Project Grant TR5009809

Carnegie Mellon University received a $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs federal grant program (CFDA 45.164) to develop the SHAKESPEARE-VR interactive virtual reality experience. The experience will allow users to perform Shakespearean plays onstage in an Elizabethan theater alongside professional actors or other users. Upon completion, the experience will be made freely available for download...

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) awarded a $1,557,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024) to Arts Midwest, Incorporated, a non-profit regional arts organization based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The grant funding supports the "Shakespeare in American Communities" initiative, which brings professional theater performances and educational activities to students in schools and juvenile justice facilities, as...

The National Endowment for the Arts awarded the Alabama Shakespeare Festival a $150,000 project grant under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024) to support personnel expenses from January 1, 2022 through September 30, 2022. The grant funding will allow the Alabama Shakespeare Festival to cover staffing costs as it responds to and recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic, maintaining its ability to provide opportunities for public participation in the...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $552,888.88 Project Grant to the Folger Shakespeare Library to catalog, digitize, and provide access to 17th-century British book illustrations from May 1, 2012 to October 31, 2018. This funding supported the Library's efforts under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program, which aims to preserve and provide intellectual access to humanities resources held in libraries, museums, and archives. Specifically, the...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Northern Michigan University a $300,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) for the period of October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2024. The grant funds the completion of The Complete Works of George Herbert, a comprehensive scholarly edition comprising three print volumes with extensive textual and critical apparatus, as well as original verse and prose translations of Herbert's Latin and Greek...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $396,848 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to Trinity University. The project, titled "Richard Rolle's Fire of Love (Incendium Amoris): New Editions, a New Translation, and an Open-Access Companion Website," focuses on producing new scholarly editions, a translation, and an open-access website for the influential 14th century religious text by English mystic Richard Rolle. Trinity...

This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050), will support the deployment and operation of the Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation (HAMSCI) Personal Space Weather Station Network. The $301,960 award will enable the University of Scranton to establish a network of thirty standardized space weather monitoring stations capable of observing high frequency (HF) radio signals, very low frequency transmissions, and the geomagnetic...

The University of Massachusetts at Amherst received a $370,488 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities to enhance the digital framework of the Tasso in Music Project. Funded under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities CFDA 45.169 program, the University will expand the range of editions' formats to include Braille notation, creating one of the largest accessible musical repositories for the visually impaired. Additionally, given the analytical...

This federal Project Grant award of $200,000.00 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) will support a series of programming titled "Harlem as an Incubator" from October 1, 2024 to December 31, 2026. The programming will present the history of Harlem as an incubator of arts, culture, and activism for people of the African diaspora through lectures, public discussions, and readings. The goal is to construct...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $599,998 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to Verse Video Education, Inc., a woman-owned non-profit organization, to support the production of Season Five of the public television series "Poetry in America." The grant will fund the creation of eight documentary-style episodes that explore American poetry and its connections to national narratives, cultural traditions, and social...