Davis Family Library Center for Teaching, Learning and Research

Please join Undergraduate Research in the CTLR for presentations from our Feb Kellogg Fellows. The fellows, as well as Dean Lisa Gates, will be available for general questions about the fellowship at the end of the presentations. Refreshments available beginning at 4:15 pm. Presentations will begin at 4:30 pm.

Matthew Spitzer ‘16.5—Conceiving the Non-Conceptual: Language at Its Limit in Buddhist Thought

Caroline Cating ‘16.5—Perceptions of Slang in Iberian Spanish: The Case of Caló Loanwords

Sarah Stanley, an alumnus of the Northeastern University Women Writers Project, will lead a session on how to conduct research using scholarly markup. If you are curious about scholarly markup or are looking to start a markup project (e.g. a digital scholarly edition), but don’t know where to begin, this session will provide you with a starting-point. No experience necessary. Enrollment is limited so please select the link to register. http://sites.middlebury.edu/dla/2015/10/06/introduction-to-scholarly-ma…

This workshop, led by DLA Postdoc Alicia Peaker, will introduce the varied ways scholars have used text mining tools and concepts (e.g. “distant reading”) to analyze texts. Participants will then be invited to explore a shared set of texts with the user-friendly text mining and visualization tool Voyant. Enrollment is limited, so please select the link to register and secure your spot. http://sites.middlebury.edu/dla/2015/09/15/introduction-to-digital-text…

The Institutional Review Board (IRB) chair and staff will be on hand to answer questions about the IRB, review process, and conducting research with human subjects. Refreshments will be served!

Join Ellen Prokop (The Frick Collection) and Carrie Anderson (HARC) in a discussion about how digital methods, including digital mapping and GIS, changed the ways they approached scholarship and teaching. They will share lessons learned from adapting multidisciplinary approaches (like GIS) to their work, collaborating with other scholars and students on digital projects, and what they wished they’d known before venturing into new digital territories. Lunch will be served, so please RSVP at http://sites.middlebury.edu/dla/event/digmethods/.

Tucker Van Aken ‘12 will discuss his experiences as a Fulbrighter in China. Dean Lisa Gates will be on hand to answer questions about the Fulbright or application process. This session is for students interested in learning more about the Fulbright and possibly applying in the fall.

See http://go.middlebury/edu/fellowships for more information.

Professor Kathy Morse (History) and Postdoc Alicia Peaker (DLA) will discuss the goals, process, successes and stumbles in having students build a series of collaborative, digital exhibits to mark 50 years of environmental studies at Middlebury. Fifty Years of Green, built using Omeka & Neatline, showcases the work of students in a Spring 2015 Environmental History course (HIST 222). During their talk, Kathy and Alicia will reflect on collaborative digital work; modifying an existing course with an experimental project; and student reactions to learning new software and skills.

Lecturing is being phased out at The Robert Larner, M.D. College of Medicine at The University of Vermont. The current plan calls for all lecturing to cease by 2022 and the time spent in lecture halls will be replaced by time in active learning environments.

From a radical idea first proposed in 2008, the integrated concentration in science (iCons) program at UMass Amherst has evolved into a living, breathing, academic program that has uprooted expectations about what undergraduate students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are capable of achieving.

One of the most interesting and potentially transformative technological trends concerns two separate movements. On the one hand, we have virtual reality, a 1990s dream that has suddenly become practical through expensive devices and smartphones. VR experiences, stories, experiments, technologies, and practices are rapidly growing, with a series of educational uses. On the other hand augmented reality (AR), the practice of tying digital data to the physical world, has quietly matured as mobile devices bring us information through Google Maps, Yelp, and more.