The Greenhouse Studios team is thrilled to announce that we have been selected as one of two award winners in the Team Category of the UConn Spirit Awards. The awards “honor staff and faculty at our Storrs and regional campuses for stellar contributions and dedication to civility in the workplace.” We are truly grateful to […]
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Congratulations, Class of 2024!
Congratulations, Class of 2024! The Greenhouse Studios Team would like to congratulate and extend a sincere thank-you to this year’s group of graduates for all of their efforts and accomplishments during their time as Greenhouse Studios collaborators! Graduate Spotlight: Jailyn Murphy Degree: BA in Digital Media and Design with a concentration in Digital Media […]
Learn About Digital Humanities and Disaster Narratives
Greenhouse Studios, together with the Digital Humanities and Media Studies Initiative of the UConn Humanities Institute is pleased to co-host colleagues from Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury in Ōtautahi | Christchurch, Aotearoa | New Zealand. Panel with Q&A Thursday, April 20, 2023 at 3:00 p.m. Heritage Room, 4118 Level 4, Homer Babbidge […]
Join Us at the Benton
**this event was cancelled due to an illness; we encourage you to check out Clarissa’s book, available through online retailers and UMass Press.** The team at Greenhouse Studios is delighted to invite our community to the UConn Storrs William Benton Museum of Art to celebrate Associate Director Clarissa J. Ceglio’s new book, A Cultural Arsenal […]
Introducing: NetWorkLab
Greenhouse Studios is excited to announce NetWorkLab, a new professional development opportunity for project managers in the digital humanities and allied fields aimed at improving remote collaboration and facilitation skills. The program is funded in part by a $249,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities’s Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities […]
Launching Irish Paleography Primer and Quiz
At Greenhouse Studios we often think about the importance of collaboration, and the need to have project teams made up of diverse talents. The Irish Paleography Primer and Quiz we launch this week, an output of the larger Léamh project, demonstrates the value of such collaboration. The project team included experts in the Irish language, […]
Sourcery Team Receives $805,000 Grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Greenhouse Studios at the University of Connecticut, in partnership with several leading libraries and archives, is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a grant in the amount of $805,000 over two years from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The grant will support the continued development and outreach of Sourcery, a mobile application that […]
Examining Land-Grant Universities’ Colonial History
The project team of “Land Grab CT,” an interactive website produced by UConn’s Greenhouse Studios in conjunction with the Native American Cultural Programs (NACP) and Native American and Indigenous Students Association (NAISA), will facilitate two engaging events during the second week of October for Indigenous Peoples’ Week: The NACP and NAISA will host Tristan Ahtone […]
Remote Access to Archives and Special Collections
Organized by members of Greenhouse Studios at the University of Connecticut and Northeastern University Library, the conference series “Remote Access to Archives and Special Collections” took place over five Fridays from October 16th to November 20th, 2020. Each session included an organizer and was headlined by a speaker or group of panelists. The organizer of each session […]
Sourcery Team Receives $120,000 Grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Greenhouse Studios at the University of Connecticut, in partnership with the Northeastern University Library, is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a one-year planning grant in the amount of $120,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the continued development of Sourcery, a mobile application for sharing scans of archival materials. Launched […]
Congratulations, Newest Alumni!
The Greenhouse Studios Team would like to congratulate and extend a sincere thank-you to this year’s group of graduates for all of their efforts and accomplishments during their time as Greenhouse Studios collaborators! Sylvia Mosiany has been working with us for the last two years while pursuing an MFA in Digital Media & Design, […]
Redesigning Scholarly Communications Workflows and Work Habits for the Digital Age: The Greenhouse Studios Proposal
We are pleased to present this recent scholarship, published by Greenhouse Studios team members Clarissa J. Ceglio, Tom Scheinfeldt, and Sara Sikes, from the January 2019 issue of the Journal of Scholarly Publishing (University of Toronto Press). Abstract Greenhouse Studios | Scholarly Communications Design at UConn is a shared venture of the School of Fine Arts, […]
Charles V|R Selected as Charleston Library Conference Fast Pitch Finalist
“The Charleston Conference is an informal annual gathering of librarians, publishers, electronic resource managers, consultants, and vendors of library materials in Charleston, SC, in November, to discuss issues of importance to them all. It is designed to be a collegial gathering of individuals from different areas who discuss the same issues in a non-threatening, friendly, […]
Congratulations, Class of 2018!
The Greenhouse Studios Team would like to congratulate and extend a sincere thank-you to this year’s group of graduates for all of their efforts and accomplishments during their time as Greenhouse Studios collaborators!
d’Archive: Weekly Podcast Produced by Graham Stinnett
Graham Stinnett, Archivist at the UConn Archives & Special Collections and a Content Specialist on our HCPL3 project team, has recently completed Season 1 of his new podcast, d’Archive. Stinnett has produced 15 episodes over the course of this past academic year, each of which provides a window into the fascinating world of the UConn Archives […]
Greening Greenhouse Studios
Greenhouse Studios opened the doors of its new workspace on level 1 of the Homer Babbidge Library in August of 2017. As a new open-plan multi-functional office space, it had room for finishing touches and decorative elements. My immediate response to the name “Greenhouse” envisioned lush plantlife along its glass walls. Joining Greenhouse Studios team […]
Greenhouse Studios Named UConn Spirit Awards Finalist
Congratulations to the Greenhouse Studios Working Group, which was recognized today as a finalist for the 2018 Team Award at a ceremony for the UConn Spirit Awards! The team was one of three finalists, along with the University Events and Conference Services Department and the Team Award recipient, the UConn Hartford Campus staff & administration.The […]
River Soma Brings to Life Our Design Process Model
When you walk into the Greenhouse Studios space, you are greeted by a giant hand-painted mural of our design process model. As your eyes follow the flexible path and big colorful circles which represent the phases of our process, you are transported to a world of inquiry, collaboration, innovation, and creativity. River Soma, one of […]
Alom from the Fino Project Runs 16-mm Film Workshop with Students
The Workshop On the evening of November 9th, I gathered in the Ballard Institute of Puppetry theater to watch four short films produced by students with old-fashioned 16-mm cameras. The films were made in a workshop conducted by Cuban artist Juan Carlos Alom, a filmmaker and photographer whose work has been exhibited throughout the world, […]
Greenhouse Studios Supports Open Data at Hartford Public Library
Greenhouse Studios members are actively involved in the larger issues facing scholarly communications outside of our research. On the brisk morning of October 26th, I gathered with several other presenters mostly representing UConn at the Hartford Public Library to showcase projects that benefit from—or contribute to making available—openly and freely accessible data. This event, Open […]
Design Thinking Workshop
On Tuesday, October 24th, 28 participants consisting of faculty, librarians, and Greenhouse Studios collaborators engaged in a Design Thinking Workshop at Greenhouse Studios. Led by Tom Scheinfeldt, Clarissa Ceglio, and Sara Sikes, the workshop explored the “understand” phase of the Greenhouse Studios design process model.
A Greenhouse Takes Root in the Library
Greetings and welcome to the Greenhouse Studios blog! We are currently settling into the newly renovated 1st floor of UConn’s Homer D. Babbidge Library, and we are thrilled to be in our new space. The glass walls echo the setting of an actual greenhouse, and the brightly lit room inspires our ideation, creativity, and collaborative […]
Greenhouse Studios’ First Projects Grapple with The Limits of Text
Greenhouse Studios, a new research unit at the University of Connecticut, is beginning implementation of a collaboration-first approach for the creation and communication of scholarship thanks to a $789,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This award is the first of its kind at UConn and part of the Mellon Foundation’s Scholarly Communications program, […]