Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support and strengthen the University of Pittsburgh's Visual Cultural "Constellation" effort for university-wide curriculum reform in the humanities on both the graduate and undergraduate levels

Visual Culture Constellations Initiative

to support a publishing initiative on the history of science

Strengthening University Presses

toward costs of establishing the Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education at Charles University

EEP - CERGE

to support the Department of Africana Studies

Program Support

to support the School of Information Sciences in the development of a graduate research program designed to understand and influence changing information management practices in academic disciplines

Developing New Models of Scholarly Communication Across Disciplines

to support an evaluation of instructional technologies that use peer assessment to promote writing skills among undergraduates

Assessing Tools for Peer Evaluation of Writing Skills

to support the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program

to support preliminary work on a meta-analysis of Foundation-funded studies of the use of electronic resources

Meta-Analysis

for use by the Learning Research and Development Center toward costs of educational applications of research on varieties of reasoning

Literacy Program  

to support the pilot phase of a project exploring the use of the layered structure of Geographic Information Systems software as a tool for the analysis of medieval manuscripts

Geographic Information Systems

toward costs of continued operation of the Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education

EEP - Business Training 

for use by its School of Medicine toward support of young research faculty members and postdoctoral scientists at the Center for Research in Primate Reproduction

Primate Reproduction

for use by its Center for Latin American Studies and Center for Russian and East European Studies in suppon of a project on the impact of Soviet and East European reforms on Cuba

Latin American Program

for use by the Learning Research and Development Center toward costs of research, development, and school-based literacy programs

Literacy Program

matching endowment in support of teaching and research on Latin America

Latin American Studies

in support of young research faculty members and postdoctoral scientists in the reproductive sciences

Reproductive Biology [Plant]

toward costs of establishing in Czechoslovakia a managerial training program oriented toward new-product development

EEP - Management Training

toward costs of developing a Latin American archaeology database

Latin American Archaeology Database

for use by its Learning Research and Development Center in support of research on the use of computer simulations in increasing the literacy and workplace competence of high-school students

Literacy Program - Learning Research and Development Center

matching endowment of predoctoral fellowships in Latin American archaeology

Latin American Studies - Doctoral Training - Endowment

toward costs of business training programs in Eastern Europe

Eastern European Program - Business/Economics Training

to support the planning of summer institutes designed to increase diversity in graduate programs at schools of information technology

Planning Summer Institutes for Advanced Study in the Information Sciences

to support national initiatives that would improve the accessibility and preservation of library and archival collections

Doctoral Fellowships Supporting Research on Coherence at Scale

to support the continuation of a diversity program in information science

Summer Institutes for Advanced Study in the Information Sciences

to support summer institutes designed to increase the diversity of students in graduate programs at information schools

to support a program in public humanities and community engagement

Humanities Engage

for use by the Learning Research and Development Center

for its program in Latin American Studies

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Information Ecosystems: Creating Data (and Absence) from the Quantitative to the Digital Age"

Sawyer Seminar: Information Ecosystems: Creating Data (and Absence) from the Quantitative to the Digital Age

to support a New Directions Fellowship for Mari Webel

New Directions Fellowship (Webel)

to support a Distinguished Achievement Award

Distinguished Achievement Award [McDowell]

to enable notable scholars in the humanities to pursue research and teaching activities at their institutions

Distinguished Achievement Award [Brandom]

to support a diversity program in information science

to support the publication of scholarly monographs in the humanities, in collaboration with Northwestern University and the University of Pittsburgh

Monographs Initiative - Slavic, Eastern European, and Central Asian Studies

to plan new National Faculty programs in school-districts located in Pittsburgh and Boston

Urban Schools - Boston/Pittsburgh

to support the Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival

Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival

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

to support the vision of the new artistic director

New Artistic Vision for Ballet in Pittsburgh

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

University of Tartu Library 

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 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 initiatives to assess and preserve the orchestra's archival collections

Improving Access to and Preservation of Archival Collections

Composer of the Year and Music for the Spirit Initiatives

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

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

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" 