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Three research projects and one theatre performance from the 51��Ʒ��Ƶ were selected to be featured at the in Washington, D.C., this past April.

“While most think of the ACC as only an athletics conference, the ACC Academic Consortium aims to promote academic excellence and provide opportunities for collaboration between faculty, students and administrators from the 15 member institutions,” said Joseph J. McCarthy, vice provost for undergraduate studies at 51��Ʒ��Ƶ.

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The World History Center’s . In the semester-long internship, undergraduate students learn GIS and web design skills, and complete a research project of their choice using QGIS and ESRI StoryMaps. Each student’s project will be incorporated into a larger project, the : a linked open data global index of historically important place names and information. The World Gazetteer is expected to be completed in late 2019.

The and were both developed in the (HERL), which are a part of the US Department of Veterans Affairs as the Center for Wheelchairs and Associated Rehabilitation Engineering.

“It’s Who You Know,” a hybrid recommender system to connect students with informal social networks of 51��Ʒ��Ƶ researchers is a project, supported by the Office of the Provost, that aims to connect students with researchers with similar interests. The project, out of the , will test the concept of an online system that can curate and filter vast amount of information to result in “personalized education, career pathways, and research collaborations for [students], faculty and future students.”

Directed by , associate professor and head of performance in the Department of Theatre Arts, is a 51��Ʒ��Ƶ-created theater piece that “explores the complexities of gun ownership, violence, and protest through the voices through young people” using real first-person accounts.