The University of Colorado Boulder will receive $300,000 from the National Science Foundation under its STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) program to integrate content and skills from the humanities into data science education from October 2021 through September 2024. As part of the NSF's efforts to ensure the vitality of the nation's STEM education enterprise, this Project Grant will support the development of curricula, teaching materials, and training to incorporate...
This Project Grant award of $149,968 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (CFDA 45.162 - Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development) supports the University of California, Santa Cruz in developing three new upper-division humanities courses that can serve as the basis for spinoff modules for upper-level computer science students as well as workshops for community college students. The award will be utilized over a 3-year period from July 1,...
The University of Colorado Denver received a three-year, $149,197 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program. The grant funds the "Recovering Auraria's Past" project to develop digital teaching and learning resources on the history of the Auraria neighborhood in Denver, which was displaced in the 1970s to build the current Auraria campus. Over the grant period,...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $137,522 Project Grant to Old Dominion University (ODU) under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). The grant, with a performance period from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027, will be used to establish two new academic programs exploring the relationship between the humanities and data science. Specifically, ODU will create a concentration in the data...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $949,718 to Colorado Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129) for the period of June 15, 2021 through April 30, 2023. This Project Grant will support Colorado Humanities' delivery of local, statewide, and regional public humanities programming through its annual operating activities. As the designated state humanities council for Colorado, the organization will utilize the federal funding to...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $488,966 Project Grant to Colorado Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129). This 5-year grant, spanning from November 1, 2024 to October 31, 2029, supports Colorado Humanities in bringing the humanities to life through subawards and public programming across the state. The grant allows Colorado Humanities to tailor its initiatives to the needs, resources, and interests of local...
This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities will provide $149,532 to St. Francis College to implement Digital Humanities Across the Curriculum. Funded under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program, the award will support course redesign for at least eight courses, professional development for over 50 faculty, and the creation of a Digital Humanities Lab. These efforts will expose nearly all 2,700 students to digital...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Loyola University of Chicago a $149,363 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). The grant will fund the development of at least four new interdisciplinary courses that integrate STEM and humanities disciplines for Loyola's undergraduate students. This builds on the university's prior pilot work co-teaching biology and philosophy courses, with the goal of...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $150,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162) to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) for the project "Enriching the Humanities Curriculum to Embrace Cultural Relevance". The project objectives are to: (1) develop five new culturally relevant courses to support a new Hispanic Studies minor; (2) provide...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $200,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Challenge Grants program (CFDA 45.130) to Colorado State University (CSU) to support the renovation of space for the university's new Center for Engaged Humanities. The Center will engage members of the public and community organizations as critical collaborators in humanities scholarship and programming designed to strengthen local, state, and regional democratic institutions...