The HSLS Staff News section includes recent HSLS presentations, publications, staff changes, staff promotions, degrees earned, and more.
News
Michele Klein-Fedyshin, Research and Clinical Instruction Librarian, and Andrea Ketchum, Research and Instruction Librarian Emerita, won the 2024 Ida and George Eliot Prize from the Medical Library Association. Read more about the authors’ award-winning publication in this issue of the HSLS Update.
Sera Thornton, HSLS Instructional Design Lead, was featured in a University Times article representing the Provost’s Standing Committee on Open Educational Resources, which she chairs. The article discusses the various initiatives at Pitt aimed at increasing textbook affordability.
Publications
Sri Chaparala, Lead Bioinformatics Specialist, and Ansuman Chattopadhyay, Director for Molecular Biology Information Services, co-authored the article:
Wood, J.A., Chaparala, S., Bantang, C., Chattopadhyay, A., Wesesky, M.A., Kinchington, P.R., Nimgaonakr, V.L., Bloom, D.C., D’Aiuto, L . RNA-Seq time-course analysis of neural precursor cell transcriptome in response to herpes simplex Virus-1 infection. J. Neurovirol. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13365-024-01198-8
Helena VonVille, Research and Instruction Librarian, co-authored the articles:
McCormick, S., Jarvis, J. M., Terhorst, L., Richardson, A., Kaseman, L., Kesbhat, A., Yepuri, Y., Beyene, E., VonVille, H., Bendixen, R., & Treble-Barna, A. (2024). Patient-report and caregiver-report measures of rehabilitation service use following acquired brain injury: a systematic review. BMJ open, 14(2), e076537. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-076537
Moore, T.R.; Cardamone, N.; VonVille, H.; Coulter, R.W.S. (2024). The Integration of Complex Systems Science and Community-Based Research: A Scoping Review. Systems 12(3):88. https://doi.org/10.3390/systems12030088