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Engineering Faculty Publications (June 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. Abein, B., & Lombardo, S. J. (2010). Combined supercritical extraction and thermal decomposition of binder from green ceramic bodies. In Processing and Properties of Advanced Ceramics and Composites II (Vol. 220, pp. 149–157).  https://www.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-105008416082&partnerID=40&md5=8a4d8bbc2adbf1871c2da8d5c15d9da6
  2. Abeysinghe, U., Balkissoon, S., & Aloysius, N. (2025). Assessment of hydroclimatic variability and aridity trends in the Mississippi River Basin using parametric and non-parametric techniques. Frontiers in Climate, 7.  https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2025.1481926
  3. Aldridge, A. L., Hudson, C., Smink, K., Buck, A. R., Anderson, D. T., Paul, V., Anderson, R., Hoelscher, D., Quinn, M., Pleva, M., Bethel, C. L., & Carruth, D. W. (2025). A Virtual Testbed for the Multidisciplinary Evaluation of Human-Agent Teaming Dynamics. 15773 LNCS, 165–183.  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-93819-1_13
  4. Alsamraee, S. A., & Khanna, S. (2025). High-resolution energy consumption forecasting of a university campus power plant based on advanced machine learning techniques. Energy Strategy Reviews, 60.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esr.2025.101769
  5. Amorim, A., Taylor, M., Kann, T., Harrison, W. L., Leavens, G. T., & Joneckis, L. (2025). Enforcing MAVLink Safety & Security Properties via Refined Multiparty Session Types. 15682 LNCS, 1–10.  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-93706-4_1
  6. Amorim, A., Taylor, M., Kann, T., Leavens, G. T., Harrison, W. L., & Joneckis, L. (2025). UAV Resilience Against Stealthy Attacks. 994–1001.  https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUAS65942.2025.11007915
  7. Azeez, M. O., Werbrouck, A., Koerner, G., Paranamana, N. C., Maschmann, M. R., & Young, M. J. (2025). Ultraviolet Light-Induced Functional Group Formation on Molybdenum Disulfide for Patterned Atomic Layer Deposition. Chemistry of Materials, 37(12), 4425–4434.  https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.5c00537
  8. Behzadian, A., Zhang, L., Adu-Gyamfi, Y., & Buttlar, W. G. (2025). Feasibility and Reliability Assessment of Inexpensive Solid-State Lidar for Rutting Measurement in Asphalt Pavement. Transportation Research Record.  https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981251336131
  9. Bhamidipati, S. C., Maxwell, A., Pham, E., Zhang, J., Murry, Z., Morel, A. E., Qu, C., Srinivas, S., & Calyam, P. (2025). Q-Learning-Based Dynamic Drone Trajectory Planning in Uncertain Environments. 709–715.  https://doi.org/10.1109/ICNC64010.2025.10993940
  10. Bhusal, B., Ma, Y., & Chadha, R. (2025). Privacy Nutrition Labels: Promise, Practice, and Paradoxes in Communicating Privacy. 2525 CCIS, 18–28.  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-94159-7_3
  11. Cai, C., Lin, D., Palaniappan, K., & Clifton, C. (2025). Real-Time Access Control for Background and Co-Occurrence Image Privacy Protection. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing.  https://doi.org/10.1109/TETC.2025.3572396
  12. Chen, K.-Y., Qureshi, A. I., Baskett, W. I., & Shyu, C.-R. (2024). Better Blood Pressure Control for Stroke Patients in the ICU: A Deep Reinforcement Learning with Supervised Guidance Approach for Adaptive Infusion Rate Tuning. AMIA … Annual Symposium Proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 2024, 271–280.
