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Engineering Faculty Publications (April 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. Abdalnabi, N., Adebiyi, A., Alhonainy, A., Naha, K., Papageorgiou, C., & Rao, P. (2025). Impact of Tumor Location on Predicting Early-Stage Breast Cancer Patient Survivability Using Explainable Machine Learning Models. JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics, 9. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1200/CCI-24-00178
  2. Alexander, G. L., Livingstone, A., Han, S., Chapman, W., Comans, T., Demiris, G., Fisk, M., Fossum, M., Fung, C., Kennedy, R., O’Malley, T. A., Skubic, M., Adler-Milstein, J., Bakken, S., Bardakh, A., Bjarnadottir, R. I., Bonner, A., Bronas, U. B., Brooks, S., … Topaz, M. (2025). Emerging Models of Care Using IT in Long-Term/Post-Acute Care: A Comparative Analysis of Human and AI–Driven Qualitative Insights. Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 51(4), 6–11. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.3928/00989134-20250307-01
  3. Alsharari, F., Elsisi, A., Mutanbak, M., Syed, S. A., & Salim, H. (2025). Parametric Study of Composite Beams under Fracturing Shear Connectors with Varying Parameters. 135–141. Scopus. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-105003224162&partnerID=40&md5=9126ea97fa01654042ce5b5aaa5e77c8
  4. Amo-Boateng, M., & Adu-Gyamfi, Y. (2025). Generative adversarial network for real-time identification and pixel-level annotation of highway pavement distresses. Automation in Construction, 174. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2025.106122
  5. Awawdeh, M., Elshazli, M. T., Galustanian, N., Orton, S., & Ibrahim, A. (2025). Analysis of Velocity, Shape, and Condition of Falling Structural Members under Collapse. 1–16. Scopus. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-105003213266&partnerID=40&md5=f966649c9330d3d2d53f4c6be2b1241d
  6. Bakhshaee, A., Babakhani, P., Ashiq, M. M., Bell, K., Salehi, M., & Jazaei, F. (2025). Potential impacts of microplastic pollution on soil–water–plant dynamics. Scientific Reports, 15(1). Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-93668-0
  7. Beheshti, M., Toubal, I. E., Alaboud, K., Almalaysha, M., Ogundele, O. B., Turabieh, H., Abdalnabi, N., Boren, S. A., Scott, G. J., & Dahu, B. M. (2025). Evaluating the Reliability of ChatGPT for Health-Related Questions: A Systematic Review. Informatics, 12(1). Scopus. https://doi.org/10.3390/informatics12010009
  8. Chen, K.-Y., Shyu, C.-R., Tsai, Y.-Y., Baskett, W. I., Chang, C.-Y., Chou, C.-Y., Tsai, J. J. P., & Shae, Z.-Y. (2025). Effective Non-IID Degree Estimation for Robust Federated Learning in Healthcare Datasets. Journal of Healthcare Informatics Research. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41666-025-00195-8
  9. Chen, S., Ouyang, Q., Meng, X., Yang, Y., Li, C., Miao, X., Chen, Z., Zhao, G., Lei, Y., Ghanem, B., Gautam, S., Cheng, J., & Yan, Z. (2025). Starfish-inspired wearable bioelectronic systems for physiological signal monitoring during motion and real-time heart disease diagnosis. Science Advances, 11(14). Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adv2406
  10. Chen, Y., Zhu, H., Babaian, D., Dzorkpata, C., Grigoriev, A., Wang, Z., Wheat, S., Guha, S., & Zhu, P. (2025). Near-Unity PLQY of Cs₃Cu₂X₅ (X = Cl, Br) for High-Efficiency White Light-Emitting Diodes with Exceptional Color Quality. Advanced Materials. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202500083
  11. Cibulka, T., Tian, Y., Laleh, G. M., & Orton, S. L. (2025). Time-Dependent Compressive Arch Action Capacity of Reinforced Concrete Frame Beams Resisting Progressive Collapse. Journal of Structural Engineering, 151(6). Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1061/JSENDH.STENG-13876
