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Rethinking Mentorship: A Practical, Evolving Workshop on Building Reciprocal, Academic Partnerships
(2026-06-05) Forbes, Carrie; Priesman Marquez, Rachel
Rethinking Mentorship: Building Reciprocal, Collaborative Academic Partnerships. Presented at the 2026 NC ACE Network Annual Conference. Speakers: Carrie Forbes and Rachel Priesman Marquez, East Carolina University. Traditional mentorship models in academia often rely on hierarchical, top-down relationships that position one individual as the expert and the other as the learner. While effective in some contexts, these models can unintentionally limit open dialogue, reinforce power imbalances, and discourage early-career professionals from naming uncertainty or asking questions. This interactive workshop explores an alternative approach: reciprocal or collaborative mentorship, in which two librarians at different career stages intentionally share leadership, learning, and professional responsibility. Drawing from a real-world partnership between two academic medical librarians; (one early-career and one more seasoned) this session examines how co-teaching, shared review work, and reflective dialogue foster mutual professional growth, reduce ego, and create psychologically safe environments for learning. Rather than viewing mentorship as a unidirectional transfer of knowledge, this model frames mentorship as a shared, evolving practice rooted in collaboration and trust. Participants will: explore how reciprocal mentorship can support faster integration of new colleagues, strengthen departmental cohesion, refresh skills across career stages, and empower both individuals to develop confidence and leadership capacity. Because the literature lacks a single term for this type of relationship, the workshop will invite participants to help articulate its defining characteristics and language. Through guided discussion and hands-on activities, attendees will identify practices that make collaborative mentorship work, draft shared mentorship norms or agreements, and develop criteria for identifying or cultivating similar relationships within their own institutions. This session is designed for participants interested in reimagining mentorship as a tool for shared leadership, belonging, and sustainable professional growth.
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Plant-based foods can contain high amounts of protein
(2026-06-10) Thakkar, Esha; Kolasa, Kathryn M.
This is a weekly Q and A newspaper column under the byline of Dr. Kathy Kolasa. Today's column is discussing options for increasing one's intake of protein and protein sources for a plant-based diet.
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Pre/Post College Student Gambling Dataset
(2026) Michelle Malkin; Michele Stacey
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HUAC Investigations in North Carolina: Using Federal Documents to Research State and Local History
(2026-06-01) Durant, David M.
Federal documents are often overlooked as a potential source when doing research in state and local history. This presentation seeks to demonstrate their relevance to aspects of North Carolina history by examining three instances where House Un-American Activities Committee hearings directly impacted people, organizations and events in this state. The published records of these hearings thus serve as valuable primary historical sources on these topics, when used in conjunction with newspapers, oral histories, and other sources. This is a revised and updated version of a presentation delivered in 2017.
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Alpha: A Fortran program for simulating porewater radiolysis
(2022-05-05)
The radiolysis of porewaters by uranium, thorium, and potassium in mineral grains is a recognised source of molecular hydrogen in rock- and sediment-hosted fluids. This radiolytic hydrogen is of geomicrobiological interest as a potential energy source (electron donor) for microbial metabolism, especially in energy-limited settings such as the marine deep biosphere or the subsurface of Mars. Previous efforts to predict the production of radiolytic hydrogen from columns of rock and sediment have tended to rely upon analytic models that cannot account for the attenuation of mineral radiation by grains larger than ~30 microns. To address this, we have developed a Monte Carlo method to simulate the physics of mineral radiation and evaluate the production of H2 as a function of mineral grain size and radioisotope composition. The results confirm that grain size is a major control on radiolytic H2 yield. For example, using the standard geological classification of grain sizes, we find that clay can produce up to an order of magnitude more H2 per unit time than sand. The magnitude of this effect is illustrated using compositional data from real geological units in order to demonstrate the dependence of radiolytic hydrogen flux on natural radionuclide concentration and bulk porosity.