WHUS Radio is a non-commercial college radio station broadcasting on 91.7 FM at 4,400 watts to Connecticut, Southern Massachusetts, and Western Rhode Island. The FM signal also streams online.
WHUS also operates a second Internet radio stream, WHUS 2, incorporated in 2014 to accommodate the growing number of DJs on staff.
Credits
Written by:
Jonathan Kopeliovich
WHUS Archive Creator and Training Director from 2023 to 2024
This project could not have been done without the assistance and help of the wonderful WHUS community and other organizations. Thank you to all of the WHUS DJs and staff who took time out of their lives to tell me and share their wonderful stories and collections. This station would be nothing without you.
I thank the WHUS Board for supporting and working alongside me on this. Jason McMullan, our full-time staff advisor, and Program Coordinator displayed herculean restraint when I barraged him with random questions and made time for me to brainstorm even if that made staying past closing hours to do so. He connected me with old and new DJs alike and is the reason this website is even up in the first place. I could not imagine a better Program Coordinator.
I also would like to thank my mentor and senior project advisor, Professor Catherine Masud. Creativity is nothing without restraint, boundaries, and consistency. Her methodical and organized routines as well as compassionate approach to delays are some of the main reasons that I am graduating with a portfolio of work I appreciate.
The web design on this site was done in collaboration with a WHUS community member Alan Herrick. He sat with me for hours and created the content structure for most pages for every page, as well graphic design for the landing page, and program schedule navigation menu. He’s a cool dude.
Credits for Archive
- All the WHUS DJs and staff who took time out of their lives to tell me and share their wonderful stories and collections – this station would be nothing without you.
Thank you to:
- Sophia Curran for interview assistance, outreach, and emotional support when this project was driving me insane
- Shanice for outreach to other organizations and transportation
- Gill Brown for research and transcribing/note taking painfully long pre-interviews
- Henry St. Pierre for research support
- Lily Goldblatt for writing the folk page
- Patrick Boots for writing the News/Public Affairs section, the 1980s page, and general research
- The UConn Archives and Special Collections
- Jonathan Trinque and Betsy Pittman for painstaking collaboration and allowing me to scan their extensive archives
- Vivian Qiu for financial processing
- The Connecticut Digital Archive for long-term preservation support
- Dylan Alderucci for emailing DJs and providing contact information
- NaShawn for research, including scanning
- David for digitizing CDs and cassettes
Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts in Digital Media Design at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut.
Senior Project Advisor
Catherine Masud
©2024, Jonathan Kopeliovich