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Lessons In Surrender: Living With Chronic Illness, Danielle Wyenberg

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

"My experience with chronic illness has pushed me to lean on my community, stripped away layers of pride and certainty, and forced me to find a much greater peace with human limits and mortality."

Posting about hope in difficult circumstances ­­­­­­­­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.

Lessons in Surrender

High Spatiotemporal Resolution Monitoring Of Crop Water Stress Across The Contiguous United States Using Harmonized Landsat And Sentinel-2 Data, Na Chen, Yanlei Feng, Na Wang, Jevan Yu, Mohammad Reza Alizadeh, Yifeng Cui, Ning Ye, Wenzhe Jiao, Joshua B. Fisher, César Terrer

Biology, Chemistry, and Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles and Research

Accurate and timely monitoring of crop water stress is essential for efficient agricultural water management, ultimately maintaining and improving crop productivity. While Landsat has been used for this purpose, its temporal resolution hampers timely detection of crop water stress. The recently released Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 Version 2.0 dataset, which enables a higher-frequency time series of satellite observations (2–3 days, 30 m), offers a promising solution to this challenge. However, its potential for crop stress monitoring remained unexplored. In this study, we utilized 923 HLS satellite tiles to assess crop water stress across the contiguous United States (CONUS). Crop water …

Rice Cultivar Clm05, Xueyan Sha

Patents Granted

A rice cultivar designated CLM05 is disclosed herein. The present invention provides seeds, plants, and plant parts derived from rice cultivar CLM05. Further, it provides methods for producing a rice plant by crossing CLM05 with itself or another rice variety. The invention also encompasses any rice seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by the methods disclosed herein, including those in which additional traits have been transferred into CLM05 through the introduction of a transgene or by breeding CLM05 with another rice cultivar.

Military Service During The Vietnam War Hurt Veterans’ Long-Term Health, Xintong Wang, Carlos A. Flores, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes

Upjohn Institute Policy and Research Briefs

No abstract provided.

Ud In The News Dec. 20-Jan. 2, University Of Dayton

News Releases

The Conversation translated historian Bobbi Sutherland's piece into French about how Medieval peasants celebrated the holidays. Legal expert Charles Russo contributed five pieces to Catholic World Report and American Thinker.

Large-Scale Cubesat Chassis, Matthew D. Evans, Robert A. Bettinger

AFIT Patents

The present invention relates to large-scale CubeSat chassis and methods of making and using same. The disclosed CubeSat comprises specific structural features that can yield up to at least a 27 U CubeSat that has comparable or even better performance and benefits than that of smaller CubeSats. Such volume increase coupled with the structural integrity of Applicants' CubeSats opens up a wide range of CubeSat performance increases including, but not limited to, larger payloads, more diverse payloads and larger CubeSat fuel capacities. Such increased payload capabilities includes, for example, increased focal length capabilities and such improved maneuverability results in, for …

Wcu Digital Commons Submission Guidelines, Julia Doelling

Policy Library

No abstract provided.

Haze Processing Of Atmospheric Particles During Wintertime In The Indo-Gangetic Plains, Susan Mathai, Amna Ijaz, Tania Gautam, Zezhen Cheng, Nurun Nahar Lata, Harsh Bhotika, David Tseng, Rosalie K. Chu, Lynn Mazzoleni, Claudio Mazzoleni, Swarup China

Michigan Tech Publications

The impacts of haze on visibility, air quality, and climate are not well quantified due to a lack of understanding of the evolution of the mixing state and phase state of atmospheric particles during haze processing. The variability of the mixing state of atmospheric particles contributes significantly to uncertainties associated with the estimated aerosol radiative forcing. We collected particle samples in January 2018 from the highly polluted Indo-Gangetic plain during hazy conditions to study haze-processed particles. Single particle analysis using multi-modal micro-spectroscopy techniques revealed an abundance (40–70% by number) of potassium-rich sulfate particles from biomass-burning influenced smoke. Tilted view imaging …

