Mellon Content / Mellon Content for Âé¶¹appÈë¿Ú en Telling the Story of Yemeni Americans Through Their Corner Stores /curiosity/news/telling-story-yemeni-americans-through-their-corner-stores <p><span><span>Sunaina Maira, a Âé¶¹appÈë¿Ú professor of Asian American Studies, had planned to explore how President Trump’s travel ban on people from Muslim-majority countries affected Arab American communities in the Bay Area. When COVID-19 hit, she shifted her approach.</span></span></p> <p><span><span>She found her story on her own street in Oakland in one of the many Bay Area corner stores run by Yemeni Americans. </span></span></p> November 30, 2021 - 10:58am Karen Michele Nikos-Rose /curiosity/news/telling-story-yemeni-americans-through-their-corner-stores Why We Need Poetry: Celebrating National Poetry Month /arts/blog/Why-Need-Poetry To celebrate 25 years of National Poetry Month, the Andrew W. Mellon foundation, along with the Academy of American Poets, has launched “Twenty Ten Twenty-Five,†a multimedia production. April 21, 2021 - 12:46pm Karen Michele Nikos-Rose /arts/blog/Why-Need-Poetry Imagining America Receives Grant to Enhance Public Scholarship Nationally /news/imagining-america-receives-grant-enhance-public-scholarship <p>Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life at the University of California, Davis, has received $500,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to launch a national IA Leading and Learning Initiative to shift institutional culture in higher education toward greater support of public scholarship in the humanities, the arts and design.</p> July 17, 2019 - 11:59am Karen Michele Nikos-Rose /news/imagining-america-receives-grant-enhance-public-scholarship Âé¶¹appÈë¿Ú Native American Studies Professor Bridges Disciplinary Boundaries, Receives Mellon Foundation Grant /news/uc-davis-native-american-studies-professor-bridges-disciplinary-boundaries-receives-mellon <p><a href="http://nas.ucdavis.edu/faculty/liza-grandia">Liza Grandia</a>, associate professor of Native American studies at the University of California, Davis, has received a $270,000 Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellowship. The fellowship will allow her to study toxicology and environmental epidemiology to become “a more productive interlocutor†between indigenous communities and the environmental health sciences.</p> April 07, 2017 - 3:05pm Karen Michele Nikos-Rose /news/uc-davis-native-american-studies-professor-bridges-disciplinary-boundaries-receives-mellon