Horowitz Collection Digital Gallery
Students in the “Mapping History” course worked with a collection of rare, historic maps, which were documented, described, and turned into a digital gallery as part of the larger project.
Students in the “Mapping History” course worked with a collection of rare, historic maps, which were documented, described, and turned into a digital gallery as part of the larger project.
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.
Project: Giant Salamanders in Japan: Transforming Field Research with GoPros Faculty: Mizuki Takahashi DP&S Liaison: Brandon Karcher, Wes Bernstein Date: Spring 2019-Spring 2020 Conservation of Eastern Hellbenders, a large salamander native to the Pennsylvania area, has been the focal point of Dr. Takahashi’s research. However, he also travels to Japan to research giant salamanders, sometimes with students. During the Spring 2019 semester, Brandon and Wes worked with Dr. Takahashi to develop a new research kit – one that will allow him to more efficiently conduct research in the field and also capture high quality video of the giant salamanders. Many aspects […]
Churches of Coal Country, the third installment in the Series of the Susquehanna Valley sequence, tells the story of how the Slavic heritages of both St. Peter and Paul’s Ukrainian Catholic Church and St. Michael’s Russian Orthodox Church in Mount Carmel, PA, have been retained since the immigration of coal miners to the anthracite region in the nineteenth century. The documentary examines the youth membership currently in both churches compared to that of the past in each church to determine the importance of ethnic and spiritual identity to the youth in Mount Carmel today. In Summer 2016 Professor Alf Siewers and […]