Tectonic Implications Of Transitional Melting Regimes From Petrological, Geochronological, And Compositional Characterization Of The Ophiolitic Seventymile Terrane, Alaska, Usa, Erin Todd, Johnathan Saul Caine, Michael Bizimis, Andrew R.C. Kylander-Clark, Robert Reece Hammond, Alicja Wypych

Faculty Publications

New geochemical, U-Pb geochronology, and Sr-Nd-Hf isotope data provide evidence for the tectonic evolution of the Seventymile terrane in interior Alaska, USA. Ultramafic and mafic rocks of the Seventymile terrane are thought to represent components of a dismembered ophiolite and provide unique constraints on regional terrane evolution and accretion. The Seventymile ophiolite represents fragments of the Devonian to Permian Slide Mountain Ocean (SMO) that separated allochthonous and parautochthonous continental fragments of western North America. It now occurs as multiple thrust sheets containing Permian mafic and ultramafic rocks overlying and/or possibly imbricated with amphibolite-facies supracrustal rocks of allochthonous Yukon-Tanana terrane and …

Relational Healing: Survivors Of Sex Trafficking And Their Experiences Of Connection, Disconnection, And Growth, Claudia G. Interiano-Shiverdecker, Devon E. Romero, David J. Thompson, John J. J. S. Harrichand

Department of Counseling Scholarship and Creative Works

In this interpretive phenomenological analysis, we interviewed 10 women to make meaning of their lived experiences of sex trafficking and mental health challenges and how relational dynamics influenced their healing and sense of self. Our analysis revealed four themes: (a) central relational paradox, which described internalized shame and mistrust due to relational ruptures as a result of trauma and inadequate trauma-informed care; (b) disconnection and disempowerment, attending to survivor protective withdrawal mechanisms and how counselor misattunement created cycles of disconnection and invalidation; (c) fluid expertise, where survivors emphasized that healing occurred when counselors embraced a collaborative, respectful stance, honoring client …

Latin American Refugees To The U.S. Experience More Discrimination Than Refugees From Other Regions, Sobia Mushtaq, Janet M. Wilmoth

Population Health Research Brief Series

Discrimination is a serious challenge for refugees trying to rebuild their lives in new countries. This data slice presents findings from the 2022 Annual Survey of Refugees (ASR), a nationally representative survey of refugees who arrived in the United States between 2017 and 2021 (N=1,364). The probability of experiencing discrimination was substantially higher among refugees from Latin America compared to other origin regions. Latin American refugees have a 62.4% probability of experiencing discrimination, compared to 12.6% for Southeast Asian refugees. The findings suggest that service providers and policymakers should not assume that all refugees face the same challenges.

The Do-Kb Knowledgebase 2026 Update: Expanding Programmatic And Language Access., J Allen Baron, Claudia M Sánchez-Beato Johnson, Michael A Schor, Dustin Olley, Lance Nickel, Victor Felix, Susan M. Bello, Carol Greene, Richard Lichenstein, Katharine Bisordi, Rima Koka, Cynthia Bearer, Regina Macatangay, Nischal Ada, Kaitlin Ballenger, Emily Bliss, Lauren Colliver, Grace Dobbins, Harrison Heitzig, Shannan Dixon, Patrick Semesky, Jennifer Garth, Matthew Fairchild, Peter Gaskin, Sarina Zahid, Rachel Castillo, Sarah Edwards, Astrid Widjaja, Yamei Usui, Erin Lynch, Melissa Clarkson, Todd Detwiler, Lynn M Schriml

Faculty Research 2026

The Human Disease Ontology Knowledgebase (DO-KB; https://disease-ontology.org/), a Global Core Biodata Resource, serves as a reference framework for multiscale biomedical data integration and analysis, within a unifying etiology-based disease classification. In this 2026 update of the Human Disease Ontology (DO) and DO-KB resource, we present significant advances in programmatic data retrieval and disease representation since our previous NARdb publication. Here we report on the development of a DO Nosology education program, the Spanish translation of the DO website and ontology content, and expansion of disease knowledge representation.

