UCLA receives $1.65 million from Mellon Foundation to continue urban humanities program
Grant helps provide students with vital scholarly skills, support curricula and faculty research
The Urban Humanities Initiative, which spans the School of Arts and Architecture, the Division of Humanities, and the Luskin School of Public Affairs, has received renewed support from the Mellon Foundation.
"A $1.65 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will strengthen UCLA’s Urban Humanities Initiative. The program, initially launched by a $2 million award from the Mellon Foundation in 2013, is dedicated to studying contemporary issues in Los Angeles, Tokyo, Shanghai and Mexico City.
The new funding will help UCLA provide graduate and undergraduate students with vital scholarly skills, support curricula and new faculty research on historical as well as contemporary urban issues, and pay for scholars to travel to cities around the Pacific Rim.
Together, the two Mellon grants are the largest received by UCLA for curricula that span the School of Arts and Architecture, the Division of Humanities, and the Luskin School of Public Affairs. The grant continues UCLA’s participation in the Mellon Foundation’s Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities initiative, which since 2012 has provided funding to a total of 16 institutions in the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom and South Africa."— Margaret MacDonald, June 20, 2016
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