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Program Outcomes & Impact

Although Fondren Fellows (FF) projects vary in scope and format, they all demonstrate the knowledge and skills that students can develop in collaboration with mentors. Some projects focus on mapping historical events, while others create digital collections documenting particular communities. Other projects investigate ways to improve library services or collections, or they enrich the library's training in data literacy.

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135

Fellows Since Launch

30

Departments Engaged

82

Projects Completed

10 Years

Of Transformational Work

Spotlighted Achievements

  • Partnered with the Digital Scholarship Lab on three open-access initiatives
  • Improved metadata discoverability in the Woodson Research Center
  • Developed accessibility audits of campus-wide digital resources
  • Created first-generation student-focused learning tools

Online Archives

Some FF projects focus on collaboration with existing archival programs. Here are a few projects that Fellows have worked on and whose final products increase public access to archival resources.

SlaveVoyages
Fellows: Sean Weeks, Sara Price, Zahrah Butler
Mentor: Domingues da Silva
The Red Book of Houston
Fellow: Ryan Chow & Rachael Pasierowksa
Mentor: Norie Guthrie
visualizing Disasters
Fellows: Ben Murdoch & Emile Chamoun-Farah
Mentor: Luis Duno-Gottberg

Past Project Archives

A Community's Fight for Justice: The Creosote Contamination Collection
Outcome: Digital collection uploaded to Woodson Research Center; Presented at FF Showcase.
Fellow(s): Catherine Cook, Abi-Grace Savizon, and Sharon Olaifa
View more project information here
Energy Consumption Trends at Rice
Outcome: Spreadsheet analysis; Presented at FF Showcase.
Fellow(s): Jadyn Bray-Boyce
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Slave Ship Voyage Pairings
Outcome: Identified 100–200 new voyage IDs; Work to be featured on slavevoyages.org.
Fellow(s): Sean Weeks
50 Years of Science at Rice
Outcome: Two long-form articles; digital showcase; Presented at NSURS.
Fellow(s): Magdalena Whelley
View more project information here
Rice Pedagogical Research Collection
Outcome: Database creation; Trend analysis; Presented at CTE event.
Fellow(s): Lucy Hu
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Biographies from Digital Archives
Outcome: 6 biographies written; Presented at Rice Humanities Day.
Fellow(s): Jae’la Solomon
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Teaching Text Analysis with Python
Outcome: Created two courses; Developed a Fondren LibGuide.
Fellow(s): Melissa Mar
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LLM Integrated Archive System
Outcome: Backend system created; Prototype built with SQL & NoSQL.
Fellow(s): Yujie Xu
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Rice Engineering History Reports
Outcome: 16 research reports completed; Presented at FF Flash Talks.
Fellow(s): Lexi Xu
Comics Without Borders Presentation
Outcome: Presentation and comic included in published anthology.
Fellow(s): Sofia Adams-Giron
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Oral History and Article Publication
Outcome: 7 interviews; 2 articles published (2 more planned).
Fellow(s): Sage Lee

Fondren Fellows Highlights

Rice Research Repository

We encourage Fellows to upload their completed projects, materials, and presentations to the Rice Research Repository (R-3). The Fondren Fellows Collection is available here.

Fondren Fellows Projects in the News