Mellon Foundation

  1. December 12, 2024

    U-M, Mellon Foundation announce Environmental Justice + Humanities Hub

    The Mellon Foundation has awarded nearly $4 million in a first-of-its kind grant to create the Environmental Justice + Humanities Hub at U-M, bolstering the university’s work in environmental justice.

  2. February 1, 2022

    Mellon grant designed to help more students transfer to U-M

    LSA, in partnership with Henry Ford College, has announced its Transfer Bridges to the Humanities@Michigan program has received $3.4 million from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

  3. June 7, 2021

    U-M team examines liberal arts’ impact a decade after graduation

    For more than two years, the College and Beyond II project at U-M has been asking what is the impact of a liberal arts education on students’ lives as it studies the impact of a liberal arts education.

  4. March 17, 2021

    U-M awarded $4.8M humanities grant from Mellon Foundation

    U-M received a major grant in humanities from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a multi-institutional digital futures collaborative led by a professor whose research involves digital inequality.

  5. January 13, 2021

    U-M scholars awarded $10M in Mellon Foundation grants

    U-M has been awarded two $5 million grants through The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The grants, led by professors Stephanie Fryberg and Earl Lewis, will fund projects that focus on addressing racial inequity.

  6. January 20, 2020

    Campus briefs

    Short news items from around the university.

  7. November 26, 2019

    U-M scholars to explore multilingual Midwest in Sawyer Seminar

    A group of U-M scholars has secured a $225,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to explore the Midwest as a multicultural, multilingual region shaped by successive waves of international and domestic migrations.

  8. February 21, 2018

    Earl Lewis to launch U-M Center for Social Solutions

    Noted social historian, author and academic leader Earl Lewis will join the faculty as director of the new U-M Center for Social Solutions, which will address three core areas: diversity and race, water, and the future of work.