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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation today announced Justin Garrett Moore as the inaugural program officer for its new Humanities in Place program area. He will join the Foundation on December 16, 2020. According to the Foundation, the Humanities in Place program "seeks to bring a variety of histories... View full entry
![Frederick Douglass by Andrew Edwards. Hornbake Library at the University of Maryland. © Wikimedia user Thebrycepeake <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Thebrycepeake" title="User:Thebrycepeake">Thebrycepeake</a> - I used a camera to capture the way an object bends the light around it to appear as though it exists., <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" title="Creative Commons...](https://archinect.imgix.net/uploads/68/68e9f820371589f1352ab218acd4bfd2.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&w=514 "Frederick Douglass by Andrew Edwards. Hornbake Library at the University of Maryland. © Wikimedia user Thebrycepeake <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Thebrycepeake" title="User:Thebrycepeake">Thebrycepeake</a> - I used a camera to capture the way an object bends the light around it to appear as though it exists., <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/\" title=\"Creative Commons...")
Today, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation announced a new five-year, $250 million grant effort called the "Monuments Project," which will "transform the way our country's histories are told in public spaces." Grants made under the new initiative will fall under three areas of activity: Funding new... View full entry
The Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning received a $1.3m grant Monday from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The gift will fund architecture and humanities research on metropolitan issues in cities like Detroit, Mexico City and Rio de Janeiro for the next four-and-half years. The Mellon Foundation delivered the “Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities” grant to the University, which supports scholarship and higher education at the intersection of architecture and the humanities. — record.umich.edu
