COMMUNITY OF SCHOLARS

Fostering a Community of Student Scholars

s are listed alphabetically by the presenter’s last name. Footnotes: Crowdsourcing Hikers to Preserve and Maintain our Trails Dong-Jin Ahn, Senior, Informatics Kevin Merritt, Senior, Informatics Benjamin Fields, Senior, Informatics Mentor: Batya Friedman, Information School Mentor: David Hendry, Information School Over the last two years over 40 million young adults went on hikes all over the U...

Community and scholars unifying for recovery.

A convergence of events led to a remarkable partnership. It began in 2001 when The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio School of Nursing (UTHSCSA-SON) demonstrated its dedication to developing young researchers by creating a Research Scholars seminar. This seminar is held Fridays at noon at the School of Nursing with research scholars and research faculty joining in discuss...

McNair Scholars

Seeking of Humanities Scholars

This paper focuses on newspapers as a scientific research source in the humanities. The purpose of this paper is to present a portion of the results obtained in the nationwide study which explored how Croatian humanities academics and scholars perceive and use (historical and current) newspapers. The study presented in this paper focused on two groups of researchers, historians and linguists, a...

A practice theoretical exploration of information sharing and trust in a dispersed community of design scholars

Introduction. This paper presents an exploration of information sharing and trust in a geographically dispersed network of design scholars. Method. The study used a practice theory approach to identify aspects of trust in relation to information sharing. The empirical material consists of 15 in-depth interviews with design scholars from four Nordic countries and field notes from workplace visit...