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20260904: University Communications, 1938-1990, University Communications

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These items include materials from the office of University Communications at Marshall University from 1938-1990s. Items were received at a much earlier date and include notable materials such as New Faculty lists, Training for Engineering at Marshall, Office Directories, and Marshall University Fact Book. Please see the inventory for a full list of details.

The Employment Situation Of Veterans: August 2026, Institute For Veterans And Military Families At Syracuse University

Institute for Veterans and Military Families

U.S. employment grew by 162,000 jobs in August 2026 while the national unemployment rate remained at 4.1%. Veteran unemployment improved significantly, falling from 4.2% in July to 3.4% in August, with Post-9/11 veterans declining from 4.7% to 3.5%. Female veterans (2.4%) and male veterans (3.6%) both had lower unemployment rates than their nonveteran counterparts. Unemployment among Black veterans dropped sharply from 10.4% to 4.4%, while Hispanic veterans improved to 4.9%. Younger veterans continued to experience the highest unemployment rates. Overall, veterans maintained lower unemployment rates than nonveterans across most demographic groups.

On The Passing Of Wendell Berry, Gayle E. Doornbos, Jeff Ploegstra, Danielle Wyenberg, Howard Schaap

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

"Berry’s literary contributions are vast and multifaceted, but the central messages carry an invitation into a more intentional life, one that prioritizes people, land, communities, and the joy of good work."

Posting about Wendell Berry's passing and literary legacy ­­­­­­­­from In All Things, an online hub that offers insight into maintaining and faithful and orthodox Reformed Christian worldview while fearlessly engaging in every aspect of contemporary life – until all is made new.

On the Passing of Wendell Berry

Universal Screening For Measles Immunity During Pregnancy: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis, Anuradha Devabhaktuni, Sarah Boudova, Elias Kassir, Sohum Shah, Neil S. Silverman, Christina S. Han

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Faculty Papers

BACKGROUND: Measles is a highly contagious illness capable of causing significant morbidity and mortality, including adverse pregnancy outcomes. Routine screening for measles immunity is not currently recommended during pregnancy. Given the increasing frequency of measles outbreaks nationally and globally, awareness of measles immunity status can influence management of pregnant individuals who incur measles exposures and offer an opportunity for postpartum or preconception vaccination.

OBJECTIVE: We sought to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of universal screening for measles immunity during pregnancy in the United States.

STUDY DESIGN: A decision-analytic model was constructed to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of universal screening for measles immunity during …

Prepregnancy Obesity Versus Excessive Gestational Weight Gain: A Comparative Evaluation Of Adverse Outcomes, Samuel Schultz, David Krantz, Matthew Blitz, Ashley Battarbee, Moti Gulersen

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Faculty Papers

Background/Objectives: Obesity and excessive gestational weight gain (EGWG) are known risk factors for adverse outcomes in pregnancy, but the comparative risk is less well defined and increasingly relevant in an era of increasing use of weight loss medications. We aimed to determine whether EGWG was associated with adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes, compared with prepregnancy obesity. Methods: Multicenter retrospective cohort study of pregnant patients who delivered a singleton within a single university health system from 2019–2024. Patients with missing prepregnancy body mass index (BMI) data, BMI < 18.5 kg/m2, or pregestational diabetes were excluded. Logistic regression with propensity score weights and g-computation were used to evaluate if the incidence of several adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes were impacted by prepregnancy obesity and gestational weight gain (GWG). p values were adjusted for multiple comparisons. Results: Among the 129,615 pregnancies included, 28,516 (22.0%) had prepregnancy obesity, 36,943 (28.5%) were overweight prior to pregnancy, and 64,156 (49.5%) had a normal BMI prior to pregnancy. When compared to patients with obesity, patients with normal prepregnancy BMI and EGWG had a lower risk of adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes, including gestational diabetes, gestational hypertension, preeclampsia, eclampsia, cesarean delivery, and postpartum hemorrhage, as well as large and small for gestational age birthweight, stillbirth, neonatal intensive care unit admission, neonatal mechanical ventilation, respiratory distress syndrome, intraventricular hemorrhage, necrotizing enterocolitis, and sepsis. Beneficial effects were attenuated for patients with overweight prepregnancy BMI or for larger EGWG. Conclusions: Lower prepregnancy BMI, even with the potential unintended consequence of EGWG, may be more favorable than untreated prepregnancy obesity with regard to perinatal outcomes.

