My Name is Alyssa McDonald and I am a first-year graduate Student at the University of Connecticut. I am pursuing a Master of Fine Arts in Digital Media and Design. Before attending UConn, I received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and worked in the fine art photography industry […]
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Welcome to the Team: Kenia Rodriguez
My name is Kenia Rodriguez and I am a second year MA/PhD track student in English at the University of Connecticut (UConn). In May 2019, I earned my Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from California State University, Northridge. I am an HSI Pathways/Mellon Student Fellow who hopes to become a professor of children’s literature. […]
Welcome to the Team: Lauren Cronan
My name is Lauren Cronan and I am a first-year graduate student at the University of Connecticut. I’m pursuing a Master of Fine Arts in Digital Media and Design with a focus on digital culture, learning & advocacy. Before relocating to Hartford, I contributed service, design, programming and instruction in academic and public libraries in […]
Welcome to the Team: Luisa Fernanda Arrieta Fernandez
I’ve always liked museums. But not in the contemplative way most of you might imagine. I like museums in the way a child likes his favorite truck; she looks at it, touches it owning every part of it, and pulls it apart over and over again. I like to separate every part of a museum […]
Welcome to the Team: Wenchao Lou
I am very happy to be able to work with professors and students in Greenhouse Studios. I also learned a lot during this year. In my first year at Greenhouse Studios, I was involved in Overrated’s board game design by designing cards and tokens, and using laser cutting to create tokens and cards from cardboard […]
Designers and Developers as Scholarly Collaborators
At the heart of the Greenhouse Studios design process is the concept of “collaboration from the start.” All too often collaborators are brought on board at a late stage merely to implement or put the finishing touches on scholarly projects, not to conceptualize them. This is particularly true with respect to designers and developers, whose […]
Welcome to the Team: Wes Hamrick
What did you do before coming to Greenhouse Studios? I did my PhD in English at Notre Dame University, specializing in 18th Century Irish Studies. After the PhD I held post-doctoral fellowships at Notre Dame University and the National University Ireland Galway. What is your role at Greenhouse Studios? I am a Mellon Fellow so […]
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 […]
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 […]
Thomas Lee Describes The Charles V Project in Video Interview
Enter Greenhouse Studios and you’ll almost always spot Design Technologist Tom Lee diligently at work in the corner project room. Step up to its glass wall and inside you’ll see architectural blueprints, virtual reality (VR) equipment, and Tom, who’s often wearing a pair of VR goggles and staring into space. He’s not just day dreaming, […]
Fully-funded Greenhouse Studios Graduate Studentships
Greenhouse Studios, in partnership with the University of Connecticut School of Fine Arts, is pleased to announce two funded M.F.A. studentships in either Digital Media & Design or Studio Art. The studentships will provide full tuition, health benefits, and a half-time graduate research assistantship with Greenhouse Studios | Scholarly Communications Design at UConn. Greenhouse Studios […]
Welcome to the Team: Brooke Foti Gemmell
What is your background, and what did you do before coming to Greenhouse Studios? I graduated with a BFA from the Art & Art History department here at UConn in 2015, with studies in photography, video and communication design and a minor in digital arts. I then worked at Trinity College in Hartford during a […]
We’re hiring a Greenhouse Studios Mellon Fellow!
Greenhouse Studios is growing, and we’re looking for a creative, collaboration-minded project leader with proven organizational skills and a terminal degree in the humanities or social sciences, fine arts, or library and information science to join us. The new Greenhouse Studios Mellon Fellow will collaborate with our interdisciplinary project teams to conceive and develop technical […]
We’re Hiring!
Greenhouse Studios is growing, and we’re looking for an energetic, creative maker to join us as a core member of the Greenhouse Studios staff. The new Design Technologist will collaborate with Greenhouse Studios’ interdisciplinary project teams to conceive and develop technical approaches and design solutions to support innovative, multi-modal scholarly works. This is a two […]