Research

Read on for information about several research projects selected from of the many that have been supported by the Lehigh Lab.

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Illuminated Manuscripts: This project provides access to illuminated manuscripts from institutions within Pennsylvania that may otherwise be overlooked and encourages a focus on their artistic rather than textual aspects.  Ben Wright and Ann Preister, The Digital Library team.

Improving the Discussion Board.  A scholarship of teaching and learning project conducted by Ed Gallagher with the support of the Lehigh Lab and Georgetown's Visible Knowledge Project.

Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) Located on Lehigh's campus, NEES is a national, networked collaboration of geographically-distributed, shared-use experimental research equipment sites.

MatPAC MatPAC is a program involving six universities across Pennsylvania (Lehigh, Carnegie Mellon, Drexel, Penn State, University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Pittsburgh) in which research facilities and courses across several materials science curricula are shared.

Villainy Detected!: Crime and Consequences in 18th and 19th c. Britain and America (in progress). This project will concentrate on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century crime in Britain and America with emphasis on trans-Atlantic exchanges. Through the digitization of key texts from this period, it is our goal to enable scholars to trace similarities between British and American crime trends and codifications, as well as punishment practices like transportation, incarceration, and execution. Research across a range of these primary texts will enable new opportunities for scholarship, teaching, and learning. Material selection with faculty is in progress and we anticipate getting launching a web site in 2005. (Faculty Involvement: Ian Duffy, Jan Fergus, Rosemary Mundhenk, Lloyd Steffan.)

Digital Bridges Web a collection of thirty representative 19th century American bridge engineering monographs, manuals, and documents from the Lehigh University Libraries' Special Collections. Many of these items are relatively rare and in some cases quite fragile.

Content Image Database: The Content Image Database is a secure digital image archive which currently contains several thousand images with attached identifying metadata. Scott Gordon (English), Roger Simon (History), Erica Hoelscher (Theatre: Costume Design), Bruce Thomas (Architecture) and Benjamin Wright (Religion) all have evolving collections they have used for course support through the secure Blackboard interface. 

(Please send suggstions or corrections to infdli@lehigh.edu)