MATRIX - The Center for Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences Online

MATRIX employs a cadre of experienced web-designers, programmers, systems analysts, usability experts, and academic consultants, and offer design and programming services at highly competitive rates.

From high-end programming and database construction for content-rich sites or digital collections, to user-centered interfaces and visual design, the MATRIX team is ready to help plan and achieve your goals. MATRIX can help to structure contracts and subcontracts, write grant funded initiatives and partnerships, and provide hourly rates for a variety of services.

MATRIX began small. When Professor Mark Kornbluh came to Michigan State University in September 1994, the College of Arts and Letters agreed to host key services of H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online, an independent scholarly initiative by humanists and social scientists to utilize the Internet.

MSU provided office space in the basement of Morrill Hall, plus support to host H-Net's digital teaching initiative and to launch H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences , a pioneering online book review journal.

This arrangement proved beneficial to both H-Net and MSU. Within two years, Professor Kornbluh had obtained two important grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support H-Net activities at MSU. H-Net Reviews was a striking success and in 1997 MSU hosted a major national conference, Envisioning the Future: Humanities Teaching in the Digital Age. (Today, H-Net Reviews is the largest online scholarly book review journal in the world.)

As a result, the H-Net Council agreed to locate all of H-Net's computing activities at Michigan State and urged Professor Kornbluh to establish a Center at MSU to house them.