Preserving 1930’s Japanese produced films made on paper (“kami firumu”) instead of celluloid. The Japanese Paper Film Project preserves surviving movies & promotes scholarship about their preservation
The BU Film Club + Library & IT sponsored a weekend film challenge in April of 2024 where participants recieved a prop at the start of the event, and then had the weekend to create a short <5 min film
Professor Johnathan Favini and students in ENST 210: Environmental Ethnography worked with the Shamokin Creek Restoration Alliance (SCRA) to conduct a research project about the Shamokin Creek.
In spring 2019, Prof. Nathan Ryan (Mathematics) debuted a new course, MATH219: Solving Industrial Problems. The course was developed out of a grant he received from PIC Math, a program funded by the Mathematical Association of America and the National Science Foundation with the goal of preparing students for careers by engaging them in research problems that come directly from industry. The course divided students into project groups, each having a real-world client with a specific problem to be addressed. Janine Glathar, GIS Specialist for Digital Pedagogy & Scholarship, co-taught the course with Professor Ryan, working with 2 of the 3 […]