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A dozen student- and faculty-led interdisciplinary projects have received 2023  grants, totaling about $100,000, from the  and the .

The grants are designed to support research with the arts at its core, foster interdisciplinary projects, and promote faculty-student mentorship.

Selected from among 53 applications,  include cross-campus and community collaborations and represent an array of fields, from a project pairing ethnographic research on energy justice with the creation of a mural in White River Junction, Vt., to using arts to help teach English in Ukraine.

The initiative reflects the ����Ӱ��’s commitment to advancing interdisciplinary connections across campus, enhancing myriad fields of study through the arts, says , the Howard L. Gilman ’44 Director of the ����Ӱ��.

“We are thrilled to support these innovative, forward-looking projects which harness the synergistic power inherent in arts-infused research,” Aleskie says.

Now in its second year, the initiative is seeing a growing pool of applicants. And more is on the horizon. In the future, the Arts Integration Initiative will expand to serve as a hub for scholars engaged in research with the arts at its core.

2023 Arts Integration Project Grant Recipients

• Envisioning and Enabling a Just Energy Transition in the Upper Valley: Sarah Kelly, research associate at the Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society and postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Geography, and Maron Greenleaf, assistant professor, Department of Anthropology.

• The Art of Conversation: Mark Thornton, assistant professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences.
• The Poster Performed: Tricia Treacy, associate professor of print media and co-chair, Department of Studio Art, and Wylie Kasai, Guarini ’24, computer science student with a concentration in digital arts.
• The Art of Human Biology in Health and Disease: Lee Witters, Eugene W. Leonard 1921 ����Ӱ�� of Medicine, Medical Education, and Biochemistry and Cell Biology at the Geisel School of Medicine.
• TikTokBox: Improvisatory Embodiments of Sonic and Kinesthetic Memetics on Tiktok: Digital musics student Mac Waters, Guarini ’24.
• Trazar Sonido y Luz/Tracing Sound and Light: Digital musics student Rodrigo Martinez Torres, Guarini ’24, and Emily Hass, composer and visual artist.
• Cyborgs of Ukraine: Teaching English Through Art in Ukraine: Master of Arts in Liberal Studies student Caleb Newton.
• The Transmedial Translation Of Sofia Andrukhovych’s Novel Amadoka: How Text Becomes Clay and Clay Becomes Music: Comparative literature student Veronika Yadukha, Guarini ’23.
• Triple Helix: AI-Artist-Audience Collaboration in a Performative Art Experience: Computer science student Xuedan Zou, Guarini ’23, digital arts student Kyle Huang, Guarini ’24, and computer science student Ziang Ren, Guarini ’24.
• What Is Happening to the “Afro” in Afrobeats?: John Ejiogu ’23 and Mark Gitau ’23.
• A Botanical Embrace: Erik Seigel ’26.
• The Body Is Permeable: Human Health in a Time of Climate Change: Gaia Yun ’25.