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.
Digital Projects and Platforms Workshop Series
Why Digital Projects?
In June, 2020, Digital Scholarship, Learning Initiatives, RBSCP, and Metadata Services worked together to develop and lead a workshop series aimed at helping faculty imagine how to increase student engagement through the use of digital tools and assignments.
Presenting on Mediate at ACH
By: Tiamat Fox ('20), Research Assistant, Digital Scholarship
Monitoring Trees in the Cloud
By: Maxwell Sheldon ('21, e5), Technical Assistant, Digital Scholarship Lab
Teaching Writing with Comic Books
Why Comic Books?
Multimodal composition is core to the first-year writing curriculum at the University of Rochester. Alongside term papers, students create short movies, interactive websites, comic strips, and more. Comic Life (comiclife.com) is a software program designed to create everything from single-panel cartoons to comic strips to full-length graphic novels.
Checking In with Meaghan Moody
In the past year, visitors to the Carlson Science and Engineering Library at the University of Rochester may have heard a light humming sound. It could have been the lights, but it also could have been Mary Ann Mavrinac Studio X.
Here is the History, in Review
The Ask the Archivist column in the Fall 2022 Rochester Review answered a question from an alumnus who sought a pair of matching photographs of the inscriptions on the facade of Rush Rhees Library. You can read the article here.
These drafts show Professor John Rothwell Slater's thought processes and the evolution to the final inscriptions.
