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April 2, 2009

Univ. Press gets $750K grant from Mellon Foundation

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a five-year, $750,000 grant to the University of Pittsburgh Press for a book publishing initiative in the history of science to be pursued in a partnership with Pitt’s Department of History and Philosophy of Science and the Department of History’s World History Center.

In addition to producing books, the Press and its partners will cooperate in a number of activities in support of this program, including guest lectures, conferences, fellowships and a book prize.

The Mellon Foundation’s scholarly communications initiative provides support for projects that encourage the deepening of links between university presses and their parent institutions, as well as the promotion of important new scholarship.

In seeking this grant, the Press and its partners made the case that the study of the history of science is invigorated by engagement with other fields of inquiry and that the humanities offer insights to understanding science.

The grant will provide resources for the Press to increase its output of new books from approximately 50 titles per year to more than 70. The Department of History and Philosophy of Science will be able to establish a lecture series and a new fellowship program, as well as a prize for outstanding new scholarship.

The World History Center will create a post-doctoral fellowship and host a series of conferences on science in global history.


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