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UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies Receives Grant From Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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08/02/2019

Center for Near Eastern Studies at UCLA receives grant to improve teaching about the Middle East.

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Eugene M. Tobin to Retire from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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07/31/2019

Tobin joined the Foundation in 2003 as senior advisor to President William G. Bowen and soon became a program officer with special responsibility for grantmaking to liberal arts colleges. Having been professor of history, dean of the faculty, and...

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Foundation Consortium Acquires Historic African American Photographic Archive

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07/25/2019

Acquired for $30 million as part of an auction of the assets of Johnson Publishing Company, publisher of Ebony and Jet magazines, the archive includes more than four million prints and negatives and is considered to be the most significant...

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Michigan State University Awarded Grant From Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for Less Commonly Taught Languages

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07/23/2019

Michigan State University was awarded a four-year, $2.5 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support further development in the research and teaching of less commonly taught languages.

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Emil Kang Joins Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as Program Director for Arts and Cultural Heritage

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07/09/2019

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation announced the appointment of Emil Kang as Program Director for Arts and Cultural Heritage.

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Awards Grant to Stanford University Press Digital Publishing Initiative

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07/08/2019

The three-year grant will help accelerate growth and ensure ongoing success of the digital publishing program.

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Elon University Joins Multi-campus Collaborative Initiative Funded by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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06/20/2019

Elon University has been selected to participate in a collaborative, community-based humanities and civic engagement initiative launched by the Bringing Theory to Practice project.

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Increases Investment in Funding Prison Education and Re-entry Programs

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06/13/2019

Grants deepen Mellon’s years-long commitment to expanding educational opportunities for the incarcerated.

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Calls for Proposals to Community-based Archives

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05/12/2019

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation invites community-based archives in the United States and its territories to submit proposals to fund one or more of the following areas of need.

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Support From Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Continues College Access and Success Program of American Indian College Fund

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05/02/2019

Native American and Alaska Native students are in a college-going and completion crisis.

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Adds Olga Viso, Stephen Pitti, Cathy Davidson as Fellows

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04/03/2019

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in New York has added three new fellows in residence: Cathy Davidson, a professor at the CUNY Graduate Center; Stephen Pitti, professor at Yale University; and Olga Viso, the former Walker Art Center director and now...

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Mellon Foundation Grant Helps Capture History, 280 Characters at a Time

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03/31/2019

Archivists Bergis Jules and Edward Summers created DocNow to preserve social media posts, enabling activists to document the world’s most important social and political movements.

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Kathryn Hall Succeeds Danielle S. Allen as Board Chair of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Thelma Golden and Joshua Friedman Join the Board

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03/06/2019

NEW YORK, March 6, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Kathryn Hall will succeed Danielle S. Allenas the Chair of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Board of Trustees, the Foundation announced today. Allen announced her retirement after eleven years of service, the...

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New Survey from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Shows Increases in African American Curators and Women in Leadership Roles

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01/29/2019

The survey documented that among repeat participants who are AAMD members, the percentage of curators who are African-American has doubled—from 2 percent in 2015 to 4 percent in 2018—an increase of 21 positions.

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$4 Million From Ford, Mellon, and Alice Walton Fund Goes to Promote Diversity on Museum Boards

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01/15/2019

A board-member matching service to identify and train candidates of color — and assess groups’ readiness to engage people of different backgrounds — will be key to change.

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With Support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Dumbarton Oaks and JSTOR Launch the Plant Humanities Initiative

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11/13/2018

The joint aim of the initiative is to advance plant humanities, the interdisciplinary field that explores and communicates the unparalleled significance of plants to human culture.

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