Engineering Faculty Publications (February 2025)

By Amanda May Posted in Engineering Library Gateway Carousel ELTC

Posted on March 4, 2025

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.

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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Hawley, J., & Shyu, C.-R. (2024). Analysis of A Malicious Deutsch-Jozsa Circuit. 2, 602–603. https://doi.org/10.1109/QCE60285.2024.10425
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)

By Amanda May Posted in Engineering Library Gateway Carousel ELTC Resources and Services

Posted on March 1, 2025February 28, 2025

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

By Amanda May Posted in Engineering Library Gateway Carousel ELTC Resources and Services

Posted on February 5, 2025February 5, 2025

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.

20 years at the top : a generation of black engineers of the year / by the staff of Career Communications Group Inc.

History of the Black Engineer of the Year Honorees.

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

By Amanda May Posted in Engineering Library Resources and Services Uncategorized

Posted on February 1, 2025February 28, 2025

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

By Amanda May Posted in Engineering Library Resources and Services

Posted on January 2, 2025January 31, 2025

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

By Amanda May Posted in Engineering Library Hours

Posted on December 2, 2024January 9, 2025

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

By Amanda May Posted in Engineering Library Resources and Services

Posted on December 2, 2024January 2, 2025

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 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 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

By Amanda May Posted in Engineering Library Resources and Services

Posted on November 1, 2024December 2, 2024

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.

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’

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.

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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Peer Navigator Corner: The Engineering Library

By Kimberly Moeller Posted in Engineering Library Gateway Carousel ELTC

Posted on October 29, 2024November 8, 2024

Written by: Brock Schofield

Did you know about Mizzou’s Engineering Library?
When you think of libraries at the University of Missouri, Ellis Library might be the first one that comes to mind. But did you know that Mizzou has six other branches that cater to specific academic needs? Other Peer Navigators have written about the Journalism and Health Science Libraries, but another one of these hidden gems is the Engineering Library, located in Lafferre Hall.

If you’re not an Engineering major, you might not know this library exists, it has been a cornerstone of the College of Engineering’s research since 1905. The Engineering Library is more than just a quiet place to study—it’s a treasure trove of specialized resources.

In addition to an extensive Ebook collection, over 600 full-text International Atomic Energy Agency reports on nuclear engineering, and the Knovel Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Collection with 185 titles. It also houses historical documents, including uncatalogued reports from the Department of Energy and Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Society of Automotive Engineers Technical Papers on microfiche through 1989, making it a valuable resource for
research projects.

Even if you’re not an engineering student, the Engineering Library in Lafferre Hall can still be a great spot for quiet study. It’s a lesser-known space on campus, meaning it often has fewer distractions, making it perfect for focusing on your work in a calm, quiet environment. Whether you need a change of scenery or just a peaceful place to get things done, this library is worth checking out.

When Can You Visit?
The Engineering Library’s hours are designed to accommodate your busy schedule. It’s open Monday through Thursday from 8:00 am to 10:00 pm, Friday from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm, and Sunday from 1:00 pm to 10:00 pm. Just keep in mind that it’s closed on Saturdays, so plan accordingly if you’re gearing up for a weekend study session.

Whether you’re deep into your engineering studies or just curious about what this library has to offer, the Engineering Library is a resource you shouldn’t overlook. Next time you’re in Lafferre Hall, take a moment to explore the space and discover how it can support your academic journey.