Project Grant RZ30669726
- The Hastings Center Inc. was awarded a $287,018 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161). The 18-month project will produce new critical writing on meanings of dementia in diverse social groups in the United States and other aging societies. Specifically, the Center will convene scholars to consider how cultural narratives expressed through metaphors, tropes, and other representations influence public...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $186,147 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to the University of Utah. The 3-week summer institute, titled "Humanities Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence," will be held from July 14 to August 1, 2025 and provide 30 higher education faculty members across humanities disciplines a deeper understanding of the technological workings and societal implications of...
- This Project Grant award of $474,829 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) will support the Notre Dame Program on AI and the Development of Ethics in Agents (ND-PAIDEIA). ND-PAIDEIA will gather a multidisciplinary team of scholars to explore how virtue ethics can inform the development, implementation, assessment, and use of generative AI systems. The program will create a virtue-based framework for approaching...
- This $200,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) supports a multi-method, interdisciplinary, and transnational study to explore the role of big tech companies in the advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) and the implications for democracy, governance, and public trust. The research team from the University of Pennsylvania will assess corporate influence over AI strategies through a combination of...
- This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (CFDA 45.169 - Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities) provides $131,519.00 to Northeastern University to conduct a collaborative research project examining the ethical considerations of using biotechnologies like gene editing, synthetic biology, and gene drives for conservation efforts. The project team, which includes experts in fields like conservation philosophy, animal ethics, and environmental...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to Bard College under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to develop indigenous protocols to guide the creation and refinement of AI wearable and digital technologies. The project, titled "The Wihanble S'a Center at Bard College," aims to imagine, design, test, and prototype a series of research and technological development activities that build AI-driven systems grounded in both...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $216,218 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) program to the University of Kansas Center for Research Inc. This 1-year grant, running from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2025, will fund the "AI & Digital Literacy: Toward an Inclusive and Empowering Teaching Practice" institute. The institute will explore how to teach writing, research, and critical inquiry in the face...
- The federal Project Grant award of $209,151.00 was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to Cornell University. The award, with a performance period from October 1, 2023 to December 31, 2024, will fund a "Summer Institute in Moral Psychology" to enable participants to develop theoretical and methodological resources for teaching and conducting original research in the...
- The University of Connecticut received a $137,974 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169), with an award date of August 1, 2024. The goal of this 24-month project is to investigate how legacies of slavery and conceptions of human dignity are shaping the perception and reception of conversational artificial intelligence (AI) through popular culture. The key activities include research,...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to Georgetown University's Initiative on Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Citizenship (AIDC) under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161). The AIDC initiative is designed to produce impactful research addressing the effects of AI on the individual's experience of democratic life. In partnership with Georgetown's Humanities Initiative and the Aspen Institute, the AIDC project will...
This Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) provides $172,638.00 to the Hastings Center Inc. to prepare a manuscript for a themed issue of the prominent bioethics journal The Hastings Center Report. The special issue will explore the question "What are humans good for?" by critically evaluating eight candidates - empathy, care, trust, morality, emotion, attention, human exceptionalism and flourishing - using examples of AI in healthcare. The collaboration between the Hastings Center and the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU aims to set a new tone for AI ethics and push humanities research in new directions, forming a foundation for scholarship that will ensure a future for human connection in a world of AI. The project will run from January 1, 2026 to December 31, 2027.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $172.6k | 12/16/25 |