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Center for Digital Scholarship

Month: April 2023

(Jennifer) HerbUX

HerbUX While Herbarium (plant specimen archive) collections have increasingly been digitized and made available online, digitized herbarium collections remain somewhat inaccessible to large portions of the population—in large part because the interfaces to these collections assume the user has specialized knowledge of plants, knows what they are looking for, and is deeply engaged. Building on (Jennifer) HerbUX

(Jennifer) Black Maternal Health

Black Maternal Health The COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately impacting the African-American community. A recent analysis indicates that counties with majority African-American populations account for more than 50% of COVID-19 cases and 60% of deaths. The toll on African-American women could be even greater, as they are overrepresented in low-income essential jobs, such as nursing aides, (Jennifer) Black Maternal Health

(Jennifer) A Mother’s Cry

A Mother’s Cry A Mother’s Cry is the harrowing story of Marcos’s incarceration and his family’s efforts to locate him and obtain his release. Marcosï’s mother, Lina Penna Sattamini, was living in the United States and working for the U.S. State Department when her son was captured.

(Jennifer) Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice

Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice An archive of a wide array of historical documents, from the records of slaving voyages to student commencement orations, digitized in support of the work of the University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice. Contributors to this project include James Campbell (Faculty lead)