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This spring ZSR awarded a third and final round of grants funded by the Presidential Trust for Faculty Excellence. These “Presidential Grants” support special library purchases and collection development projects.

This year the library received 35 grant requests and awarded approximately $70,000. Individual grants ranged from $400 to $10,400, and the average grant was about $2,000. Funded projects include:

• Retrospective collecting of core contributors in biological anthropology and paleoanthropology;
• Recordings of feminist poets reading their works;
• Books for elementary school students in academically gifted, regular and special needs settings;
• Books and films on Africa, with themes of cities/urbanization, gender, and popular/expressive culture, and spanning the pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial periods; and
• Interdisciplinary academic and scholarly titles on gaming, including videogames, online gaming and educational gaming.

Many grants in this round reflected the growing interest in interdisciplinary research at Wake Forest University. In addition to the projects listed above, interdisciplinary grants focused on building collections in: diasporas and other movements of peoples; microfinance and microenterprise; Arabic language and cultural studies; and religion and ethics in relation to politics, secularism, bioethics, science, and business ethics.

Thank you to everyone who participated in the program! A summary of all Presidential Grants is available online.