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President Helble 2021 Simon Award

President Helble receives the 2021 Simon Award for comprehensive internationalization from NAFSA.

Personal Genomics - BIOS 396

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.

 

Environmental Policy thesis - StoryMaps and public engagement

Using StoryMaps, a web application created using Esri's ArcGIS platform, Amanda Allekotte, a Masters student in Lehigh's Environmental Policy program, studied whether this digital platform could enhance public engagment in the federal review process compared to a traditional open house setting. Her test case for project was Eilsen Air Force Base and the U.S. Air Force’s Air Installations Compatible Use Zones (AICUZ) program.

StoryMap: https://arcg.is/bnuP0

Lehigh Valley LGBT Community Archive

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.

Documentary Storymaking Capstone - DOC 370

This course is required to complete the Documentary Storymaking Minor and the Graduate Certificate in Documentary. The capsone is a workshop-based experience that guides students through the design, planning, field research, production, and completion of a substantial documentary media project that results in a public presentation of students' most advanced work. Production is informed and enhanced by class discussion of selected readings, screenings, relevant theories and practices in documentary. Students were asked to choose from video, audio, and/or web publication. Student projects were completed remotely.

Example of student capstone project:

The Doing and Undoing of Racism - PSY 326/AAS 326

In this course, students first identifed why and how racism occurs and is maintained, and then analyzed various social-psychological interventions that have been designed to reduce racism, specifically. For the Midterm, students used the faculty's educator subscription to Pixton (https://edu.pixton.com/educators). Students were tasked with designing a cartoon strip that details a particular psychological, social-psychological, historical, and/or legal process that has contributed to racism today.

Comic Strip Midterm - Documenting Historical and Social Psychological Processes of Racism: Using the Pixton software, students were asked to pictorially explain a (or a set of) historical and/or social psychological process(es) that have contributed to our understanding of how racism is constructed, reinforced, and/or maintained in our society. Aspects of the project include the creation of a storyboard/script, the production of at least 2 characters that engage with each other to discuss, describe or act out a particular process, 2 different backgrounds/scenes, and 15 to 20 panels. This assignment was completely remotely and accounted for 20% of the students' grade.

Student Example: