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Notice: Beginning Tuesday, January 21st, all MSU all students, staff, and faculty must scan their MSU ID to access the MSU Library building between 10:00 pm – 7:30 am on Sunday - Thursday.

Project Incubator

To support longer-term projects involving transformative research activities in digital scholarship, the Digital Scholarship Lab began offering the Project Incubator in Fall 2020. The Project Incubator supports transformative research projects by offering:

  • Guidance using a project lifecycle management framework that includes planning, defining roles on, delivering, and closing your project
  • Specific advice on applying workshop materials and concepts to your project
  • Access to the DSL Extension, including co-working rooms, high performance computers, and specialized equipment
  • Coordinated access to Library colleagues with relevant expertise - we will facilitate lab and library colleagues’ inclusion on project teams, subject to their availability and interest

Apply for the Project Incubator

The call for proposals for the Project Incubator is closed for the year. We are excited to welcome our new cohort and their research projects.

Incubator 2024-2025

  • Using Emerging AI Technologies: Constructing and Reconstructing the Historical Collective Memory of Armed Conflict in Colombia
    • PI: Galia J. Benítez, James Madison College
  • Giiwenh ["so the story goes"]
    • PI: Madison Kennedy-Kequom
  • Transcending Boundaries with Virtual Reality: Examining Immigrant Children's Transnational and Immersive Literacies
    • PIs: Jungmin Kwon, Department of Teacher Education, with Seungwoo Hwang and Pyeongeun Kim
  • Putting WKZO on the Map: Exploring WKZO's ‘Western Michigan at Work’ Through Geography
    • PIs: Michael Laney, Libraries; Kasey Wilson, Libraries

View Past Projects

Potawatomi Star Knowledge:

  • PI: Blaire Morseau, Religious Studies
  • Description:A map of constellations recognized by the Potawatomi people, using Stellarium

Adventures, Friends, and Witness: The Alaskan Experience of Nurses Jacque Greeman, Anne Engbers, and Marge VanKooten

  • PI: Crystal VanKooten, Writing, Rhetoric, and Cultures
  • Description: A StoryMap of drawing from oral histories of three women's experiences in Alaska circa 1964.

The Stratford Heritage Guide

Seleukid Coins in the Collection of the Ödemiş Museum:

  • PI: Noah Kaye, History
  • Description: Documentation of ancient coins for a collection-based corpus.

The Mass Killings in Indonesia 1965-1966

  • PI: Siddharth Chandra
  • Description: Creating a mapped display of demographic data from the Indonesian genocide.

Close Beside the Winding Cedar: The Red Cedar River at Michigan State University

Circa Instans by Matthaeus Platearius

  • PI: Anna Kirkwood Graham, Romance & Classical Studies, College of Arts & Letters
  • View "Circa Instans"

Building a Multilingual Repository in Applied Linguistics

Mapping the Collective Memories in the Writings of Ethnic Korean Minority Writers in China

  • PIs: Catherine Ryu and Sydney Warner

Science, Art and Faith: Architectural Heritage and Islam

  • PIs: Martha Olcott, James Madison College; Mohammad Khalil, Religious Studies, College of Arts & Letters; Salah Hassan, English, College of Arts & Letters; & Michael Downs, James Madison College

The Sun Never Knew: Community Mapping Youth Incarceration

Collapse & Rebirth:

Curb(ed):

  • PI - Divya Victor, English, College of Arts & Letters
  • View "Curbed"