ATLANTA (AP) -- Emory University has received $2.4 million to
support the reassessment, reconfiguration and strengthening of the
humanities across the university.
The money comes from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Claire Sterk, senior vice provost for academic affairs, says the
effort will focus on the recruitment of junior and mid-career
faculty across the humanities.
These new faculty will form the core of a "Society of Fellows"
who will work to help guide how humanities departments and faculty
can export principles of humanistic inquiry across the university.
Officials say they will focus on strengthening school focus on
topics like digital scholarship, mind/brain neuroscience and
humanities in the age of the human genome.