Project Name: Visual Earth: Exploring the Content of Image Sharing Around the World Grantee: Agustín Indaco Discipline: Economics Funding Cycle: 2017-2018 Project Status: White Paper: indaco_pdig2018   About the Project   Over the years, technology has continually influenced the way people communicate. Today cellphones and apps top the list of preferred communication methods. But in...

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Project Name: The Walden Soundscape Grantee: Christina Katopodis Discipline: English Funding Cycle: 2017-2018 Project Status: White Paper: Katopodis White Paper 2018   About the Project   The exigency for The Walden Soundscape project (www.thewaldenscoundscape.com) stems from recent climate change science that has shed light on the damaging effects of human impact on local and global...

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Project Name: Place-Based and Task-Based Spanish Language and Learning Grantee: Inés Vañó García Discipline: Spanish Linguistics Funding Cycle: 2017-2018 Project Status: White Paper: White Paper_ VanoGarcia     About the Project     This project will develop a pedagogical practice carried out by a Spanish Heritage Language class at Lehman College that enables Spanish Heritage...

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Project Name: Guerrilla Gallery Grantee: Javier Otero Peña Discipline: Environmental Psychology Funding Cycle: 2017-2018 Project Status: White Paper: Pena White Paper 2018   About the Project   This project aims to create a public-facing, interactive, and aesthetic visualization that accounts for the responses of locals to the “Guerilla Gallery” in East Harlem, a participatory mural...

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Project Name: Refer Me NYC Grantee: Anthony Freeman Discipline: Social Welfare Funding Cycle: 2017-2018 Project Status: White Paper: Refer Me NYC White Paper     About the Project     “Refer Me NYC” is a mobile app comprised of a directory of social services specific to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community in...

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