  13. Chu, Y., Xue, Y., Jiang, H., Qi, C., Dai, H., Xian, Q., & Zhu, W. (2025). Exploratory study of fecal microbiota transplantation combined with immune checkpoint inhibitors in the treatment of end-stage malignant tumor patients. Chinese Journal of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 30(4), 509–516.  https://doi.org/10.12092/j.issn.1009-2501.2025.04.009
  14. Dahu, B. M., Khan, S., Toubal, I. E., Alshehri, M., Martinez-Villar, C. I., Ogundele, O. B., Sheets, L. R., & Scott, G. J. (2024). Geospatial Modeling of Deep Neural Visual Features for Predicting Obesity Prevalence in Missouri: Quantitative Study. JMIR AI, 3(1).  https://doi.org/10.2196/64362
  15. Elkilani, A., Elsisi, A., Elemem, H., Elbelbisi, A., Helal, Z., & Salim, H. (2025). Interlaminar bond strength of laminated glass composites under accelerated environmental effects. Construction and Building Materials, 487.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2025.142005
  16. El-Sisi, A., Elbelbisi, A., Elkilani, A., Salim, H., & Loehr, E. (2025). Flexural behavior of cold-formed STEEL sheet pile systems. Structures, 79.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.istruc.2025.109503
  17. Fernandez, S., Maschmann, M. R., Lindsay, M. B., Kovaleski, S. D., Mick, E., Anderson, D. T., Galusha, A. P. A., Keller, J. M., Price, S. R., & Price, S. R. (2025). Towards autonomous design of metamaterial surfaces via two-photon polymerization printing. 13466.  https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3053417
  18. Ghobadi, A., Kallaos, T. B., Karunarathne, I. M., Gamachchi, D. M., Meng, A. C., Mathai, J. C., Gangopadhyay, S., & Guha, S. (2025). Engineered semiconductor-dielectric interfaces in polymer ferroelectric transistors. Journal of Materials Chemistry C.  https://doi.org/10.1039/d5tc01378j
  19. Glaser, N., Parishani, Z., Joshi, A. C., & Calyam, P. (2025). Leveraging Virtual Reality for Neurodivergent Representation in Cybersecurity Education: An Emerging Technology Report. Technology, Knowledge and Learning.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10758-025-09862-6
  20. Guntu, V., Feng, F., Alturki, A., Nair, A., Samarth, P., & Nair, S. S. (2017). Amygdala Models. In Computational Models of Brain and Behavior (pp. 285–301).  https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119159193.ch21
  21. He, H., Glaser, N., AlZoubi, D., Mendoza, K. R., Hunt, H. K., & Burgoyne, S. (2023). Theatre-based techniques for enhancing creativity in engineering education: An evaluation study of the creativity academy program. Discover Education, 2(1).  https://doi.org/10.1007/s44217-023-00061-y
  22. Imbesi, T., Hu, X., Xin, M., & Chao, H. (2025). FireCrowdSensing: A Map-Based Web Application for Crowdsensing of Prescribed Fires. 245–250.  https://doi.org/10.1145/3696673.3723082
  23. Jin, Y., Cheung, F.-B., Bajorek, S. M., Tien, K., & Hoxie, C. L. (2024a). Evaluation of Physics-Informed Machine Learning Models for Liquid Entrainment during Reflood Transient Using NRC/PSU RBHT Data. 1780–1791.  https://doi.org/10.13182/NUTHOS14-118
  24. Jin, Y., Cheung, F.-B., Bajorek, S. M., Tien, K., & Hoxie, C. L. (2024b). Numerical Codes Validation of Liquid Droplet Entrainment During Reflood via NRC/PSU RBHT Tests. 740–750.  https://doi.org/10.13182/NUTHOS14-117
  25. Kadhom, M., Albayati, N., Sultan, A. E., Al-Obaidi, M. A., Salih, S., & Deng, B. (2025). Thin film nanocomposite (TFN) membranes filled with a novel metal organic framework for reverse osmosis applications. Membrane and Water Treatment, 16(3), 121–132.  https://doi.org/10.12989/mwt.2025.16.3.121
  26. Kang, Y., Li, J.-L., Gan, Z.-H., Zhang, G.-C., & Yu, Q.-S. (2025). Glutathione/Reactive Oxygen Species Dual-responsive Drug Delivery System for Enhancing Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy in Colorectal Cancer Peritoneal Metastases. Acta Polymerica Sinica, 56(6), 924–936.  https://doi.org/10.11777/j.issn1000-3304.2024.24320