The Mouse Gene Expression Database (Gxd): 2026 Update., Constance M. Smith, Terry F. Hayamizu, Jacqueline H. Finger, Ingeborg J. Mccright, Jingxia Xu, Jeff Campbell, Lori E. Corbani, Jake Emerson, Pete J. Frost, Hongping Liang, Joel E Richardson, Richard M. Baldarelli, Martin Ringwald

Faculty Research 2026

The Gene Expression Database (GXD; https://www.informatics.jax.org/expression.shtml) is an extensive, well-curated community resource that provides detailed information about gene expression patterns in mouse strains and mutants, with a particular emphasis on development. For over 25 years, GXD has systematically curated the scientific literature and collaborated with large-scale expression projects to compile and integrate detailed expression data from multiple assay types, including RNA in situ hybridization, immunohistochemistry, in situ reporter (knock-in), RT-PCR, northern blot, and western blot experiments. In recent years, GXD has expanded its scope to include bulk RNA-Seq data, imported from the EMBL-EBI Expression Atlas. Since our last report in …

Student Perceptions And Use Of Genai For Writing: "Great Tool" Or "Pandora's Box"?, Cheryl Hofstetter Duffy Ph.D., Rose Helens-Hart Ph.D., Stephanie M. Weigel Ph.D.

English Faculty Publications

WAC/WID programs are uniquely positioned to lead the response to generative AI (GenAI) in student writing—not by policing its use, but by guiding ethical, effective integration across and in the disciplines. This study shares findings from a spring 2024 survey of 226 students at a midwestern university, exploring how students use GenAI in their writing, what they perceive as its benefits and risks, and whether they’re receiving instruction on how to use it well. Students reported frequent use of GenAI for brainstorming and revising but noted limited faculty guidance. Many expressed nuanced views: they recognized GenAI’s potential to support learning …

Real-Life Space Rangers Study At Ole Miss Law School, Marisa C. Atkinson

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – In "Toy Story," no one asked Buzz Lightyear how to become a space ranger as he declares his mission "to infinity and beyond." But real-world space activities require something Buzz never needed: lawyers trained to navigate the legal complexities of Earth's newest operational domain.

Abrahim Fata V. Aracelly Delgado

2026 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Abrahim Fata V. Abraham Ortiz

2026 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Abrahim Fata V. Charles Lang

2026 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Review Of Efficacious Technology Management: A Guide For School Leaders, Alejandro Garcia

Open Educational Resources - Reviews

No abstract provided.

Evaluating The Effect Of Rna Interference Of Two Heat Shock Proteins (Hspa1l, Hsp90b1) In Inducing Apoptosis In Acyrthosiphon Pisum, James Balthazor Ph.D., Griffin Davies

Chemistry Faculty Publications

RNAi in HSPA1L and HSP90B1 proteins of the unfolded protein response.

Acyrthosiphon pisum (pea aphid) is a major pest of Fabaceae (legume) crops, causing direct feeding damage and transmitting plant diseases. Conventional control relies on broad-spectrum insecticides and natural enemies, both of which can harm non-target organisms and ecosystems. RNA interference (RNAi) offers a promising, species-specific alternative by silencing essential genes via double-stranded RNA (dsRNA). This study targeted two heat shock protein Genes-Heat Shock 70 kDa Protein 1-Like (HSPA1L) and Heat Shock Protein 90 kDa beta (Grp94) Member 1 (HSP90B1)-key players in protein folding, quality control, and stress response within …

Development And Characterization Of Compression-Molded Chitosan Composite Films Reinforced With Silica And Titania Fillers, Bhuvaneswari Koti, Vuong Do, Yanika Schneider, Vimal Viswanathan

