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Finley, S.D., Dhar, M. and Popel, A.S. (2013) ''Compartment model predicts VEGF secretion and investigates the effects of VEGF Trap in tumor-bearing mice''. Frontiers in Oncology. 3, 196
Abstract: Angiogenesis, the formation of new blood vessels from existing vasculature, is important in tumor growth and metastasis. A key regulator of angiogenesis is vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), which has been targeted in numerous anti-angiogenic therapies aimed at inhibiting tumor... Read More
Keywords: angiogenesis; anti-angiogenic therapy, cancer, computational model, mathematical model, systems biology, tumor xenograft model
Contact: sfinley@usc.edu
Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocytes (TILs) as a Function of Histological Subtype and Genetic Background of Ovarian Epithelial Carcinomas
Peerani, Raheem, Sophia George, Ramlogan Sowamber, Alex Siu, Tiffany Shao, Anca Milea, Steven Narod, Blaise Clarke, and Patricia Shaw. "Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocytes (TILs) as a Function of Histological Subtype and Genetic Background of Ovarian Epithelial Carcinomas." In LABORATORY INVESTIGATION, vol. 95, pp. 301A-301A. 75 VARICK ST, 9TH FLR, NEW YORK, NY 10013-1917 USA: NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, 2015.
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Keywords: Hereditary breast and ovarian cancer, health disparities, BRCA, Fallopian tubes
Contact: Sophia.george@med.miami.edu
Gene Sequencing for Pathogenic Variants Among Adults With Breast and Ovarian Cancer in the Caribbean
George, Sophia HL, Talia Donenberg, Cheryl Alexis, Vincent DeGennaro, Hedda Dyer, Sook Yin, Jameel Ali et al. "Gene Sequencing for Pathogenic Variants Among Adults With Breast and Ovarian Cancer in the Caribbean." JAMA network open 4, no. 3 (2021): e210307-e210307.
Abstract: Importance Rates of breast and ovarian cancer are high in the Caribbean; however, to date, few published data quantify the prevalence of inherited cancer in the Caribbean population. Objective To determine whether deleterious variants in genes that characterize the hereditary breast and... Read More
Keywords: Hereditary breast and ovarian cancer, health disparities, BRCA, Fallopian tubes, breast cancer, ovarian cancer, Carribbean
Contact: Sophia.george@med.miami.edu
Chancellor, R. L. (2020, November 2). The Activist Life of E.J. Josey: Josey Scholar Discusses the Trailblazer’s Impact on The Library World. American Libraries Magazine. Retrieved March 10, 2021, from https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2020/11/02/activist-life-e-j-josey/
Abstract: Renate L. Chancellor, associate professor in the Department of Library and Information Science at Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., and author of E. J. Josey: Transformational Leader of the Modern Library Profession (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020), is a... Read More
Keywords: Social Justice, Library and Information Science, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Contact: chancellor@cua.edu
Chancellor, R., & Chu, C. M. (2007). Ask Dr. Chu: An Interview with a Peruvian-born Chinese Canadian Living in the U.S. InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies, 3(2). Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5js6g6g2
Abstract: The following interview with Information Studies professor Clara Chu explores some of the central issues facing immigrant library users. She shares with us some of her life experiences as an immigrant and her views on the current immigration debate as... Read More
Keywords: Social Justice, Library and Information Science, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Contact: chancellor@cua.edu
Chancellor, R. (2008). Libraries & the Cultural Record, 43(2), 236-238. Retrieved March 10, 2021, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/25549487
Abstract: Historians typically engage in research that attempts to recount “past events pertaining to the establishment, maintenance, and utilization of systematically arranged collections of recorded information or knowledge.”1 Nowhere could this be more aptly demonstrated than in Stanley Chodorow’s study on... Read More
Keywords: Social Justice, Library and Information Science, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Contact: chancellor@cua.edu
Chancellor, R. L. (2019). The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South: Civil Rights and Local Activism [Review of journal of interdisciplinary history The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South: Civil Rights and Local Activism]. Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 50(1), 139-140.
Abstract: We know the stories, or at least we think that we do—the Greensboro sit-ins, the bombing in Birmingham, the Freedom Riders, and the “I Have a Dream” speech. We have seen the images of protests and violence. We know the... Read More
Keywords: Social Justice, Library and Information Science, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Contact: chancellor@cua.edu
"Educating Librarians in the Contemporary University: An Essay on iSchools and Emancipatory Resilience in Library and Information Science. By Joacim Hansson." Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 61(2), pp. 294–295
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Keywords: Social Justice, Library and Information Science, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Contact: chancellor@cua.edu
Chancellor, R. L. (2010). Copyright in the Information Age. In Special Topics in Intellectual Property (pp. 5-12). Washington, DC: American Chemical Society. doi:10.1021/bk-2010-1055.ch002
Abstract: For centuries, librarians and other information professionals such as those who work in museums, archives, and other information centers have grappled with the legal and ethical considerations that affect the creation, organization, dissemination and use of information. Libraries and information... Read More
Keywords: Social Justice, Library and Information Science, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Contact: chancellor@cua.edu
Race as Multidimensional: The Personal Shaping the Professional in the Library and Information Field
Chu, C.M., Absher, L.U., Chancellor, R.L., Downing, K.E., Lee, S. and Vang, T. (2016), "Race as Multidimensional: The Personal Shaping the Professional in the Library and Information Field", Celebrating the James Partridge Award: Essays Toward the Development of a More Diverse, Inclusive, and Equitable Field of Library and Information Science (Advances in Librarianship, Vol. 42), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp. 155-170.
Abstract: As individuals, each contributor speaks in their own voice, and as a collective, the authors move the race dialogue forward by speaking about dimensions of race from their own experiences, representing individual stories, and allowing their intersections to be revealed. Read More
Keywords: Social Justice, Library and Information Science, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Contact: chancellor@cua.edu