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Mellon Foundation awards $2.9 million for ‘Latinx Futures’
The grant will support programs within UCR’s new Latino and Latin American Studies Research Center, set to launch February 2021 Author: Sandra Baltazar Martínez
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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded a $2.9 million grant to UC Riverside the Foundation’s largest grant yet to the university meant to support College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences research.
Alfonso Gonzales Toribio, associate professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies, and Claudia Holguín Mendoza, assistant professor in the Department of Hispanic Studies; will lead the “Latinx Futures: The Civil, Cultural and Political Stakes for Southern California Latinx Communities” project under the new Latino and Latin American Studies Research Center, poised to be the first of its kind in Southern California based UC campuses. The center is expected to open February 2021.