Managing & Sharing Your Research Data

Presentation slides from an October 10, 2014 session of the MU Libraries Fall 2014 Friday Workshop series. This session provided an overview on facilitating the access and reuse of research data. Topics covered included learning how to comply with funding agency policies; creating data management plans; and submitting data sets to MOspace, MU's digital institutional repository

CVM Distinguished Service Awards

The Distinguished Service Award was established by the University of Missouri. College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM) in 1974 to honor “someone who has contributed to the success of the college, including alumni; faculty; students; friends in agriculture, medicine, and related industries; and pet owners. In 1994, CVM Dean Richard Adams replaced the Distinguished Service Award with the Dean's Impact Award. Portraits of CVM Distinguished Service Award recipients were displayed in the Veterinary Medical Library. In 2013, the portraits were transferred to University Archives (C:17/24/1)

Flesh Without Blood: (Re)locating Embodiment in Technology

The social/technology divide has eclipsed our understanding of the many ways in which the two are interconnected. In this thesis I examine the interplay of the social and technological through the lens of embodiment. In particular, I focus on the ways in which bodies become located, relocated and even dislocated, in interaction with technologies. My approach is an analytical synthesis informed by three examinations: The art of Mariko Mori; the ‘robot’ social media influencer @lilmiquela; and applications of artificial intelligence on the human body. These examinations can be thought of as thought experiments, case studies or musings to help explore the possibilities for bodies rendered through technologies. Through the complex interaction with technologies, embodiment is affected and the question of where bodies begin and end becomes a productive way to think about sociological processes of identity and power

Sonnets in Viral Times

To illuminate our personal experiences during this time of sheltering-in, we will continue our investigation of sonnets as performance texts by writing and acting in our own creations. Held by the structure of the verse, we will create and perform sonnets that communicate our thoughts and feelings about life, loss, survival, resilience, and love during these unprecedented times. We will continue to lend our voices to the verse with specific concentration on embodiment, clarity, personal connection, and the merging of the emotional and intellectual through-line. This collaborative assignment has two parts: a creative writing component, and a skilled performance component.https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/pandemic-pandemonium-prompts/1015/thumbnail.jp

Benchmarking for the inclusion of shear studs in finite element models

There are many aspects of shear stud behaviour that may affect a heated steel-concrete composite structure in fire such as stud layout, ductility and strength; heated material behaviour; loss of composite action through the failure of multiple studs; and so on. This paper attempts to understand the role of shear studs on full structural behaviour in fire during both heating and cooling. Predictions of stud behaviour at ambient temperature using numerical models are first compared to experimental work to benchmark the modelling approach. A good correlation is found. This is followed by the analysis of full structural behaviour in fire where shear stud properties are varied parametrically. Individual shear studs are modelled so it is possible to identify which studs fail and at what point in the fire. The results demonstrate the importance of ensuring continued composite action in fire

Learning technology in Scottish higher education ‐ a survey of the views of senior managers, academic staff and ‘experts’

As part of an evaluation of the Scottish Learning Technology Dissemination Initiative (LTDI), a survey was conducted of the views of academic staff, members of computer‐assisted learning and staff development units, and senior managers in all Scottish higher education institutions (HEIs). Most respondents across all subject areas and types of institutions (including those who rated themselves as less experienced with use of C&IT in teaching than their colleagues) believed that learning technology (LT) had moderate to very high potential for improving the way in which students learn. Awareness of the various agencies which have been established to promote its use in HEIs was very high, with few staff being unaware of any of them. Senior staff largely agreed that the value of these approaches lay in the improvement or maintenance of quality rather than in creating efficiency gains. Whilst there was a mostly positive view of the value of learning technology there are still significant barriers to its uptake by staff, the most important being lack of time, infrastructure, software and training, plus a failure (perceived or actual) of institutions to value teaching. The rather pessimistic view of ‘experts’ of the willingness of their less committed colleagues to make use of learning technology contrasted with the generally positive responses obtained from a broad group of 1,000 academic staff on their awareness of and attitudes to it. An analysis of the SHEFC's Teaching Quality Assessment reports during 1992–6 revealed substantial variability between and within subject assessments as to whether specific comments were made about IT provision and its use in learning and teaching

Go FIGure: Health Literacy and Freshman Interest Groups

Mizzou offers over 100 Freshman Interest Groups (FIGs), ranging in topic from "Discovering Science" to "Social Justice Issues." Groups of 15-20 freshmen are assigned to the same residence hall community, enroll together in three large-lecture courses, and enroll in a pro-seminar course in essential skills for college success. In Fall 2010, three "literacy" projects were piloted within the FIG pro-seminar: health literacy, financial literacy, news literacy. This poster examines goals, sessions, and lessons learned from the Health Literacy pilot. Originally presented at Medical Library Association Annual Meeting 2011 (Minneapolis)