Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

for basic botanical ecosystems research on tropical forests

Ecosystems Project

to continue a program of basic ecosystems research on tropical forests

Botanical Ecosystems Research

in support of a program of training and research in plant ecology

Latin American Botany Research

to support basic ecosystems research on the tropical forests of the Americas

Tropical Forest Ecosystem Research

for activities of the Committee on the Year 2000

Committee on the Year 2000

to support the institution following losses incurred as a result of the events of September 11, 2001

Disaster Recovery Relief Fund

to support the Vartan and Clare Gregorian Programming Fund

Vartan and Clare Gregorian Programming Fund

toward costs of preparing two sets of guidelines for use in third world countries: one for the purposes of assessing the incidence and impact of abortion; the other for establishing appropriate facilities and procedures related to abortion

Third World Abortion Guidelines

support of training programs and other activities in physical rehabilitation

Training Programs

toward increasing its membership and revenue base

Membership/Revenue

Training Program Support

to support the development of a coordinated digital database of images and information on plants of the world

Plants Initiative

to support the United States World War I Centennial Commission in developing educational resources and digital learning materials to accompany the creation of a National World War I Memorial in Washington, DC

World War I Educational Content

toward purchase of marshland in Troy Meadows

Land Acquisition

for use by its Institute for Marine Studies for research on management of world fisheries under extended coastal jurisdiction

World Fisheries

for research on long-term growth in third world economies

Third World Economies

for use by its study group on "Sovereignty and a New World Politics"

Sovereignty - World Politics

to support undergraduate work with volunteers of the World Library Partnership designing literacy programs in South Africa

World Library Partnership 

for support of the 1976 World Music Days, an international festival of contemporary music to be held in Boston, Mass.

World Music Days

to support the travel for a delegation of US theater artists, leaders, and scholars to participate in the 2007 World Social Forum

World Social Forum

in support of the Council's radio series "Americas and the World"

America and the World

for use by the Center for Population and Family Health to expand research and technical assistance activities directed toward the third world and particularly toward Africa

Population - Third World Activities

toward costs of a project entitled "The United States in the World Economy"

US in the World Economy

for a public-television program with Worldwatch Institute based on the Institute's State of the World publications

NOVA - State of the World

toward costs of the Atlas on the Social and Intellectual History of the Muslim World

Atlas of the Islamic World 

to support the creation of a descriptive catalog of the Institute of Current World Affairs’ archive

Institute of Current World Affairs

to support scholarship and a research conference accompanying an exhibition devoted to endangered historical sites in the Arab world entitled: Age-Old-Cities. Palmyra, Mosul, Aleppo, Leptis Magna

Protecting Cultural Heritage in Conflict Zones

to support the Multi-Arts Production Fund

The MAP Fund

to edit the "Atlas of the Greek and Roman World"

Atlas of the Greek and Roman World

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the historical and cultural sources of significant contemporary developments, entitled "Humanitarianisms and World Orders"

Sawyer Seminars - Humanitarianisms and World Orders

for editorial costs of the Atlas of the Greek and Roman World

toward editorial costs of the Political and Economic Handbooks of the World

Political and Economic Handbooks of the World

to support final production costs of the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World

Altas of the Greek and Roman World

toward support of an international workshop on world climate issues to be conducted by the Climate Research Board of the Academy's Assembly of Mathematical and Physical Sciences

Climate Research Board - World Climate Workshop

to support doctoral students' participation in the World Social Science Forum

Doctoral Support at the World Social Science Forum

to support the creation of a Consortium for the Study of the Pre-Modern World

Consortium for the Study of the Premodern World

to support the Cultural Solidarity Fund, a microgrant program for New York City-based arts and cultural workers in financial need due to the COVID-19 pandemic

Cultural Solidarity Fund

to support the development and dissemination of a World Humanities Report by the International Council for Philosophy and the Human Sciences and the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes


A Framework for the World Humanities Report 

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Beyond the End of the World"

Sawyer Seminar: Beyond the End of the World

to support the Five College Center for the Study of World Languages

Five Colleges Center for the Study of World Languages

to implement a humanities-focused research program, Humanities Across Borders:  Asia and Africa in the World

Humanities Across Borders: Asia and Africa in the World

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Bibliomigrancy: World Literature in
the Public Sphere"

Sawyer Seminar: "Bibliomigrancy: World Literature in the Public Sphere"

to continue support for the Consortium for the Study of the Premodern World

Consortium for the Study of the Premodern World - Phase II

to support development of virtual worlds technologies for use in humanities research

Humanities Virtual World Consortium

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Precision and Uncertainty in a World of Data" 

Sawyer Seminar: Precision and Uncertainty in a World of Data

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures, entitled "The Qur’an in the World of Late Antiquity"

Sawyer Seminars - The Qur'an in the World of Late Antiquity

to initiate a comparative research study on demographic transition and human development in the Arab world

The New Demography in the Arab World [Social Science Research Center]

to support the evaluation of open source virtual world software platforms for use in advancing humanistic research

Exploring the Use of Virtual World Technologies to Advance Humanistic Research

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" 