Thank you for everyone that attending the 2025 GIS Expo. We had 221 posters and 60 StoryMaps displayed at the GIS Expo. It was a wonderful day with great turnout and lots of energy. Congratulations to everyone that submitted a GIS project – this year’s research and student work was […]
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Tufts GIS does it again! This year, TTS Research Technology and the Data Lab showcased 281 GIS projects completed by Tufts GIS students. We had 221 posters and 60 StoryMaps displayed at the GIS Expo. It was a very packed event, with lots of energy and an incredibly wide range […]
TTS Research Technology’s GIS & Data Lab Services Manager, Carolyn Talmadge, and Chris Barnett, Principal Software Engineer, had the honor of working with Professor Joseph Auner, Professor in the Department of Music at Tufts University, to help create three maps of Arnold Schoenberg’s life in Berlin during three distinct time periods. […]
Environmental archaeologist Brandon McDonald builds a better understanding of antiquity by looking at the interplay of climate, environment, and disease. Apit of human bones, potential evidence of a catastrophic epidemic that struck Constantinople in 541 A.D. Sulphur deposits trapped in polar ice, showing traces of a series of massive volcanic […]
Tufts students Jacqueline Powers (Community Health and Public Health) and Julia Huber (The Fletcher School) are finalists for their oustanding GIS class projects. Click on the images below to read their stories: ———- From September 6 to December 6, 2024, over 570 storytellers from 58 countries submitted stories in 10 languages to the 2024 ArcGIS StoryMaps Competition. […]
Tisch librarians have been collaborating with libraries across the country and collaborators from various sources, including IASSIST, RDAP, Data Curation Network, BlueSky, LinkedIn, and others. Resources are being shared and catalogued here: http://tinyurl.com/DataRescueProject2025 You can also check out Tisch’s research guide on accessing archived data sets
Love Data Week is an international event held annually around Valentine’s Day to celebrate data and promote awareness of its importance in research, education, management, sharing, preservation, and reuse. Tuesday, February 11, 2025 (12 to 1 PM): From Script to Print: Transcribing Archival Documents with Handwritten Text Recognition Wednesday, February 12, […]
H. Muoki Mbunga, Ph.D, Assistant Professor of History at Tufts University published an article in The Journal of African History titled “Who Deserves to Die? The Moral Logic of Mau Mau Killings in Colonial Kenya, 1952–56“. Carolyn Talmadge, GIS & Data Lab Services Manager in TTS Research Technology, had an […]
Jeannine Pecoraro is a senior at Tufts double majoring in Philosophy and Environmental Studies with a minor in cognitive brain science. As a Data Lab Assistant, she provides support to students in GIS coursework and projects. She has taken many of the GIS classes at Tufts, including the inaugural class […]
Professor R. Bruce Hitchner‘s project using remote sensing, AI, and GIS secured a Springboard grant of $34,788.08 from the Office of the Provost! The team is applying for additional funding, including a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Dr. Hitchner is working with collaborators from Tufts Technology Services […]