  12. Czajkowski, C., Ma, H., & Pietrowicz, S. (2025). Effect of geometric asymmetry on thermal performance in non-coaxial L-shape oscillating heat pipe. International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, 164. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2025.108821
  13. Dodos, P., Tyros, K., & Valettas, P. (2025). Decompositions of finite high-dimensional random arrays. Fundamenta Mathematicae, 268(2), 101–150. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.4064/fm221004-6-11
  14. Elbelbisi, A., Knight, J., Elsisi, A., & Salim, H. (2025). Calibration of Thermal Viscoelastic Material Models for Dynamic Simulation of LG Interlayer Materials. 38–50. Scopus. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-105003305730&partnerID=40&md5=d1442f329f0a89aa321bfc60658dde23
  15. Fayed, S., El-Zohairy, A., Salim, H., Mlybari, E. A., Bazuhair, R. W., & Ghalla, M. (2025). Bearing Strength of Concrete Pedestals Partially Loaded at Early Ages: An Experimental Work Mitigating Failure Risk. Buildings, 15(7). Scopus. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings15071107
  16. Fischer, S., Glocker, C., Kaniovski, S., & Wegmüller, P. (2024). Assessing the Potential Output for Switzerland: Determinants, Trends and Drivers. Journal of Business Cycle Research, 20(2), 297–338. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41549-024-00100-z
  17. Galustanian, N., El-Din El-Sisi, A., Panahshahi, N., & Orton, S. (2025). Strengthening of Drilled Beam Column Connection with Openings. 261–269. Scopus. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-105003116543&partnerID=40&md5=385c7a4a7941c138caad8c07e188d17a
  18. Galustanian, N., Orton, S., Awadeh, M., & Ibrahim, A. (2025). Analytical and Numerical Study of Response of RC Beam under Falling Debris Impact. 17–26. Scopus. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-105003139395&partnerID=40&md5=15d3f5d9f360e27decc031503104b954
  19. Gargees, R. S. (2025). Scholarly Article Classification Leveraging DistilBERT Transformer and Transfer Learning: Vol. 1268 LNNS (p. 566). Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-82377-0_45
  20. Germonprez, M., Lipps, J., & Goggins, S. (2019). The rising tide: Open source’s steady transformation. First Monday, 24(8). Scopus. https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v24i8.9297
  21. Ghobadi, A., Mathai, C. J., Cook, J., Bian, G., Attar, S., Al-Hashimi, M., Gangopadhyay, S., & Guha, S. (2025). Reducing the Barrier Height in Organic Transistors. Advanced Electronic Materials, 11(4). Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1002/aelm.202400503
  22. Hamad, A. T., Suthar, P., Laziuk, K., Rao, D., & Rao, P. (2024). Accurate Classification of Dysplasia in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients Using Deep Learning. BHI 2024 – IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics, Proceedings. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1109/BHI62660.2024.10913548
  23. Harris, S., McGarvey, R. G., Thorsen, A., & Thorsen, M. (2025). Inferred attractiveness gravity-based models for estimating realized access at rural hospitals. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 76(5), 984–999. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1080/01605682.2024.2406236
  24. Hemalatha, R. G., Kumar, M. A., Mishra, G. S., N, M., Ismail, K. B. M., Mahalingam, S., & Kim, J. (2025). Design and Simulation of advanced boron-doped GaN cap layer on AlGaN/GaN MOSHEMTs for enhanced label-free biosensing applications. Biomedical Microdevices, 27(2). Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10544-025-00746-1
