Project Highlights

“Africa Past and Present” Podcast Audience Grows

afripod In August the MATRIX/History Department Africa Past and Present podcast, co-hosted by Peter Alegi and Peter Limb, set new records for unique visitors and for total number of visits in a single month. With four months left (and six more shows) in 2009, download stats are already nearly double the downloads from all of 2008. ...

Women in Science: New digital media archive

Gabrielle Emilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil's image from Institutions de Physique (1740) The Women in Science website is a new digital media archive that uses KORA, MATRIX’s digital repository application, to deliver text access to the written works of several women scientists, including the works of the marquise Du Châtelet, and biographies written by leading historians of science. The website is available through the participation and support of ...

Quilts

MATRIX has built upon the strengths of Michigan State University to develop a series of exciting collaborations with the local and national quilt community including quilt scholars, archives and museums. Building on long-term collaborations with MSU Museum and its Great Lakes Quilt Center and with The Alliance for American Quilts, MATRIX has developed H-Quilts, a national forum for debate and discussion among quilt scholars, and the Quilt Index, a national online archive of quilt resources. In addition, MATRIX hosts websites for The Alliance for American Quilts and the Center for the Quilt Online.