Teams at U-M, MSU win grants to study racial inequality
The foundation received 165 proposals but only chose 16 teams to receive the grants of up to $5 million. Teams from MSU and U-M won three of those 16 grants. Author: Amy McNeel (WZZM13), Associated Press Published: 10:32 PM EST January 18, 2021 Updated: 10:32 PM EST January 18, 2021
MICHIGAN, USA Teams from Michigan State University (MSU) and the University of Michigan (U-M) have been awarded grants focused on addressing racial inequality.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Just Future Initiative competition awarded more than $72 million in grants for 16 humanities, arts and humanities-inflected social sciences projects across the U.S. The foundation said the initiative was designed to support “visionary, unconventional, experiment and groundbreaking projects in order to address the long-existing fault lines of racism, inequality and injustice that tear at the fabric