the exact information the team found most beneficial.
Dr. Conn’s and her team also made great use of the library’s interlibrary loan (ILL) department, requesting articles if they needed to be reviewed in their entirety. If the articles weren’t available on campus, ILL borrowed them from other libraries, making sure Dr. Conn and her research team had access to the articles necessary for their grants.
These services were something Dr. Conn highly valued over the twenty years of working with Diane and the library. “I suggest people become acquainted with a librarian. It is very important for the librarian to understand your program of research. A librarian who completely understands your program of research can by a wonderful research collaborator.”
Cycle of Success is the idea that libraries, faculty, and students are linked; for one to truly succeed, we must all succeed. The path to success is formed by the connections between University of Missouri Libraries and faculty members, between faculty members and students, and between students and the libraries that serve them. More than just success, this is also a connection of mutual respect, support, and commitment to forward-thinking research.
If you would like to submit your own success story about how the libraries have helped your research and/or work, please use the Cycle of Success form.
The Diversity and Inclusion Committee will send out upcoming opportunities every week we think will be of interest. We hope that you will help us continue to build a library culture of diversity and inclusion.
Show Me Mizzou Day: International Programs Open House
Saturday April 13th 10:00am-2:00pm, Memorial Union N52
Learn about international exchange at Mizzou from current international students and study abroad returnees. Volunteers from the Confucius Institute will be demonstrating Chinese calligraphy and helping visitors make traditional knitted bracelets.
Current students and their families are also invited to learn about the wide array of study abroad options available to MU students across all academic disciplines. Study abroad advisers will be available to answer questions, and refreshments will be provided.
Show Me Mizzou Day is an opportunity to explore our state’s flagship university through more than 100 events for people of all ages. Free admission and parking.
How To Be A Better Trans Ally
Monday April 15th 3:00pm-5:00pm, Stotler Lounge (Memorial Union)
Join Oasis for a workshop of stations to practice and learn about trans allyship skills. This event is open to the public.
We are committed to ensuring our events are accessible. Please contact lgbtq@missouri.edu if you anticipate any barriers to your participation.
Research Discussion: Dr. Chuck Munter
Tuesday April 16th 11:00am-12:00pm, The Bridge (Townsend Hall 220)
From the Interpersonal to the Institutional: Investigating Sources of Inequity in Mathematics Education
Too much about schooling perpetuates, rather than reduces, social inequalities. And in terms of subject areas, mathematics may be one of the worst culprits. In this discussion, we will consider research on how inequity is produced in school mathematics at multiple levels, including through classroom interaction and through district policies, and reflect on ways we might confront those inequities. All are welcome, regardless of level of interest in mathematics.
The research discussion can be accessed virtually at http://bit.ly/BridgeRschDscn16Apr19.
Poesia Viva
Wednesday April 17th 6:30-8:30pm, The Shack (The Student Center)
Come join us on our annual Poesia Viva! We have special guests La Resistencia visiting us. Visit the url for more information about the event.
Mindy Scheier – “Breaking Down Barriers for People with Disabilities: The Role of Clothing”
Thursday April 18th 11:00am-12:00pm, Stotler Lounge (Memorial Union)
Before founding Runway of Dreams Foundation (RoDF) in 2014, Mindy Scheier spent 20 years working in fashion on the design team for the INC collection and as a stylist for Saks Fifth Avenue.
Mindy was inspired to start RoDF after her son Oliver, who has Muscular Dystrophy, dreamed of wearing jeans like everyone else. After using her design skills to adapt a pair that met his needs and increased his confidence, she went on to conduct extensive research to develop modifications — including alternate closures, adjustability of waistbands, pant and sleeve lengths and alternative ways to get in and out of the clothing. Following launch, RoDF collaborated with Tommy Hilfiger on the first mainstream adaptive clothing line for kids in 2016.
Mindy’s work with RoDF expands beyond adaptive clothing. Founded on the basis that clothing is a basic human need, the Runway of Dreams Foundation develops, delivers and supports initiatives to broaden the reach of mainstream adaptive clothing and promote the differently-abled community in the fashion industry. Through adaptive clothing donations, employment opportunity initiatives, adaptive design workshops, awareness building campaigns and scholarships programs, RoDF is empowering people with disabilities with opportunity, confidence, independence and style. Envisioning a world where fashion is mainstream and accessible for all, Mindy continues to break down barriers and challenge industry norms. *This event is free and open to the public
Movie Screening & Discussion: Intelligent Lives
Thursday April 18th 7:00pm-8:30pm, 101 Swallow Hall Auditorium
If you believe that ALL people should be supported, valued, and included, join us for the special screening ofIntelligent Lives. This documentary by disability rights filmmaker Dan Habib is shattering stereotypes about what it means to be “intelligent” and opening doors to more inclusive education and employment. In addition to featuring the stories of three pioneering young adults, the film is graced with the personal perspective of Academy award winning actor Chris Cooper.
The 70-minute screening will be followed by a panel of advocates and practitioners who work on local issues of education and employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities.
REGISTRATION REQUESTED athttp://bit.ly/BridgeMovieIntelligentLives18A
Check out this month’s new books at the Health Sciences Library. You can use the drop down menu to see previous month’s additions.
Have a purchase recommendation? You can request a book for your teaching or research using this form.