uwm research report 2016: betty brinn/dcrl

I am super proud of Aaron De Lanty and John McGeen as they graduated from UWM and the Digital Craft Research Lab and helped with this project featured in UWM's annual Research Report. There are several DCRL students working at Betty Brinn this semester as interns. It's great to see our students applying their skills to real world research! 

This is the forth year in a row that the DCRL has had ties to work featured in the University Research Report. Bryan Cera was the first with research conducted for the Product Realization course and prototypes made in the DCRL, Mike Erspamer was second with work done in the DCRL in conjunction with Health Sciences, Shea and Adream were featured last year, and now Aaron and John in this years report.

Aaron wrote the following about the project:

 "When I worked at BBCM I got to help out with one of the most exciting projects. It was called BeatBuilder in which we taught third graders basic circuitry by using music! It was an amazing time watching the students get really engaged you could see it in their faces that they truly where excited by what they were learning..."

uwm research report

Just working on my CV today and putting together pdf's for some things. Digging up relevant info and came across this online.

UWM research report

UWM recently released the research report that documents some of the work being done at UWM this past year. On Monday, they did a full page takeover on the school website to celebrate the report release. 

The University media team organized a photo shoot several months ago along with some new video footage. They proposed putting my "mug" on the cover of the report and decided to have me come into the photo studio for some experimental shots. I was "too clean" that particular day, so they ended up photoshopping stubble onto my face. This allowed them to propose the cover to "the powers that be". Then they asked me to come back in a few weeks later but this time they wanted three days of beard growth. I arrived at the shot and they decided that I was too scruffy, at which point the art director  left to get a beard trimmer at Walgreens. She came back and then we had to test out the various settings so we could get just the right amount of stubble. Talk about trouble... Then I got to stare directly into a bright light for several minutes. I guess you never realize what goes into these things. 

Anyway it was an honor to be featured and to be on the school website with my good friend Adream.

shea: uwm research report video