Congratulations to the RTI ’25 Participants!
Submitted by: Susan Lessick
MLA is pleased to announce the 2025 Research Training Institute (RTI) participants! The RTI ’25 online program is a successful, immersive research training program that provides advanced research methods training and mentoring for one year while participants complete a research project. Participants also present their projects at a special RTI poster session at the MLA annual conference. The RTI ’25 program consists of 24 participants, including 3 embedded LIS graduate students. The program will be taught by a team of experienced and expert research faculty/mentors with additional mentoring support from 5 peer coaches who are former RTI Fellows. The RTI ’25 participants were chosen by a selective submission process with an emphasis on a desire to learn, enthusiasm for research, and the quality of their proposed research topics. Congratulations to the RTI ’25 participants!
- Angela Ackerman, University of Pittsburgh
- Kinza Alizai, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
- Caroline Allen, University of Iowa Healthcare Department of Ophthalmology
- Caroline Axthelm, Department of Veterans Affairs
- Victoria Caine, University of Arizona-Phoenix Biomedical Campus Library
- Jennifer Crumpton, University of Florida
- Sarah Engleking, University of North Texas
- Jennifer Feldman, AHIP, Cleveland Clinic Akron General
- Andrea Harrow, AHIP, University of Southern California
- Molly Hemphill, UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library
- Alyssa Huffman, Wayne State University
- Jane Jun, University of British Columbia (UBC) Okanagan
- Poppy Krump, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Corinne Miller, Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
- Kelsey Molseed, University of Arkansas
- Laurel Mueller, Abbott Library, University at Buffalo
- Zemirah Ngow, AHIP, University of California, San Diego
- Ruby Nugent, National Jewish Health Tucker Medical Library
- Annabel Pinkney, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
- Ashley Purvis, West Virginia University Libraries
- Amy Taylor, AHIP, Houston Methodist Hospital
- Rachel Whitney, AHIP, Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Libraries
- April Wright, University of Maryland Baltimore Regional Medical Library
- Emily Zimmerman, AHIP, Marshall B. Ketchum University
MLA is very pleased to see the continued enthusiasm for the RTI program. Special thanks to all who applied for the RTI program and scholarships!