"Reflected in the pursuit of creative outlets found in the view of Terman's Genetic Studies of Genius, that the 'laws of nature are correlative, not compensatory', that good things go together... Gregory O'Toole can be likened to the Niagara Falls, beautiful to behold but also harnessed to light up the city of Buffalo and environs."

Walter S. Nosal, Ed.D. Professor, Emeritus, Psychologist
Walter S. Nosal Counseling and Testing Center, John Carroll University

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"Greg O'Toole was a graduate student in my course entitled Digital Noesis. The course is taught in the Digital Media Studies program at the University of Denver. The course, although populated by computer nerds and geeks, is one drawing upon materials from nerds and geeks of literature and philosophy. This is, on occasion, a hard sell for DMS students. Not, however, for Greg O'Toole. Greg sat towards the back of the room and always wore the bemused look of a willing doubter‐someone who is suspicious of the material but willing to give it a chance. I thought it might be similar to the experience of having Jack Kerouac in class. This is a student from another time and yet from after our time, a student who has been busy developing a panoply of skills in art and literature while simultaneously acquiring the technical skills of web design. (...) There is no doubt in my mind that Greg O'Toole ranks in the upper 5% of all the graduate students I have had in my fifty six years of university teaching."

Frank E.X. Dance, Ph.D., John Evans Professor of Human Communication Studies and Digital, Media Studies (Emeritus), University of Denver
Past President, National Communication Assn.
Past President, International Communication Assn.
Past Editor, J. Communication
Past Editor, Communication Education
Fellow, International Communication Assn.

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"Greg is an accomplished poet and publisher who has been able to secure grant based funding to support his work. He has recently been recognized as one of the brightest poets practicing in the region. And his visual work is now being displayed at a gallery of national prominence in New York. With all of these achievements Greg demonstrates promise to achieve international prominence for his work across a range of media...Gregory has characteristics that are of particular importance and interest. He is a disciplined writer. A fact he makes light of in his self description as a graphagromaniac. He writes not only from the poetic/expressive voice, but also from the scholarly/critical voice, bringing new media works into context(s). Further, Greg has been exploring personal media forms since well before the motion picture industry decided to take notice of "third" and "fourth" screens. He is early not only in the adoption of new media methods of production, but also early in his understanding of the potential relevance and impact of said new forms. He is extremely capable of offering novel contributions in both the analytical and productive aspects of new media expression."

Professor Rafael Fajardo, MFA, Director, Digital Media Studies, University of Denver

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"Greg is one of the most creative, intelligent, diligent and focused master's students I had in the 10 years I ran the Digital Media Studies program at the University of Denver (http://dms.du.edu). Greg's mediated practices extend from creative writing to poetry to journalism to web design to web application development and beyond. We required all of our graduate students to develop themselves in three areas of digital media: design, technical and critical. Greg's past work and his current interests represent an almost perfect amalgam of all three. (...) We awarded Greg one of our coveted graduate assistantships during his second year. He performed exceptionally well as the webmaster for the DMS website and also as the editor and primary contributor to DMSpace, our twice‐monthly program publication (online). (...) Not only is he knowledgeable, he is also a patient, careful communicator who performed very well in his teaching role."

Jeff Rutenbeck, Ph.D., Dean, Division of Communication and Creative Media, Champlain College