Archive of Course-Embedded Research Grant Reports (1st Grant)

From 2013-2017, the Mellon Initiative awarded twenty-four stipends to arts and humanities faculty to revise existing courses and create new courses that explicitly guided students in the process of producing original research. The following are a collection of reports from many of these grants. 


Archive of Course-Embedded Research Grant Reports (2nd Grant)

After receiving a second five-year grant through the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in the spring of 2018, the Mellon Initiative began awarding stipends to arts and humanities faculty for 

  • redesigning lower-division courses that fulfill Pathways requirements by including course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs),
  • ³¦°ù±ð²¹³Ù¾±²Ô²µÌýlabs for individual or interrelated projects so students with various levels of experience could earn course credit and develop research skills while working with faculty on long-term research projects, and 
  • develop and implement regionally focused research projects that include opportunities for undergraduate researchers.  

The following are a collection of reports from several of these grants. 

CUREs
  • GERM 2301: Intermediate German I, Heather Sullivan, Curtis Swope, and Nick Reynolds, Spring 2022

  • RELI 2354: Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, Chad Spigel, Fall 2021

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  • Fall 2019

HUMANITIES AND ARTS LABS
  • Scholarly Edition of the Religious Writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Claudia Stokes, Spring 2022
  • Academic Making for the Built Environment, Kate Ritson, Scott Neale, Ryan Hodge, Wilson Terrell, Jr., Spring 2021
  • StoryLab, Sarah Beth Kaufman, Habiba Noor, Lauren Turek, Norma Cantú, Spring 2020
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  • Fall 2019
REGIONAL RESEARCH
  • A Mixed-Methods Study Examining the Influence of Educational Television on San Antonio Preschoolers’ Early Math learning, Rebecca Densley, 2022

  • Putting down Roots: Multi-Generational Chinese Americans in San Antonio, Elaine Wong, 2022

  • , Jennifer Henderson and Maya Alarcón, 2022

  •  Amy Stone and Noelle Barrera, 2021

  • Shakespeare in the Borderlands,ÌýKathryn Santos, 2019


Department-level Curricular Mapping Grant Applications