Brent Seales is among 213 recipients of NEH grants, totaling $32.8 million, awarded to humanities projects across the country. Pete Comparoni | UK Photo.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 3, 2021) The University of Kentucky is one step closer to becoming a global center for imaging and restoring ancient artifacts thought to be damaged beyond repair.
Brent Seales, professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science, is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant to create EduceLab a cultural heritage imaging and analysis laboratory.
Seales is among 213 recipients of NEH grants, totaling $32.8 million, awarded to humanities projects across the country.
“As we conclude an extremely difficult year for our nation and its cultural institutions, it is heartening to see so many excellent projects being undertaken by humanities scholars, researchers, curators and educators,” Jon Parrish Peede, NEH chairman, said. “These new NEH grants will foster intellectual
National Endowment for the Humanities Announces New Grants
The final round of funding for the year totals $32.8 million and will support 213 projects across the country.
This round of funding will enable the production of an interactive timeline of African-American music at Carnegie Hall.Credit.Evan Agostini/Invision, via Associated Press
Dec. 16, 2020
Carnegie Hall, the National World War I Memorial in Washington and the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library in Indianapolis are among the 213 beneficiaries of new grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities that were announced on Wednesday.
The grants, which total $32.8 million, will support projects in 44 states, as well as in Washington and Puerto Rico, at museums, libraries, universities and historic sites. They will enable the production of an interactive timeline of African-American music at Carnegie Hall, preserve collections of Appalachian history at Appalshop archives in Kentucky, and support the use of X-ray spectrosc