Leading From The Precipice: How Academic Deans Are Navigating Artificial Intelligence In Higher Education, V. Dozier, Sarina Chugani Molina

Copley Library: Faculty Scholarship

This qualitative case study examines how associate deans at a medium-sized Catholic university respond to the rapid integration of generative artificial intelligence (AI). Guided by decolonial and feminist frameworks, the study analyzes survey data from seven academic leaders to understand their concerns, decision-making processes, and emerging practices. Our findings reveal uneven adoption, limited institutional guidance, and ongoing concerns about academic integrity, equity, and bias. The study also highlights the often-unseen relational and emotional labor involved in supporting faculty and students. We conclude by recommending flexible, collaborative approaches to AI governance that attend to context, care, and diverse ways of knowing.

Caldwell Medical‑System Stability & Thermal‑Power Upgrade Engine (Cms‑Stpue‑1.0), Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

Medical devices — including neural implants, biosignal processors, dementia‑research chips, microfluidic analyzers, wearable diagnostic systems, and many other forms of medical hardware — require extremely stable electrical power, predictable thermal behavior, low‑noise operation, and long‑term reliability. Traditional medical systems struggle with voltage droop, thermal drift, microfluidic instability, and resonant interference, all of which degrade biological signal fidelity and reduce device lifetime.

This invention introduces the Caldwell Medical‑System Stability & Thermal‑Power Upgrade Engine (CMS‑STPUE‑1.0), a unified framework that applies four existing Caldwell engineering inventions — CVGTC‑3.1, CCVTE‑3.x, CVGTC‑2.x, and the Multi‑Core Thermal‑Hydraulic Upgrade Suite — to significantly enhance the stability, reliability, …

Safe Transactional Execution And Reversible Staging For Autonomous Agent Actions, N/A

Defensive Publications Series

This specification outlines a safety-centric runtime infrastructure designed to facilitate secure, transactional execution for autonomous computer systems. Autonomous software agents operating under large language models frequently interact with local and remote filesystems, execution environments, and external program interfaces. Because conventional execution environments process such operations immediately under a fire-and-forget paradigm, a failure or interruption during a multi-step task can leave the host environment in an inconsistent or partially modified state. The runtime architecture disclosed herein resolves these reliability concerns by wrapping agent operations in a transaction coordinator. This framework provides isolated, rollback-capable staging for local operations, records undo logs for …

Defensive Publication — Smartphone As Record, Deck, And Display (Avs / Djmesh), Karl Rafael Yankovic Capdeville

Defensive Publications Series

Defensive publication and enabling prior-art disclosure of a system in which an unmodified consumer smartphone lying on a turntable platter — or held in the hand — acts simultaneously as rotation sensor, control-signal generator, display, and self-contained playback deck. Discloses: gyroscope-primary sensing with absolute anchors capped below perceptual thresholds; a world-stabilized display and world-coordinate touch on a physically rotating screen; spindle-offset, shove, lift, platter-warp, and resting-plane estimation from inertial data; optional motor-field witnesses; on-device control-signal synthesis and angle/tick transport; and a method for separating an intended in-band oscillatory gesture from pathological tremor for assistive input. Published to constitute prior art …

Studying Electromagnetic Wave Scattering From Small Dielectric Particles Using Neural Networks, Bryan Taylan, Patrick Corzo, Chris Velissaris, Theodoros Panagiotakopoulos

Undergraduate Scholarship and Creative Works

Physics-informed neural networks solve the Helmholtz equation without labeled data, but a low residual alone does not confirm that a solution preserves the physical distinction a downstream task depends on. We trained a four-layer SIREN with physics-based residuals, a Sommerfeld condition, Adam, and L-BFGS, modeling a Gaussian source and a plane wave scattering from a small dielectric inclusion. Fine-tuning from four base models produced 600 complex fields spanning omega = 4 to 20. A compact CNN, three ResNet-18 variants, and a frozen OpenCLIP encoder classified these fields under five random seeds. The CNN achieved (95.65 +/- 0.77)% accuracy, outperforming OpenCLIP …

Cvgtc‑3.1: A Unified, Place‑And‑Route‑Independent Power‑Grid Research Engine For Early Voltage‑Drop, Dynamic Droop, Electromigration, And Thermal‑Coupled Analysis, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes CVGTC‑3.1, a fully buildable and testable open‑hardware research engine for early power‑grid analysis in system‑on‑chip (SoC) design. The system integrates:

