Participated in Teagle Workshop at Union College, NY.  The goal of the “High Performance Computing at Liberal Arts Colleges” planning grant is to develop a proposal for the best way to utilize HPC in the liberal arts setting. We plan to hold four workshops: 1) what do we mean by HPC?; 2) applications of HPC in the humanities and social sciences; 3) applications of HCP in the sciences and engineering; 4) what should we do in our liberal arts settings? This project involves Bard, Colgate, Hamilton, Skidmore, Union, and Vassar Colleges.  With Geraldine Heng, University of Texas, Austin; Doug Reside, University of Maryland; Orville Vernon Burton, Coastal Carolina University.  September 29, 2009.

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New technologies offer great potential for advancing the practice of oral history. However, they also introduce new questions and issues. Michigan State University, through the MATRIX Center and the Michigan State University Museum, will partner with the Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, the Library of Congress’ American Folklife Center, the American Folklore Society, and the Oral History Association to recommend standards and best practices for digital oral history. Seven multidisciplinary working groups recruited from experts and practitioners from museums, libraries, and scholarly societies will work online, at meetings such as national conferences, and in a symposium at the Library of Congress to produce recommendations around core topics including intellectual property, transcriptions, digital video, technology, scholarship, preservation, and access. Final recommendations from all groups will be published as a guide to conducting digital oral history.  http://www.imls.gov/news/2009/092409b_list.shtm#MI

This semester I will be teaching a new course in of all things, grant writing. It will be a work of ongoing development and will focus a good deal on the process and project management needed for completing a proposal. Information on the course will be kept at http://resources.matrix.msu.edu.