Project Lead: Max Schafer (Digital Library Services Specialist) Vivero Fellow (Spring 2025, Fall 2025): Ngoc Ta Burling Library’s Digital Studio is a growing space with semi-professional tools, technology, and support for digital projects across many disciplines. There are several opportunities that could use additional support from the Fellow in 2025-2026,

Project Lead: Prof. Sol Cátala-Valentín (Assistant Professor, Research and Instruction Resident Librarian) Fellow (Spring 2026): Cadence Chen    This project creates a 3D-printable board game to support students navigating transdisciplinary research, grounded in the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy and informed by digital critical pedagogy. The game guides players to

Project Lead: Prof. Makeba Lavan (Assistant Professor of English) Vivero Fellow (Fall 2025): Amy Kan The Fellow will work with my adaptation class (ENG 210). Throughout the course, we will analyze adaptations alongside their source material. The course will culminate in a final project wherein students will choose a text

Project Lead: Prof. Eiren Shea (Associate Professor of Art History) Vivero Fellow (Fall 2025): Jesica Rodriguez Beyer The aim of this project is to generate an interactive timeline for Introduction to Art History (ARH-103), Art History’s gateway class, which is offered every semester and uses a shared syllabus. ARH 103

Project Lead: Minna Mahlab (Director of Science Learning Center) Vivero Fellow (2025-2026): Zachary Rusli This project is envisioned as an opportunity to annotate and digitize an existing collection of peer reviewed references informing best practices in science education to create an easily accessible, searchable, and vetted database for anyone: students

Project lead: Prof. Liz Queathem (Senior Lecturer in Biology & Interim Director of Center for Prairie Studies) Vivero Fellow (2025-2026): Gabriela Roznawska Vivero Fellow (2024-2025): Bruno Sica Link: https://treemap.sites.grinnell.edu/ We have generated an ArcGIS map that shows where each tree is located on the Grinnell College campus, and now we

Project Leads:  Heather Jones-Brown (Assistant Chief Diversity Officer for Staff Equity) Maria Tonui (Diversity and Inclusion Specialist for Staff Equity) DaNaye VanDeKrol (Diversity and Inclusion Coordinator for Staff Equity) Fellow (Spring 2026): Morgan Smith    This project seeks to build a publicly accessible equity-in-hiring toolkit and storytelling platform grounded in the lived

Lead: Prof. Elizabeth Prevost (Frederick L. Baumann Professor of History) Fellow (Spring 2026): Amy Kan    This website is intended to showcase student research conducted in my seminar (HIS 334, Decolonization) and possibly in the SAMESA concentration capstone colloquium (SAM 401). I would like the site to house three main content areas:  Podcast series  Blog

Project Lead: Prof. Jonathan Larson (Assistant Professor of Education) Vivero Fellow (Fall 2025): Jude Morgan For this semester I seek a Vivero Fellow to help me with analysis of policy texts concerning how institutions of the European Union have approached the topic of inclusion over the past 75 years of

Project Lead: Prof. Jin Feng (Professor of Chinese and Japanese, and Orville and Mary Patterson Routt Professor of Literature) Vivero Fellow (2025-2026): Chikako I. Link: https://chinesealumni.sites.grinnell.edu/ Part of my long-term research project titled “Grinnell-in-China, China in Grinnell,” I seek to work with a Vivero Fellow to use digital storytelling to

Project Lead: Prof. Sarah Burnell (Head Women’s Cross Country Coach) Vivero Fellow (2025-2026): Olyvia Liu-Cai Grinnell College’s cross country teams were established in 1920 (men) and 1974 (women); over the many decades since those inaugural years, the teams have grown and flexed with the broader societal culture of athletics around

Project Leads: Autumn Wilke (Associate Chief Diversity Officer for Disability Resources) & German Vargas Ramos (Director of Digital Strategy) Vivero Fellow (2025-2026): Valery Mayorga This project will create digital accessibility resources designed specifically for student organizations, helping them host events, share information, and communicate in ways that are inclusive of all

Project lead: Prof. Jen Shook (Assistant Professor of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies) Vivero Fellow (Fall 2025): Isaiah Schlimm Vivero Fellow (2024-2025): Regann Fishell The primary goal of the Instead of Redface project is to provide a collection of materials to support informed teaching and learning about Indigenous performance, especially

Project Lead: Prof. Caleb Elfenbein (Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Professor of History and Religious Studies) Vivero Fellow (2025-2026): Zachary Bressler Amidst mounting threats to the production of and access to data exploring systemic inequalities in the United States, “Life Within the Veil, Yesterday and

Project Lead: Dr. Stephanie Jones (Associate Professor of Education) Vivero Fellow (2025-2026): Karolina Calleros Vivero Fellow (2021-2022, 2022-2023, 2023-2024): Feven Adane Getachew This project is connected to Professor Jones’ research on racial trauma in schools. The purpose of the Mapping Racial Trauma (MRT) in Schools project is to identify the ways

Project Lead: Jake Hill (CERA Horticulturalist) Vivero Fellow (2025-2026): Steph Kama-Kama The Fellow will select a digital medium that best illustrates how land stewardship and educational activities vary seasonally during a year at CERA, the Conard Environmental Research Area, and use that medium to integrate GIS data, photos, and other

Project leads: Kate Baumgartner (Assistant Technical Director) & Erik Sanning (Technical Director) Vivero Fellow (2023-2024, 2024-2025, 2025-2026): Chloe Kelly Link: provisional URL The Challenge: The Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies’ past production photos are currently stored in a haphazard collection of online platforms with varying degrees of (in)accessibility and

Project Lead: Prof. Paul Hutchison (Professor of Education) Vivero Fellow (2025-2026): Nino Kirtava Link: https://totallybananas.sites.grinnell.edu/  The major assignment for the students in my Tutorial (it’s called Totally Bananas) this semester is to research, write, and produce a podcast episode that focuses on some aspect of bananas of particular interest to