
W&L Joins Four Virginia Institutions in NEH Grant to Preserve Revolutionary-Era Collections
The grant will fund conservation and digitization of collections documenting Virginia’s role in the nation’s founding.

The grant will fund conservation and digitization of collections documenting Virginia’s role in the nation’s founding.

The planning grant will create a shared first-year humanities experience and expand pathways through the curriculum.

The funds will be used to support W&L’s leadership and character education programming during the 2026-27 academic year.

The funding will be used to purchase a confocal Raman imaging microscope for geoscientific investigations.

Melissa Kerin and Barton Myers will each receive $6,000 to support their research projects.

W&L Library and Institutional History staff joined Mellon-funded initiative On These Grounds with several partner universities to catalog events in enslaved people’s lives.