2021
Brain Power LIVE!
Included in grant application as “3D Animator” - grant submitted to the National Science Foundation by Foxfire Interactive Corp.
2020
Digitizing Hidden Special Collections & Archives
I applied for but did not receive a grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). https://www.clir.org/hiddencollections/
For the past three years, I have worked with the Biology Department at the University of Rochester to find support from CLIR for bringing forward the U of R collection of biological specimens into a digital format that can be shared and accessed by everyone from researchers to the general public. We are now exploring other grant opportunities to support digitizing the collection.
2019
Digitizing Hidden Special Collections & Archives
This is my second application in collaboration with the University of Rochester (U of R) to the CLIR foundation for support in bringing forward the U of R collection of biological specimens into a digital format that can be shared and accessed by everyone from researchers to the general public. While I’ve not been successful in my first two attempts to secure funding, I am planning to apply funding again for a third time.
2018
Digitizing Hidden Special Collections & Archives
While waiting for confirmation on the Boot Camp grant, I applied for a grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) for digitizing hidden collections. While I didn’t get approval for the CLIR grant, I did get good feedback from the review committee and I am currently working with the University of Rochester to apply for the grant again in the Spring of 2019. The funding request for the CLIR grant was over $400,000.00 to be shared between RIT and the University of Rochester.
2018
“Boot Camp” grant - RIT Sponsored Research Services
The purpose of this grant was to provide seed funding to develop a grant project and proposal that could lead to an application for larger grants. I developed a proposal to explore and define a “best practice” process for digitizing and optimizing several specimens from the Ward collection at the University of Rochester. I worked with RIT medical illustration grad students to capture the specimen data over the summer and convert the high-resolution data into low-resolution data that could be easily used and shared through interactive applications such as the U of R website.