UMN awarded $1-million Mellon Foundation grant for statewide humanities-led environmental stewardship initiative

The University is moving forward to develop a statewide, humanities-led environmental stewardship initiative, backed by a $1.1 million grant from from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Led by the University's Institute for Advanced Study, the initiative centers on respect for traditional Indigenous ways of understanding the world and involves the Duluth, Morris and Twin Cities campuses as collaborative partners with scholars and communities statewide. Learn More >>