  27. Kundu, R. K., Denton, M., Mongalo, G., Calyam, P., & Hoque, K. A. (2025). Securing Virtual Reality Experiences: Unveiling and Tackling Cybersickness Attacks with Explainable AI. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing.  https://doi.org/10.1109/TDSC.2025.3579969
  28. Lahrichi, S., Mick, E. J., Lindsay, M. B., Kovaleski, S. D., Anderson, D. T., Malof, J. M., Price, S. R., & Price, S. R. (2025). Deep inverse modeling the near field response of optical metasurfaces. 13466.  https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3053476
  29. Li, G., Zhou, W., Xin, M., Luan, S., & Peng, Y. (2025). Finite-time input-to-state stability terminal guidance law based on deep neural network. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering.  https://doi.org/10.1177/09544100251350405
  30. Liu, K., Jiao, B., Zhang, G., Gan, Z., Lai, S., Ding, Z., & Yu, Q. (2025). Self-enhanced ROS-responsive camptothecin prodrug nanoparticles elicit safe and efficient intravesical instillation therapy of bladder cancer. Journal of Controlled Release, 384.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jconrel.2025.113905
  31. Marchal, N., Janes, W. E., Earwood, J. H., Mosa, A. S. M., Popescu, M., Skubic, M., & Song, X. (2024). Integrating Multi-sensor Time-series Data for ALSFRS-R Clinical Scale Predictions in an ALS Patient Case Study. AMIA … Annual Symposium Proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 2024, 788–797.
  32. Mastrantuono, W., Kim, J. H., Mohanty, S., Mostowfi, S., Gu, Y., Wang, F., Oprean, D., Wang, Y., & Seo, K. (2025). Exploring Physical Demand Metric: Slouching Score in Augmented Reality-Based Biomechanics Education. 15791 LNCS, 301–311.  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-93502-2_20
  33. McCubbin, T. J., Greeley, L. A., Mertz, R. A., Sen, S., Griffith, A. E., King-Miller, S. K., Riggs, K., Niehues, N. D., Pareek, A., Bryan, V., Zeng, S., Becker, C., Ghani, A., Joshi, T., Peck, S. C., Oliver, M., Fritschi, F. B., Braun, D. M., & Sharp, R. E. (2025). Maize nodal root growth maintenance during water deficit: Metabolic acclimation and the role of increased solute deposition in osmotic adjustment. Frontiers in Plant Science, 16.  https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2025.1566453
  34. Mick, E. J., Lindsay, M. B., Kovaleski, S. D., Anderson, D. T., Lahrichi, S., Malof, J., Price, S. R., & Price, S. R. (2025). Key considerations for robust near-field response prediction and optical metasurface inverse design. 13466.  https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3053481
  35. Mohamed Ismail, K. B., Arun Kumar, M., Mahalingam, S., Jayavel, R., Arivanandhan, M., & Kim, J. (2025). Conducting polymer based electrodes in metal-ion batteries: A state-of-the-art review. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 222.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2025.115982
  36. Mohanty, S., Kim, J. H., Mostowfi, S., Gu, Y., Wang, F., Oprean, D., & Seo, K. (2025). Assessment of Ergonomic Posture in Augmented Reality Environments Using Slouching Score. 15791 LNCS, 312–322.  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-93502-2_21
  37. Mostowfi, S., Crosby, M. E., Ogawa, M.-B., Ikehara, C. S., Gu, Y., Oprean, D., & Kim, J. H. (2025). Augmented Reality vs. Computer-Based Learning: Understanding Metacognitive Awareness Differences. 15779 LNAI, 91–100.  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-93727-9_7
