This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) program will provide $349,357 to the University of Arizona to deliver tailored education and training for diverse groups of undergraduate and postgraduate students working within museum fields. The project will offer two educational streams: an introduction to curatorial methods for undergraduate students, and internship and mentoring...
This federal Project Grant award of $350,000.00 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (CFDA 45.149 - Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access) will support the University of Pacific's efforts to improve the preservation and storage of their archival collections. The funding will be used to replace existing broken storage systems that threaten to damage the collections, and provide new high-density shelving to rehouse collections currently in substandard storage...
This $149,779 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) program will deploy a full-time Rapid Response Community Archivist over a two-year period to work with at least six of Wisconsin's twelve Native Nations. The Archivist will provide culturally relevant technical expertise and targeted practical assistance to advance high-needs digital preservation and curation activities within tribal...
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 $348,655 Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant to the University of Delaware's Center for Historic Architecture and Design to stabilize and disseminate its archive of vanishing historic architecture from the Mid-Atlantic region. This two-year grant, running from June 2024 to November 2026, will support the processing and public release of 1,800 "born-digital" historic property documentation records collected...
The College of William & Mary was awarded a $832,414 Project Grant from the National Park Service's Save America's Treasures program (CFDA 15.929) to rebuild the deteriorating West Courtyard steps of the historic Wren Building, the nation's oldest collegiate building. The project will address the structural deficiencies of the steps, which have experienced cracking and water infiltration since their 1928-1931 restoration. Specialized materials and labor, including stonemasons, historic brick...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $350,000 Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections Implementation Level II grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to the Wagner Free Institute of Science, a National Historic Landmark in Philadelphia, PA. The grant funding will be used to install a sustainable new HVAC system in the library wing and integrate a direct digital control (DDC) system across the site's HVAC...
This three-year, $149,972 project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program will support the development of a more robust and sustainable approach to humanities education in Wisconsin's Southern Fox Valley region. Ripon College serves as the awardee and will partner with Marian University and other community organizations to reimagine humanities instruction for the twenty-first...
This federal Project Grant award of $300,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) program will fund the Midwest Art Conservation Center, Inc.'s (MACC) Regional Preservation Field Services Program from March 2025 to February 2027. The program aims to strengthen preservation practices and collections care at hundreds of cultural repositories in the Upper Midwest region, resulting in increased public...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), through its Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149), awarded a $341,983 Project Grant to the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) to assess the performance of energy-efficient phase change materials (PCMs) for passive temperature control of objects in uncontrolled environments. The study, titled "TIME FOR A CHANGE: ASSESSING THE PERFORMANCE OF ENERGY-EFFICIENT PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS FOR PASSIVE...