Grants Awarded 2018-2019
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2018-2019
- Bi-Annual Tech Workshops for GSSWSR Community
- Blended Learning in Graduate Social Work Writing Supports
- Building Digital Resources for the Revitalization of an Endangered Indigenous Language
- Development of an Online Database for the Bryn Mawr Rock and Mineral Collection
- Digital Storytelling Facilitators' Intensive Training
- In Other Words: Bryn Mawr in Translation
- Introducing Pix4D software to Biology 220
- Quartz lens for Multi-Band Imaging
- Re-Imagining Sites of Energy Conflict in Germany
- Reexcavating Carthage in Rome: The White Fathers’ Archive
- Surface Encounters: Gareth Brookes Embroidery Workshop and Talk
Bi-Annual Tech Workshops for GSSWSR Community
Project Team:
- Susannah Sinclair, GSSWSR, Project Lead
- Allie DiTucci, MSS Graduate Student Worker and Project Intern
- Jennifer Spohrer, Director of Educational Technology Services, LITS
Project Timeline: Summer 2019–Spring 2020
This project grant supported the creation of online workshops to increase student comfort and familiarity with technical systems used at the School of Social Work.
Blended Learning in Graduate Social Work Writing Supports
Project Team:
- Sarah Slates, Writing Coach, GSSWSR, Project Lead
- Susannah Sinclair, CRM and Digital Communications, GSSWSR
- Sara Miller, BMC Writing Center and GSSWSR Consultant
- 2 student interns, TBD
- Jennifer Spohrer, Director of Educational Technology Services, LITS
Project Timeline: Summer 2019–Spring 2020
This grant enables explorations of technologies to increase access to blended and online writing supports at the Graduate School for Social Work and Social Research.
Building Digital Resources for the Revitalization of an Endangered Indigenous Language
Project Team:
- Kate Riestenberg, Bryn MawrPostdoctoral Fellow, Project Manager
- Kevin Connelly, Language Revitalization Consultant, Project Director
- Jonathan Washington, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Swarthmore College, Student Mentor
- Andy Alm, Independent Online Communication Consultant, Mentor
- Jennifer Spohrer, Director of Educational Technology Services, LITS
- Vinty Guo '20, Digital Technology Intern
- Ruth Mullin '21, Digital Technology Intern
- Rosie Arasa '22, Digital Technology Intern
- Gemma Van Nice '22, Linguistics Intern
- Vinny Ong '22, Linguistics Intern
Project Timeline: Summer 2019–Summer 2020
This project grant facilitates a digital project that involves students in developing web-based language-learning materials to support the revitalization of an endangered Indigenous American language.
Development of an Online Database for the Bryn Mawr Rock and Mineral Collection
Project Team:
- Selby Cull-Hearth, Associate Professor of Geology, Project Director
- Cristian Clothier (HC '19), Digital Project Assistant
- Carrie Robbins, Curator, LITS
- Alicia Peaker, Director of Digital Scholarship, Critical Making, and Digital Collections Management, LITS
Project Timeline: Spring 2019
This project grant supported the creation of an online database for the Bryn Mawr rock and mineral collection.
Digital Storytelling Facilitators' Intensive Training
Project Team:
- Chris Boyland, Senior Educational Technology Specialist, LITS
Project Timeline: Summer 2019
This grant supports Chris Boyland's participation in StoryCenter's Digital Storytelling Facilitators' Intensive to build capacity on campus to support digital storytelling.
In Other Words: Bryn Mawr in Translation
Project Team:
- Betty Litsinger, Instructor in English, Project Director
- Millicent Auma '21, Digital Project Assistant
- Alicia Peaker, Director of Digital Scholarship, Critical Making, and Digital Collections Management, LITS
Project Timeline: Spring 2019–Summer 2020
This grant supported the creation of a digital space for short, literary works in translation by students, faculty, and staff.
Introducing Pix4D software to Biology 220
Project Team:
- Thomas Mozdzer, Associate Professor of Biology
Project Timeline: Summer 2019–Spring 2020
This project grant is to pilot software for remote sensing and mapping that students in Ecology courses will collect through drone flight programming.
Quartz lens for Multi-Band Imaging
Project Team:
- Marianne Weldon, Collections Manager, Special Collections, LITS
Project Timeline: Spring 2019
This project grant enabled the purchase of a quartz camera lens to capture high-quality, multi-band photographs of research objects in Bryn Mawr College's collections.
Re-Imagining Sites of Energy Conflict in Germany
Project Team:
- Carol Hager, Professor of Environmental Studies and Political Science on the Clowes Professorship in Science and Public Policy, Project Director
- Kevin Medansky (HC '19), Digital Project Assistant
- Alicia Peaker, Director of Digital Scholarship, Critical Making, and Digital Collections Management, LITS
Project Timeline: Summer 2019
This Digital Bryn Mawr project grant supports a research project to apply digital scholarship methods to analyze three cases of protracted conflict over nuclear power in Germany as represented in German newspapers.
Reexcavating Carthage in Rome: The White Fathers’ Archive
Project Team:
- Alicia Walker, Associate Professor of History of Art, Project Director
- Nava Streiter, Graduate Student, History of Art
- Cassandra Dixon '19, Digital Project Assistant
- Becky Morawski '21, Digital Project Assistant
- Hallie Novak '19, Digital Project Assistant
- Alicia Peaker, Director of Digital Scholarship, Critical Making, and Digital Collections Management, LITS
Project Timeline: Summer 2019
This grant enables the continuation of a long-term digitization and database development project based on the White Father's Archive in Rome.
Surface Encounters: Gareth Brookes Embroidery Workshop and Talk
Project Team:
- Shiamin Kwa, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature
- Alice McGrath, Digital Scholarship Specialist
Project Timeline: Spring 2019
This project grant brought visiting artist and graphic novelist Gareth Brookes to campus for a one-week residency full of workshops, presentations, and conversations about his practices and approaches to making in a variety of mediums, including mixed-media digital collages, linocut prints, embroidery, hand-stitched zines, and more.
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