  38. Nguyen, X.-D., Le, B., Yang, Q., Wang, B., & Wan, X.-F. (2025). PathoSift Pro: A novel size-based bioaerosol sampler for effectively detecting infectious airborne influenza virus. Virology, 610.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.virol.2025.110609
  39. Paladi, F., Xing, X., Hetherington, H. P., Terpstra, M. J., Lin, A. L., & Pan, J. W. (2025). Asymmetric Hippocampal Metabolism Evaluated by Single-Voxel Spectroscopy at 7 T. NMR in Biomedicine, 38(7).  https://doi.org/10.1002/nbm.70072
  40. Qiao, Y., Li, S., & Xin, M. (2025). Event-triggered-based fixed-time time-varying formation tracking control for heterogeneous UAVs-UGVs systems with unmeasurable velocities and unknown disturbances. Aerospace Science and Technology, 164.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ast.2025.110137
  41. Raina, M., Cheng, H., Ferreira, R. M., Stansfield, T., Modak, C., Cheng, Y.-H., Suryadevara, H. N. S. K., Xu, D., Eadon, M. T., Ma, Q., & Wang, J. (2025). Relation equivariant graph neural networks to explore the mosaic-like tissue architecture of kidney diseases on spatially resolved transcriptomics. Bioinformatics, 41(6).  https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btaf303
  42. Shin, J., Kovaleski, S. D., Maschmann, M. R., Gunter, C. E. Q., & Lindsay, M. B. (2025). Precise 3D CNT array catalyst patterning using two-photon lithography for enhanced liftoff and scalability. 13427.  https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3051129
  43. Siddique, A., Khalil, K., & Hoque, K. A. (2025). Explainable AI-Guided Efficient Approximate DNN Generation for Multi-Pod Systolic Arrays. Proceedings – International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, ISQED.  https://doi.org/10.1109/ISQED65160.2025.11014367
  44. Singh, S., Babu, K. S., Sagan, V., Vipparla, C., Palaniappan, K., & Aliakbarpour, H. (2025). Uav Detect, Track and Follow (DTF) of Non-Stationary Targets in Aerial Thermal Videos. 165–170.  https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCAE64891.2025.10980531
  45. Sutton, D. J., Veum, K. S., Davis, M., Lord, S., Ransom, C., & Sudduth, K. (2025). Soil health benefits of perennial biofuel crops on claypan soils. Soil Security, 19.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soisec.2025.100193
  46. Wang, H., Kwak, S. E., Renaud, A. F., Hao, J., Kong, L., Fortman, B. A., Pan, X., Duan, D., & Cartee, G. D. (2025). Elevating Skeletal Muscle GLUT4 Abundance Does Not Result in a Calorie Restriction-Induced Elevation in Insulin-Stimulated Glucose Uptake by Skeletal Muscle from Female AS160-Knockout Rats. Advances in Gerontology, 15(1), 1–9.  https://doi.org/10.1134/S2079057025600016
  47. Wang, H., Zhao, C., Feng, Y., Huang, X., Qu, C., Zhu, Y., Xin, M., & Guo, W. (2025). Enhancing firefighter safety and efficiency through UAV-assisted AI-based human motion recognition system. Expert Systems with Applications, 289.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2025.128176
  48. Xu, R., Wang, B., & Jacobson, R. B. (2025). Jet-stirred turbulence under grid modulation. Fluid Dynamics Research, 57(3).  https://doi.org/10.1088/1873-7005/ade3fb
  49. Ye, Z. F., Singh, D. J., Huang, Y. N., Zhong, G.-H., & Lin, H.-Q. (2025). Superconducting Carbon-Cage Network with Tc of 109 K at Ambient Pressure. Advanced Science.  https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202504281
  50. Zhu, Y., Chu, Y., Dai, H., Lu, E., Geng, Q., Xian, Q., Jiang, H., & Zhu, W. (2025). Targeted inhibition of IDO1 by Kushenol A enhances radiosensitivity in non-small cell lung cancer. Pulmonary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 90.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pupt.2025.102362

