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Ever since I was an undergraduate student of Political Science the differences between access to basic amenities like clean drinking water, clean living spaces, health etc concerned me. I decided to work in the development sector to understand the reason better and to spend my life working in service of achieving dignity and equality forContinue reading "Understanding agrarian change through farmer’s emotions."

Iran’s political climate has experienced a series of social protests in the past few years. These episodes were caused by different issues and aimed at different ideals and demands which has given rise to the debate if they should be considered divergent, scattered protest activities or if they all can be seen as different aspectsContinue reading "Mahdi Feyz Karimlou’s post on summer project work"

My project initially seemed straightforward, but I soon realized that the undertaking was much more profound than I had imagined. The question I began with was simple. What is the best way to portray an artist book online? Artists’ books are physical objects that convey meaning through structure, form and content. These books are worksContinue reading "How do artists’ books translate to a digital medium?"

Historia in Spanish has different meanings and can be translated to English as a story or history. What makes a personal story history? What stories are part of history? What voices and stories are not included in history? “History is written by the victors” is a common phrase used to describe how structures of powerContinue reading "“Memorias del corazón” a bilingual podcast"

Hi! My name is Margaret Yapp – I’m currently an MFA candidate at the Center for the book, entering my thesis year. Before starting at UICB, I did an MFA in poetry at the Writers’ Workshop. I have spent the last few years at UICB really focused on learning letterpress printing and figuring out howContinue reading "Rampage Party Press / in the works!"

My original goal for the Digital Scholarship and Publishing Studio’s Fellowship was to learn how to code in Python, with the end goal of using machine learning in my scholarship. However, one question that’s emerged during the summer is: how do you teach humanities majors to code? At first, I was asking this in moreContinue reading "Python for English majors"

uI like to press my ear against their rugged surface, run my fingers down the ridges of the bark. I close my eyes and breath in the scent of resins, of wet earth. Trees are special for me: they give me peace. That’s why I decided to make a documentary about the most significant treesContinue reading "Decades on and still standing: a history of trees on campus"

Hi! My name is Connie Chen. I am an upcoming 3rd year MFA student in the Nonfiction Writing Program. My thesis in creative nonfiction is my book project titled This is a Zoo, a polyphonic liturgy with candid appreciation of unruly flesh, and penetrating analysis of chronic illness, gender, identity, and their roots in artContinue reading "Introductory blog post: Connie Chen"

  The University of Iowa Graduate College and the UI Libraries Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio are excited to announce that 10 graduate students have been selected for the 2024 Studio Summer Fellowship program. These individuals will soon take part in an eight week course that provides mentored digital scholarship experience, as well as trainingContinue reading "Introducing the Studio’s 2024 Summer Fellows"

Applications are now being accepted through Feb 7 at 5 p.m. for the Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio’s 2024 Summer Fellowship Program. The program is open to all UI PhD, MFA, and DMA students looking to benefit from an in-person, mentored digital scholarship experience this upcoming summer. Learn more about the program and apply onContinue reading "Studio Summer Fellowship applications are open for submission!"

This August, 11 graduate students completed the 2023 Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio Summer Fellowship—marking the seventh cohort to be awarded the mentored digital scholarship internship experience since the program’s inception in 2017. At the end of the course, the fellows presented on findings, challenges, and conclusions drawn from their digital project work over theContinue reading "The Studio’s 7th Cohort Completes Summer Fellowship Program"

When I was setting goals at the beginning of the summer, I thought processing and uploading the entirety of the Lowell Offering’s 5-year run would be reasonable. I was so wrong. I underestimated exactly how time-consuming the data entry would be and, around the halfway point, I realized I had to move along. Getting theContinue reading "The Epic Highs and Lows of Building a Digital Archive"

Coming into the Summer Fellowship, the aspect of my project that I was most worried about was the coding. While I am fairly functional, if not precisely fluent, with most technologies, delving beneath the surface level into the murky chasms of coding was a scary step to take. As I sit here reflecting upon myContinue reading "[Data] Mining For Medieval Messengers: Part 2"

Integrating sculpture and multi-digital processes has been my primary research this summer and I began with sketching out designs for my chandeliers. These chandeliers are inspired by sun patterns throughout the day as the final sculpture will emulate sun rays through a light installation with digital projectors. I began with the pattern of Solar Noon,Continue reading "Projection Mapping with Interlocking Sculpture: Prototype Designs"

As I write this I have about a week left in the Digital Scholarship Fellowship. I am grateful for this time and space to work on my podcast Workshop: Writing in Progress. It has been a great learning experience to go from an idea to an actual thing that exists. Since this project involves theContinue reading "Workshop: A Creativity Podcast Post #2"

I used to love NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross. Her smooth calming voice paired with her insightful questions motivated me on multiple occasions to purchase the book of her guest, be it Ocean Vuong’s poetry collection about grief after his mother’s death or Michael Pollan’s tome on psychedelic drug treatments.  But ever since startingContinue reading "Workshop: A Creativity Podcast – Post #1"

When I first began this fellowship I had hoped that this post would be one of celebration, one that highlighted the fact that I was finished with my Omeka project. Unfortunately that is not the case. I’m not finished, and I’m a little disappointed that I didn’t reach my initial goal. I started with theContinue reading "Blog Post 2: Susa Imports"

This summer I have been working on a project that will test the validity of a social psychological theory in measuring human moral judgment. To facilitate my research project, I began by constructing a survey that was posted on Amazon Mechanical Turk to pilot the test. My survey presented participants with moral transgressions, where theyContinue reading "Measuring Moral Judgment Project Reflection"