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, […]
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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 […]
Welcome to the Team: Alyssa McDonald
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 […]
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 […]
Courtroom 600 Team Immerses Users in Nuremberg Trials at the 2020 ED Games Expo
Members of the Courtroom 600 project team recently participated in the 2020 ED Games Expo in Washington, D.C., allowing students, educators, and others to dive into an immersive encounter with the Major War Criminals Trial (1945-46) at Nuremberg, Germany. The annual expo, hosted by the Department of Education, is described by the ED as a […]
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, […]
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 […]
The Understand Phase Explained
When people ask me about what we do at Greenhouse Studios, it is challenging to distill all of its ambitions into a easily digestible tidbit. Ultimately, we are attempting to change the way scholarship is produced. As a result, many of Greenhouse Studios’ features are responsive to the limitations of mainstream academic practice. In this […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]