Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

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

Arts Fellowships

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

matching endowment in support of faculty and curriculum development

Faculty/Curriculum Development

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 research and teaching activities in the humanities

Humanities Institute:  Reason in the 18th Century

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

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 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

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

History of Biology 

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

to support dissertation seminars in the humanities

Dissertation Seminars - Intellectual History and Other Forms of History

to continue support of its art workshop program

Art Workshop Program

toward costs of programs of ecological research

Ecosystems Research

for a program of postdoctoral instructorships in the humanities

Postdoctoral Instructorships

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

Groundwater Study

matching grant in support of postdoctoral instructorships in the humanities

Humanities Instructorships

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

Water Pollutant Research

to support a series of postdoctoral instructorships in the humanities

AWMF Humanities Professorship

Science and Society

to support the renewal of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program - 2009 Renewal

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

Groundwater Research

to support the renewal of an undergraduate fellowship program

2000 Renewal Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellowship Program

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

Environmental Quality Lab

in support of research and education in science and society

Science & Society

Dissertation Seminars 

matching endowment for research and publication at the Detroit Institute of Arts

Art Museum Publication Program [Detroit Institute Arts]

to support postdoctoral fellowships in the humanities and humanistic social sciences

Postdoctoral Fellowships 

to support postdoctoral fellowships in the humanities and related social sciences

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

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 Mellon Seminar in Interpretation

New Directions Fellowship (Manning)

New Directions Fellowship (Cowie)

to support a public humanities initiative to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion through community engagement, experiential learning opportunities, and a summer institute 

Institute for the Arts and Humanities (MCLA-IAH)

to support planning for a controlled digital lending effort with the University of California Libraries digitized library collections

Future of Ebook Access at the University of California

to support the developmental process of new opera at the John Duffy Composers Institute

John Duffy Composers Institute

to support the John Duffy Composers Institute

to support a collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago to establish a Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts

Northwestern University/Art Institute of Chicago - Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts

to support the University of California Humanities Research Institute in pursuing experimental pedagogical research initiatives

Inquiry and its Infrastructures - Horizons of the Humanities

to support the John Duffy Institute for New Opera

John Duffy Institute for New Opera

to support the transition from the Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts to the Institute for Creative Arts

Institute for Creative Arts

to support a case study analysis of the New California Arts Fund's body of work

New California Arts Fund Case Study

to support the establishment of an institute to foster understanding of the relationship of a liberal arts education to the workings of democracy

Institute for Democracy and the Liberal Arts

to support the Northwestern University-Art Institute of Chicago Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts

Northwestern University/Art Institute of Chicago Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts (NU-ACCESS) Phase 2

for use by the Arnold Schoenberg Institute toward support of archival and fundraising activities

Arnold Schoenberg 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" 