2022
January 2022
Embark Incubator for BaseCampus application
Inducted into first cohort of the Embark Low-Tech Incubator program through NextCorp (with Research Assistant Professor Nicole Trabold, Wegmans School of Health and Nutrition, (College of Health Sciences and Technology). Our project idea, a smartphone app for college students to learn about and cope with stress through curated content called BaseCampus, allowed us to advance to the second and final round. Embark helps non-technical founders go from idea to revenue. We are currently in the development of a prototype for a minimum viable product. We were awarded $7000 to go toward the development of the app.
Application and Interview process/funding awarded.
April 2022
CAD/COLA Grant Writers Boot Camp attendance and seed funding grant award
Received CAD/COLA Grant Writers Boot Camp seed funding grant ($4724.00). Working on an XR collaborative workspace with Philip Szrama (Lecturer 3DDD).
May 2022
Co-winner, Frank G. Romano Award
Co-recipient of the Frank G. Romano Award with Carol Fillip.
Awarded at graduation, 2022
Presented by the College of Art and Design
This honor is given to a faculty member/team who works with students to create innovative publications using new technologies and/or workflows. This was awarded for our work with Common Ground Health and Command g Design Lab.
June 2022
NIH Grant Proposal
Helped contribute to an NIH grant proposal with Dr. Jill Lavigne (Professor St. John Fisher University) and to serve as the creative design leader and web design consultant to Dr Jill Lavigne’s proposal, “Means Restriction Training for Suicide Prevention in the Rural Research Alliance of Community Pharmacies Practice-Based Research Network (PBRN).”
(in progress)
NIH Grant Proposal
Discussed with Dr. Jill Lavigne the possibility of an application to better identify patients with insomnia and the best medication options for them in VA national medical records.
(in progress)
August 2022
Member of Editorial Board/a2ru
Invited by Yvonne Huoy (University of Nevada Las Vegas) to be part of the editorial board for the a2ru publication, Tradition Innovations. This new peer-reviewed open access eJournal—collaboratively brought to life by the international Alliance for the Arts Research Universities (a2ru) network, and a2ru member UNLV—provides a multimedia forum to address this and connected questions by exploring how creative work, teaching/mentoring, and knowledge creation/research are linked and in conversation with one another.
Invitation.
September 2022
Book Submission
Final submission for book, Creative Resilience, for double-blind review. Have made it through two rounds of reviews to date. This is a book project of Kelly M. Murdoch-Kitt (University of Michigan) and Dr. Denielle J. Emans (Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar). Creative Resilience will be a published collection of edited case studies, project ideas, exercises, short essays, and visual narratives. The editors will weave together accepted contributions with their own analysis and discussion.
November 2022
Panelist
A2ru Conference Michigan
University of Michigan
Panel discussion
https://a2ru.org/event/2022-national-conference/
Tradition Innovations: In Arts, Design, and Media Arts Higher Education
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/tradition_innovations/
Served on the panel of seven speakers to address the audience with information and to answer questions about Tradition Innovations at the a2ru Conference.
Invitation.
December 2022
High School Pro Advantage Workshop (HSPA)
Accepted into the High School Pro Advantage Workshop for Summer 2023, “Making Some Zines” to teach high school students the foundations of graphic design and book design.
Working with Brockport Research Institute
Working with BRI on grant discovery and proposals for BaseCampus.