The BU Film Club + Library & IT sponsored a weekend film challenge in April of 2024 where participants recieved a prop at the start of the event, and then had the weekend to create a short <5 min film
a six-episode podcast in which Zoe Wilson ’23 catalogs and analyzes the key textual changes made to Tony Kushner’s Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play Angels in America between 1987 and 1994.
a showcase video highlighting how Bucknell University implements GIS across the curriculum.
Students in the “Mapping History” course worked with a collection of rare, historic maps, which were documented, described, and turned into a digital gallery as part of the larger project.
Project: Giant Salamanders in Japan: Transforming Field Research with GoPros Faculty: Mizuki Takahashi DP&S Liaison: Brandon Karcher, Wes Bernstein Date: Spring 2019-Spring 2020 Conservation of Eastern Hellbenders, a large salamander native to the Pennsylvania area, has been the focal point of Dr. Takahashi’s research. However, he also travels to Japan to research giant salamanders, sometimes with students. During the Spring 2019 semester, Brandon and Wes worked with Dr. Takahashi to develop a new research kit – one that will allow him to more efficiently conduct research in the field and also capture high quality video of the giant salamanders. Many aspects […]
Churches of Coal Country, the third installment in the Series of the Susquehanna Valley sequence, tells the story of how the Slavic heritages of both St. Peter and Paul’s Ukrainian Catholic Church and St. Michael’s Russian Orthodox Church in Mount Carmel, PA, have been retained since the immigration of coal miners to the anthracite region in the nineteenth century. The documentary examines the youth membership currently in both churches compared to that of the past in each church to determine the importance of ethnic and spiritual identity to the youth in Mount Carmel today. In Summer 2016 Professor Alf Siewers and […]
This John Hunter received a L&IT 2018 Summer Research Project grant to expand the functionality of his Film Search Engine. Working with him was his Sarah Eckermann, who is also his Presidential Fellow. Here is an update on their progress: The Film/Search Engine’s ongoing projects this summer focused around integrating the three main modules that can be used to search/analyze the films in the database with the new front end: those modules are (1) a text-string search that looks for search strings in the closed caption files of the films; (2) an object search that uses neural net processing to find […]
In the summer and fall of 2017, DP&S worked with Professor Elena Machado and Tucker Leighty-Phillips (English ’18) on a project that compared the social media use of 43 Latinx writers and artists. In the late spring, Machado and Leighty-Phillips used TAGS–a free Twitter archiving tool–to generate Twitter archives for the identified writers. In mid-June they opted to focus their analysis on the top 18 Twitter users. Later, the archives were downloaded, cleaned, and brought into Voyant as a corpus for analysis. Leighty-Phillips focused his analysis on the use of the word Love across 6 writers. Machado focused her work […]
In spring 2019, Prof. Nathan Ryan (Mathematics) debuted a new course, MATH219: Solving Industrial Problems. The course was developed out of a grant he received from PIC Math, a program funded by the Mathematical Association of America and the National Science Foundation with the goal of preparing students for careers by engaging them in research problems that come directly from industry. The course divided students into project groups, each having a real-world client with a specific problem to be addressed. Janine Glathar, GIS Specialist for Digital Pedagogy & Scholarship, co-taught the course with Professor Ryan, working with 2 of the 3 […]
Prof. Morgan Benowitz-Fredericks and her student researcher, Mae Lacey, spent summer 2017 researching the foraging and reproductive habits of Kittiwake birds nesting in a research tower on Middleton Island in the Gulf of Alaska. Prof. Benowitz-Fredericks contacted DPS with an interest in visualizing GPX (or ‘tracking’ data) she collected to show the foraging patterns of birds in her study. By comparing the distance and duration of foraging trips for the Kittiwake birds in the study, Prof. Benowitz-Frecericks hopes to learn more about the impact of climate change on this species of birds. Her research student Mae Lacy is doing a […]