  25. Herrin, J., Okafor, C., Picu, C. R., Sewell, T., Brennan, J., Larentzos, J. P., & Udaykumar, H. S. (2025). Length scale and grid resolution effects in the simulation of shear and energy localization during pore collapse in shocked energetic crystals. Journal of Applied Physics, 137(12). Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0257287
  26. Kim, D., Jorge, G. L., Xu, C., Su, L., Cho, S.-H., Ahsan, N., Chen, D., Zhou, L., Gritsenko, M. A., Zhou, M., Wan, J., Pasa-Tolic, L., Xu, D., Bartley, L. E., Thelen, J. J., & Stacey, G. (2025). Identifying Receptor Kinase Substrates Using an 8000 Peptide Kinase Client Library Enriched for Conserved Phosphorylation Sites. Molecular and Cellular Proteomics, 24(3). Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mcpro.2025.100926
  27. Lal Neupane, R., Zobrist, T., Neupane, K., Bedford, S., Prabhudev, S., Haughton, T., Pan, J., & Calyam, P. (2023). CICADA: Cloud-based Intelligent Classification and Active Defense Approach for IoT Security. IEEE INFOCOM 2023 – Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, INFOCOM WKSHPS 2023. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1109/INFOCOMWKSHPS57453.2023.10225954
  28. Lang, Y., Shi, L., Roy, S., Gupta, D., Dai, C., Khalid, M. A., Zhang, M. Z., Zhang, S., Wan, X.-F., Webby, R., & Ma, W. (2025). Detection of antibodies against influenza A viruses in cattle. Journal of Virology, 99(4). Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1128/jvi.02138-24
  29. Lee, W., & Seo, K. (2025). Performance-based active learning (PbAL) for imbalanced data with nonparametric logistic regression. Applied Intelligence, 55(7). Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-025-06531-0
  30. Li, L., Zhou, T., Lu, Y., Chen, J., Lei, Y., Wu, Q., Arnold, J., Becich, M. J., Bisyuk, Y., Blecker, S., Chrischilles, E., Christakis, D. A., Geary, C. R., Jhaveri, R., Lenert, L., Liu, M., Mirhaji, P., Morizono, H., Mosa, A. S. M., … Chen, Y. (2025). Kidney Function Following COVID-19 in Children and Adolescents. JAMA Network Open, 8(4), e254129. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.4129
  31. Lorman, V., Bailey, L. C., Song, X., Rao, S., Hornig, M., Utidjian, L., Razzaghi, H., Mejias, A., Leikauf, J. E., Brill, S. B., Allen, A., Bunnell, H. T., Reedy, C., Mosa, A. S. M., Horne, B. D., Geary, C. R., Chuang, C. H., Williams, D. A., Christakis, D. A., … Forrest, C. B. (2025). Pediatric Long COVID Subphenotypes: An EHR-based study from the RECOVER program. PLOS Digital Health, 4(4 April). Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000747
  32. Lu, W., Griffin, J., Sadler, T. D., Laffey, J., & Goggins, S. P. (2025). Game-Based Learning Prediction Model Construction: Toward Validated Stealth Assessment Implementation. Journal of Learning Analytics, 12(1), 293–321. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.18608/jla.2025.8105
  33. Morel, A. E., Gafurov, D., Calyam, P., Wang, C., Thareja, K., Mandal, A., Lyons, E., Zink, M., Papadimitriou, G., & Deelman, E. (2023). Experiments on Network Services for Video Transmission using FABRIC Instrument Resources. IEEE INFOCOM 2023 – Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, INFOCOM WKSHPS 2023. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1109/INFOCOMWKSHPS57453.2023.10225817
  34. Morel, A. E., Murry, Z., Kostage, K., Qu, C., & Calyam, P. (2024). Enhancing Drone Video Analytics Security Management using an AERPAW Testbed. IEEE INFOCOM 2024 – IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, INFOCOM WKSHPS 2024. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1109/INFOCOMWKSHPS61880.2024.10620812
