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Edge Website Prototype

Edge Website Prototype

In moving ahead in the process of getting Edge magazine off the ground, Nathan Sharratt and I took some time to develop a prototype using sites.gsu. After much consideration, and thanks to Nathan's artist's eye, we decided to try out the theme called Hueman - a cute...

Using the Tech We Have: A Plea for the more Sharepoint

Using the Tech We Have: A Plea for the more Sharepoint

Perhaps the greatest strength of the SIF program is its emphasis on collaborative work. Yet it is also one of the great challenges of the program - especially as all of us working on the SIF are fulltime students, many deep in the process of writing dissertations or a...

Approaching teaching observations as ethnography

Approaching teaching observations as ethnography

As a SIF this year, I have felt like a fish out of water when engaging in social science and education research. I find that doing good, rigorous social science is more difficult than doing experimental physics in a lot of ways. When delivering social science surveys,...

MS Project on the Hoccleve Archive

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...

Up and Away: the Power of Interdisciplinary Work

Up and Away: the Power of Interdisciplinary Work

Recently the SIF Web Editors highlighted the project that will be one of my main focuses during my time with the SIF program: the climate lab weather balloon. This project will deploy a moored weather balloon as a way to collect real-time data about the troposphere...

Great Flying Corn-Cobs, Batman!

Great Flying Corn-Cobs, Batman!

So, the topic of this month's post comes to be because of half joking comment I made in passing to a friend a few weeks ago. We had been discussing regional pronunciation, and I pointed out the best way to start a fight between an Atlantan, a New Yorker, and a...

Lessons of Being a New Historical Researcher

Lessons of Being a New Historical Researcher

The sort of work I have done for the 3-D Atlanta Project is different than any process I have gone through before. My abilities are strongest when I am exploring scientific topics. I’m a physics major, so you can imagine the sort of work I have done. When there is a...

Edge Magazine in Development

Edge Magazine in Development

Maybe you've heard the buzz, and maybe you haven't: Edge Magazine is coming to Georgia State University next Fall. What is Edge Magazine? Edge is an undergraduate project and research magazine/journal hybrid. It will be a fully online publication that encourages...

Mapping GSU’s Growth

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...

Future of 3D Atlanta

Future of 3D Atlanta

In the course of the 3D Atlanta Project, we have done some valuable things for both people who have seen the project and for ourselves. We've learned about huge amounts of data, like from the Digital Collections site showing Fairlie and Poplar Streets or more recent...

The value of long-term projects

The value of long-term projects

This is the latest in a series of posts on graduate education in the humanities and how the SIF program could facilitate efforts by GSU to apply some of its growing recognition for innovation in undergraduate education to problems to its graduate programs. For...