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Digital Preservation: Promo 2024
Summer of 2024 is off to a great start. My project was featured in a promo video to showcase RIT’s longstanding relationship with the Genesee Country Village and Museum, which then gave me room to request an edit of the clip to help share my idea with more potential partners and funders (fingers crossed). Watch…
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Frank J Romano Endowed Prize
Exciting news continues! I won the Frank J Romano Endowed Prize for innovative use of technology working with students. The Digital Preservation Process has evolved into the Digital Interactive Preservation method, or DIP method. Two reasons for this: one, because the RIT CHIP Research group, led by Dr Juilee Decker and Dr David Messinger has…
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Leadership Panelist
Leadership experiences and preparation: Panel discussion [RIT Faculty in Leadership] This winter I was invited to join a panel of women leaders at this year’s Advance RIT Leadership Summit. By conventional wisdom, a foreign woman working as a professor of animation in a technical institute makes me quite the unlikely leader. However, in the year…
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International Women Faculty: Together RIT Programming 2023
RIT’s Day of Understanding Programming was established in 2022 to allow the RIT community to “engage in intentional and honest dialog about challenging issues”. As someone actively engaged in exploring ways to improve cross-cultural communication using animation and gaming, I was invited to join the panel of international women to talk about the experiences that…
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Mace-Bearer!
You never really think about it until it happens, but here is my third time carrying the mace for an RIT event! Even though I am just starting my second year as Faculty Senate Chair, I was honored to carry the mace for RIT Commencement and the College of Art Convocation of 2022. Here I…
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GDC and Beyond!
What it felt like to come out of my COVID-isolation cave to speak at the biggest Game Conference in the world!
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The SHED Game Walkthrough Results and Feedback
A short video of the first draft. This was the export that was play-tested by students of the Museum Sciences program (MUSE360), thanks to the support of Dr. Samaya Nasr at RIT. Here, we learned that the students struggled with the speed of the navigation tools and wished they had the option to fly. From…
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RIT Global Campus Summit
For those of you who may not know, RIT has multiple campuses around the world and a lot of our programs provide students with the opportunity to complete their education immersed in different cultures. For our students, global campuses are immensely valuable. However, the process of running and managing the global ecosystem can be a…