  35. Mutnbak, M., Alsharari, F., Elbelbisi, A., Elsisi, A., & Salim, H. (2025). Fatigue Response of Bridge Fingerplate Expansion Joints. 101–108. Scopus. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-105003301327&partnerID=40&md5=faf3c9fd8b2d84803a2454ef9b1ad2c0
  36. Nassar, H. (2024). Isometric Deformations of Surfaces of Translation. Mathematics and Mechanics of Complex Systems, 12(1), 1–17. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.2140/memocs.2024.12.1
  37. Nawar, M. T., Elshazli, M. T., Elzohairy, A., Eisa, A., & Salim, H. (2025). Improving Blast Resistance of Reinforced Concrete Beams Using Recycled Rubber Integration. 73–85. Scopus. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-105003110346&partnerID=40&md5=a9dfafd2db30ad904be39fa342f7a599
  38. Nicewarner, T., Esser, A., Yu, A., Allami, A., & Lin, D. (2024). Advanced Privacy-Preserving Data Aggregation for Accurate Traffic Flow Prediction. 2550–2555. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC58415.2024.10920074
  39. O’Bryan, C. S., Rose, K. A., Ford, J., Ghoto, M. R., Lee, D., & Composto, R. J. (2025). Cross-Linking Density Controls the Interstitial Pore Size and Elasticity in Polyacrylamide Microgel Packings. Macromolecules, 58(8), 3937–3948. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.4c02784
  40. Okafor, C., Nguyen, Y. T., Zhao, P., Perera, D., Kruse, L. E., Sewell, T., & Udaykumar, H. S. (2025). Shock-induced collapse of elongated pores: Comparison of all-atom molecular dynamics and atomistics-consistent continuum simulations. Journal of Applied Physics, 137(14). Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0257541
  41. Owor, N. J., Adu-Gyamfi, Y., Aboah, A., & Amo-Boateng, M. (2025). PaveSAM–segment anything for pavement distress. Road Materials and Pavement Design, 26(3), 593–617. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680629.2024.2374863
  42. Paranamana, N. C., Werbrouck, A., Datta, A. K., He, X., & Young, M. J. (2025). Understanding Cathode–Electrolyte Interphase Formation in Solid State Li-Ion Batteries via 4D-STEM. Advanced Energy Materials, 15(11). Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202403904
  43. Peter, B. M., & Korkali, M. (2025). Robust Defense Against Extreme Grid Events Using Dual-Policy Reinforcement Learning Agents. 2025 IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference, TPEC 2025. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPEC63981.2025.10907039
  44. Qian, X., Chen, Z., Zhang, F., & Yan, Z. (2025). Electrochemically Active Materials for Tissue-Interfaced Soft Biochemical Sensing. ACS Sensors. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssensors.5c00029
  45. Rai, R., Guidoboni, G., Wikle, C. K., Topouzis, F., Siesky, B., Vercellin, A. V., Antman, G., & Harris, A. (2025). Retinal Venous Vulnerability in Primary Open Angle Glaucoma: The Combined Effects of Intraocular Pressure and Blood Pressure with Application to the Thessaloniki Eye Study. Matematica, 4(1), 66–83. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44007-024-00144-8
  46. Reinhard, A. G., Mehregan, M., Young, M. J., & Maschmann, M. R. (2025). Conformal Nanoscale Conductive Polymer Films on Carbon Nanotube Forests for Electrochemical Water Desalination. ACS Applied Nano Materials, 8(13), 6267–6273. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.5c00707
  47. Salvi, N., & Tan, J. (2025). Advancing Oil Maintenance Practices: Insights from Viscosity Analysis. SAE Technical Papers. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.4271/2025-01-5019
  48. Sarker, S., Hamad, A. T., Alshammari, H., Grieco, V., & Rao, P. (2025). Seventeenth-Century Spanish American Notary Records for Fine-Tuning Spanish Large Language Models. Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1145/3677389.3702578
