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...
The Cleveland Museum of Natural History was awarded a $350,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). The grant funding will be used to replace the museum's 35-year-old HVAC system that maintains climate control for its humanities collection, including cultural anthropology, fine arts, rare books, and archival materials. This project will help ensure the sustainable preservation...
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...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $436,780 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129) to the Delaware Humanities Council Incorporated, doing business as Delaware Humanities. The grant, with a performance period from November 1, 2024 to October 31, 2029, will enable Delaware Humanities to deliver public humanities programming and subawards tailored to the needs, resources, and interests of Delaware communities. The...
This $341,949 federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) supports the Foundation for Advancement in Conservation (FAIC) in building teaching capacity and improving equitable access to climate resilience resources for cultural heritage organizations and communities. Specifically, the grant will fund efforts to evaluate and improve existing climate resilience resources,...
This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) program, provides $3,131,435 to support emergency relief and educational programming for humanities organizations recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic. The awardee, National Writing Project, will administer approximately 50 subawards of $50,000 each to local, regional, and cross-regional cultural organizations between October 1, 2021 and September 30,...
This $213,226 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support collaborative research at Case Western Reserve University to investigate the chemical and biological factors affecting indoor air quality. The project aims to determine how changes in indoor surface chemical composition and air pollutant distribution impact microbial gene expression and emissions of microbial volatile organic compounds. Through laboratory experiments,...
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...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $268,202 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Challenge Grants program (CFDA 45.130) to the Madison Children's Museum. The funding will support climate action planning for the Caretakers of Wonder Consortium, an interdisciplinary multi-museum cohort across four U.S. bioregions serving children and families. Over 15 months, consortium members will participate in climate adaptation and mitigation assessments and planning...
This $357,852 Project Grant awarded by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 3 under the Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act (CFDA 66.034) program will fund the establishment of a Community Air Monitoring Network (CAMN) of 20 PM monitors in New Castle County, Delaware. The grant aims to engage local residents in developing the monitoring network to provide accurate, real-time data on air quality...