Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support initiatives that will more deeply integrate the performing arts in the research and pedagogical missions of the university

We Are ... A Transdisciplinary Exploration of the Performing Arts at Penn State

to support enhanced programming in the university's Institute for the Arts and Humanities

Humanities Centers - The Boundaries of the Human in the Age of the Life Sciences

to endow a new senior conservator position in the university library

Senior Library Conservator Endowment

to support the planning and design of an online journal of public philosophy

The Public Philosophy Journal

to support classical music presenting activities at the Center for the Performing Arts

Classical Music Presenting Activities at the Center for the Performing Arts

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the historical and cultural sources of major contemporary developments

Sawyer Seminars - Contact and Cultural Transmission in the Mediterranean

in support of a daguerreotype preservation project of the University's Materials Research Laboratory

Daguerreotype Preservation

to support additional meetings of a Sawyer Seminar on the historical and cultural source of significant contemporary developments: "Contact and Cultural Transmission in the Axial Age Mediterranean"

Sawyer Seminars - Contact and Cultural Transmission in the 'Axial Age' Mediterranean

to support a dissertation seminar in the humanities

Dissertation Seminars - European Expansion, Catholic Missions, and the Early Modern World

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Birthing the nation: Gender, sex, and reproduction in ethnonationalist imaginaries"

Sawyer Seminars: Birthing the nation: Gender, sex, and reproduction in ethnonationalist imaginaries

to support and expand a set of programs focused on Black Studies and racial justice that includes the Colored Conventions Project and the Center for Black Digital Research

Just Transformations

to support the Department of African American Studies

Program Support

to support the development and deployment of a peer-to-peer network infrastructure for academic purposes

LionShare

to support the Humanities Institute's Public Humanities Initiative

Humanities Institute

for research and training in the demography of developing countries

Demographic Center

Soils Ecology

toward costs of programs of ecological research

Ecosystems Research

toward costs of a program of ecological research and training

for preparation of a book manuscript on the science and technology of daguerreotypy

Daguerreotype Project

for the History of American Research Universities Project

American Research Universities

to establish dissertation completion grants, postdoctoral fellowships, and recruitment and mentoring support for underrepresented graduate students and others in the department of philosophy who have a demonstrated commitment to diversity in the academy or a research focus in critical philosophy of race

Philosophy Diversity Initiative

to support a program of ecological research and training

Ecosystems Research - Chorover 

for a program of research on plant/soil ecology

Plant/Soil Ecology

to support a study of institutional changes in academic research during the 1980s

Academic Research Inquiry

to support classical music presenting activities at the Center for Performing Arts

Classical Music Presenting

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

Web-based Biology

for use by the Population Research Institute in support of a visiting fellowship in anthropological demography

Anthropological Demography Fellowships - Visiting Fellowships

to support the Africana Research Center’s emerging scholars speakers series

Africana Research Center's Emerging Scholars Speakers Series

to support an ecological research and training program led by a junior faculty scientist

Ecosystems Research and Training - Junior Faculty - Kaye

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Racial Disposability and Cultures of Resistance"

Sawyer Seminar: Racial Disposability and Cultures of Resistance

in support of a visiting fellowship in anthropological demography

Anthropological Demography Fellowships

in support of demographic research and training

Demographic Centers Program

to assist in analyzing requirements for campus-wide multi-disciplinary systems for storage, search, retrieval, and scholarly use of digitized visual resources

Art Imaging User Requirements

Anthropological Demography Fellowships - McCurdy 

to support a study of faculty practices in creating and managing personal digital archives

Personal Digital Archiving Project

New Directions Fellowship (Atwill)

to support new "Mellon Seminars: Issues in Interpretation"

Mellon Seminars: Issues in Interpretation 

Anthropological Demography Visiting Fellowships - Stambach

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled “Transmission, Containment, Transformation:  A Comparative Approach to Architecture and Contagion in Early Modern Cities"

Sawyer Seminar - Transmission, Containment, Transformation:  A Comparative Approach to Architecture and Contagion in Early Modern Cities

to support digital preservation initiatives

Personal Digital Archiving Project II - Zotero

to support ongoing scholarly activities by a former New Directions fellowship recipient

New Directions Post-Fellowship Award (Atwill)

to support a New Directions Fellowship for Julie Reed

New Directions Fellowship: You Are Not an Archaeologist

to support the creation of a Pennsylvania consortium of higher education prison programs in addition to college preparatory education courses and the expansion of the Bachelor of Arts program in a Philadelphia prison facility

Expanding Access to Higher Education in Pennsylvania State Prisons

to support the implementation of the Pennsylvania Consortium for the Liberal Arts

Pennsylvania Consortium for the Liberal Arts

toward costs of developing alternative models for relations among national, state, and local historic preservation organizations

Pennsylvania and Vermont Project Models

to continue to support general operations for the New Mexico State University Art Museum

General Operating Support: New Mexico State University Art Museum

to support a survey and assessment of collections in small libraries, archives, and other collecting institutions in the state of Pennsylvania

Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories - Phase III

to support collaborative programs to provide object-centered research and curatorial training to art history graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia Museum of Art/University of Pennsylvania Collaboration

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" 