Project Grant ES5004504

The Klezmer Institute Inc. will receive $297,120 under a two-year Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to produce the Kelisegof-Makonovetsky Critical Editions. This project aligns with the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) by making available early 20th century European Jewish music manuscripts to broaden accessible resources and contextualize the work of renowned ethnomusicological researchers. Specifically, the Institute will edit and publish...

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded Universitaet Wien (doing business as Alma Mater Rudolphina) a $450,000 Project Grant under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The 3-year award, effective August 15, 2023, will fund R&D activities in the area of physics. As the prime awardee, Universitaet Wien has delivered research and development services in areas such as physics, nanobiology, quantum computing, and data science...

This is a $232,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences grant program (CFDA 47.075). The grant supports collaborative research at the University of Maryland, College Park to elucidate the computational and neural mechanisms underlying music enculturation, or how people spontaneously engage with and learn unfamiliar musical cultures. The research combines computational...

The Madison Children's Museum received a $500,000 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (MFA) program (CFDA 45.301) to fabricate and install a new long-term exhibition titled "Rhythms of Life." The exhibit will explore the interconnectedness of all living things and promote the importance of empathy and caring for the Earth. The interactive, hands-on exhibition will feature seasonal elements and components targeted...

The Department of State Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs awarded a $2,909,904 project grant to support the 60th edition of the Viennale Internationales Filmfestival Wien (Viennale International Film Festival Vienna) taking place from October 20 to November 1, 2022 in Vienna, Austria. The grant funding will support Viennale, Austria's most important international film event, which showcases films in the five traditional Viennale cinemas located in Vienna's historical center. The grant is...

This $598,703 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program. The grant aims to elucidate the computational and neural mechanisms underlying musical enculturation - how people spontaneously engage with and learn the musical structures of unfamiliar cultures. The research involves implementing a series of behavioral, neuroimaging, and neurophysiology...

The National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to the Kuumbwa Jazz Society, doing business as the Kuumbwa Jazz Center, to support personnel and facilities expenses from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2023. This funding falls under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024), which aims to support opportunities for public participation in the arts and arts education, integrate the arts with strategies promoting well-being and...

The Department of State Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs provided $155,264 under the Public Diplomacy Programs federal grant to support two solo exhibitions by American artists Kevin Jerome Everson and Doreen Garner at the newly established Halle F. Kunst Steiermark in Graz, Austria. The exhibitions titled "Black History - Black Present" will be delivered between June 1, 2021 and November 30, 2021. The primary sub-awardee is the Kunstverein Medienturm organization, which will...

This $300,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports research and outreach activities led by Dr. Nariel Monteiro at the University of California, Santa Cruz from October 2022 to September 2025. Funded under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, the grant enables Dr. Monteiro to construct complex representations of general linear groups over finite local principal ideal rings and investigate similarities with representations over fields of positive characteristic, applying...

This $403,358 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences will fund research to characterize the surface properties of the four Galilean moons of Jupiter - Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. The research will use multi-wavelength observations from radio telescopes to create 3D maps of temperature and density across the moons' surfaces. This will provide insights into how internal and external factors influence the surface features observed on...