Press Coverage

  • Laser Scanning May Help Preserve Historic Jackson House, Digitally At Least, Before it Collapses

    February 19, 2019 - Tampa Bay Times

    University of South Florida researchers were given full access to the building that served as a 24-room boarding home for visiting African-Americans during the era of segregation, James Brown and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. among them.

  • At Florida's Gateway to Space, Archaeologists Are In A Race Against Time

    February 14, 2019 - Florida Today

    "We're taking millions and millions of measurements every second," said Dr. Lori Collins, Co-Director of the University of South Florida's Digital Heritage and Humanities Center.

  • USF Historians Seek to Unravel Mystery Behind Roulette Wheel

    February 12, 2019 - Tampa Bay Times

    USF is casting a wide net for any information the public might have to help solve the riddle of the crude, portable roulette wheel fashioned from an early-20th century aluminum lamp.

  • Preserving Florida's Space History

    February 11, 2019 - USF Newsroom

    Dr. Lori Collins, along with DHHC co-Director Travis Doering, PhD, have been researching and working on heritage preservation at the Cape since 2014. In collaboration with the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, they have utilized both 3D laser scanning techniques and remote sensing methods to build intricate virtual renderings and understandings of these complexes. Using existing infrastructure within USF Libraries’ Digital Collections, the DHHC team will make the 3D models available to people around the world.

  • Want to Explore History Up Close? USF's 3D Scanning Project Makes It Happen at History Center

    February 4, 2019 - Tampa Bay Times

    Many of the DHHC's 80,000 artifacts will be available through its website, enabling visitors to scrutinize every angle and inch of a powder horn, shipwreck flotsam, or a historic map.