Project Grant SBB21020GR0025

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $284,426 supports the International Research Experience for Students (IRES) program and Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) to deliver immersive field and laboratory experiences for graduate students through the study of different cultural horizons on the Caribbean island of Barbuda, Antigua and Barbuda. The University of Nebraska will implement the project from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025. Specifically, the grant...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) program awarded a $148,955 Project Grant to the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey (UPR Cayey) to implement the "Collective Care: Oral Histories of Climate Change in Puerto Rico" project. The project aims to preserve and improve access to a collection of oral histories documenting community-led responses to natural disasters and the COVID-19 pandemic in Puerto...

This $190,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) will fund two one-week workshops in July and August 2024 for a total of 72 K-12 teachers. The workshops will focus on the history and cultural legacy of the Gullah-Geechee people, who are descendants of enslaved Africans in the Lowcountry region of Georgia. In partnership with Gullah-Geechee descendants, scholars, and institutions,...

The National Trust of Trinidad and Tobago received a $199,960 project grant award from the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs under the Educational and Cultural Exchange Programs Appropriation Overseas Grants program (CFDA 19.022) to conduct a collaborative investigation of climate change solutions for endangered cultural heritage sites in Trinidad and Tobago. The project will work to develop strategies to protect important cultural locations from increasing...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $291,000 cooperative agreement to The University of the West Indies under the Climate and Atmospheric Research program. The three-year award, running from April 2021 through March 2024, will support the NOAA-CERMES Climate Resilience Enhancement Programme (NCCREP) to be conducted in Barbados. As indicated in the program description, the Climate and Atmospheric Research program aims to develop predictive climate modeling...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) awarded a $149,332 Project Grant to the University of Puerto Rico - Arecibo Campus for the "The Island Resilience Project: Cultural Heritage and Community Empowerment in Islote, Puerto Rico." This 2-year project, starting on March 1, 2024, aims to enhance the cultural and community resilience of the Islote, Puerto Rico community against climate change impacts through the...

This federal Project Grant award of $199,737 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) supports the research project "ARCHIVING PUERTO RICO: DIGITAL MEMORY AND THE TEMPORALITIES OF DISASTER." The project, led by Michigan State University, will explore the intersections of disaster studies, digital humanities, and lived experiences in Puerto Rico. The proposed volume incorporates contributions from the project team...

This Project Grant award of $163,906.00 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) will fund two one-week workshops hosted by the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) in July 2025. The workshops, titled "LAND AS ARCHIVE: NATURAL AND HUMAN HISTORIES OF THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN," will convene 20 participants from the humanities fields each session to develop analytical and practical skills in...

This $3,707,343 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Sea Grant Support program (CFDA 11.417) will develop new training curricula and identify existing programs to build the capacity of communities in coastal Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands to prepare for and increase resilience to climate change impacts. The project, awarded to the minority-owned non-profit organization Protectores De Cuencas Inc. (PDC), will train...

The Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs awarded a $142,000 Project Grant to the Barbados Youth Business Trust under the Educational and Cultural Exchange Programs Appropriation Overseas Grants program (CFDA 19.022). The grant will support the AWE PROGRAM 2022 IN BARBADOS, which is intended to provide assistance awards made directly to eligible organizations in the United States using funds appropriated to and authorized by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs...