Arnold Awarded
Taylor Arnold, professor of data science and statistics, received the 2024 Distinguished Educator Award from the University of Richmond at Colloquy.
View BioData Science Minor Receives Project for Peace Grant
Anush Margaryan, a senior from Avshar, Armenia, ran a STEM camp this summer for refugees in Armenia. Margaryan, a Richmond Scholar who is majoring in biochemistry and molecular biology and minoring in data science, says growing up in a small village made it difficult to find resources and mentors in STEM, and she hoped to provide this access to displaced Armenian youth.
Upcoming Course for Spring 2025
Title: Applied Survival Analysis, DSST 395
Description: This course will introduce analysis strategies for time-to-event data. Topics covered will include appropriate strategies for characterization and visualization of time-to-event trends, as well as strategies for formal comparison of time-to-event trends between groups. Survival analysis is typically applied to health-related research questions, but skills gained in this course will also be applicable to other fields including environmental, business, and marketing-related research questions positioned to assess time-to-event outcomes.
Data Visualization Grant-Funding
Statistics professor Taylor Arnold and digital humanities professor Lauren Tilton recently received grant funding for two data science projects. They received a $485,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation for their Distant Viewing Toolkit project, an open-source technology for the computational analysis of visual culture. Arnold and Tilton have also received a nearly $325K grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support a project to build open-source software for collecting and analyzing digital images.
Faculty Highlights
Tilton Promoted & Named Robins Professor
Lauren Tilton was promoted to professor of digital humanities and was appointed the E. Claiborne Robins Professor of Liberal Arts. Tilton specializes in analyzing, developing, and applying digital and computational methods to the study of 20th and 21st century documentary expression and visual culture.
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Arnold Promoted
Taylor Arnold was promoted to professor of data science and statistics. Arnold’s research is fundamentally interdisciplinary and contributes to the fields of Digital Humanities (DH) and Cultural Analytics through his expertise as a mathematician and data scientist.
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Tilton and Undergraduate Awarded
Lauren Tilton, E. Claiborne Robins Professor of Liberal Arts and Digital Humanities, and undergraduate student Mia Lazar, '24, have received a grant from Virginia Humanities for their project, Digital Documerica: Picturing the Environment in 1970’s America. Digital Documerica is a joint project of The Digital Scholarship Lab and the Distant Viewing Lab.
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October 28, 2024
STUDENT EXPERIENCE
Richmond marks decades of civic learning
As the Bonner Center commemorates its 20th anniversary, their Civic Fellows program has also reached a significant milestone, with more than 200 students engaging through internships worldwide.
October 22, 2024
Student Experience
Study abroad for all Spiders
EnCompass celebrates five years of creating opportunities for students to participate in international travel.
October 15, 2024
Research & Innovation
UR professors on sabbatical
Richmond faculty members pursue passion projects and groundbreaking work.
October 14, 2024
University News
Idea Exchange
Speakers at the Faculty & Staff Research Symposium discussed topics ranging from global health and conspiracy theories to Cuban music and Jack the Ripper.