NEH awards 295 grants, worth $30.5 million
In the second of three rounds of fiscal year 2000 funding, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded 295 grants totaling $30.5 million. The grants fund a number of American cultural causes, but primarily focus on academic studies and "dynamic public humanities programming" available on the Web, radio, television and in libraries and museums, the Arts Wire CURRENT newsletter reports.
Larger grants from the NEH's National Education Projects effort include:
$175,819 to the University of Iowa in Iowa City to fund a CD-ROM-based project on how early amusement parks "helped popularize urban modernism and consumerism" in America;
$175,000 to Johns Hopkins University to fund six Web modules that teach Spanish language and Hispanic American culture;
$170,000 to Indiana University to develop a CD-ROM-based academic review of African American film studies;
$120,000 to New York-based Academy of American Poets to fund a Web site for poetry education at the secondary school level.
Other grants made in this funding cycle include:
$451,350 to the Art Institute of Chicago to improve storage facilities for the school's architecture collection;
$160,000 to the Memphis, Tenn., city schools system for the "Memphis
Civil Rights Movement: Exploring Its History, Assessing Its
Impact" program;
$144,660 to the Canterbury (N.H.) Shaker Village to boost its computer-based catalog of image and other items of Shaker culture;
$100,000 to Arizona State University for a center to "explore cross-cultural themes at a Seba Dalkai" tribal school in northern Arizona;
$50,000.00 to City Lore: the New York Center for Urban Folk Culture for a Web site that will foster online cultural and historical discussions.
Complete lists of NEH grants from this cycle can be found at http://www.neh.gov/grants/recent_awards.html.
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