Project Grant 18893174422

This federal Project Grant award of $150,000.00 from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) supports a multidisciplinary digital humanities and public engagement research initiative focused on the nexus of water, technology, and environmental justice. The project, titled "Water Justice and Technology," builds upon the awardee's prior work and aims to produce new knowledge, convene experts, engage the public, and...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $300,000 to the University of Southern California (USC) to investigate how new technologies for water resource extraction, such as membrane-based filtration and retrofittable fermenters, can address anticipated challenges of water scarcity and resource insecurity. The project aims to develop conceptual tools for understanding resource extraction in a...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $300,000 to Arizona State University (ASU) to investigate technologies for maximizing the use of water as a resource and extracting resources found in water. The project examines efforts to make wastewater usable through membrane-based filtration technologies and retrofittable fermenters, and explores the social and environmental implications of these...

This $250,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.079) will establish the groundwork for developing a Global Center to provide real-time water quality forecasts and decision support tools for lakes and reservoirs in the U.S. and Australia facing climate change impacts. The key products to be delivered under this 2-year award include: 1) an American-Australian community of water researchers, managers, industry, and...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.079) provides $449,842 to Arizona State University (ASU) to empower diverse cohorts of undergraduate and graduate students to conduct interdisciplinary, community-based water resources research in the Vilcanota Urubamba Basin in Peru. The key products and services to be delivered under this award include: Training and empowering three diverse student cohorts from Rutgers...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $290,750 Project Grant to Para La Naturaleza, Inc. under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to support the exhibition "Flora Borinqueniana: Three Centuries of Botanical Illustrations" from May 1, 2021 to December 31, 2023. The exhibition will fuse art, history, science, politics, education and culture to explore how the story of acquiring knowledge about Puerto Rico's natural surroundings informs the...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $100,000 project grant to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York (operating as State University College) for the "Virtual Aquapolis" project. The grant, funded through the agency's Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164), will support the development of an immersive virtual reality (VR) and interactive web experience that examines over 400 years of environmental history and human...

This federal Project Grant award was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161). The $126,265 grant, awarded on August 1, 2024, supports a 3-year project titled "OF WATER, CROCODILES, AND KINGS: CO-PRODUCING KUY HISTORY IN THE PREY LANG FOREST, CAMBODIA." The project is led by the University of Hawaii at Manoa and engages with Kuy citizens to co-produce knowledge about the pre-Angkorian history and...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $400,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Challenge Grants program (CFDA 45.130) to the Toledo Museum of Art. This funding supports critical renovations to the century-old plumbing infrastructure in the Edward B. Green Building, which houses the museum's art collection and serves as a venue for arts and humanities programming. The project will safeguard the museum's valuable artworks and provide comfortable, inviting...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to The Baltimore Museum of Art, Inc. under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs program (CFDA 45.164) to support the temporary exhibition "Renaissance Woman." Scheduled from October 1, 2023 to January 7, 2024, the exhibition will bring together approximately 150 art objects exclusively made by women artists from collections across North America and Europe. Curated by Dr. Andaleeb Bantam, the...