Constanza is an international student from Mexico pursuing a double-degree in Computer Science and Linguistics, she will graduate in December 2020. She is currently working on a community language portal alongside faculty from the Linguistics Department in the hopes of making language documentation more accessible and inclusive.
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Digital Projects and Platforms Workshop Series
Overview Throughout the six session series we will explore options for furthering student engagement through digital tools and project-based assignments. The first five sessions will be thematically grouped workshops that will include a showcase of assignments, potential tools, and exercises designed to help you think about how you might incorporate similar approaches in your classes. …
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LSF-ASL Website and App
Guillame Chastel, Senior Lecturer, American Sign Language (ASL) Langue des Signes Française (LSF) Program
Viewing the Temple of Jupiter
Elizabeth Colantoni, Associate Professor of Classics, Department of Religion and Classics
Classical Mechanics
Douglas Cline, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Clara Auclair, Graduate Digitization Specialist
Graduate Digitization Specialist
Wade Bennett, Graduate Programmer
Wade Bennett is currently a master’s student at the Goergen Institute for Data Science in the University of Rochester, where he also earned a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering alongside a minor in Classical Civilizations. His interests include image processing, machine vision, and natural language processing.
Famous Clark, Graduate Programmer
Famous Clark is an undergraduate studying Digital Media and Computer Science at the University of Rochester.
Tiamat Fox, Undergraduate Research Assistant
Tiamat Fox holds a Bachelors in Psychology and Language, Media, & Communication, and a Minor in Business from the University of Rochester (’20). Tiamat worked as a research assistant for the Digital Scholarship Lab. She formerly worked as a teaching assistant for LIN 105: Language and Advertising, where she began her work with Mediate as …
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Muhammed El-Sayed, Undergraduate Programmer
Muhammed El-Sayed is an undergraduate from Egypt currently pursuing a major in Computer Engineering and a minor in History. After working with a team to develop a 2D historical game based on the settlement of Bermuda by the British, he has picked up developing in the Unity Engine in his free time, participating in GameJams …
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Byron Fong, Graduate Research Assistant
Byron Fong is a PhD candidate in the Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester and an Andrew W. Mellon Digital Humanities Fellow. He is currently working on his dissertation, titled “Interactive Forms of Movement: Video Game Aesthetics from 1985-1994,” which looks at the intersection of technology, animation, and industry to historicize common aesthetic forms …
Sebastian Jakymiw, Undergraduate Immersive Technologies Developer
Sebastian Jakymiw ’21 is an undergraduate student at the University of Rochester pursuing a degree in math. He is an Immersive Technologies Developer through the Karp Library Fellowship and is working on developing workshops and software for Studio X. Prior to his work as a Karp Library Fellow, Sebastian worked as an undergraduate programmer in …
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Elias Neuman-Donihue, Undergraduate Programmer
Elias Neuman-Donihue is an undergraduate student pursuing a dual degree in Computer Science and History at the University of Rochester. He is currently working on the Resurrect 3D Web Viewer. Contact: eneumand [at] u.rochester.edu
Emily Sherwood, Director
Emily Sherwood is the Director of the Digital Scholarship Lab. Previously, she was the Assistant Director of Digital Pedagogy and Scholarship at Bucknell University. Emily has attended CLIR/Educause’s Leading Change Institute and is a former CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow. She has a Ph.D. in English from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York …
Madeline Ullrich, Graduate Research Assistant
Madeline Ullrich is currently a PhD student in the Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester and an Andrew W. Mellon Digital Humanities Fellow. She completed her Master’s degree in Art History, Visual Art, and Theory at the University of British Columbia with the thesis titled “Partial Vision: Remediations of …
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Digital Pedagogy Workshop
Digital Pedagogy On August 9th and 10th, Stu Jordan (Faculty Director, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning) and Emily Sherwood (Director, Digital Scholarship Lab) co-facilitated the Digital Pedagogy Workshop aimed at helping faculty develop a project for a course that utilized digital tools and methods. Ten faculty members from seven departments spent a day …
RCL Mini-Digital Scholarship Institute
ARL DSI The past few years, members of the Digital Scholarship Lab have helped teach classes at the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Digital Scholarship Institute. The institute aims to introduce library professionals to digital scholarship methods and tools in order to broaden their knowledge base and help them understand the demands of supporting these …
Accolades and Accomplishments
This spring, we have a lot to celebrate at the Digital Scholarship Lab. Two of our own were recognized for their service to River Campus Libraries and one of our graduate students completed his degree.
The Ward Project
Bob Minckley, Senior Lecturer, Department of Biology
2018 Spring Showcase
The Digital Scholarship Lab at River Campus Libraries hosted a spring showcase event highlighting a few of our recent collaborations. Short flash talks were followed by a digital poster session and reception in the Humanities Center lounge. When: Tuesday, May 15, 4:30pm-6:00pm (presentations start at 4:45pm) Where: Humanities Center, 2nd Floor, Rush Rhees Library Speakers: Elya Zhang …
Daniel Menzo, Graduate Student Digitization Specialist
Originally from Southeast Michigan, Daniel moved to Rochester from Long Island in the fall of 2016 to join the University’s MA in Photographic Preservation and Collections Management, an unparalleled program affiliated with the George Eastman Museum. Daniel specializes in photography’s diverse histories, as well as in handling and organizing a wide range of photographic objects. …
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Rochester, NY Voices of LGBT History
River Campus Libraries and the Out Alliance
Emma Schaale, Undergraduate Public Programs Coordinator
Emma Schaale is a student of the University of Rochester (’21) studying game development through the Digital Media Studies and Computer Science programs. She has previously worked as a marketing and design intern for a fitness start-up, and she currently works as the Publicity Manager at the UR Game Dev Club. She is also working on …
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