Loretta C. Duckworth Scholars Studio Digital Showcase

Join us in the Charles Library 1st floor Event Space for a series of presentations on the results of digital projects by the 2025–2026 Loretta C. Duckworth Scholars Studio Faculty Fellows and Graduate Externs. Every year, the Scholars Studio awards funding to faculty and graduate students who want to pursue research or creative projects using computational methods. Fellows participate in a year-long seminar and receive specialized support to develop their projects - the culmination of this work across a wide-range of disciplines will be on display at the Digital Showcase.

This year’s Faculty Fellows are Tara Pixley, Assistant Professor, Journalism, Klein College of Media and Communication; Elizabeth Taylor, Associate Professor, School of Sport, Tourism and Hospitality Management; Michelle Temple, Associate Professor, Music Technology, Center for the Performing and Cinematic Arts; and Danya Pilgrim, Assistant Professor, History, College of Liberal Arts. 

This year’s graduate externs are Ye Ju Ki, Klein College of Media and Communication; Hanna Greenfield, Art Education, Tyler School of Art; Jo Liberman, Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts; Jiayu Yang, Documentary Arts and Visual Research, Center for the Performing and Cinematic Arts.

The schedule for the event is as follows:

10:30am-10:45am: Intros by Dean Joe Lucia and LCDSS Academic Director, Alex Wermer-Colan   

10:45am-11:00am: Michelle Temple – Sound Investigations  

11:00am-11:15am: Jo Liberman - Relational Affordances and Emergent Understanding: Accumulative Spatial Perception Using VR Simulation 

11:15am-11:30am: Elizabeth Taylor – A Longitudinal Examination of College Sport Employees  

11:30am-11:45am: Ye Ju Ki – The Asexual Media Archive: Building a Crowdsourced Website for Asexual Characters in TV and Film  

11:45am-12pm: Tara Pixley - Prompting Equity: Building Anti-Racist Futures for AI-Generated Visual Media  

12pm – 12:15pm: Hanna Greenfield - Pixels to Paper: Digital Fabrication for Improving Attention in Arts Education with Makerspaces  

12:15pm – 12:30pm: Danya Pilgrim – Visualizing a Community: Digital Approaches to Philadelphia's Black Catering Trade 

12:30-12:45pm: Jiayu Yang – Into a Wormhole: Building a “Gallery” of Wax Worms in Virtual Reality