The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) received a $310,362 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access federal grant program (CFDA 45.149). UCLA will deliver six online courses, two in-person regional workshops, and follow-up mentoring through March 2025 to support up to 136 Native American professionals working with tribal materials at museums and cultural centers. The training...
The University of California, Santa Barbara received a $150,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program. The grant will support the development, implementation, and evaluation of new minors in Medical Humanities and Legal Humanities over a three-year period from February 2023 to January 2026. Key activities include convening faculty cohorts, designing curricular...
The U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $149,926 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside (UC Riverside) under the NEH's Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). The funding will support UC Riverside in establishing two new undergraduate degree programs: a B.A. in Environmental Studies and a B.A. in Global and Community Health. These interdisciplinary majors will provide...
This $149,954 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Arts under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals (CFDA 45.024) program will support a research agenda and associated studies to be designed and implemented by a team of researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The award period runs from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2026. As a prime grantee, UCLA will leverage its facilities, faculty expertise, administrative capabilities, and...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $130,615 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Challenge Grants program (CFDA 45.130) to the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)'s School of Art & Art History. The grant, awarded on September 1, 2024 with a completion date of April 30, 2026, will support a strategic climate action plan for two UIC public-facing units: Gallery 400 and the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum. The project aims to conduct a comprehensive...
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 $15,000.00 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) will fund two week-long workshops in June 2025 focused on "BVLBANCHA RISING: LOUISIANA LANDMARKS AND CLIMATE CHANGE CHALLENGES." The workshops will invite 20 higher education and humanities practitioners to explore coastal Louisiana cultural landmarks imperiled by sea-level rise, biodiversity threats,...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $149,500 Project Grant to the University of California Santa Cruz to develop a new certificate program in the humanities for engineering students. The grant funding will support the Humanizing Technology initiative under the NEH's Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). Through this three-year project ending in February 2025, UC Santa Cruz aims to establish a rigorous...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $3,274,228 to California Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129) on June 15, 2021 with a completion date of April 30, 2023. The funding will support California Humanities' delivery of local, statewide, and regional public humanities programming through April 2023. As the state humanities council for California, the organization will utilize the funds to promote humanities initiatives in...
This $149,957 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162) will fund the implementation of a humanities-informed environmental studies major at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC). The program aims to integrate humanities perspectives, such as social, cultural, and historical knowledge, into environmental studies to help translate scientific and...