Shane Lin and UVA Library colleague/SLab alum Jacqui Sahagian typeset a letterpress example at the Virginia Book Arts printshop, to teach an upcoming “Transforming Your Research” workshop for PhD+ students, focusing on creative research practice using historical and current technologies.

Drew & Arin have been working with IATH Fellow Tess Farmer’s Digital Sabils project on Cairo’s charitable water fountains, including Arin live remote troubleshooting a team in Egypt’s 3D artifact scanning, & this mapping work from Drew.

Amanda Wyatt Visconti recently presented on their intersecting DH & letterpress work (including makerspace, coding, & accessibility research as well as creative practice) as a speaker for Partners in Print’s “Print Futures” series.

Brandon Walsh has been elected co-VP/Presidents Elect of the U.S.-based, international-membership digital humanities scholarly org, the Association for Computers & the Humanities!

Brandon Walsh’s 1st book, “Embedded Pedagogies: Digital Humanities Teaching and the Infrastructure of Change” is forthcoming from Open Book Publishers!

Brandon Walsh presented on adaptive makerspace tech & some of our digital collecting projects, for our local historical society’s event at a retirement home.

Will Rourk directed a team of students, Fluvanna County community, & architecture preservation professionals in completing the documentation necessary to nominate the ~1935 Evergreen African-American School as an official historic site with the Virginia Dept of Historic Resources.

Drew Macqueen learned about processing & geotagging photos, collaborating with a local artist & Library colleague to map & visualize photos of Virginia taken through the windows while riding trains throughout the state.

Will Rourk 3D-scanned one of the telescope domes at Fan Mountain Observatory last Thursday.

Ronda Grizzle has been learning about recording & editing podcasts using Audacity & the Library’s media system, because she starts recording the “DH is People” podcast episodes this week. (Coming soon to a SLab social media account near you!)

Ammon Shepherd and a SLab student alum used our makerspace to prototype a cast for glassblowing custom drinking glasses: cutting acrylic for a tank to hold a 3D-printed glass cast & plaster of Paris, figuring out both clay & glue were needed to best seal the acrylic.

Jeremy Boggs is currently reading Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew Crawford, and thinking about code and design as craftwork.

Amanda Visconti and Shane Lin published a 20-page zine, Absolute Units of Letterpress: Plus Rad Measurement Facts.

Laura Miller and Amanda Visconti attended a Mellon-funded invitational summit of DH center leaders.

Will Rourk was invited to the Cultural Heritage Imaging Professionals summit at the Getty in 2026.

Arin Bennett received a funding award for his collaboration supporting a UVA writing course’s exploration of MUDs (multi-user dungeons, a text-based digital game genre) for teaching composition.

Amanda Wyatt Visconti is tabling at the 3rd annual Charlottesville Zine Fest on 10/18.

Amanda Wyatt Visconti was awarded one of UVA Library’s Culture, Engagement, and Community Grants to expand the capacity of the Zine Bakery @ Scholars’ Lab public zine distro.

Amanda Wyatt Visconti was awarded a monthlong artist residency & fellowship at the Penland School of Craft.

Will Rourk, Arin Bennett, and Amanda Wyatt Visconti contributed mini-exhibits on point-cloud data and zines to the public Special Collections exhibit “The ABCs of UVA Library” opening September 17 in the Harrison-Small Gallery.