Preserving 21ST-century science: a national fellowship for early & mid-career cultural heritage professionals [preserving 21ST century science: a national fellowship for early & mid-career cultural…

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded the American Institute of Physics Incorporated $336,177 on June 1, 2026, under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) for a three-year training and education initiative to strengthen national capacity to document, preserve, and provide access to records and narratives of innovation in science and engineering in the United States.

The award funds development of a cohort of early and mid-career cultural heritage professionals who will work collaboratively to build national capacity and refine practices for collecting, preserving, processing, and enabling use and access of records of the scientific enterprise. The initiative responds to the critical need to modernize cultural heritage practice for born-digital scientific materials, enabling historians and philosophers of science to engage with and understand changes in the history of the scientific enterprise.

Performance extends from June 1, 2026, through May 31, 2029, and takes place in Maryland. The assistance type is a Project Grant.

Preserving 21ST-century science: a national fellowship for early & mid-career cultural heritage professionals [preserving 21ST century science: a national fellowship for early & mid-career cultural heritage professionals, a three-year training and education initiative that will strengthen national capacity to document, preserve, and provide access to records and narratives of innovation in science and engineering in the united states. Now that the scientific enterprise is fundamentally a born digital endeavor, there is a critical need to modernize and build out a cohort of cultural heritage professionals to work collaboratively to build national capacity and refine and evolve practices for collecting, preserving, processing, and enabling use and access of records of the scientific enterprise. These materials are of critical importance for historians and philosophers of science to be able to engage with and understand changes in the history of the scientific enterprise.]