Project Grant PG28094721

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $149,781 to the University of Missouri System, through its Missouri University of Science & Technology (Missouri S&T) campus, to conduct post-storm analyses of multiple tornadoes that affected Missouri and Arkansas in March 2025. The research team will collect aerial and ground survey data on damage to structures and trees, process weather radar data, and establish...

The Northeast Document Conservation Center, Inc. (NEDCC) received a two-year, $350,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program. Through this funding, NEDCC will provide free preservation training, resources and assessments to ensure the long-term care of humanities collections. Specific deliverables include eight hands-on disaster preparedness workshops, eight general preservation...

The Towson University-led project, funded through a $150,000 National Leadership Grants for Museums (CFDA 45.312) award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, will develop a student-centered outreach model for academic archives. This two-year project will conduct a series of virtual forums with students, faculty, and practitioners to inform the creation of a data-driven, cost-effective, and generalizable student-centered outreach model for academic archives. The model will be...

This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program provides $331,528 to Lewis & Clark College to rebuild and reinvigorate its special collections program. The College will use the funding over two years from October 2021 through September 2023 to create exhibits, process Indigenous and Asian archives, and develop a community archive with the local Vietnamese community. This will allow the special...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $212,979 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to the Midwest Art Conservation Center, Inc. (MACC), a non-profit organization. This 2-year grant, awarded on March 1, 2024, will support the development of tools for remote risk assessment and emergency planning to improve the sustainability and resilience of public art collections nationwide. Specifically, the grant...

This federal Project Grant award of $1,100,000.00 from the U.S. Department of Energy's Grid Infrastructure Deployment and Resilience program (CFDA 81.254) is intended to support Cornell University's "IMPROVING MARKET PRICES AND ADEQUACY IN THE CLEAN TRANSITION (IMPACT)" project. The award, which has an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2025, will fund Cornell's research and technical services to improve the reliability, resilience, and flexibility of the U.S. electric grid...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $350,000 Project Grant under the Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), a nonprofit preservation organization. Through this 2-year award, NEDCC will provide a range of preservation services and training resources to support the long-term care and stewardship of paper-based, photographic, audiovisual, and digital collections at cultural institutions across the...

The Society of Architectural Historians, University of California, Riverside, and the Color Film Emergency Project were awarded a $338,024 Project Grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). The grant will support a consortium work model to address the preservation and digitization of at-risk 35mm architectural slides documenting historic buildings and sites. This effort aims to safeguard this...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $472,614 to Cornell University from July 2022 through June 2026 to study the impacts of severe drought on tropical forest post-disturbance recovery. Specifically, the researchers are conducting a rainfall manipulation experiment in a forest in Puerto Rico that is recovering from Hurricane Maria in 2017. The project aims to characterize and predict forest resilience to climate change by...

The University of Iowa will receive $350,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access federal grant program to increase access to the Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry. The Sackner Archive is the world's largest collection of materials documenting the international avant-garde movement combining words and visual elements in new art forms. This project will support staffing to organize,...