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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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Name: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Johns Hopkins University

Mellon Foundation Awards $2.5 Million to Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University has announced grants totaling $2.5 million from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to create an interdisciplinary music program, expand arts programming at the university, and support half a dozen postdoctoral fellows in the hum ... [Published The Foundation Center - May 15 2013]

Entities: Johns Hopkins University, Peabody Institute, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon

First reported May 11 2013 - Updated May 11 2013 - 1 reports

National Endowment for the Arts

NEFA’s National Dance Project Receives $2.2M Grant

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Renews Major Support for Dance Rebecca Blunk, Executive Director of the , announced that NEFA has received a $2.2 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the National Dance Project.NEFA launched the ... [Published PRWeb - May 11 2013]

Entities: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Doris Duke, Leadership, Cultural Services

First reported May 11 2013 - Updated May 11 2013 - 1 reports

NISO publishes annual review issue of âInformation Standards Quarterlyâ

NISO publishes annual review issue of âInformation Standards Quarterlyâ 10 Apr 13 In 2012, it published two new standards, the revision of a two-part standard, two new recommended practices, two recommended practice revisions, and a new white paper. It ... [Published Biblio Tech Review - May 11 2013]

Entities: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

Managing the wild

With a double helping of fellowship support, UB Law School faculty member Irus Braverman will embark on her next project while in residence at Cornell University during the 2013-14 academic year.Braverman, associate professor, has received two major fellowships: ... [Published University at Buffalo Reporter - May 10 2013]

Entities: World Association of Zoos and Aquariums, Wendy Brown, Stanford University Press, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

University of Michigan

African studies reach out across the pond

Brain drain: Many important African scholars, including Kwame Anthony Appiah, work at well-resourced institutions in the United States. (Supplied)More CoverageThe Andrew W Mellon Foundation recently granted the African Studies Centre at the University ... [Published Mail & Guardian Online - May 10 2013]

Entities: Biopolitics, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, University of Michigan

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

Joint Powerhouse Effort

Museums conduct all kinds of research, if sometimes fitfully. Recently, I learned of a new effort, though, which might break some ground. It brings graduate students and faculty to a museum?s collection. It?s happening at the Museum of Modern Art and ... [Published Arts Journal - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Anselm Kiefer, Consortium

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

Rice University

New Rice University center is first to connect human sciences, energy, environmental research

A new center at Rice University will merge the fields of human sciences with energy and environmental research.Conveniently located in the country’s energy capital, Rice’s Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences (CENHS) will ... [Published Rice University - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Rice University, Environment, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Houston (Texas, United States), Initiative

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

Survey shows humanities grad students rarely expect to pursue alt-ac careers

Many humanities Ph.D.s have put their training to work in careers that aren't on the faculty track, but a new survey shows their success is largely disconnected from the expectations and, in some cases, the skills fostered in graduate schools.The Scholarly ... [Published Inside Higher Ed - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Graduate School, Project Management, Doctor of Philosophy, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Higher Education

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 29 2013 - 1 reports

Mellon endows Randel music teaching fellowships

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is honoring its outgoing president, Don Randel, former Cornell provost and emeritus professor, with an endowment for graduate student teaching fellowships in music at Cornell. ... [Published Cornell News Highlights - Apr 29 2013]

Entities: Teaching, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

First reported Apr 28 2013 - Updated Apr 28 2013 - 1 reports

Pitzer College Students Receive Mellon Foundation Environmental Summer Research Fellowships

Pitzer College students Evelyn Byer ’14, Zoe Elkin ’15, Karina Faulstich ’15, Jessica Grady-Benson ’14 and Robert Little ’15 have been awarded Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Environmental Analysis Fellowships for Summer Research. The fellowships are funded ... [Published Collegenews.org - Apr 28 2013]

Entities: Pitzer College, Environment, Claremont Colleges, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Scripps College

First reported Apr 22 2013 - Updated Apr 22 2013 - 1 reports

ATL Bookmarks: Nine events to hit this week

image compliments of the authorVisiting author Mo Willems I have a very clear memory of writing a letter when I was about 9 years old. Totally consumed by her Enchanted Forest series, I passed many a childhood hour alongside her heroine, Princess Cimorene, ... [Published Creative Loafing - Apr 22 2013]

Entities: Pearl Cleage, Mo Willems, Atlanta

First reported Apr 21 2013 - Updated Apr 21 2013 - 1 reports

Botanic Gardens' type specimens take root in cyberspace

Gardens joins global effort to archive its collection for researchers to study. -ST THOUSANDS of old and fragile plant specimens from the Singapore Botanic Gardens' 138-year-old herbarium are being given a second home - on the Internet.The Gardens is ... [Published Asiaone - Apr 21 2013]

Entities: Cyberspace, Species, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Bogor

Quotes

"Pitzer students embody the College's core values through their ability to combine rigorous academic study with a passion for social justice acquired through engaged learning experiences both locally and abroad" said Nigel Boyle, Pitzer's Fulbright adviser and the founding director of Pitzer's Institute for Global/Local Action & Study

Pitzer College Seniors and Alumni Awarded 22 Fulbright Fellowships 05.16.13 [Published Pitzer College - May 17 2013]

"We are excited about what lies ahead, and it is visionary what Provost Burggren and Vice Provost for Faculty Success Christy Crutsinger are doing with these projects,” King said. “Next year, we will focus on mentoring, innovation, negotiation and evaluation as key areas to enhance faculty success. The best part of this process has been the creative ways we are thinking and helping each other with strategies for what works and what does not."

