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The Active Minds Emerging Scholars Fellowship- Applications due 12/14/14
The Active Minds Emerging Scholars Fellowship is currently seeking proposals for unique and thought-provoking research or creative projects related to mental health!
The Emerging Scholars Fellowship program aims to expand the body of literature, creative expression, and discourse devoted to mental health with a particular emphasis on issues relevant to young adult communities. The Fellowship program encourages creativity in the development of a project that reflects interest in behavioral health issues; a wide range of project types are likely to receive funding. Emerging Scholars will be awarded a $1,000 stipend to support their work and may apply for an additional $250 in reimbursement for material expenses.
Project proposals will be accepted until 9:00pm ET on Sunday, December 14, 2014. Preference will be given to early submissions. Please download the 2015 Call for Proposals online at www.activeminds.org/scholars. Completed proposals must be submitted using our online form, also online. All applicants will be notified by January 12. The Emerging Scholars Fellowship encourages proposals from all interested currently enrolled undergraduate and graduate students and is dedicated to maximizing diversity within the Scholar network.
The Active Minds Emerging Scholars Fellowship, generously supported by the Scattergood Foundation for Behavioral Health, provides an opportunity for students to complete funded, independent mental health projects and to be connected with a network of young scholars and national experts in the field of behavioral health.
For more information, email Candace Daniels, Senior Program Manager of National Initiatives at candace@activeminds.org or visit www.activeminds.org/scholars.
Emblematica Online: New Portal Functionality and Undergraduate Researchers
The Scholarly Commons’ Explorations in Digital Humanities Workshop “Emblematica Online: New Portal Functionality and Undergraduate Researchers ” will be held Thursday November 20th at 4:00 in room 308 of the Main Library.
This presentation focuses on the digital resource Emblematica Online, a project funded first by the NEH and DFG Bilateral Digital Humanities Initiative and now by NEH. Emblematica Online currently makes 1,388 digital facsimiles and ~22,000 individual emblems from these rare Renaissance books at the University of Illinois Library and the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Glasgow University, Utrecht University, Getty Research Institute Library, and Duke University Library, available for searching and browsing at various levels of granularity.
The presenters will provide a brief history and description of the project, discuss their model of undergraduate research for the project and demonstrate sample searches within the OpenEmblem Portal and across international projects which employ Iconlcass metadata indexing. The presentation will last ca. 40 minutes.
The researchers for Emblematica Online are:
Mara Wade, PI; Timothy W. Cole, Myung-Ja K. Han, and Harriett Green, co-PIs
Tom Kilton, Senior Consultant; Janina Sarol, Patricia Lampron, Librarians
Student researchers: Johannes Fröhlich (RA)
Patricia Fleming, Heidi Heim, Melina Nunez, Undergraduate Emblem Scholars
Associated online publications include:
Timothy W. Cole, Myung-Ja K. Han, Jordan Vannoy, “Descriptive Metadata, Iconclass, and Digitized Emblem Literature,” JCDL ’12 Proceedings of the 12th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, New York: ACM, 2012, 111-120. http://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=2232839&ftid=1226090&dwn=1&CFID=589338266&CFTOKEN=46188955
Digital Collections and the Management of Knowledge: Renaissance Emblem Literature as a Case Study for the Digitization of Rare Texts and Images, ed. Mara R. Wade. Salzburg: DigiCULT, 2004. http://www.digicult.info/downloads/dc_emblemsbook_highres.pdf
Emblem Digitization: Conducting Digital Research with Renaissance Texts and Images ed. Mara R. Wade. 2012. (= Early Modern Literary Studies, Special Issue 20)
http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/emlshome.html
Digitization for Research and Scholarly Communication, 4 May 2014
http://iprh.wordpress.com/2014/05/04/digitization-for-research-and-scholarly-communication/
Undergraduates Present Original Research at EUI Conference
Undergraduates enrolled in Ethnography of the University Initiative affiliated courses presented their original research to an audience of peers, professors, and community members on April 15. As an audience member, I was thrilled to hear from the researchers about their semester-long projects, which spanned a wide variety of topics related to the University of Illinois and Parkland College. The buzz of conversation and animated exchanges between presenters and attendees during the poster portion of conference exemplifies the valuable opportunity that is conference participation. Though many were nervous, and indeed many had never presented at a conference before, students beamed with satisfaction as they answered questions and comments about their projects.
The students’ confidence and passion for their research projects could be felt in the oral presentations as well. Presenters prepared brief panel presentations about their research questions, methodologies, and findings. Topics included academic parking habits, student healthcare knowledge, recruitment practices in university programs, personal benefits derived from volunteerism, and individual aesthetic choices and the construction of social meaning of body adornment. Audience members appreciated the quality of projects, and also offered new angles of analysis that could lead to further, more in-depth research. Some conference participants described their EUI-affiliated course as “eye-opening” and “good practice” for their future academic career. Another student said her EUI experience had left her feeling more responsible and an active agent in her undergraduate education.
EUI’s Spring 2014 conference exemplified the importance of undergraduate research at the U of I and its sister college(s), undergraduate engagement with the university or college as subject and agent, and the excitement undergrads have being able to participate in the research process.
More information on EUI can be found on our website.
Noelle Easterday, EUI Graduate Assistant