Carleton College Grants Office

05/18/2023

Elfline is associate professor of art history at Carleton.

12/01/2022

A fun award for the Carleton Symphony Band!

Claire Larson, Visiting Instructor in Music and Director of the Carleton Symphony Band, is the recipient of a Legacy Grant from the Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council (SEMAC) for “Copper Street on College Street: Brass at Carleton.”

08/25/2022

Happy and proud to have helped secure grant funding to hire the College's inaugural Indigenous communities liaison:

Marcy Averill will start in the newly created role on Sept. 1.

06/04/2022

Big news at Carleton!

Mattson comes to Carleton from Wittenberg University, where she has served as provost and professor of German since 2019.

03/28/2022

We're seeking ideas from across the college for humanities projects that could merit up to $500,000 in funding from the Mellon Foundation. Contact me for more information!

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation invites concepts for research and/or curricular projects focused on any of the following areas: Civic Engagement and Voting Rights Race and Racialization in the United States Social Justice and the Literary Imagination

10/08/2021

A pair of great grants to a pair of amazing scientists!

The awards are the largest grants made to individual faculty in Carleton’s history.

10/07/2021

Funding for a critical program to broaden participation in the humanities!

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) has awarded a new grant to Carleton’s Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program for the 2021-2022 academic year. Carleton’s MMUF program has been continuously funded since it was established as one of the eig...

09/29/2021

Very exciting news that's going to make a difference for scores of students!

Partnership with Schuler Education Foundation will expand access to Carleton and other liberal arts schools for high-achieving students.

07/28/2021

Michael McNally in Carleton's Department of Religion has been collaborating with Twin Cities Public Television and the Minnesota Humanities Center to create a set of short films on the state's religious diversity. They're informative and inspiring:

People from all walks of life find and create sacred places in Minnesota.

07/23/2021

Ryan Terrien's grant-funded efforts to discover planets beyond our solar system:

Assistant professor of physics Ryan Terrien ‘09 worked with colleagues from across the nation to build an astronomical spectrograph for NASA.

07/19/2021

The NEH Humanities Connections program invites applications for innovative curricular projects that seek to expand the role of the humanities in undergraduate education by fostering partnerships among humanities faculty and their counterparts in other disciplines.

Projects must purposefully and substantively integrate subject matter, perspectives, and pedagogical approaches, with at least one discipline in and one outside of the humanities.

The Humanities Connections program provides up to $35,000 for 12-month planning grants and up to $150,000 for 18-36-month implementation grants. Projects may begin as early as June 1, 2022, but no later than September 1, 2022. Applications are due Tuesday, September 14, 2021.

Contact the Carleton Grants Office to learn more!

The Humanities Connections program seeks to expand the role of the humanities in undergraduate education at two- and four-year institutions.

05/12/2021

Prof. Terrien continues his research on space:

Ryan Terrien, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, has been granted support from NASA to work with Eric Ford at Penn State on research that advances knowledge of the effectiveness of multiple strategies for mitigating the effects of stellar variability and instrumental effects on the measur...