Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to strengthen its humanities faculty and curriculum

Humanities Teaching/Curriculum

for its Chicago Area Health Careers Program

Chicago Health Careers

for postdoctoral fellowships in its Program in Science, Technology, and Society

Science and Technology

to renew support for the Institute's Center for Art, Science, and Technology

Center for Art, Science, and Technology - Phase II

for use by the Institute for Academic Technology toward development of a musicologist's user interface and a demonstration of its use

Institute for Academic Technology

for use by the Program in Science, Technology, and Society for training in the history and social study of the life sciences

Science, Technology and Society

to support the establishment of a Center for the Study of Diversity in Science,Technology, and Medicine

Diversity in Science, Technology, and Medicine

to support the further integration of the Center for Art, Science, and Technology into the research culture of the university

Center for Art, Science, and Technology - Phase III

for use by the Image Permanence Institute

Image Permanence Institute

to assist the scholarly publication program of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press

University Press Program

to support continued preservation research at the Image Permanence Institute

Image Permanence Institute II

to support the Image Permanence Institute in the development of a research agenda and financial sustainability plan

Strategic Planning at the Image Permanence Institute

to support the transition of the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education

National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education - Transition

to support the collection, refinement, and dissemination of knowledge about the material nature of chemical photography

to support operating expenses and transition planning of the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education

National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education - Funding

to support the development of a Web-based resource for the integration of music data and analytic tools that can be used by the global music information retrieval and computational musicology communities

Advancing Music Information Retrieval Technology

to support the development of open source software in association with the Archon project

Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration 

to support the development of open source software associated with the Kerberos project

Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration [Project Kerberos]

to support operating and transitional expenses for the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education

toward support of a visiting fellowship program in science and technology for journalists

Vannevar Bush Visiting Fellowships

to help meet development costs of a new program on science, technology, and society

Science and Society

to support collaborative research and education at the intersections of art, humanities, science, and technology

Arts Across the Curriculum

to support graduate fellowships in the Integration Competency Center of the Administrative IT Services Department

Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration [Project OpenEAI]

to support projects measuring the pedagogic effectiveness and costs of using technology to improve undergraduate instruction

Collaborative Web Structures  

to support initiatives of the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) that integrate digital methods and resources into humanities teaching and scholarship

National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education - Digital Humanities

to support the integration of 12 selective West Coast liberal arts colleges into the activities and programming of the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education

National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education - Western Center

for use by the Program in Science, Technology and Society for training in the history and social study of the life sciences

Science & Society

to support the Firefox Web Accessibility Extension project

Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration [Firefox]

to support initiatives of the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) in collaborations among liberal arts colleges

National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education - Operationalizing Academic Collaboration

to provide support for the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE) and activities to promote the adoption and effective uses of ARTstor by NITLE colleges

National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education - Development Grant

for use by the Image Permanence Institute to support the development of methods to improve preservation management in libraries, museums, and archives

Preservation Management

to support and foster the preservation research program at the Image Permanence Institute

Preservation Research Program

for use by the Institute Archives in developing a documentation strategy for college and university records

Archival Appraisal - Colleges - Universities

in support of education and research in science and society through its Program in Science, Ethics and Public Policy

History of Biology 

to support research and teaching activities in the humanities

Humanities Institute:  Reason in the 18th Century

toward costs of a demonstration and evaluation of the impact of electronic journals

Demonstration of Electronic Journals 

to support the development of archives for long-term maintenance of electronic journal publications

Archiving of Electronic Journals 

for support of "The Journal of Interdisciplinary History"

The Journal of Interdisciplinary History

to support a project to measure the costs and pedagogic effectiveness of using technology to improve undergraduate education

Wireless Instructional Technology

to support postdoctoral fellowships in the humanities

Postdoctoral Fellowships - Phase II

toward costs of demonstration projects on the impact of changes in the relative humidity and temperature of storage conditions on the life expectancy of library and archival materials and their cost-effective management

Life Expectancy of Library and Archival Materials

to support an evaluation of the precision and accuracy of an imaging system designed to measure how the surfaces of artworks reflect light and color

Validating the Accuracy of the MCSL Imaging 

to develop and implement a spectral digital imaging system

Digital Representation of Color

to support the development and testing of a system designed to lower the cost and improve the fidelity of color reproduction in art imaging and conservation

Improving Digital Representation of Color - Phase II

to support the Forum for the Future of Higher Education

Forum for the Future of Higher Education

to support further research into the preservation of digitally printed materials

Continuation of Studies into the Preservation of Digitally Printed Materials in Cultural Heritage Institutions

for a program of information services on Science and Technology Policy

Science-Technology Policy Information Services

to support a study that measures the impact of digitization and online availability of journals on citations

Measuring the Impact of Digitization on Journal Citations 

Artists as Catalysts

Artists as Catalysts Navigation Image

Beyond Incarceration

A side profile of a Black poet who is wearing glasses and a hat with a feather hat pin.

Borderlands Cultures

In portrait orientation, an aerial view of a major highway running parallel to a large border wall set on a hilly landscape

Civic Engagement

A man in a brown jacket stands in front of blue bulletin board that is covered with papers and advertisements  

Evolving Higher Education

A vertical image of an Indigenous person who is sitting on a chair in front of a backdrop.

Expanding Public Knowledge

An interior room filled with audio and video equipment 

Monuments and Memory

A multicolored painted totem pole set in front of a foggy forest landscape

Multivocality

Five people stand together in a group photo. They are laughing and smiling.

Power of the Word

Five colorful neon signs hang on the wall with messages that include, "Freedom cannot wait," "Brown owned," and "America is for Dreamers."

Public Places‚ Public Stories

A group of Indigenous Maskoke people stand and sit in the wooden frame of a structure in a woods

Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora

In a vertical image, a black leather vest is adorned with colorful pins across the front of it. Embroidery on the vest reads: "Felícitas "La Prieta" Méndez" 