  49. Siddique, A., & Hoque, K. A. (2025). Explainable AI-Guided Neural Architecture Search for Adversarial Robustness in Approximate DNNs. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1109/TSUSC.2025.3561603
  50. Stever, J., Mohammadian, S. K., & Ma, H. (2025). Thermal Properties of Disodium Hydrogen Phosphate Dodecahydrate–Coated Metal Foam/Sodium Acetate Trihydrate Composite as Phase Change Material. Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, 147(1). Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4065979
  51. Sun, B., Xu, Y., Gu, W., Huang, X., Mili, L., Fan, Y., Lu, S., Wu, Z., & Korkali, M. (2025). PMU Data Compression in Power Systems Using Adaptive Rank-Based Tensor Ring. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1109/TII.2025.3552709
  52. Tiper, Y., Xie, Z., Hofemeier, A., Lad, H., Luber, M., Krawetz, R., Betz, T., Zimmermann, W.-H., Morton, A. B., Segal, S. S., & Gilbert, P. M. (2025). Optimizing electrical field stimulation parameters reveals the maximum contractile function of human skeletal muscle microtissues. American Journal of Physiology – Cell Physiology, 328(4), C1160–C1176. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1152/ajpcell.00308.2024
  53. Wang, X., Barcellona, A. T., Nowruzi, F., Brandt, K. M., Schulte, M. C., Kruse, L. E., Dong, E., Schrum, A. G., Yolcu, E. S., & Ulery, B. D. (2025). Vasoactive intestinal peptide amphiphile micelle material properties influence their cell association and internalization. Molecular Systems Design and Engineering. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1039/d4me00167b
  54. Xia, Q., Tang, H., Tan, J. L., Allakhverdiev, S. I., & Guo, Y. (2025). Determination of rice (Oryza sativa L.) drought stress levels based on chlorophyll a fluorescence through independent component analysis. Photosynthetica, 63(1), 73–80. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.32615/ps.2025.009
  55. Yang, S., Elkasabi, Y., Yan, Q., Zheng, B., Qian, H., Lin, J., & Wan, C. (2025). Self-detached laser induced graphene derived from bio-oil distillation residues for multifunctional applications. Carbon, 239. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2025.120301
  56. Yang, T., Wu, Q., Wang, S., Wei, R., Liu, Y., Wang, Q., Jiang, H., & Huang, G. (2025). Observation of multi-type corner states in right-angled trapezoidal sonic crystals. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 293. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2025.110144
  57. Yi, X., Wang, C., Dong, W., Wang, J., Deng, F., & Xin, M. (2025). Wide-Envelope Cooperative Guidance With Constrained Field-of-View and Varying Speed Against Maneuvering Targets. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1109/TAES.2025.3552734
  58. Yu, S., & Srinivas, S. (2025). Collaborative Human–Robot Teaming for Dynamic Order Picking: Interventionist strategies for improving warehouse intralogistics operations. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 197. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2025.104082
  59. Zhang, B., Thacker, D., Zhou, T., Zhang, D., Lei, Y., Chen, J., Chrischilles, E. A., Christakis, D. A., Fernandez, S., Garg, V., Kim, S., Mosa, A. S. M., Sills, M. R., Taylor, B. W., Williams, D. A., Wu, Q., Forrest, C. B., & Chen, Y. (2025). Cardiovascular post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 in children and adolescents: Cohort study using electronic health records. Nature Communications, 16(1). Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56284-0
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Long Night Against Procrastination

