Announcements Timothy and Jeanne Drone In spring 2021, Tim (AS ‘72, MA ‘75, MBA ‘77) and Jeanne Drone generously donated their collection of historical newspapers, spanning over 200 years of history, to the Saint Louis University Archives, housed in the Pius XII Memorial Library. The Drone Newspaper Collection will be used for classes in a variety of disciplines, as part of topical course content, and as a resource leading to independent inquiry and discovery. The Collection will allow students and researchers to contextualize major moments in national and international history and explore a number of topics, including politics, art, design, science, and innovation. The Drone Collection will allow Pius Library to meet the needs of SLU’s faculty and students by providing research data not previously available through its archival collections.
Angela Spencer, MLS In April 2021, Angela Spencer, MLS, health sciences reference librarian at Saint Louis University, won the 2021 Medical Library Association (MLA) President’s Award for her efforts on the MLA COVID-19 Resource Page. The page served as a valuable resource for health information professionals, providing accurate information on the frontline of the pandemic.
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Dannielle Joy Davis, Ph.D. Dannielle Joy Davis, Ph.D., professor of higher education, published United We Stand: The Role of Spirituality in Engaging and Healing Communities in January 2021. The book explores the role of spirituality in addressing division and marginalization within communities. Joy Davis also published a piece in the Journal of Comparative Family Studies entitled, “‘Why We Can’t Breathe’ During COVID-19.” In the piece, Joy Davis explains the influence of the COVID-19 virus on health, education, and social interactions within families, particularly on Black communities. In the past year, Joy Davis was promoted to a tenured Full Professor at the University and invited to serve as an Associate Investigator and Affiliated Faculty with the WATER Institute at SLU. Joy Davis was also awarded the Core Curricular Innovation Fellowship at SLU, which grants faculty with funding to develop dynamic learning opportunities for the undergraduate curriculum.
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IMPACT REPORT 2021
Ajlina Karamehic-Muratovic, Ph.D Ajlina Karamehic-Muratovic, Ph.D., assistant professor of sociology and anthropology, edited the book, Remembrance and Forgiveness: Global and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Genocide and Mass Violence, which was published in October 2020. The book is an inquiry into the social science of remembrance and forgiveness in global episodes of genocide and mass violence during the post-Holocaust era.
Flavio Esposito, Ph.D. Flavio Esposito, Ph.D., assistant professor of computer science, and graduate student Alessio Sacco coauthored a paper entitled, “Owl: Congestion Control with Partially Invisible Networks via Reinforcement Learning.” The paper, which was published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in May 2021, discusses a new internet transport