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

This study investigates the development of biodegradable chitosan-based films as a sustainable alternative to conventional non-biodegradable food packaging materials. Chitosan, a naturally occurring polymer, possesses inherent film-forming ability and biodegradability; however, its limited mechanical and thermal properties constrain its practical applications. In this work, chitosan films were fabricated via compression molding, and their thermo-mechanical performance was systematically evaluated. The incorporation of fillers, such as titanium dioxide and silica, resulted in a 50% enhancement in tensile strength and an 86% improvement in flexibility. Further optimization of dual-filler compositions led to an additional 45% increase in elasticity, demonstrating the potential of synergistic …

The Black Box: The Ftc’S New Ability And Incentive Test For Vertical Mergers, Ann P. Kreuscher

St. Mary's Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Beware The Lion’S Den: A School Lawyer’S Guide To Avoiding Pitfalls In The Texas Open Meetings Act, Kyle Stone

St. Mary's Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Executive Committee - Agenda, 01/06/2026, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

No abstract provided.

Executive Committee - Minutes, 01/06/2026, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

Exploring The Impact Of Antidiscrimination Laws On Child-Welfare Workers Working With Lgbtq Foster Youth, Heather Kesterson

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning (LGBTQ) youth are overrepresented in the foster care system and have unique needs compared to their peers. In the state of Virginia, there is an antidiscrimination policy that protects LGBTQ foster youth; however, it is unclear how this impacts child welfare workers. Past literature has explored the needs of LGBTQ youth, the experiences of foster parents, and policy implications, but not the impact of antidiscrimination laws on child welfare workers. The purpose of this generic qualitative study was to explore the understanding of child welfare workers’ knowledge, integration, training, and implications of Virginia’s antidiscrimination …

Staff Education To Strengthen Nurses’ Knowledge Of Evidence-Based Strategies For Medication Adherence In Psychiatric Care, Constantine Lewko

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

This DNP staff education project involved addressing the absence of a structured and standardized approach to guide nurses in promoting medication adherence among psychiatric patients. The practice problem at the local project site was inconsistent use of adherence counseling strategies, which contributed to early treatment discontinuation, poor patient engagement, and frequent readmissions. The practice-focused question for this project was: Does implementing a structured staff education program improve nursing staff knowledge on medication adherence compared to usual care? The purpose of this doctoral project was to implement and evaluate an evidence-based education session to improve nurse knowledge and standardize adherence counseling …

Factors Affecting The Level Of Grief Experienced By Men Whose Female Partner Died In The United States, Keona C. Lee

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Grief is an emotional reaction to the loss of a loved one through death. Although grief is a universal human experience, its perspective is unique, and research has often ignored the varied experiences of racial/ethnic and cultural groups, particularly men of color in the United States. The purpose of this quantitative study was to measure the level of grief experienced by men whose female partner died and to determine whether ethnicity, having a prior mental health diagnosis, social support, and traumatic or anticipated loss significantly impacted their level of grief. The study was guided by the social-ecological model to explain …

Knowledge And Perception Of Human Milk Donation Among Pregnant, Lactating, And Postpartum Women In Rochester, Ny, And Near Hmbana Milk Banks, Samantha Allen

Theses

Human milk banks provide pasteurized donor milk for premature infants whose mothers are unable to produce sufficient amounts of milk, offering critical nutritional and immunological benefits for this high-risk population.1–4 Although 28 HMBANA-accredited milk banks operate in the United States, none are located within 4.5 hours of Rochester, NY. This study examined the knowledge and perceptions of human milk bank donation among pregnant, lactating, and postpartum women in Rochester, NY, and in communities near HMBANA-affiliated milk banks, and assessed if there is a correlation regarding the proximity of milk banks.  A cross-sectional study design was used, and participants completed a …

Powering Up Clinical Practice: Mastering Clinical Literature Search Techniques – 2026 Jan Hslic Workshop, Evelyn Wang

HSLIC Faculty and Staff Instructional Resources

This HSLIC workshop introduces practical clinical literature search techniques, focusing on how to translate clinical questions into structured database searches and efficiently navigate core resources. Topics include identifying key concepts, using Boolean operators, truncation, wildcards, phrase searching, proximity operators, subject headings (MeSH/Emtree), building multi-concept search strategies, and accessing full text through HSLIC tools and service.