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Mellon Foundation Renews Support for Open Graduate Education at Brown

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09/17/2018

Launched in 2011 with prior support from the Mellon Foundation, the program enables doctoral students to simultaneously complete a master’s degree in a different field of study.

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Awards Prairie View A&M University $500,000 to Support African-American Studies Initiative

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09/14/2018

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) a grant of $500,000 to support its effort to establish an African-American Studies Initiative which will be housed in its Marvin D. and June Samuel Brailsford...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Provides Grant to Investigate and Conserve Art

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08/03/2018

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded a $3.5 million grant to the Center for the Scientific Studies in the Arts, a collaborative partnership with the Art Institute of Chicago to investigate and conserve art.

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With Support From the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Cleveland Museum of Art Announces Establishment of Center for Chinese Paintings Conservation

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07/25/2018

The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) has collected exceptional Chinese paintings since its earliest days and has one of the most distinguished collections in the West. As responsible stewards of these important holdings, the museum has sought to...

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Measuring Staff Diversity at America's Art Museums

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06/26/2018

In this short video, Westermann and Ford Foundation President Darren Walker discuss why the effort to survey art museums on the diversity of their employees was critical.

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With Support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, MIT To Conduct an Environmental Scan of Open Source Publishing

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06/25/2018

With Support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, MIT To Conduct an Environmental Scan of Open Source Publishing The MIT Press has announced the award of a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to conduct a landscape analysis...

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Mellon Foundation Grant to USC Libraries and USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance to Support Digital Collection for Dance Heritage

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06/08/2018

Thanks to a $560,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation under its Arts and Cultural Heritage program area, the USC Libraries and the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance will create a new home for a rich collection of recordings of more than 1...

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Heather Gerken Joins Mellon Foundation’s Board of Trustees

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06/06/2018

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation announced on June 5, 2018, that Heather Gerken, Dean of Yale Law School, has been elected to its Board of Trustees.

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Interviews New Directions Fellow G. Gabrielle Starr on Why an Interdisciplinary Lens Matters

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05/09/2018

In this video interview, Starr explains why an interdisciplinary lens is fundamental to solving today's complex societal challenges.

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grants Duke University $3M to Grow Liberal Arts Colleges and HBCU Visiting Faculty

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05/07/2018

The grant will fund a five-year initiative called Humanities Unbounded, which will include roughly a dozen two-year visiting faculty fellowships, according to Gennifer Weisenfeld, dean of the humanities at Duke.

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Funds Program to Improve Retention and Graduation Rates for All Students

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04/27/2018

Wabash College has received an $800,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to improve retention and graduation rates for all students with special emphasis on students from particular populations that have been historically disadvantaged in...

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Supported By The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The National Alliance for Audition Support Looks to Increase Diversity in Orchestras

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04/18/2018

The new initiative — created by the Sphinx Organization, the New World Symphony and the League of American Orchestras — will train musicians for auditions, pair them with mentors, showcase their work in concerts and give them stipends to travel to...

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Group of NY Funders Support History-Making Performance Celebrating Black Choreographers

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03/30/2018

With support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Con Edison, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Brooklyn-based 651 ARTS and RestorationART’s have collaborated to present a history-making presentation of Gesel Mason...

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NYU’s Prison Education Program Receives $1 Million Grant from Mellon Foundation

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03/28/2018

NYU has received a $1 million, three-year grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support its Prison Education Program (PEP), an initiative that brings a college education to incarcerated individuals at New York’s Wallkill Correctional...

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From Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Granddaughter of NASA "Hidden Figure," Duchess Harris, shares story of Miriam Mann

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03/06/2018

Professor Duchess Harris, Chair of the American Studies department at Macalester College and alumna of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF), shares the story of her grandmother Miriam Mann, one of NASA's earliest "hidden figures."

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Bloomberg Philanthropies, Surdna, Andrew W. Mellon and Ford Foundation Sign Joint Statement Defending NEA Against Proposed Trump Budget

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03/01/2018

Trump has twice suggested that the NEA be shut down, but for the first time, 11 foundations signed a joint statement of opposition.

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Listen: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Hosts a Conversation On The Value Of Workplace Diversity

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02/28/2018

This conversation about workplace diversity was part of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Our Compelling Interests series.

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