Emory receives $2.4 million to improve humanities
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Emory University received a $2.4 million grant to strengthen and reconfigure programs in the humanities, officials announced Monday.
The grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will allow the college to refocus the humanities around interdisciplinary areas and and to recruit new faculty, officials said.
The university plans to create a "Society of Fellows" -- a cohort or junior and mid-career faculty -- who will look at ways to infuse the humanities in other departments. Officials envisioned the program focusing on three areas -- digital scholarship, mind/brain neuroscience and humanities in the age of the human genome.
The fellows program would begin with two to four people and then expands. Existing faculty will be part of the fellows society as well.
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