Project Grant 19314283424

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation supports research and narrative discovery activities at The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology from October 2021 through September 2024 with $535,950 in funding. The award is made under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), which aims to advance computing, communications, and information sciences through investigator-initiated research and cyberinfrastructure development. Specifically,...

The American Film Institute (AFI) received a three-year, $750,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program. Through this funding, AFI will undertake an effort to document and provide intellectual access to short films from the silent and early sound film eras (1910-1933) as part of its authoritative AFI Catalog online resource. By including these short films, the AFI Catalog will illuminate...

This federal Project Grant award of $100,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024) supports the MediaMaker Fellowship and Preservation Access programs operated by The Bay Area Video Coalition, Incorporated (BAVC). The MediaMaker Fellowship provides stipends, production funds, and mentorship opportunities for media makers across the country. The Preservation Access program offers affordable...

The Exploratorium will develop affordable, portable STEAM exhibits and at-home learning experiences in partnership with Community Science Workshops under a $499,850 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America program. Through the grant period of September 1, 2022 to February 28, 2025, The Exploratorium will collaborate with CSWS to design 8-10 exhibits and accompanying digital lessons to enable STEAM learning in underserved communities across...

This $246,320 federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) will fund the "Illuminating the Past: A Summer Institute on Multispectral Imaging and Cultural Heritage Preservation" initiative. This transformative program is designed to cultivate the next generation of experts in digital humanities, focusing on cultural heritage recovery through advanced imaging technologies. The initiative...

The Sundance Institute received a $105,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Arts to support the Documentary Sustainability Project. This program aims to strengthen the documentary filmmaking field through knowledge exchange, cross-sector collaboration, and research between July 1, 2021 and December 31, 2022. The Project Grant funding will allow the Sundance Institute to deliver services under the National Endowment for the Arts' Promotion of the Arts Grants to...

The National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to the Western States Arts Federation to support the Performing Arts Discovery program. This program will showcase the work of U.S. performing artists for international presenters from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2023. The funding supports the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024). This program aims to support opportunities for public participation in the arts and arts...

This $149,999 federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) supports the "Making the Digital Dance" project at the University of Alabama. The project aims to develop digital infrastructure and tools to increase access to archival dance information across four existing digital performing arts archives. Key project activities include: Prototyping a dance data commons based on the Wikidata integration model to...

This Project Grant award of $199,999 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports research and educational activities at Macalester College to advance 3D drawing and observational sketching in cross-reality environments spanning the physical, virtual, and mixed reality spaces. The key products and services to be delivered include developing novel user interface techniques and algorithms to enable seamless transitions...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), through its Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169), awarded a $141,252 project grant to the Dominguez Hills Foundation at California State University, Dominguez Hills. The goal of this 2-year project, starting June 1, 2024, is to understand the implications and interactions of generative artificial intelligence (AI), specifically ChatGPT, on the identities and practices of pre-service teachers from diverse...