• A place‑and‑route‑independent DC IR‑drop solver

• A dynamic RLC droop simulator

• An electromigration lifetime estimator

• A machine‑learning IR‑prediction model

• A physical PDN coupon for hardware validation

• A multi‑domain thermal stack including:

• Arachne Microfluidic Interposer (microfluidic cooling + CTE control)

• Vortex‑TPMS Core (high‑flux thermal removal)

• Forgecell PCM Module (transient heat buffering)

• CRFG Thermoacoustic Pump (thermal stabilization)

• MMRA Resonant Diagnostics (EM/IR hotspot detection)

• APR‑AI telemetry for automated calibration and control

• Mechanic’s Battery for stable DC supply during testing

The solver …

Octvec-Xd: Deterministic Multi-Resolution Integer Signatures For Multidimensional Vectors, Nenad Micic

Defensive Publications Series

A technique is proposed herein for converting a multivariate integer vector into a deterministic, fixed-size, multi-resolution signature that separates sign pattern, magnitude scale, quantization frame, and coarse-to-fine direction. Exact integer quantization, bounded portable arithmetic, nested resolution fields, and versioned records provide reproducible results across heterogeneous platforms without floating-point arithmetic, training, dynamic allocation, or per-stream model state. Under a common pinned frame and the declared lossless coarse capacity, participating devices or streams can be correlated by exact tuple equality, while a graded comparison ladder supports finer similarity evaluation. The technique explicitly identifies capacity limits, collision regimes, frame-compatibility requirements, reverse quantization bounds, …

Caldwell Chip‑Scale Vortex‑Tpms Thermal Engine (Ccvte‑3.X) Open‑Hardware • No Patents • No Secrets • Builder‑Ready, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

CCVTE‑3.x is an upgraded chip‑scale thermal engine integrating micro‑vortex conditioning, Diamond/I‑WP TPMS hotspot suppression, graded Diamond→Gyroid transitions, micro‑restrictor flow balancing, and micro‑bypass hydraulic stabilization. It is designed for direct‑die cooling, chiplet cooling, microfluidics, and semiconductor hotspot management.

This invention incorporates improvements derived from prior Caldwell inventions including UGCRM‑2.0, Mechanic’s Battery v3.0, GCI #259‑B, Arachne v9.0, and CVGTC‑2.x. All geometry is scaled to chip‑level dimensions and is fully manufacturable using CNC micromachining, micro‑EDM, or SLM metal printing.

CCVTE‑3.x provides measurable improvements in hotspot suppression, thermal resistance, pump efficiency, boundary‑layer disruption, and transient thermal stability.

Caldwell Variable‑Topology Vortex‑Gyroid Thermal‑Hydraulic Core (Cvgtc‑2.X) Unified Tdcommons Posting + Integration Map + Fabrication Blueprint + Test‑Bench Layout Open‑Hardware • No Patents • No Secrets • Fully Engineer‑Ready, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

CVGTC‑2.x is a next‑generation open‑hardware cold‑plate architecture designed for high‑power electronics, AI accelerators, HPC processors, and advanced thermal research. It integrates:

• heat‑flux‑matched flow allocation

• impedance‑matched manifolds

• variable‑topology TPMS zones

• graded Diamond→Gyroid transitions

• vortex boundary‑layer conditioning

• bypass‑protected hydraulic architecture

• Arachne v9.0 structural + sensing envelope

• optional CRFG‑2.0 transient gradient injection

• optional downstream TEG energy recovery

This document provides:

• TDCommons‑ready disclosure

• Integration map of all six upgraded inventions

• Full fabrication blueprint with hard dimensions and tolerances

• Complete test‑bench wiring + sensor layout

Everything required to build and validate CVGTC‑2.x is included.

Theta-Xd: Integer-Only Direction Change And Slow-Drift Detection In Multivariate Telemetry Streams, Nenad Micic

Defensive Publications Series

A system is proposed herein for detecting sudden turns, changes in turning behavior, and slow drift in the joint movement of multivariate telemetry counters. The system uses an overflow-bounded integer direction metric and an exact division-free threshold gate, requires work linear in the number of counters and fixed-size per-stream state, and produces exactly reproducible results without floating-point arithmetic or model training. Optional discrete direction keys support compact grouping, and peer-relative integer classification identifies outliers among comparable elements. The resulting signals can be generated close to the telemetry source, where independent per-counter thresholds may miss coordinated changes.

