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.

Ammon Shepherd received UVA Arts Department funding for our critical humanities makerspace work.

Will Rourk was added to the Engaged UVA faculty page, “a growing directory of UVA faculty whose teaching, research, or service activities engage local or global community partners”.

Amanda Wyatt Visconti published a new, 32-page research & teaching zine, Queer Book History.

Amanda Wyatt Visconti was a project team member on a newly published, 650+ item research & teaching resource: the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP) LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography.

Amanda Visconti is giving a presentation at the hybrid Digital Humanities 2025 Conference the week of July 14th (poster shared here).

Will Rourk is giving an invited talk for the University of Padua in Italy, accompanied by collaborative 3D historical documentation fieldwork with the Vincenza Field School of a rare Palladian bridge there, accompanied by a UVA Architecture faculty member and student.