Current Fondren Fellows Projects

 

Projects for 2024-25:

1. Building and Employing New Tools for the Study of US Science Policy - Mentors: Kenneth Matthew and Kirstin Matthews

2. Building the "Creosote Contamination in Houston's Fifth Ward" Collection - Mentors: Carrie Masiello and Lisa Spiro

3. Campus Comics: Continuing the Rice Comics Anthology - Mentor: David Messmer

4. Comics without Borders - Mentor: Christopher Sperandio

5. Curating Rice's Environmental Research - Mentor: Shannon Kipphut-Smith

6. Enhancing Graduate Student Support for Digital Humanities - Mentor: Lisa Spiro, Sean Smith

7. Exploring Pedagogical Research at Rice and Beyond - Mentor: Catherine Barber

8. History Project for Rice University’s School of Engineering 50th Anniversary - Mentor: Jada Crawford

9. Maintain and Analyze Rice University Research Repository - Mentor: Arko Barman

10. Mapping Olivewood Cemetery - Mentors: Norie Guthrie and Fay Yarbrough

11. Milestones in Science: 50 years of Natural Sciences at Rice - Mentor: Lauren Kapcha

12. Open Access Publishing at Rice: Factors that Influence Researcher Choices and Sustainable Funding Models - Mentors: Cindy Pierard, Lisa Spiro, Shannon Kipphut-Smith, Scott Vieira

13. SlaveVoyages.org - Mentor: Daniel Domingues

14. Teaching Text Analysis - Mentor: Sean Smith

15. The Red Book of Houston - Mentors: Norie Guthrie and Fay Yarbrough

16. The Rice University CatOWLog: A Comprehensive Bibliography of Rice Creators - Mentor: Thumy Webb

17. Understanding Rice's Historic Energy Use to Inform the University's Climate Policy - Mentor: Richard Johnson