Grants awarded

To support the Library’s Center for Primary Research and Training’s work to improve access to special library collections and train graduate students and scholars in collections management.

To digitize the Arabic and Syriac manuscript codices in the library of St Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai, and make the results freely available online.

To support the Millennium Endowed Graduate Fellowship Fund and establish the Endowed History Department Chair and the History Department Chair Quasi-Endowment Fund.

To support the establishment and ongoing work of the Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in United States History, the Joyce Oldham Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World, the Hans Rogger International Student Fund in History, the Millennium Endowed Graduate Fellowship Fund and the Dean of Social Sciences Fund for Faculty Support in History in the College of Letters and Science.

To digitize more of the remaining manuscripts of St Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai, including newly discovered palimpsests, and make the results freely available online.

To make multispectral images of manuscripts in the library of St Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai, freely available online.

To endow the Ronald J. Mellor Chair in Ancient History at UCLA.

To digitize vulnerable collections in UCLA’s library and ephemera identified through the Collecting Los Angeles project, and make these collections freely available online.

To document the endangered cultural heritage of the Kalmyks and Oirats and make the records freely available online.

To carry out large-scale documentation of heritage sites in Sub-Saharan Africa and to make the results freely available online.

To undertake the large-scale documentation of heritage sites in Pakistan and north-western India and to make the results freely available online.

To carry out large-scale documentation of heritage sites in Sub-Saharan Africa and to make the results freely available online.

To undertake large-scale documentation of heritage sites in Pakistan and north-western India and to make the results freely available online.

To document the rituals and priestly knowledge of the Mandaeans and to make the records freely available online.

To fund large-scale digitization of manuscripts in maritime and mainland South-East Asia and make these freely available online.

To survey and digitize some of the most important collections of palm-leaf manuscripts in the Thrissur and Ernakulam districts in Kerala, India in both institutional and family collections and to make the results freely available online.

To document the cultural heritage of the Maldives and make the data freely available online.

To document endangered archaeological heritage in the Middle East and North Africa using satellite imagery and on-the-ground surveys and make the data freely available online.

To document endangered archaeological heritage in the Middle East and North Africa using satellite imagery and on-the-ground surveys and make the data freely available online.

To document endangered archaeological heritage in the Middle East and North Africa using satellite imagery and on-the-ground surveys and make the data freely available online.