 

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Reading Revelry (Summer 2025)

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Howdy everyone!

Happy Summer! We hope everyone has a relaxing time away from school. Or, if you are taking a summer class, that it goes well! You can request any of the titles below by clicking on their hyperlinked titles. If you have any issues requesting, or if you have any book recommendations for future Reading Revelries, please contact Amanda May at asmay@umsystem.edu

Our picks for the Summer:

Beach Read [Book]

 

 Beach Read by Emily Henry 

A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters. Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast. They’re polar opposites. In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they’re living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer’s block. Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She’ll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he’ll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. But as the summer stretches on, January discovers a gaping plot hole in the story she’s been telling herself about her own life, and begins to wonder what other things she might have gotten wrong, including her ideas about the man next door.

 

Bandit: A Daughter's Memoir [Book]

 

Bandit: A Daughter’s Memoir by Molly Brodak

In the summer of 1994, when Molly Brodak was thirteen years old, her father robbed eleven banks, until the police finally caught up with him while he was sitting at a bar drinking beer, a bag of stolen money plainly visible in the backseat of his parked car. Dubbed the “Mario Brothers Bandit” by the FBI, he served seven years in prison and was released, only to rob another bank several years later and end up back behind bars.

In her powerful, provocative debut memoir, Bandit, Molly Brodak recounts her childhood and attempts to make sense of her complicated relationship with her father, a man she only half knew. At some angles he was a normal father: there was a job at the GM factory, a house with a yard, birthday treats for Molly and her sister. But there were darker glimmers, too—another wife he never mentioned to her mother, late-night rages directed at the TV, the red Corvette that suddenly appeared in the driveway, a gift for her sister. Growing up with this larger-than-life, mercurial man, Brodak’s strategy was to “get small” and stay out of the way. In Bandit, she unearths and reckons with her childhood memories and the fracturing impact her father had on their family—and in the process attempts to make peace with the parts of herself that she inherited from this bewildering, beguiling man.

 

Amazon.com: The Silent Patient: 9781250301697: Michaelides, Alex: Books

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word.

Alicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London.

Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations—a search for the truth that threatens to consume him….

 

Song of Achilles, TheThe Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Achilles, “the best of all the Greeks,” son of the cruel sea goddess Thetis and the legendary king Peleus, is strong, swift, and beautiful, irresistible to all who meet him. Patroclus is an awkward young prince, exiled from his homeland after an act of shocking violence. Brought together by chance, they forge an inseparable bond, despite risking the gods’ wrath.

They are trained by the centaur Chiron in the arts of war and medicine, but when word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, all the heroes of Greece are called upon to lay siege to Troy in her name. Seduced by the promise of a glorious destiny, Achilles joins their cause, and torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus follows. Little do they know that the cruel Fates will test them both as never before and demand a terrible sacrifice.

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Reading Revelry (May 2025)

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Howdy everyone!

Happy May! We wish you luck as you finish the semester! This month, we recommend six titles with Asian-American writers in honor of National Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month! You can request any of the titles below by clicking on their hyperlinked titles. If you have any issues requesting, or if you have any book recommendations for future Reading Revelries, please contact Amanda May at asmay@umsystem.edu

Our picks for May:

How to Read Now: Essays: Castillo, Elaine: 9780593489635: Amazon.com: Books

How to Read Now by Elaine Castillo

How to Read Now explores the politics and ethics of reading, and insists that we are capable of something better: a more engaged relationship not just with our fiction and our art, but with our buried and entangled histories. Smart, funny, galvanizing, and sometimes profane, Castillo attacks the stale questions and less-than-critical proclamations that masquerade as vital discussion: reimagining the cartography of the classics, building a moral case against the settler colonialism of lauded writers like Joan Didion, taking aim at Nobel Prize winners and toppling indie filmmakers, and celebrating glorious moments in everything from popular TV like The Watchmen to the films of Wong Kar-wai and the work of contemporary poets like Tommy Pico.

At once a deeply personal and searching history of one woman’s reading life, and a wide-ranging and urgent intervention into our globalized conversations about why reading matters today, How to Read Now empowers us to embrace a more complicated, embodied form of reading, inviting us to acknowledge complicated truths, ignite surprising connections, imagine a more daring solidarity, and create space for a riskier intimacy–within ourselves, and with each other.