Caldwell Multi‑Core Thermal‑Hydraulic Upgrade Suite (2026 Edition) Ugcrm‑2.0 • Cmhre‑Ω2.0 • Mechanic’S Battery V3.0 • Arachne V9.0 • Gci #259‑B • Crfg‑2.0, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure presents six upgraded, non‑duplicate open‑hardware inventions that collectively enhance the performance of the Caldwell Variable‑Topology Vortex‑Gyroid Thermal‑Hydraulic Core (CVGTC‑2.x). Each subsystem is independently buildable and testable, and each contributes measurable improvements in heat‑transfer density, hydraulic efficiency, sensing fidelity, vortex conditioning, and transient thermal‑gradient control.

The suite includes:

• UGCRM‑2.0 — Variable‑Topology TPMS Thermal Distribution Engine

• CMHRE‑Ω2.0 — Heat‑Flux‑Matched Thermal Validation Platform

• Mechanic’s Battery v3.0 — TPMS‑Aware Low‑ΔP Branching Engine

• Arachne v9.0 — Structural + Sensing + Leak‑Detection Backbone

• GCI #259‑B — Chip‑Scale Vortex Conditioner

• CRFG‑2.0 — COP‑Gated Thermoacoustic Gradient Engine

All inventions are compatible with CVGTC‑2.x and increase its …

Single-Queue, Multi-Kind Escalation: One Human-Confirmation Gate For Three Structurally Different Automated Judgments In An Autonomous Compliance Pipeline, Vipul Panday

Defensive Publications Series

An autonomous pipeline that both detects issues and acts on them (filing tickets, refreshing a reference corpus, adopting a new rule) will, almost as soon as it does more than one kind of consequential thing, produce more than one kind of moment where its own judgment is not trustworthy enough to act on unsupervised. The conventional response is a bespoke review mechanism per kind of uncertainty, added piecemeal as each is discovered during development: a findings-review screen here, an admin flag there, a Slack thread for whatever comes up next. This disclosure documents a mechanism from a production website-accessibility scanning …

Tamper-Proof Artificial Intelligence (Ai) Decision Chains, Raghunath Ramesh Kulkarni, Jaswanth D K, Pranetha Priya R

Defensive Publications Series

Autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agents increasingly perform critical tasks, yet their lack of transparency makes it difficult to verify that a model was authentic and uncompromised when a decision was made and to maintain a trustworthy audit trail. The techniques presented herein implement a Cryptographic Agent Provenance Ledger (CAPL) security architecture that uses hardware-backed enclaves, privacy-preserving zero-knowledge proofs, hardware-rooted state continuity, and in-enclave cryptographic batching to create tamper-resistant, forensic-grade provenance for AI decisions. CAPL gates release of each inference output until its provenance record is created and ordered, while later hardware-backed notarization anchors batches of already-gated records. By cryptographically binding …

Method For Memory-Bounded Construction Of A Globally Complete, High-Zoom-Level Cloud-Optimized Geotiff From Tile-Access Logs, Sascha Brawer

Defensive Publications Series

A memory-bounded method is disclosed for constructing a globally complete, high-zoom-level Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF — a planet-wide raster at web-map zoom level 18, on the order of 10¹¹ cells — from a rolling window of tile-access logs, using working memory that is essentially constant in the number of cells. The output is a standards-compliant COG with a full reduced-resolution overview pyramid, derived by robustly aggregating the per-tile time series; it is several hundred times smaller than a naïve dense encoding. The method combines a level-embedding space-filling tile key, a two-stage disk-backed ordering (per-period external sort followed by a cross-period streaming merge), …

System And Method For Provenance-Gated Vector Embedding: Structural Exclusion Of Shadow Inference Records From Production Ai Knowledge Bases, Durga S. Kala, Tianyi Xu, Ketaki Surendra Kumbharkar, Jun Xu

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure relates to a method and a system for maintaining provenance-based separation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) inference data. The present disclosure suggests receiving an inference result record generated by an artificial intelligence (AI) inference platform. The present disclosure also suggests identifying a provenance attribute associated with the inference result record, the provenance attribute indicating an execution context of the artificial intelligence model. Based on the provenance attribute, the present disclosure suggests determining whether the inference result record corresponds to a production execution mode, a shadow execution mode, or an unrecognized execution mode. Upon determination, the present disclosure suggests …

A Process For The Preparation Of Elafibranor And Its Intermediate, Msn Laboratories Private Limited, R&D Center; Srinivasan Thirumalai Rajan, Sagyam Rajeshwar Reddy, Keshavareddy Navin Kumar Reddy And Kootikanti Krishnaiah.

