Posts by Carolyn Christine Gearig

Carolyn Gearig reflects on her year in the Shapiro Design Lab Residency on her project that explores the reception and meaning of journalism to people throughout the state of Michigan.

When I think about my time in the design lab, I am struck by all that I have learned about the resources and fields of study at this University. I’m a School of Information undergraduate senior, and the network I am surrounded by at the Lab is the most academically diverse I have encountered in college. Every week, I meet and work with librarians, PhD students, master’s students and undergraduates in an environment where we are all equals who learn from one another.