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 Richard W. Lyman Award are open through January 15, 2005.
The Richard W. Lyman Award recognizes scholars who have advanced humanistic scholarship and teaching through the innovative use of information technology. The award may recognize work that creates new knowledge in some domain of the humanities; that embodies technological innovation that has broad application in scholarship and teaching; that addresses social, cultural, and/or economic issues in the creation and dissemination of scholarly work in the contemporary world; and/or work that uses technology in new ways to bring the results of humanistic scholarship to student and public audiences. In recent years, scholars in the classics, English and American literature, history, and other humanistic disciplines have increasingly used information technology to make available facsimiles of rare manuscripts; to archive, index, and annotate literary, artistic, and scholarly materials; to link text, visual images, and sound in new ways; and to create new social arrangements that will bring scholars and students together to blur the boundaries between learning, teaching, and research. The National Humanities Center presents the Lyman Award to individuals and teams who break new ground by exploiting information technology toward these ends.
The award honors Richard W. Lyman, who was president of Stanford University from 1970–80 and of the Rockefeller Foundation from 1980–88, and is made possible through the generosity of the Rockefeller Foundation. Each recipient receives a prize of $25,000.
The 2004 Lyman Award recipient, Robert K. Englund of the University of California at Los Angeles, will give a public lecture at the Center on Friday, October 22 at 8 p.m. His talk, "Would We Have Noticed the Loss of the Iraq Museum? The Case for Virtual Duplicates of Cultural Heritage Collections," is free and open to the public, and is co-sponsored by the Center for Instructional Technology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with additional support from the North Carolina GlaxoSmithKline Educational and Cultural Outreach Endowment Fund. The lecture will be broadcast live over the Internet.
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Robert K. Englund
Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
University of California at Los Angeles
Principal investigator, Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
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Roy Rosenzweig
College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor
of History and Cultural Studies
Director, Center for History and New Media
George Mason University
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Jerome McGann
John Stewart Bryan University Professor
Editor, The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti,
a Hypermedia Research Archive
University of Virginia
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