Inclusive Communications for Student Organizations

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 participants. As a Fellow, you […]

History of Women’s Cross Country at Grinnell

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 the world, in the United […]

Grinnell College’s Early Chinese Alumni

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 share findings on Grinnell College’s […]

Seasonal Stories and Snapshots of Ecological Stewardship and Education at CERA

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 information provided by the project […]

Best Practices for Science Education

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 wanting to learn more about […]

Sites @ Grinnell Web Literacy

Project Lead: Dr. Mo Pelzel (Director of Academic Technology) Vivero Fellow (Spring 2025): David Nguyen This Vivero project will support the campus web hosting and digital publishing platform, Sites @ Grinnell. The Fellow will collaborate with Sites administrators to:  promote the engagement of students and student organizations on the platform, including providing support for a […]

Student Activism at Grinnell Digital Exhibit and Walking Tour

Project Lead: Libby Cave (Digital Humanities & Instruction Librarian) Vivero Fellow (Spring 2025): Chika Inoue Grinnell College, with its social justice focus, has historically been an incubator for activists and experienced several waves of social movements and protest that are emblematic of the social movements that affected the rest of the country. Today, it is […]

Map the System Digital Repository

Project Lead: Vicki Nolton (Assistant Director for Social Innovation Partnerships and Education, CLS)  Vivero Fellow (Spring 2025): Isaiah Schlimm Project Need:  Map the System (MTS) is a global research challenge that empowers students to use a systems thinking approach to examine a social or environmental issues and learn how to tackle deeper root causes of […]

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