CEDAR FALLS, Iowa — The University of Northern Iowa (UNI) has received a $2.4 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to create the UNI Humanities Hub. This five-year initiative aims to enhance paid ...

The U.S. House of Representatives last week passed a budget proposal that, among other things, funds both the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities at levels ...

For more than 40 years, the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities has presented the Bright Lights Awards to honor individuals who make contributions to the state's cultural landscape. The awards ...

Learn how to implement the Adadelta optimization algorithm from scratch in Python. This tutorial explains the math behind Adadelta, why it was introduced as an improvement over Adagrad, and guides you ...

Learn how to implement the Nadam optimizer from scratch in Python. This tutorial walks you through the math behind Nadam, explains how it builds on Adam with Nesterov momentum, and shows you how to ...

It seems we’ve decided the humanities have less to give the human race — or more modestly, this country’s future — than the sciences. This is a serious mistake. The sciences and the humanities are ...

As a humanities professor myself, the biggest danger I see to the discipline is the growing perception, fueled by the ubiquity of large language models, that knowledge is cheap—a resource whose ...

After nearly closing earlier this year due to federal budget cuts, Wisconsin Humanities has a plan to continue operating even if it does not receive any additional federal funding in 2026. "The WH ...

An award-winning historian shares insights on changes to the Ph.D. funding landscape in the U.K. and how early-career scholars can maximize their chances of securing support. October 27, 2025 Arts and ...

Gaile Pohlhaus, associate dean of the College of Arts and Science; Timothy Melley, director of the Humanities Center; and Renée Baernstein, dean of the College of Arts and Science at Bachelor Hall as ...