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure relates to a novel process for the preparation of Elafibranor and its novel intermediate. The structure of Elafibranor of formula-1 is shown below:

Formula-1.

The present application also provides a crystalline form of Elafibranor and its process for the preparation.

Designing High-Resilience Hybrid Metamaterials: A Systems Engineering Specification For Elemental Hybridization, Solitonic Stabilization, And Non-Destructive Process Verification In Artificial Crystal Lattices, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

Traditional artificial crystal lattices grown via high-mass commercial methods exhibit acute failure modes under extreme operational environments. These loops manifest as high-frequency acoustic micro-cracking along crystal grain boundaries during cyclic load profiles, or structural delamination driven by thermal expansion differentials across thin-film interfaces.

This specification introduces a formalized systems engineering framework for the elemental hybridization of lab-grown crystal substrates—specifically Thin-Film Lithium Niobate (LiNbO₃) and 3D Self-Assembled Inverse Opal Lattices. By strategically infiltrating these substrates with low-weight-fraction Graphene Oxide (GO) nanosheets and Boron Nitride Nano-Tubes (BNNTs), we create hybrid, non-linear metamaterials that isolate, dampen, and redirect destructive kinetic and thermal wave …

Illinois Wesleyan University Celebrates Grand Opening Of Petrick Idea Center, Emily Bollinger

Press Releases 2020-2029

No abstract provided.

Building Better Research: Structured Activities To Support Student Projects, Alicia G. Vaandering

Faculty Learning Day 2026

Students often feel overwhelmed by large research assignments, struggling to break large papers, presentations, or other projects into manageable steps. This session explores practical ways to support the development of students’ research skills through scaffolded in-class activities and assignments. Participants will leave with adaptable ideas for designing and implementing sequenced tasks that reduce overwhelm while building critical research and information literacy skills.

Tips & Tricks For Fostering Online Engagement, Jacqueline Kociubuk, Karen Haskell, Arthur J. Spivack

Faculty Learning Day 2026

Creating engagement in online classroom spaces often requires new or unique tools, strategies, and practices. Join us as we share some of our student-tested methods for building online engagement in undergraduate and graduate courses across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.

Appeal No.1067: Arrowhead Road Services, Llc V. Division Of Oil & Gas Resources Management, Ohio Oil & Gas Commission

Ohio Oil & Gas Commission Decisions

Review of Chief's Orders 2025-512

The George-Anne Daily, Georgia Southern University

George-Anne Media Group: Newsletters & Magazines

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Midweek Memo, Georgia Southern University

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Phosphate Removal By Spent Low Temperature Shift Catalyst Through Process Optimization And Mechanistic Study, Fatma A. Hashem Eng., Abeer M. Shoaib Prof., Walaa Omar Dr., Mai H. Roushdy

Chemical Engineering

Natural water bodies become eutrophic due to phosphate pollution from industrial and agricultural sectors. This research addresses waste disposal and water pollution at the same time by recycling spent low-temperature shift catalyst (LTSSC) from the fertilizer industry as a sustainable phosphate adsorbent. High surface area (247±5 m2/g), mesoporous structure, and many metal oxide sites (CuO 49%, ZnO 32.2%, and Al2O₃ 13.9%) were shown by characterization using XRF, XRD, BET, SEM–EDX, FTIR, particle size analysis, and zeta potential. Under optimum conditions (contact time 1.64 h, dose 5 g/L, initial concentration 9.58 mg/L, stirring 278 rpm), Response Surface Methodology optimization achieved 92.95±2.8% …

Bay Staters Say Cost Of Living Has Increased In Past Year, Nearly Half Feel Worse Off Financially 9/3/2026, Unh Survey Center

All UNH Survey Center Polls

Nearly half of Massachusetts residents feel worse off financially than a year ago and expect to be doing about the same a year from now. Those with lower incomes are twice as likely as those with the highest incomes to feel worse off financially than a year ago. Most Bay Staters say their cost of living has increased in the past year, especially groceries, gasoline, and energy. Four in five expect tariffs to cause prices to increase and two-thirds disapprove of President Trump's use of tariffs. A majority of Bay Staters expect a recession within the next year and nearly …