Digital Scholarship Team, Featured Projects

360 VR Tours of Health Science and Technology Building.

Capture and distribute footage of the inside the HST construction project

This class explored the implications, methods and processes that have allowed us to learn so much about our genomes.  As part of the course, students were asked to synthesize information a from course topics and create products that would communicate what they learned in the course to a brand audience.  Many students chose to complete this assignment by creating a podcast.

The following podcast on race, ancestry, and the racist history of human genetics research was produced by Biological Sciences graduate student Luke McCartin.

Mountaintop Initiative Project Summary:

This project is working with the Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center in Allentown, PA which since its opening in 2016, has collected materials from community members, LGBT owned businesses, and regional media to start an archive dedicated to the Lehigh Valley LGBT community. This archive is becoming more accessible to LGBT people and allies in the Lehigh Valley, and the team in 2019 imagined and designed accessible digital platforms for archival material and effective public exhibitions of archival material. This year they are continuing to expand, curate, and discover archival material. This year [2020] they are continuing to expand, curate and discover archival materials that document the history of LGBTQ+ people in the Lehigh Valley.  This team will create a public exhibit of the archive, working with local partners and organizations to mine the trove of hidden histories and bring them to light.

In Summer 2020, the Digital Scholarship Team began supporting this project team and their faculty mentor, Professor Mary Foltz, with the WordPress component of this project: a web-based public exhibition of the archive. This work continues into the Spring 2021 semester.