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Mellon Foundation donates $750,000 grant to University of California to establish South Asian American studies centre

The University of California, Santa Barbara has received a $750,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to establish a nationally focused, interdisciplinary centre for South Asian American studies, aiming to give the field a more structured academic foundation and address a longstanding lack of institutional support. The project was initiated after…

The Times of India · Oct 24

Research breakthroughs often come through collaborations − attacks on academic freedom threaten this vital work

Since President Donald Trump took office for the second time, many researchers across academic disciplines have had their funding cut because of their purported ideological bias. These funding cuts were further exacerbated by the extensive 2025 government shutdown.

The Conversation · Nov 18, 2025

Academy of American Poets receives its largest-ever donation

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded two grants totaling more than $5.7 million to support the organization's Poet Laureates as well as a national alliance of organizations promoting poetry.

WEKU · Jan 31, 2024

Two LA filmmakers win top national award for disabled artists. 'It means everything'

LOS ANGELES — The Ford Foundation and the Mellon Foundation have announced the 2022 Disability Futures Fellows, two of whom are based in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles Times · Jul 27, 2022

Ghanaian women in dance reality show challenge stereotypes about obesity

Since the debut of Big Brother Africa in South Africa in 2003, reality television shows have become a common feature on television stations across the continent. They have helped the development of a host of television stations in the wake of the democratisation of the airwaves in the 1990s. This…

The Conversation · May 26, 2022