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3D Atlanta Demo During Finals Week
Geo-tagging Underground Atlanta
As part of our efforts to map historic Atlanta, SIF fellows have geo-tagged a GSU Library/Atlanta-Fulton Central Library collection of glass plate negative photographs from the 1920s. These beautiful images provide rare glimpses into the area around the Five Points...
SIF work highlighted at national conference
This March, historians from around the country will be gathering at Drew University to discuss the state of graduate education in the field. Like many disciplines, particularly (but by no means exclusively) in the humanities, history departments have been...
After Malcolm Project to Exhibit at National Civil and Human Rights Museum
Figures like Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X are central to the history of the Black Freedom Struggle; however the larger story of African American Islam before, during, and after the Civil Rights Movement remains to be told. The religious tradition of Islam has been drawn...
Supporting GSU’s Tradition of Innovation
Georgia State University is developing a national reputation for innovation and excellence in undergraduate education - the U.S. News & World Report, for instance, recently named it the 14th best school in the country at educating undergrads, in company with some...
SIF Fellows Present at Atlanta Connected Learning Digital Pedagogy Meetup
On Tuesday December 1st at 7 PM, SIF fellows Valerie Robin and Dylan Ruediger will speak to the Atlanta Connected Learning Digital Pedagogy Meetup about the evolving role of the SIF Program in Graduate Pedagogy. They will describe how the program is being expanded to...
MS Project on the Hoccleve Archive
GSU’s investment in the Hoccleve Archive has resulted in its first graduate degree. Sruthi Vuppala, who has worked for the past two years as a Student Innovation Fellow assigned to the Hoccleve Archive, recently defended her MS Project, "Digitization of the Hoccleve...
Mapping GSU’s Growth
They grow up so fast; this time honored phrase can certainly be applied to the growth at Georgia State University. From its humble beginnings as an evening business school to one of the most established property owners in Downtown Atlanta, Georgia State has certainly...
Climate Lab Weather Balloon
What's that up in the sky? Downtown Atlanta will soon have its first Weather balloon thanks to a joint effort of the SIF program and the Geosciences Department. The weather balloon will allow the over 1500 students each year who enroll in Geography 1112 (GSU's most...
SIF Digital Humanities Projects Highlighted at GSU Scientific Computing Day
Last week, GSU held its first Scientific Computing Day, a one-day symposium to foster interactions and collaborations between researchers at Georgia State University. The event provides researchers on the frontiers of computation research to present their work and...
SIF Fellow Speaks at TEDx
This summer, SIF Fellow Thomas Breideband presented his work on how things grow in the complex ecosystem of social media at TEDx Vicenza in Italy. Over 5000 people watched the event on a live stream, and a half million people were reached by it on Twitter. Thomas'...
When Our Eyes are the Media
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehT2ztAFv6o SIF Fellow Ameer Muhammad recently took a trip to Turkey that completely changed his perspective about the country. His experience with Syrian refugees there is the subject of his new documentary film. Read more about his...