Project Grant PW30427925
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), through its Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149), awarded a $349,515 project grant to the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) to develop and sustain education and training opportunities for library, archive, and museum professionals, humanities scholars, and others. The project aims to create "communities of practice" around multispectral imaging to foster opportunities for...
- This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) will fund research to evaluate the mechanical stability of 3D printed materials used for preservation and access activities in cultural institutions. The $315,854 grant, awarded on April 1, 2024, will assess the dimensional changes, creep behavior, and damping properties of 3D printed materials exposed to changing environments. This research aims to inform...
- The Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) has been awarded a $552,679 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the National Leadership Grants for Museums (CFDA 45.312) program. The grant, awarded on September 1, 2024, will fund research on the relationship between environmental conditions and the risk of fungal growth on paper and parchment materials in museum collections. The project will collaborate with university and museum partners to conduct laboratory...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $345,896 Humanities Collections and Reference Resources implementation grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to the Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library organization. The two-year grant, effective July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2026, will fund the digitization of and permanent online access to nine local history collections from seven public libraries across the...
- This $499,997 project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program, will fund five new digital humanities initiatives at Middle Tennessee State University through December 2023. The university will employ seven positions including four full-time professionals and three graduate assistants to conduct oral histories on Black institutions during the Civil Rights movement, create an online database of political...
- The University of Rochester was awarded a $299,748 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to support the publication of 6 volumes in the Middle English Text Series (METS) and the implementation of a redesigned digital edition to enhance user access and interaction. The METS series, now in its 32nd year, aims to make available critical editions of medieval vernacular texts from Britain spanning the 13th...
- 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 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), through its Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149), awarded a $349,009 Project Grant to the Northeast Document Conservation Center, Inc. (NEDCC) to develop tools and workflows for preserving digital audio tape (DAT) collections. The project aims to address the lack of accessible preservation solutions for accurately transferring audio and metadata from the at-risk DAT format, which is likely to contain unique content. The key...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded Middlebury College $408,811.90 under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169) from September 1, 2016 through December 31, 2018. The NEH Office of Digital Humanities supports innovative projects utilizing digital technology to advance humanities research and education. Under this Project Grant, Middlebury College developed "Scholarship in Sound and Image" to support innovative humanities...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $349,994 Project Grant to Case Western Reserve University under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) on January 1, 2025. The grant funds the "Between Memory and the Archive: Jewish Print Culture" institute, which will take place at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and the Cary Graphic Arts Collection at the Rochester Institute of Technology. The institute will examine the evolution of...
The Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) was awarded a $286,330 two-year 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 will enable RIT to arrange, describe, and digitize significant collections in the Deaf Studies, Culture, and History Archives (DSA). Specifically, the project will: 1) hire an archivist to survey unprocessed collections, arrange and describe the materials to professional standards, and create catalog records in ArchivesSpace to improve discoverability; 2) enhance descriptions of previously processed DSA collections, including reparative description where needed; and 3) initiate a pilot digitization project to make materials from three key DSA collections publicly accessible through RIT Libraries' digital collections platform. This grant award supports the NEH program's objective of ensuring the long-term availability and accessibility of primary humanities materials held by cultural heritage institutions.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $286.3k | 8/21/25 |