This $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162) supports a faculty collaboration at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University to develop new approaches to undergraduate instruction connecting the humanities and health sciences. The project team representing five academic departments will participate in a summer workshop and...
This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) program, provides $3,131,435 to support emergency relief and educational programming for humanities organizations recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic. The awardee, National Writing Project, will administer approximately 50 subawards of $50,000 each to local, regional, and cross-regional cultural organizations between October 1, 2021 and September 30,...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $1,364,254 project grant to the Ohio Humanities Council under the Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129). The grant period runs from June 15, 2021 through April 30, 2023 and will support local, statewide, and regional public humanities programming in Ohio. Through this funding, the Ohio Humanities Council will deliver humanities programs to promote civic and cultural engagement across the state. As part of...
The Johns Hopkins University received a $166,889 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to conduct a virtual institute for 25 higher education faculty focused on applying the health humanities to dismantle structural injustice in healthcare. The funding supports the institute, which aims to help physician and nursing faculty explore how to use the health humanities to promote critical...
The U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $149,995 Project Grant to Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). The grant, effective from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027, will support the development of a new Health Humanities minor program at VCU. The program will create 10 new and revised interdisciplinary courses that bridge humanities and health professional...
The U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $149,926 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside (UC Riverside) under the NEH's Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). The funding will support UC Riverside in establishing two new undergraduate degree programs: a B.A. in Environmental Studies and a B.A. in Global and Community Health. These interdisciplinary majors will provide...
This $147,371 federal Project Grant was awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). The grant aims to collaborate with residents of East St. Louis, Illinois to build an archive documenting their experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic. The project has two key components: conducting oral histories with community elders and first responders, and organizing community-based archiving events...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $149,312 Project Grant to D'Youville University under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). The funding will support the development of Humanities Interprofessional Education (HIPE) curricula and co-curricular programs for graduate health professions programs at D'Youville. The project aims to integrate humanities content into healthcare education in order to...
The Ohio State University received a $176,546 project grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program. The award period was from August 1, 2018 to July 31, 2019 to support the VOICES OF WAR: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES project. This project aimed to enhance the teaching and study of the humanities by creating new teaching and learning resources on comparative perspectives of war....
The University of Montana received a $499,023 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs federal grant program (CFDA 45.164). The funding will support a coordinated set of public humanities programming from December 2021 through May 2023 focused on racial justice, death during the COVID-19 pandemic, Native American scholarship, and the history of pandemics. University of Montana staff will conduct a range of activities...