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 4, 2024
Student Experience
Fighting food insecurity
Third-year student Ben Mayes spent his summer working on a local farm to help provide produce for those in need.
August 29, 2024
Two University of Richmond Students Receive Projects for Peace Grants for Work in Armenia and Taiwan
Anush Margaryan and Jeff (Ping Yen) Tsai have received Projects for Peace grants.
August 16, 2024
STUDENT EXPERIENCE
Going with the flow
Junior Chase Hartley combines his love of sports with analytics in his internship with Sports Backers, a nonprofit that promotes active lifestyles.
February 15, 2024
How AI can make history
Lauren Tilton, professor of liberal arts and digital humanities, is quoted.