Newark mapping project presentation set Sept. 11
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Editor's note: The presentation has been postponed, and the tentative new date is Oct. 9. The location has yet to be determined.

8:42 a.m., Sept. 2, 2009----A presentation on “Newark Multimedia Mapping Project: Discovery Learning and Community Building” will be held at 3:30 p.m., Friday, Sept. 11, in Room 127 Memorial Hall.

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April Veness, associate professor in the University of Delaware's Department of Geography, will lead the presentation, which will include the unveiling of a new Web site developed as a result of the project. There also will be comments from Newark Mayor Vance Funk III and UD Dean of Students George Brelsford.

“This spring, the Newark Multimedia Mapping Project was initiated,” Veness said. “Intended as a vehicle to help UD students understand the unique nature of Newark as a college town, the research and story-gathering that went into making the maps and interactive Web site for this project did far more than produce knowledge about a place. It put faces, voices, landscapes and memories into context, into place.”

Veness said the community is invited to the Sept. 11 event “to see and hear some stories about Newark, to consider ways that this project might improve town-gown relations, and to imagine opportunities for future community-building collaborations.”

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