Conversation Toward a Brighter Future Spring Summit
This article about our Conversations spring summit highlights the work of some amazing students and teachers in Madison County.
Digital Storytelling Internship
This semester, IRIS intern Christal Sampson investigated ways to create digital storytelling projects with a variety open source software. For […]
Wide Wide World Updates
Sarah Burt and I have been scanning the many different copies of the novel in order to upload the paratext […]
Madison Historical: The Online Encyclopedia and Digital Archive for Madison County, Illinois
Starting in August 2016, the Department of Historical Studies launched “Madison Historical: The Online Encyclopedia and Digital Archive of Madison County” to […]
Digitally Editing Walt Whitman’s Aurora Editorials
Walt Whitman was a journalist for over fifteen years before he wrote Leaves of Grass. While his journalism has been published in […]
IRIS Student Profile: Sarah Song’s Work on the Manang Languages Project
Hello, my name is Sarah Song and I am a Junior Business Administration major with a specialization in Human Resources. […]
Upcoming Omeka Update: A post from student, Ben Ostermeier
For about 4 years now, the Wide, Wide World Digital Edition has used the Omeka web publishing platform. We have […]
The Lessie Bates Davis Neighborhood House and the IRIS Center
Howard Rambsy II As part of my work with the Institute for Urban Research, I received a small grant to […]
The Gyalsumdo Language Archive: Have a Look!
Dr. Kristine Hildebrandt and URCA Assistant Tiffany Downing have been working to upload and encode content and also technical and […]
Exploring Nationality Through Landscape Illustrations
My research project, “Exploring Nationality in the Illustrations of Nineteenth Century Transatlantic Landscapes as a Part of The Wide, Wide World […]