Decolonial Pedagogy: African Music and Dance Performance in the American Academy
Lightning Talk by Damascus Kafumbe, Associate Professor of Music, on Towards a Decolonial Pedagogy: African Music and Dance Performance in the American Academy.
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Pandemic Layoffs
Learn how Economics Professor Erin Wolcott and her students mined unemployment data to better understand the impact of the pandemic on employment trends.
Data Analytics at The Center for the Blue Economy
The Center for the Blue Economy’s Tony Castelletto describes how the Center for the Blue Economy uses data to conduct translational work in environmental economics.
Million Dollar Hoods
Lightning Talk by Kelly Lytle Hernández on Million Dollar Hoods: Mapping the Cost of Mass Incarceration, an Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecture.
Linguistic Development during Study Abroad
Lightning Talk by Hang Du, Professor of Chinese, on Linguistic Development during Study Abroad: Research on a corpus of spoken learner Chinese.
Critical Language Awareness Pedagogy
Lightning Talk by Shawna Shapiro, Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric, on Building a Community of Practice around Critical Language Awareness Pedagogy.
Social Science Research Modules Progress Continues
| by Mike Roy
The Social Science Research Modules project continues to make progress in its efforts to create shareable modules for learning how to conduct research in the social sciences. They completed a module on surveys, are developing a module on interviews that will be beta tested this spring, and have plans for creating two additional modules on the fundamentals of research and data analysis. You can learn more about this effort, and gain access to these modules at the project’s website.
Geography's Pete Nelson Tracks Pandemic Movement with Cell Phone Data
| by Mike Roy
Geography’s Pete Nelson’s work tracking pandemic movements using cell phone data was recently featured on WCAX.
Latest Round of Microgrant Recipients Announced
| by Mike Roy
The midd.data steering committee has approved four new micro-grants for colleagues at the college and institute, and one leave grant for the 2022-23 academic year.
Technology Career Exploration with CCI's Jeff Sawyer
| by Jeff Sawyer
Jeff Sawyer from The Center for Careers and Internships (CCI) shares information about career opportunities in the technology and data, and how to work with CCI to explore.