Project Grant 19364823824

The National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to New York University (NYU) on May 1, 2023 under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024). The purpose of the grant is to support NYU's Sustainable Entrepreneurship in the Performing Arts Lab in designing and implementing a research agenda and associated studies. The grant period runs through November 30, 2024. As the prime grantee, NYU will deliver the research agenda and conduct...

The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania were awarded a $200,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024). The grant will support the University's Clinical Practices of the University of Pennsylvania in establishing and operating a research lab from October 1, 2022 to June 30, 2024. The lab will conduct research on the impact of arts participation on health and social/emotional...

This $369,186 National Science Foundation project grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) will fund research at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to advance understanding of human perception, behavior and learning in museum environments. Using computational methods including 3D motion capture and machine learning, the Museum Associates organization will transform a LACMA gallery into a laboratory to study visitor interactions with artworks and...

George Mason University was awarded a $239,720 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences to support collaborative research on language documentation with an artificial intelligence (AI) helper. The award falls under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which aims to promote basic research and education in these fields and monitor science investments. Under the grant, George Mason University will partner with...

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Inc. received a $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Arts under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024). The funding will support personnel expenses from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2023 in response to and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program aims to support opportunities for public participation in the...

The Palo Alto Art Center Foundation will implement a community engagement project titled "Creative Attention" under a $235,779.60 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America program. Through the grant, the Art Center will partner with a licensed art therapist to encourage community members to use art to address anxiety and recognize manifestations of the emotion. Therapeutic art workshops will be conducted and an intergenerational family...

This $195,374 National Endowment for the Humanities project grant supports the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts to retain five staff members engaged in collections stewardship and inaugural exhibition planning activities. Funded through the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program, the one-year award enables the museum to employ a preparator, two assistant registrars, an associate curator and an exhibition designer. These staff will oversee the conservation of the...

George Mason University was awarded a $1,169,924.38 cooperative agreement by the Defense Logistics Agency Headquarters to provide procurement technical assistance to business firms under the Procurement Technical Assistance For Business Firms program (CFDA 12.002) from August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2022. The funding will support George Mason University's continued delivery of procurement assistance services to businesses, with the goal of building a strong domestic supply chain and fostering...

This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program, will support an eight-week Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site focused on mathematics and physics at Marshall University in Huntington, WV. The $164,337 award will enable a cohort of 10 undergraduate students per year from 2024 to 2026 to conduct research projects and attend an undergraduate research conference. The program aims to: 1) recruit at least 50% of...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Integrative Activities provides $172,761 to George Mason University from July 2021 through February 2023 to support core operations for Future Earth's international global change research under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The Geosciences program aims to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. Specifically, the funding will support George...