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And the College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences
AHSS Fellowship
The AHSS Fellowship is a competitive award supports one student per year who intends to pursue a high-impact learning opportunity, either during the summer before their junior or senior year or in the fall semester of their junior or senior year. Such high impact practices include, but are not limited to earning academic credit with study abroad, competitive internship, artist/musician residency or independent research projects. Please consider a gift to support the academic success of our AHSS Fellows.
Student Engagement Fund
Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Student Engagement Fund supports grants for students’ scholarly and creative activities. These grants cover expenses that students incur while pursuing learning activities outside of the traditional classroom such as travel to do research, present, or perform; production costs for creative projects; purchase of research materials, art supplies, costumes for performances, screenplays, sheet music, software if not available at MU or equipment. Please consider helping students achieve their academic goals through these individual grants.
Student Filmmaking at MU
We are seeking support to expand and promote student filmmaking in the Department of Communication and Theatre. This includes support to our annual student film competition and other opportunities for students to develop as filmmakers. The funds would go toward costs related to student film screenings, event promotion, submission fees to film festivals, technical and travel support for student filmmakers and other related expenses.
LED Video Wall
The College is seeking donor support to purchase and install a high-resolution LED video wall for music concerts, live performances, lectures, and external community events. The video wall is a flexible, reconfigurable scenic and presentation tool capable of displaying immersive environments, dynamic lighting textures, live camera feeds, digital scenery, and multimedia content. The video wall will serve such annual AHSS signature events as The Glorious Sounds of the Season, Commercial Band performances and the University Theatre’s shows. In addition, it will be accessible for instruction to students in multiple programs and give them hands-on training in media server operation, content creation, live video integration, and production workflows. During the 2025 season, AHSS was able to borrow this equipment thus greatly enhancing our annual Glorious Sounds of the Season concert. We are hoping to have this equipment in-house. The estimated cost of the full system is about $750,000.