How Much of These Hills Is Gold: A Novel: Zhang, C Pam: 9780525537205: Amazon.com: Books

How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang

Ba dies in the night; Ma is already gone. Newly orphaned children of immigrants, Lucy and Sam are suddenly alone in a land that refutes their existence. Fleeing the threats of their western mining town, they set off to bury their father in the only way that will set them free from their past. Along the way, they encounter giant buffalo bones, tiger paw prints, and the specters of a ravaged landscape as well as family secrets, sibling rivalry, and glimpses of a different kind of future.

Both epic and intimate, blending Chinese symbolism and re-imagined history with fiercely original language and storytelling, How Much of These Hills Is Gold is a haunting adventure story and an unforgettable sibling story. On a broad level, it explores race in an expanding country and the question of where immigrants are allowed to belong. But page by page, it’s about the memories that bind and divide families, and the yearning for home.

 

The Incendiaries [Book]

The Incendiaries by R.O. Kwon

Phoebe Lin and Will Kendall meet their first month at prestigious Edwards University. Phoebe is a glamorous girl who doesn’t tell anyone she blames herself for her mother’s recent death. Will is a misfit scholarship boy who transfers to Edwards from Bible college, waiting tables to get by. What he knows for sure is that he loves Phoebe.

Grieving and guilt-ridden, Phoebe is increasingly drawn into a religious group—a secretive extremist cult—founded by a charismatic former student, John Leal. He has an enigmatic past that involves North Korea and Phoebe’s Korean American family. Meanwhile, Will struggles to confront the fundamentalism he’s tried to escape, and the obsession consuming the one he loves. When the group bombs several buildings in the name of faith, killing five people, Phoebe disappears. Will devotes himself to finding her, tilting into obsession himself, seeking answers to what happened to Phoebe and if she could have been responsible for this violent act.

 

Crying in H Mart: A Memoir: Zauner, Michelle: 9780525657743: Amazon.com: Books

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner (known musically as Japanese Breakfast) proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humour and heart, she tells of growing up the only Asian-American kid at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother’s particular, high expectations of her; of a painful adolescence; of treasured months spent in her grandmother’s tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond, late at night, over heaping plates of food. As she grew up, moving to the east coast for college, finding work in the restaurant industry, performing gigs with her fledgling band – and meeting the man who would become her husband – her Koreanness began to feel ever more distant, even as she found the life she wanted to live.

It was her mother’s diagnosis of terminal pancreatic cancer, when Michelle was twenty-five, that forced a reckoning with her identity and brought her to reclaim the gifts of taste, language, and history her mother had given her.

 

Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong - Copper Canyon Press

 

 

Night Sky With Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong

Ocean Vuong’s first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial “big”—and very human—subjects of romance, family, memory, grief, war, and melancholia. None of these he allows to overwhelm his spirit or his poems, which demonstrate, through breath and cadence and unrepentant enthrallment, that a gentle palm on a chest can calm the fiercest hungers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

World of Wonders | Milkweed Editions

World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

As a child, Nezhukumatathil called many places home: the grounds of a Kansas mental institution, where her Filipina mother was a doctor; the open skies and tall mountains of Arizona, where she hiked with her Indian father; and the chillier climes of western New York and Ohio. But no matter where she was transplanted–no matter how awkward the fit or forbidding the landscape–she was able to turn to our world’s fierce and funny creatures for guidance.

“What the peacock can do,” she tells us, “is remind you of a home you will run away from and run back to all your life.” The axolotl teaches us to smile, even in the face of unkindness; the touch-me-not plant shows us how to shake off unwanted advances; the narwhal demonstrates how to survive in hostile environments. Even in the strange and the unlovely, Nezhukumatathil finds beauty and kinship. For it is this way with wonder: it requires that we are curious enough to look past the distractions in order to fully appreciate the world’s gifts.

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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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Engineering Library Book Drive

By Shannon Cary   Posted in Staff news
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The College of Engineering, including the Engineering Library, is collecting new and gently used books for children up to five years of age. Please contact Michelle Baggett for more information.

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