This federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) will support the "Expanding and Sustaining Enslaved.org: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade" project at Michigan State University (MSU). The $348,051 award will enable MSU to link digital collections from 10 collaborators to the Enslaved.org linked open data platform, expanding the geographic reach of the project to include New England,...
This federal Project Grant award, funded by the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (CFDA 10.328 - Food Safety Outreach Program), will provide $404,808 to Michigan State University to build an inclusive image library of high-quality, searchable produce safety images and video footage.
Over the 3-year performance period from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027, the project will add at least 300 tagged images and 50 video clips annually to the...
This federal Project Grant award of $125,714 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) will fund the expansion of the Hamtramck Explorer Deep Map project and associated community collecting initiative. The project aims to increase access to and participation in local heritage preservation within the disadvantaged community of Hamtramck, Michigan. Key project outputs will include the expansion of...
Michigan State University was awarded a $799,974 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program (CFDA #10.310). The grant will support the introduction of Meal Clicks, a survey to track consumer preferences and demand for food prepared away from home ordered through digital environments over time. Meal Clicks will also explore the healthiness of consumer...
This Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program, CFDA 10.310, supports the development and evaluation of a digital intervention focused on healthy cooking, parent feeding practices, and child involvement in home food preparation for low-income families.
The $909,615.40 grant, effective September 1, 2023 through August 31, 2027, will create a...
The federal Project Grant award ID 248MI300N7603 for $746,268.00 was provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service under the Child Nutrition-Technology Innovation Grant (CFDA 10.541) program. The grant aims to support the Michigan Department of Education, the state-level education agency, in developing and implementing innovative technology solutions to improve program accountability, data accuracy, performance measurement, and management capabilities...
This $348,811 federal Project Grant award to Northern Illinois University from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) will support the "Midwest Latinx Oral History Digital Library" project. The award will fund the digitization and online dissemination of nearly 300 audio and video oral history interviews along with full-text transcripts, documenting the diversity of the growing Latinx...
This federal Project Grant award of $1,046,346 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program aims to address food insecurity and unhealthy dietary behaviors among college students, particularly low-income and racial/ethnic minority populations. Through a partnership with five universities, including three minority-serving institutions (MSIs), the funded project will conduct research...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) has awarded a $316,626 project grant to The Ohio State University to create a digital collection of 115 digitized Victorian-era "part-issue" novels. The project, titled "The Part Issue Project: Making 19th-Century Serial Temporality Discoverable and Accessible in HathiTrust," will collaborate with partner libraries to inspect, conserve, and...
The Michigan State University (MSU) has been awarded a $864,590 Formula Grant under the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP), CFDA 10.514. Through this 5-year grant running from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2029, MSU Extension will provide hands-on nutrition education to low-income families and youth in Michigan. The program aims to improve diet quality, physical activity, food resource management, food safety, and food security for these...