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UMSI Research Roundup. Congressional Campaigns. Information Resilience. Creative Expression.

Congressional Campaigns | Information Resilience | Creative Expression: UMSI Research Roundup

03/24/2025

Recent UMSI faculty and PhD student publications. 

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UMSI Research. Shared narrative and the role of collective memory for displaced Palestinians. UMSI PhD students Ghadir Award, Lavinia Dunagan, David Gamba and Tam Rayan.

Shared narrative and the role of collective memory for displaced Palestinians

03/11/2025

New research by UMSI PhD candidates Ghadir Awad, Lavinia Dunagan, David Gamba and Tam Rayan studies how collective narratives are sustained through geography, gender and communal bonds in Palestinian oral histories. 

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UMSI Research Roundup. Toxicity on Social Media. Affirmative Action. Collective Memory. Check out UMSI faculty and PhD student publications.

Toxicity on Social Media | Affirmative Action | Collective Memory: UMSI Research Roundup

02/24/2025

Recent UMSI faculty and PhD student publications. 

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Quoted by CNN. Assistant professor Rebecca Frank. The Wayback Machine is preserving the websites Trump's White House took down.

Frank: It’s important to preserve government records

02/21/2025

UMSI assistant professor Rebecca Franks talks about the significance of government records amid the Trump administration's decision to take down thousands of government web pages. 

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An archival World Turns: Armenian women's archives in Southeast Michigan. Nazelie Doghramadjian, UMSI PhD student. Patricia Garcia, associate professor of information. Ricky Punzalan, associate professor of information.

Archival silences and the role of Armenian women as memory-keepers in Southeast Michigan

01/15/2025

New work by UMSI PhD student Nazelie Doghramadjian and associate professors Patricia Garcia and Ricky Punzalan examines how Armenian women serve as “stewards of personal, family and community records” for their community. 

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Madison Haack, Julia Cave Arbanas, Cameron Robertson and Austin Book pose on the second level of a museum with a life-size model of a prehistoric pterosaur visible behind them

UMSI alumna and students team up to shape future of AI in libraries and museums

01/13/2025

Artificial intelligence is redefining what’s possible in libraries, archives and museums. Meet the UMSI alumna who is leading the charge, and the students she called on to help chart a path. 

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Austin Book poses in the library stacks with books on either side of him

Austin Book’s quest to make libraries the ultimate entertainment

11/15/2024

Austin Book wants to be a librarian. And yes, he’s aware of how perfect his last name is for the profession.

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Rebecca Frank wearing a maroon sweater, a neckplace and glasses and smiling at the camera.

Meet Rebecca Frank, UMSI’s newest assistant professor

11/14/2024

In her profile, Frank talks about trustworthiness, risk and the preservation of digital repositories. 

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UMSI Research Roundup. Automated Driving. Natural Disasters. Memory Work. Check out UMSI faculty and PhD student publications.

Automated Driving | Natural Disasters | Memory work: UMSI Research Roundup

09/24/2024

Recent UMSI faculty and PhD student publications. 

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Pedro Pazmino holds up a sheet of paper covered in hand drawn early versions of his Future of Work logo. He points to one.

Future of Work will be yearlong theme at UMSI

09/16/2024

Through courses and events, the UMSI community will focus on topics like AI in the workplace, remote work, and the role of unions, aiming to create solutions for work’s evolving future. 

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