Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

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

to support dissertation seminars in the humanities

Dissertation Seminars - Intellectual History and Other Forms of History

Humanities Initiative II: "The Temper of Evidence, From Antiquity through the 18th Century"

toward costs of programs of ecological research

Ecosystems Research

for a program of postdoctoral instructorships in the humanities

Postdoctoral Instructorships

matching grant in support of postdoctoral instructorships in the humanities

Humanities Instructorships

in support of research and education in science and society

Science & Society

to continue support of its art workshop program

Art Workshop Program

for use by the Environmental Quality Laboratory for research on transport and fates of groundwater pollutants

Groundwater Study

to support a series of postdoctoral instructorships in the humanities

AWMF Humanities Professorship

Science and Society

for use by its Environmental Quality Laboratory in support of a research and training program on groundwater

Groundwater Research

in support of an undergraduate fellowship program intended to increase the number of minority students enrolled in PhD programs in designated fields of the arts and sciences

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program

for use by the Environmental Quality Laboratory for research on transport and fates of water pollutants

Water Pollutant Research

for use by its Environmental Quality Laboratory in support of studies related to natural resources and environmental quality

Environmental Quality Lab

to support the renewal of an undergraduate fellowship program

2000 Renewal Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellowship Program

to support the renewal of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program - 2009 Renewal

to support the development of an undergraduate program in visual culture with The Huntington Library

What the Eye Beholds: The Caltech-Huntington Library Joint Program in Visual Culture

to support a Mellon Seminar in Interpretation

Dissertation Seminars 

to support postdoctoral fellowships in the humanities and humanistic social sciences (in collaboration with Henry E. Huntington Library & Art Gallery)

Postdoctoral Fellowships 

to support postdoctoral fellowships in the humanities and humanistic social sciences

to support postdoctoral fellowships in the humanities and related social sciences

New Directions Fellowship (Manning)

New Directions Fellowship (Cowie)

to renew support for the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program

for research on hazardous substances and chemical wastes disposal

Hazardous Substances and Chemical Wastes Disposal

to support a University of California Humanities Research Institute program for humanities faculty and graduate students devoted to changing conceptions of work and the global workforce

University of California Humanities Research Institute Changing Conceptions of Work

to support one annual cycle of program renewals at institutions hosting the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship:  Barnard, Bowdoin, Brooklyn, Bryn Mawr, Carleton, Connecticut, Dartmouth, Grinnell, Hunter, Macalester, Oberlin, Queens, Smith, Swarthmore, Wellesley, Whittier, and Williams Colleges; Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Emory, Harvard, Haverford, Heritage, Northwestern, Princeton, Rice, Stanford, Wesleyan, and Yale Universities; the Universities of California at Berkeley, at Los Angeles, and at Riverside; the Universities of Cape Town, Chicago, New Mexico, Southern California, Texas at Austin, the Western Cape, and the Witwatersrand; the California Institute of Technology; the City College of New York; The Claremont Colleges, Inc.; United Negro College Fund, Inc.; and Washington University in St. Louis

MMUF Annual Renewals

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

in support of a pilot program of graduate fellowships in arts criticism

Arts Fellowships

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

matching endowment in support of faculty and curriculum development

Faculty/Curriculum Development

in support of its Program in Contemporary Arts Criticism

Contemporary Arts Criticism

toward costs of a Critics-in-Residence and Visiting Critics Program, public forums on arts criticism, and a publishing program

Program Activities

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 one annual cycle of program renewals at institutions hosting the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship: Amherst, Barnard, Bowdoin, Brooklyn, Bryn Mawr, Carleton, Connecticut, Dartmouth, Grinnell, Haverford, Hunter, Macalester, Oberlin, Pomona, Queens, Smith, Swarthmore, Wellesley, Whittier, and Williams Colleges; Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Emory, Harvard, Howard, Northwestern, Princeton, Rice, Stanford, Wesleyan, and Yale Universities; the Universities of California at Berkeley, at Los Angeles, and at Riverside; the Universities of Cape Town, Chicago, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico at Río Piedras, Southern California, Texas at Austin, the Western Cape, and the Witwatersrand; the California Institute of Technology; California State University Foundation; City College of New York; United Negro College Fund, Inc.; and Washington University in St. Louis

MMUF Administration and Annual Institutional Renewals

to support one annual cycle of program renewals at institutions hosting the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship: Barnard, Bowdoin, Brooklyn, Bryn Mawr, Carleton, Connecticut, Dartmouth, Grinnell, Haverford, Hunter, Macalester, Oberlin, Pomona, Queens, Smith, Swarthmore, Wellesley, Whittier, and Williams Colleges; Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Emory, Harvard, Heritage, Northwestern, Princeton, Rice, Stanford, Wesleyan, and Yale Universities; the Universities of California at Berkeley, at Los Angeles, and at Riverside; the Universities of Cape Town, Chicago, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras, Southern California, Texas at Austin, the Western Cape, and the Witwatersrand; the California Institute of Technology; California State University Foundation; City College of New York; United Negro College Fund, Inc.; and Washington University in St. Louis

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 one annual cycle of program renewals at institutions hosting the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship: Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Emory, Harvard, Heritage, Northwestern, Princeton, Rice, Stanford, Wesleyan, and Yale Universities; Barnard, Bowdoin, Brooklyn, Bryn Mawr, Carleton, Connecticut, Dartmouth, Grinnell, Haverford, Hunter, Macalester, Oberlin, Pomona, Queens, Smith, Swarthmore, Wellesley, Whittier, and Williams Colleges; the Universities of California at Berkeley, at Los Angeles, and at Riverside; the Universities of Cape Town, Chicago, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico at Río Piedras, Southern California, Texas at Austin, the Western Cape, and the Witwatersrand; California Institute of Technology; City College of New York; United Negro College Fund, Inc.; and Washington University in St. Louis

to support its festival on American minimalism

CalArts Musical Explorations

to support faculty leaves and a visiting artist and critic program

Visiting Artist Program

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

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" 