Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support collaborative programs with Philadelphia Museum of Art to provide object-centered research and curatorial training to art history graduate students

Philadelphia Museum of Art/University of Pennsylvania Collaboration

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

to support collaboration between the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Pennsylvania Press in a publication program that advances humanistic scholarship in the area of cross-cultural contacts

Cross-Cultural Contacts Publication Program

to create and support the position of associate deputy director at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

College and University Art Museum Program Phase II: Spendable

to support the planning process for a collection sharing initiative at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

College and University Art Museum Program Collection Sharing Initiative

to support a trans-institutional partnership between Tuskegee University and the University of Pennsylvania for preservation education, outreach and practice centered on Black heritage

African American and Civil Rights Heritage and Preservation Programs

toward costs of a library partnership with the University of Tartu in Estonia

University of Tartu Library 

to support initiatives aimed at strengthening the role the Penn Humanities Forum plays in the instructional and scholarly activities of the University

University Humanities Centers 

to support initiatives aimed at strengthening the role university humanities centers play in the instructional and scholarly activities of their home institutions

University Humanities Centers

to support initiatives aimed at strengthening the role that the Penn Humanities Forum plays in the instructional and scholarly activities of the University

to support a Just Futures Initiative project

Dispossessions in the Americas: The Extraction of Bodies, Land, and Heritage from La Conquista to the Present

to support the interdisciplinary work of the Penn Humanities Forum

toward costs of establishing a preservation program for the University Libraries in conjunction with regional conservation facilities

Library Preservation Planning

in support of training and research in the history of modern technology

History of Modern Technology 

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

Archiving of Electronic Journals 

toward costs of a project using online pre-laboratory instructional materials to reduce the cost of laboratory instruction

Cost-Effective Uses of Technology

to support a longitudinal study of the academic performance of minority and white students at selective colleges and universities

Longitudinal Study of Selected College Students 

to support software development for a digital library of manuscripts from northern Thailand

Digital Library of Northern Thailand Manuscripts

toward costs of a demonstration project on the use of Collaborative Writing Groups to improve and assess the cost-effectiveness of instruction in expository writing

Cost-Effective Uses of Technology in Teaching - Collaborative Writing Group

to support strengthening of student and faculty engagement at the university's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Art Museums and the Curriculum

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Race, across Time and Space"

Sawyer Seminars - Comparative Study of Cultures: Race Across Time and Space

to support the strengthening of student and faculty engagement with the collections at the university's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

to support a planning process that involves community engagement and arts programming for the Henry O. Tanner House

Henry Ossawa Tanner House

toward costs of programs of ecological research

Ecosystems Research 

toward costs of programs of ecological research and training

for use by its School of Medicine in support of clinical epidemiology programs

Clinical Epidemiology

for use by its Department of Geology to suppon studies of nutrient capital, fir growth, and biomass recovery in the high-elevation forests of New York and New England

Ecology Program

toward costs of adding Asian students to the ongoing pilot study of the academic performance of minority students

Underperformance Study [Massey]

to support the creation of a digital library of about 1,500 newly published books in the field of history

Digital Books Project 

to improve the effectiveness of graduate education in selected departments of the humanities and related social sciences

Graduate Education

in support of a pilot study of the academic performance of black and white students in selective colleges and universities

for support of young research faculty members and postdoctoral scientists in its Division of Reproductive Biology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Population Centers Program

for the publication of scholarly papers from a series of symposia on the current state of the field of Middle Eastern Studies

Middle Eastern Studies - Symposia

endowment of programs to improve the effectiveness of graduate education in selected departments of the humanities and related social sciences while reducing time-to-degree and attrition rates

Graduate Education Endowment

to improve the effectiveness of graduate education in selected departments of the humanities and related social sciences by reducing attrition rates and time-to-degree

toward planning costs of efforts to improve the effectiveness of its graduate programs in the humanities

Graduate Education Initiative

to improve the quality and effectiveness of graduate education within selected departments of the humanities and related social sciences while reducing time-to-degree and attrition rates

to improve the quality and effectiveness of graduate education while reducing time-to-degree and attrition rates in selected departments of the humanities and related social sciences

to improve the effectiveness of graduate education within selected departments of the humanities and related social sciences by lowering attrition rates and reducing time to the PhD

in support of young research faculty members and postdoctoral scientists in its Division of Reproductive Biology

for support of young research faculty members and postdoctoral scientists in its Division of Reproductive Biology

to improve the quality and effectiveness of graduate education while reducing the time-to-degree and attrition rates in selected departments of the humanities and related social sciences

in support of young research faculty members and postdoctoral scientists in its Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Ecological Research

Botanical Research

in support of an anthropological fellowship in population studies

Anthropological Demography

Soils Ecology

to support the development of an Internet-based format conversion service that would facilitate the long-term preservation of digital information

Typed Object Model 

in support of a program of ecological research and training

Ecosystems Research - Arctic Research 

to support a program of digital humanities training and research

Digital Humanities

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" 