Institutional Repository, Student Collections, and Faculty Work

View materials created by students and faculty for research and teaching. We use a variety of platforms, including Omeka and SketchFab to provide students and faculty ways to explore materials, build their own collections, and host an institutional repository and Digital Works to openly share products of student work at the college, including theses, posters, and presentations.

Faculty Work:

(The following are available examples of Omeka based projects initiated by faculty members)

  • MTH 130 - Differential Equations
    Under the Global Challenges & Social Justice curriculum, this course counts for the Global Challenges area of inquiry through the Data & Quantitative Reasoning (DQR) perspective. This course will cover various global challenges in which differential equations are used to study. Some of these included Populations Modeling and Species Conservation, Pollution/global warming (Mixing Problems), Safety in engineering designs (Tacoma Narrows Bridge) and Turbulence.
  • American Environmental History
    This site to displays in time and space what the course taught in term of Americans’ interactions with their environment over the past few centuries. Students contribute materials weekly over the course of the term, and contribute a set of items derived from their “hometown environmental history” research as part of the final project.
  • Black to the Future
    This course has students analyze contemporary texts from the Afrofuturist canon, travel the sonic byways, and explore other Black cultural production by creators who are grounded in the past and have a more inclusive view of the future.
  • Reform and Revolution in Latin America and the Caribbean
    This faculty initiated website project uses Omeka's timeline and mapping module, along with a collecting form, to showcase student submissions on a timeline and map. In this course, we seek to answer these questions by exploring the history of Modern Latin America. Through lectures, readings, music and art, we will examine moments where peoples and governments have sought to make and change the modern world.
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Student Work: 

(The following are available examples of Omeka based projects initiated by students)

  • Stories of U
    Stories of U is a Mellon Foundation-funded grant project inviting members of the Union community to explore who they want to be through the power of reflection. Our goal is for all members of the Union community to come together and make meaning, as we find purpose, share stories, and explore the transformative power of a Union education.
  • Exploring Public Perceptions of Climate Change
    We have all heard the terms "global warming" and "climate change" before, and perhaps even used them interchangeably. Maybe you've noticed an increase in the use of the term "climate change" over "global warming" recently, which can even be seen by their swap in which one has been showing up more often in Google searches...
  • A Comparative Look at China's Influence in Fashion
    China has had a tumultuous history of struggling to solidify its position as a world power in the eyes of the West. However, over the course of history they have gone from being exploited by western powers to dominating the global economy and having one of the loudest voices on international issues.
  • Out in the Archives: An Exploration of LGBTQ+ History at Union College
    This exhibition seeks to highlight the stories and experiences of LGBTQ+ people at Union College, using the archival material available at Special Collections and Archives. Featuring materials identified in the 2023 Ruth Anne Evans Research Fellowship, the goal is to uncover and bring to light queer history at Union that has either been buried or that has yet to be recognized as queer.
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