Grants Awarded 2020-2021

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2020-2021

• Implementing VoiceThread as an additional digital learning tool
• Officially ‘Unofficial’: Demonstrating the Unofficial Nature of China’s State-led Boycotts through Machine Learning
• OER elementary Italian textbook
• Global Bryn Mawr Undergraduate Funding Database
• Grants funding database
• Education, Technology, & Society
• (Re)Presenting equity and anti-racism resources for teaching and learning through TLI and related forums
• Digital Mineral Collection Development
• Preserving Histories of Perry House, Cohort 3

Implementing VoiceThread as an additional digital learning tool

Team

• Justin Fugo, Philosophy (Faculty)

Timeline

Fall 2020

Description

This grant supported the purchase of a VoiceThread license for three courses: Ethics, Science and Morality in Modernity, and Africana Philosophy.

Officially ‘Unofficial’: Demonstrating the Unofficial Nature of China’s State-led Boycotts through Machine Learning

Team

• Seung-Youn Oh, Political Science
• Nicola McHugh (BMC undergrad '22)
• Enaas Sultan
• 3-4 Undergraduate Project Assistants

Timeline

Fall 2020 - Spring 2022

Description

This grant supported research that uses machine learning to analyze the impact of Chinese media coverage on foreign issues and citizens’ (re)actions to a particular country. The research involved the application of quantitative text analysis (QTA) and sentiment analysis to a large volume of speeches from the Chinese government and texts from Chinese media platforms, and the results were matched to various stages of diplomatic tension.

OER elementary Italian textbook

Team

• Daria Bozzato, Bryn Mawr College, Department of Italian and Italian Studies, project leader
• Chiara Benetollo, Bryn Mawr College, Department of Italian and Italian Studies
• Mari Ocando Finol

Timeline

Spring 2021-Fall 2022

Description

This grant supported the creation of an open textbook for elementary-level Italian language learning that presents a diverse, realistic picture of Italian culture.

Global Bryn Mawr Undergraduate Funding Database

Team

• Digital Technology Interns Summer 2021
• Jenny Spohrer – consultant in project development
• Sarah Theobald – project manager
• Billie Jo Ember – consultant in project development
• Nell Anderson – student use consultant
• Tracy Webber – student use consultant
• Ellie Stanford – resource advisor

Timeline

Spring 2021 - Spring 2022

Description

This grant supported the design and implementation of a database of College-managed funding opportunities for support of undergraduate international study.

Grants funding database

Team

• Vanessa Davies
• DT interns
• Office of Sponsored Research

Timeline

Summer 2021

Description

This grant supported the creation of a database of funding opportunities that would be accessible to faculty, staff, and students.

Education, Technology, & Society

Team

Chanelle Wilson, Bi-Co Education, Co-Instructor Mercedes Davis, HC '20, Co-Instructor

Timeline

Spring 2021

Description

This grant supported the redesign of an Education, Technology & Society course around anti-racism, and a public lecture by Dr. Ruha Benjamin.

(Re)presenting equity and anti-racism resources for teaching and learning through TLI and related forums

Team

• Allison Cook-Sather
• Maria Bohan, experienced TLI student consultant, Bryn Mawr College ‘21;
• Lauren Lattimore, experienced TLI student consultant, Bryn Mawr College ‘21;
• Elena Marcovici, experienced TLI student consultant, Haverford College ‘21.

Timeline

Summer 2021

Description

This grant supported a professional development project that pulled together resources that had been generated through various TLI and related forums focused on developing inclusive, equitable, and anti-racist approaches to teaching and learning in the Bi-Co. The project gathers and (re)present resources to support the professional development of faculty and staff as the College continues to support efforts to move the institution toward equitable and anti-racist practices. The project extends the agentic engagement (Cook-Sather, Allard, Marcovici, & Reynolds, in preparation) students experience through participating in a pedagogical partnership that informs the conceptualization and creation of inclusive, equitable, and anti-racist approaches to teaching and learning as well as deepen their digital competencies. The mutually informing skills of conceptualizing and creating accessible and engaging web representations of complex approaches are critical to such context-sensitive and critical content.

Digital Mineral Collection Development

Team

• Selby Cull-Hearth
• Student interns

Timeline

Spring 2021 - Fall 2021

Description

This grant supported hiring students to enter minerals into a digital database. It also supported the development of documentation for database maintenance procedures as well as a draft digital exhibition for specimens from the Tsumeb, Namibia, copper mine.

Preserving Histories of Perry House, Cohort 3

Team

• Joi Dallas, Res Life Coordinator, Res Life—project co-head
• Vanessa Christman, Pensby—project co-head
• Allison Mills, College Archivist, LITS
• Gabrielle Gary, ARD
• Student Researchers: Aaliyah Joseph ’22, Janina Calle ’21, Reece Carew-Lyons ’23, and Rihana Oumer ’21

Timeline

Spring 2021 - Fall 2021

Description

Students were hired to continue to build a collection of oral histories relating to Perry House and its affiliated communities. They conducted research into the lives and experiences of Perry House community members over the years, including tracking down previous residents and community members, interviewing them, and preserving those interviews in our archives.