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Long Night Against Procrastination (LNAP) is a late-night library event focused on reducing the stress and anxiety of end of semester projects by providing support services, stress relief activities and snacks.

April 22 from 6-10pm
Ellis Library main floor

Taira Meadowcroft

Taira Meadowcroft is the Public Health and Community Engagement Librarian at the Health Sciences Library at the University of Missouri.

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Cycle of Success: Special Collection Instruction in Middle School Field Trips

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Revision of article written by Clare Starkey, Haley Lykins, and Kelli Hansen

The University of Missouri’s division of Special Collections holds over 100,000 items, dating from the eighth century to the modern era, and focuses on books, periodicals, manuscripts, maps, posters, printed ephemera and artifacts. Though the typical patrons are collegiate researchers, classes for elementary and middle school students are common and are an important part of the University of Missouri’s mission to benefit all Missourians. In the spring of 2024, Special Collections at the University of Missouri hosted a series of field trips for every sixth grader in the Columbia Public School (CPS) district—more than 1,300 students—under the theme of “Ancient Writing Technologies Lab: Cuneiform, Papyrus, Palm Leaves, Oh My!” This workshop gave students a chance to experience ancient writing technologies from across Africa and Asia while interacting with primary sources. Conceived in consultation with the school district’s social studies coordinator, the Special Collections staff provided hands-on activities on the history of the book to complement the school curriculum on ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, India and China.

Public Services Archivist Haley Lykins stated, “It was exciting to see our primary sources utilized by a new age group. The experience taught us to look beyond the walls of our academic institution for opportunities of outreach and instruction.”

The students rotated between three workstations representing the ancient world. Items from the University’s collection were included to provide a real-life example of the focus of each station and included cuneiform tablets, papyrus fragments and a facsimile palm leaf book. The students visited the University of Missouri campus over the course of 14 field trips throughout April and May. In addition to Special Collections, students visited the University of Missouri’s Museum of Art and Archaeology, Museum of Anthropology, and Francis Quadrangle. Although Special Collections hosted only 10-25 students at a time, around one 100 students overall visited each field trip day.

In each 25-minute session, groups of 3-8 students would spend 7 minutes at a station before rotating to the next one. Each station began with a short informational presentation about the collection item before moving onto the activity. The workshops included making replica cuneiform tablets using playdough, drawing hieroglyphics on papyrus using calligraphy markers, and creating replica palm leaf books by writing stories on long strips of paper and tying them together with yarn. The learning objectives for the workshops were to discuss different writing surfaces from different times and different parts of the world, to describe the advantages and disadvantages of the different surfaces; and to interpret, analyze and evaluate primary sources.

After the field trips, Joy Bass, the social studies coordinator for CPS, said, “Just wanted to let you all know that teachers AND students have rated your ‘station’ very high in their reflection surveys and SO many have said it’s been their favorite.”

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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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Library Events and Resources for First-Generation Student Week

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National First-Generation College Celebration Week is November 8-16. We will be celebrating 5,000+ First-Gen students, faculty, staff, and alumni at our 20+ events campus wide. Please visit the first-gen website and register today! Events open to all; faculty and staff are encouraged to attend.

We also want to share a few ways the MU Libraries will be participating in supporting First-Generation Students this week, and ways that we are working to support First-Generation students throughout the full year!

Library Events for First-Generation Student Week

Additional Ways the MU Libraries are Working to Support First-Generation Students, Faculty and Staff at MU!

  • A new list of library webpages for First-Generation students.
  • The NEW Wellbeing Collection that will be on the first floor of Ellis Library soon with resources for first-generation students and other campus groups as well as books for leisure reading.
  • Jill Kline, Student Success Librarian, is a member of the First-Generation Student Success Advisory Board. This board meets regularly to ensure we are continuing to best support our first-gen students, and promoting services, starting initiatives, and creating goals for the First-Generation Student Initiatives Board.
  • We are starting a Faculty and Staff First-Generation Initiative where any faculty and staff can join our reading group starting January 2025, we will meet over coffee to discuss articles on first-generation topics. At the end of the semester, we will discuss our thoughts on the chosen book, First Gen: A Memoir. Please fill out our doodle poll if you would like to join!
  • MU Libraries and our partnership with First-Generation initiatives were discussed on an episode of the FirstGenFM Podcast!
  • A new partnership with TRiO Student Support Services that allows any TRiO Student who meets with a librarian for research help to get an entry into their $500 scholarships. Learn how to meet with your librarian here.