3D‑Printable Board Game for Transdisciplinary Research

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 evaluate sources beyond the academic-reliable […]

Decolonization Stories

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 series  Resources and references    […]

Centering Equity in Hiring: A Staff Equity Resource and Storytelling Initiative

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 experiences of Grinnell College’s hiring […]

EU Policy Text Analysis

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 the EU’s existence. I am […]

Art History Digital Timeline

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 was redesigned in 2022. During […]

Adaptations Class Digital Assignment & Website

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 (any medium) and adapt a […]

Totally Bananas!: The Podcast

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 them. While it’s not exactly […]

Life Within the Veil, Yesterday and Today

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 Today” honors the pioneering sociologist’s […]

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