Karp Library Fellows, Cohort III
It has been four years since University of Rochester Trustee Carol Karp ʼ74, Pʼ11 and Victor Glushko P’11 made a major gift commitment, creating the Carol ’74, Pʼ11 and Sarah ’11 Karp Library Fellows Program.
Zero-Cost Heroes IV
The Open Education Resources (OER) Working Group of the River Campus Libraries (RCL) is working toward its third year of an Open Education grant program and has identified more low-cost/increased-access champions across campus. This year, we close out Open Education Week/Month 2023 by proudly announcing 7 new Zero-Cost Heroes.
When new federal grant policies call, the libraries answer
In August of last year, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy issued a memo on “Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research.” The crux of the message was that openly sharing research data is the best way to maximize the potential of new knowledge and benefit the most people possible. And as the memo points out, COVID-19 offers a convincing case study on this being a practice that should be embraced with open arms.
Daniel Menzo
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. As a graduate student employee, he assisted with the lab’s diverse digitization projects.
Izul Zulkarnain
Iskandar (Izul) Zulkarnain was a Mellon/CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation for Visual Studies at the University of Rochester. He completed his dissertation on Indonesian digital nationalism in 2015, with the support of the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship, and received his Ph.D. from the Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies also at the University of Rochester. His interests cover critical digital humanities, global/postcolonial digital media studies, and transnational video game and animation studies.
Josh Romphf
Josh is currently the programmer for the Digital Scholarship Lab. Originally from London, Ontario, he holds an MA in Film and Media Preservation from George Eastman Museum and The University of Rochester. His interests include fabrication, computer vision, video encoding, and electronics.
Close-up on close-ups
Think about one of your favorite movies or even one of the last movies you saw. Do you have a sense of how often a close-up occurred or what characters or objects received them?
Just to make sure there’s no confusion about the terminology, a “close-up” is any camera shot in which a character’s face, an object, or a detail in a scene take up most or all of the frame. So, could you offer a rough estimate of the close-ups in any movie at all?
It’s OK if you have no idea.
2022 Research Initiative Awards
Meliora is more than a motto, set of values, or work ethic at the University of Rochester. It’s also the people who live, apply, and realize it. Students are an excellent example.
Local grants helps archive Black Lives Matter movement in Rochester
It’s a Saturday, a couple of weeks after a police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, murdered George Floyd. Rochester-area residents are gathered at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park for a Black Lives Matter (BLM) protest.
Emotions run the gamut.
Fall 2022 data grants
Words like “find” and “discover” make research sound like exploring a lightless cavern or some other vast unknown space. But in reality, it’s an investigation of what is known in order to increase understanding and reach new conclusions, thereby creating new knowledge. The problem is “the known” isn’t always accessible.