Mentoring program offers a helping hand [Published In House - May 16 2013]

"Support of scholarly re is one of the primary goals of the Ransom Center," said Director Thomas F Staley. "With what has become one of the largest fellowship programs of its kind, we encourage scholars from around the world to make new discoveries about the writers and artists who have shaped our culture."

More Than 65 Research Fellowships Awarded by the Harry Ransom Center [Published Noodls - May 15 2013]

"We are so grateful to the Mellon Foundation for this generous grant," said Krieger School dean Katherine S Newman. "I'm eager to see a music major in place. The creation of this new undergraduate degree program is contingent on the Krieger School building a faculty that is sufficient to the task of partnering with colleagues at Peabody to develop a distinctive, robust curriculum. The Mellon grant allows us to do just that."

Mellon Foundation Awards $2.5 Million to Johns Hopkins University [Published The Foundation Center - May 15 2013]

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Pitzer College Seniors and Alumni Awarded 22 Fu... [Published Pitzer College - May 17 2013]
Mentoring program offers a helping hand [Published In House - May 16 2013]
More Than 65 Research Fellowships Awarded by th... [Published Noodls - May 15 2013]
Mellon Foundation Awards $2.5 Million to Johns ... [Published The Foundation Center - May 15 2013]
Cultivating Partnerships in the Digital Humanities [Published Chronicle of Higher Education - May 13 2013]
Revising Darwin’s sinking-island theory [Published MIT News feed - May 13 2013]
NEFA’s National Dance Project Receives $2.2M Grant [Published PRWeb - May 11 2013]
NISO publishes annual review issue of âInformat... [Published Biblio Tech Review - May 11 2013]
Managing the wild [Published University at Buffalo Reporter - May 10 2013]
African studies reach out across the pond [Published Mail & Guardian Online - May 10 2013]
Read more [Published News Gazette - May 09 2013]
Who Are the People Getting Honorary Degrees? [Published Duke University - May 08 2013]
Mellon Grant Supports Digital Classics at Duke [Published Duke University - May 07 2013]
Joint Powerhouse Effort [Published Arts Journal - Apr 30 2013]
New Rice University center is first to connect ... [Published Rice University - Apr 30 2013]
San Antonio Museum of Art Awarded $500,000 Andr... [Published GlobeNewswire: Acquisitions News - Apr 30 2013]
Survey shows humanities grad students rarely ex... [Published Inside Higher Ed - Apr 30 2013]
The Sounds of Music: City of Music hosts histor... [Published DVIDS - Apr 30 2013]
Mellon endows Randel music teaching fellowships [Published Cornell News Highlights - Apr 29 2013]
The Age of 'Coder-Scholars' [Published Chronicle of Higher Education - Apr 29 2013]
Pitzer College Students Receive Mellon Foundati... [Published Collegenews.org - Apr 28 2013]
Hunt for next University of Michigan president ... [Published AnnArbor.com - Apr 28 2013]
W.W. Law archive in limbo as county holds onto ... [Published Savannah Morning News - Apr 28 2013]
CMU's Alex John London to speak at Presidential... [Published EurekAlert! - Apr 23 2013]
ATL Bookmarks: Nine events to hit this week [Published Creative Loafing - Apr 22 2013]
Duo takes us through 'a Year with 13 Moons' at ... [Published Individual.com - Apr 22 2013]
Botanic Gardens' type specimens take root in cy... [Published Asiaone - Apr 21 2013]
Business briefing, Sunday, April 21 [Published TwinCities.com - Apr 21 2013]
IU saves nearly $20 million with open source fi... [Published Noodls - Apr 18 2013]
Pitzer College Students Receive Mellon Foundati... [Published Pitzer College - Apr 18 2013]

Blogs

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Revising Darwin’s sinking-island theory [Published MIT News feed - May 13 2013] The three different formations of South Pacific coral-reef islands have long fascinated geologists. Tahiti’s coral forms a “fringing” reef, a shelf growing close to the island’s shore. The “barrier” reefs of Bora Bora are separated from the main island ...
Mellon endows Randel music teaching fellowships [Published Cornell News Highlights - Apr 29 2013] The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is honoring its outgoing president, Don Randel, former Cornell provost and emeritus professor, with an endowment for graduate student teaching fellowships in music at Cornell. ...
Mellon Foundation grant advances CHERI research [Published Cornell News Highlights - Feb 28 2013] The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $640,000 research grant to the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute. ...
$1.4M Mellon grant will support urbanism seminars [Published Cornell News Highlights - Jan 09 2013] A $1.4 million Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant will fund a Cornell pilot program of seminars in architecture, urbanism and the humanities. Six semesters of seminars will begin in spring 2014. ...

Audio/Video

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Course Threads: Making Information Accessible [Published UC Berkeley Events - YouTube - Jan 23 2013]
Course Threads: Universal Human Rights not so U... [Published UC Berkeley Events - YouTube - Jan 23 2013]
Course Threads: The Future of Mankind [Published UC Berkeley Events - YouTube - Jan 23 2013]
Course Threads: Technology, Innovation, and Peo... [Published UC Berkeley Events - YouTube - Jan 23 2013]
Course Threads: Experience-Based Design [Published UC Berkeley Events - YouTube - Jan 23 2013]

Press Releases

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San Antonio Museum of Art Awarded $500,000 Andr... [Published GlobeNewswire: Acquisitions News - Apr 30 2013]
Mellon Foundation Funds CES Dissertation Comple... [Published GlobeNewswire: Advertising News - Jan 17 2013]
Mellon Foundation funds CES Dissertation Comple... [Published CisionWire - English - Jan 17 2013]