PAGE 4 LIBRARY AND TECHNOLOGY SERVICES - - - - Special Collections presented a number of classes to engage students with original primary source collec tions and to support research in their relevant subjects. The classes included: • ART 135 Painting II • ART 227 / LAS 227 Latin American Art • ART 276 Introduction to Museum Education and Interpretation • ASTR 302 Introduction to Galactic and Extragalactic Astrophysics • CHIN 298 Chinese Journey to Lehigh—Political and Personal • DES 396 Interactive Data Visualization • EES Remote Sensing • ENGL 377 American Romanticism • ENGL 395 Research Methods in Health Humanities • ENGL/GS 090/11 What are the Histories and Cultures of Data? • GERM 167 German Conversation/Composition • GS/MLL 128 World Stories: Fictional Expressions of Globalization • HIST 031 Empire, War and Resistance in the Middle East • HIST 090 America in the 1960s • HIST 137 American Immigration History • HIST 391/491 Prisons and Policing in Modern American History • HIST/GS 107: World History Science and Technology in the Making of the Modern World • IR 97 Power and the Planet • Phil 220 Epistemology • POLS End of Policing • REL 196 Culture of the Book • SOC/AAS 197 Sociology of Black Families Digital Research and Scholarship The Digital Research and Scholarship Team consulted on faculty research projects. Major projects included: ▶ Developed data pipeline and public application for the “Lehigh Valley Breathes” research project, funded by Lehigh and Northampton Counties (PI, Breena Holland). ▶ Collaborated with students working in the Children’s Environmental Precision Health Institute (CEPHI) to build and maintain a data hub for access to raw data and analysis results from ongoing research projects (PI, Hyunok Choi). ▶ Collaborated on the development and submis sion of a grant proposal to the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a project titled “Pennsylvania Asthma-COPD Syndromic Surveillance” (PASS) (PI, Hyunok Choi). ▶ Supported the GIS infrastructure and skills devel opment for the socio-environmental science inves tigations (SESI) research project, funded by NSF (PI, Thomas Hammond). ▶ Continued technical support for the Gloria Naylor Archive project (Suzanne Edwards) by consulting on metadata creation and enhancement for exist ing and newly digitized materials. ▶ Continued support of the Lehigh Valley LGBT+ Community Archive project (Mary Foltz), mainly through consultation on WordPress components of the project. ▶ Continued support of the Vault at Pfaff’s project (Ed Whitley) through consultation and research assistance for expansion of bibliographic and biographic data on the site. Supporting Undergraduate Research A four-member panel of seasoned undergraduate researchers from varied disciplines shared their path to research, successes, learning experiences, and advice with 35 first-year students in the Undergrads Do Research (and You Can Too!) 5x10, co-sponsored by LTS. -
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