This semester, the Scholarly Commons is onboarding five new GAs! In order to help you get to know all the new faces, we will be asking them to answer a few questions, and posting their responses throughout the fall. First up, we have Apollo Uhlenbruck. What is your educational and/or professional background? I got my […]
Category: Interviews
Meet Our Graduate Assistants: Ryan Yoakum
In this interview series, we ask our graduate assistants questions for our readers to get to know them better. Our first interview this year is with Ryan Yoakum! What is your background education and work experience? I came to graduate school directly after receiving my bachelor’s degree in May 2021 in History and Religion here […]
Meet our Graduate Assistants: Michael Steffen
WHAT IS YOUR BACKGROUND EDUCATION AND WORK EXPERIENCE? I graduated from the University of Iowa in 2017 with a Bachelor of Arts in History and two minors in Informatics and Museum Studies. As an undergraduate, I had several student jobs related to the LIS field, including an Exhibit Preparation Assistant, a Digital Library Aide, and […]
Meet our Graduate Assistants: Ben Ostermeier
What is your background education and work experience? I graduated from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville with a Bachelor of Arts in History, with a minor in Computer Science. I was also the first SIUE student to receive an additional minor in Digital Humanities and Social Sciences. In undergrad I worked on a variety of digital […]
Meet Michelle Reed: New Head of The Scholarly Commons
It is an exciting time for our unit because we finally have a new head of the Scholarly Commons, Michelle Reed! We want to give our readers a chance to learn more about Michelle and her career in this blog post. Before joining us, Michelle worked as Associate Librarian and Director of Open Educational Resources […]
Meet Our Graduate Assistants: Sarah Appedu
In this interview series we ask our graduate assistants questions for our readers to get to know them better. Our first interview this year is with Sarah Appedu! What is your background education and work experience? Before attending graduate school, I worked as the Scholarly Communications Assistant in the academic library of a small liberal […]
Simple NetInt: A New Data Visualization Tool from Illinois Assistant Professor, Juan Salamanca
Juan Salamanca Ph.D, Assistant Professor in the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign recently created a new data visualization tool called Simple NetInt. Though developed from a tool he created a few years ago, this tool brings entirely new opportunities to digital scholarship! This week we had the chance to […]
An interview with Billy Tringali on JAMS and Open Access
This week I had the opportunity to talk to Billy Tringali. If you don’t know Billy he worked in the Scholarly Commons as a graduate assistant from 2016-2018 and now works as a Law Librarian for Outreach at Emory University. Our conversation this week was about a passion project that he started during his time […]
Our Graduate Assistants: Abigail Sewall
This interview is part of a continued series introducing our graduate assistants to our online community. These are some of the people you will see when you visit our space, who will greet you with a smile and a willingness to help! Say hello to Abigail Sewall! What is your background education and work experience? […]
Our Graduate Assistants: Mallory Untch
This interview is part of a continued series introducing our graduate assistants to our online community. These are some of the people you will see when you visit our space, who will greet you with a smile and a willingness to help! Say hello to Mallory Untch!