Best Student Blog/Portfolio
Winners
Alice Calmon
Alice Calmon’s Design Portfolio shares her work in structural and landscape architecture. Each project is featured in a detailed page with drawings, diagrams, 3D visualizations, and textual explanations.
Kevin Thiel
ThielWX documents Kevin’s research on the science of lightning including posts on advanced technological instrumentation, high level science, Python coding, and public outreach.
Finalists
Best Faculty or Staff Blog/Portfolio
Winner
Heather Bedle
Dr. Heather Bedle’s site is clean, and its accessible layout serves as a model for other faculty and lab leaders. Dr. Bedle used the Lovecraft theme created and shared gratis by Anders Noren, which provides accessible font and customizable featured images for each page. The simple menu structure and great information layout make it easy to navigate the site. Dr. Bedle’s inclusion of profiles of the graduate students she’s working with simultaneously features her collaborative research and promotes the students’ work.
Finalists
Best Course Website
Winner
Nick Lolordo
American Genius: Gertrude Stein and Modern Identity is a resource-rich course website that features both the students’ work and links to both Stein’s work and that of her contemporaries.
Finalists
Best Blog Post
Winner
Anna Margret Sverrisdottir
As part of Laura Gibbs course on mythology, Anna produced her own “ethnographic study on the Fey” telling the stories of the dwarves, fairies, and other people of the Fey called Why We Hate Humans. Anna’s entire project is fantastic, but the podcast post was particularly noteworthy. She created and embedded an original podcast from the perspective of the people’s of the Fey. Anna’s pod includes a rich soundtrack and even an interview with a pixie.
Finalists
Best Solo Project
Winner
Imran Hasnat
Imran Hasnat constructed a “choose your own adventure” story called “Race to Refuge,” which he describes as “a simulation to the rigorous process for refugee entry into the U.S.” The simulation demonstrates both how thorough the vetting process for refugees is and how time consuming and frustrating it can be. The simulation seeks to promote the player’s feelings of empathy for people going through this process in real life.
Finalists
Best Group Project
Winner
Jen Blair & Jack Broach
The World Literature Today sites provide an entry point into contemporary literature. In addition to the flagship World Literature Today site, OU Create hosts websites for Latin American Literature Today and the Neustadt Prize. Jen Blair revamped these sites this year and also worked with OU undergrad Jack Broach to build a new site for Chinese Literature Today.