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...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $335,678 project grant to Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University on July 1, 2015 to support research tracking the spread of the Russian flu in U.S. and German medical and popular reports from 1889 to 1893. The grant was awarded under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program, which supports innovative humanities projects utilizing digital technology (CFDA #45.169). Virginia Tech will conduct research...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded Middlebury College $408,811.90 under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169) from September 1, 2016 through December 31, 2018. The NEH Office of Digital Humanities supports innovative projects utilizing digital technology to advance humanities research and education. Under this Project Grant, Middlebury College developed "Scholarship in Sound and Image" to support innovative humanities...
The Johns Hopkins University was awarded a $410,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169) to support the Humanities Open Book Program from May 1, 2018 through October 31, 2020. The Office of Digital Humanities program aims to support innovative humanities projects utilizing or studying the impact of digital technologies. This award specifically funds the Humanities Open Book Program,...
The University of South Carolina received a $171,855.05 two-year Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169). The grant funded the development of a computational tool to identify patterns of language change in social media over time. The Office of Digital Humanities program supports innovative digital humanities projects utilizing or studying the impact of digital technologies. This...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $1,147,290 to the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129) from June 2021 through April 2023. The NEH grant supports local, statewide, and regional public humanities programming through the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities as the designated state humanities council. As the sub-awardee, the Foundation will utilize the funding to organize public events,...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $349,126 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to Christiansburg Institute, Inc. The objective of this 2-year grant, with a performance period from June 2024 to May 2026, is to digitize four data-rich school and community collections related to the Christiansburg Institute, a historically Black educational institution in Virginia. The digitization effort will create...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) provides $240,787 to George Mason University for the "Mathematical Humanists" project. The project will iteratively conduct four workshops to guide 48 synchronous and an unlimited number of asynchronous participants through fundamental mathematical concepts underlying common digital humanities (DH) methods, including statistics, network analysis, and text...
The University of Richmond received a $179,287.71 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169) to develop the Distant Viewing Toolkit (DVT) for the Cultural Analysis of Moving Images. The NEH Office of Digital Humanities program supports innovative humanities projects that utilize or study the impact of digital technology. Under this award effective October 1, 2018 through April...
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...