September 22, 2023

WTVQ: Appalshop in Whitesburg receives grant to treat, digitize images damaged in flood

WTVQ: Appalshop in Whitesburg receives grant to treat, digitize images damaged in flood. “Appalshop Archive, a media, arts and education center in Whitesburg, recently received a grant to treat and digitize images that were damaged in the July 2022 flood. The Save America’s Treasure Grant provides Appalshop with $750,000 to help cover preservation lab costs to salvage hundreds of hours of moving images that document life in Central Appalachia from the 1930s to the present day.”

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September 17, 2023

Troy University: Troy University’s Rosa Parks Museum receives grant to create new mobile app

Troy University: Troy University’s Rosa Parks Museum receives grant to create new mobile app. “A grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services will enable Troy University’s Rosa Parks Museum to create a mobile app that will engage its visitors, especially the large numbers of school children who tour the museum each year on field trips.”

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September 17, 2023

Penn State University: Penn State team to triple size of forensic database of mitochondrial DNA

Penn State University: Penn State team to triple size of forensic database of mitochondrial DNA. “In circumstances where potential crime scene evidence such as hair or bone might be old or degraded, forensic scientists rely on DNA from a cell’s mitochondria — an organelle that has its own genome separate from the ‘human genome’ in the cell’s nucleus. Now, the National Institute of Justice has awarded a team of researchers from Penn State $770,000 to sequence the mitochondrial genomes of 10,000 Pennsylvanians. This will more than triple the size of the existing database and provide a crucial point of reference for use in human identification cases.”

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September 16, 2023

Clarkson University: Clarkson Professors Awarded Nearly $400k Grant from the NSF for Integrating Cybersecurity into Computing Curricula

Clarkson University: Clarkson Professors Awarded Nearly $400k Grant from the NSF for Integrating Cybersecurity into Computing Curricula. “Four Clarkson Professors have received a $398K grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to create and integrate Identity and Access Management (IAM)-themed project-based learning (PBL) curriculum into existing computer science and software engineering-related curricula.”

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September 14, 2023

Washington University in St. Louis: $3M grant funds training to harness power of AI for social, environmental challenges

Washington University in St. Louis: $3M grant funds training to harness power of AI for social, environmental challenges. “The National Science Foundation (NSF) is investing $3 million over the next five years in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Advancements and Convergence in Computational, Environmental and Social Sciences (AI-ACCESS) program at Washington University in St. Louis. The grant is one of 22 new awards totaling nearly $63 million to create a new generation of talent in science, technology, engineering and math fields that reflects the diversity of the nation.”

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September 12, 2023

Herald News: Portuguese American Digital Archive receives $300,000 grant. Here’s what it’ll be used for

The Herald News: Portuguese American Digital Archive receives $300,000 grant. Here’s what it’ll be used for. ” UMass Lowell’s Saab Center for Portuguese Studies has received a major boost to chronicle the experience of the Portuguese in Massachusetts with a second $300,000 grant from the William M. Wood Foundation of Boston. Dr. Frank Sousa, the center’s director, said the funds will support the expansion of the collections of the Portuguese American Digital Archive (PADA) at UMass Lowell’s Center for Lowell History.”

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August 22, 2023

Washington University in St. Louis: New Grant to Preserve Born-Digital Poetry

Washington University in St. Louis: New Grant to Preserve Born-Digital Poetry. “The Washington University Libraries were awarded a two-year grant by the Mellon Foundation to support an exploration of essential questions surrounding the acquisition, discoverability, preservation, and use of born-digital poetry collections. The $250,000 award will enable the University Libraries to develop online resources and systems to process, preserve, and steward the collections of a new generation of digital-native poets.”

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August 21, 2023

Digital Library of Georgia: Digital Library Of Georgia Awards Digitization Subgrants To 7 Georgia Cultural Heritage Institutions Across The State

Digital Library of Georgia: Digital Library Of Georgia Awards Digitization Subgrants To 7 Georgia Cultural Heritage Institutions Across The State. “The Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) announced today the 7 recipients of its latest set of digitization service awards. These awards expand the scope of the Georgia communities documented in the Digital Library of Georgia. Among the awardees are 5 new partners. Awardee projects include documentation of the Leo Frank trial and folk pottery of Northeast Georgia.”

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August 20, 2023

Call for Proposals: Better ways to help collect, understand and preserve the public’s documents (MuckRock)

MuckRock: Call for Proposals: Better ways to help collect, understand and preserve the public’s documents. “MuckRock’s first two rounds of Gateway Grantees are using DocumentCloud to reveal those secretly profiting from the destruction of Brazil’s rainforests, probe police misconduct in Chicago and much more. Now’s your chance to pitch a project that uses primary source documents to help inform and strengthen the public while leveraging AI, distributed storage and other leading technologies, baked right into DocumentCloud. Selected projects will receive funding of up to $50,000 as well as technical and editorial support.”

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July 28, 2023

Institute of Museum and Library Services: IMLS Announces $20 Million Investment in U.S. Library and Archive Initiatives

Institute of Museum and Library Services: IMLS Announces $20 Million Investment in U.S. Library and Archive Initiatives. “The Institute of Museum and Library Services today announced 64 awards totaling $20,363,297 to support libraries and archives across the country. The FY 2023 awards were made through National Leadership Grants for Libraries and the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program.”

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July 20, 2023

NiemanLab: Google News Initiative grants in Africa and the Middle East yield mixed results, study finds

NiemanLab: Google News Initiative grants in Africa and the Middle East yield mixed results, study finds. “Innovation — in newsrooms and elsewhere — takes more than a new idea. It requires transforming that idea into value for the organization… A new study investigates reasons that one-year grants supplied by Google News Initiative in Africa and the Middle East resulted in a number of projects that fall short of that definition, instead producing ‘minimum viable products’ that were under-realized versions of the original ideas.”

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June 4, 2023

BIOFIN: New global mapping of finance sources is ready to help implement the GBF

BIOFIN (United Nations): New global mapping of finance sources is ready to help implement the GBF. “The database allows you to filter through hundreds of funding opportunities. Those opportunities sometimes focus directly on supporting conservation, but often also cover different ecosystems, cross-cutting activities such as awareness raising and knowledge generation, conservation measures, and pollution management. The funding opportunities range from grants to loans and equity, with amounts ranging from below $5,000 to over $10 million.”

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