Research News at the College of Liberal Arts
College of Liberal Arts
Last Update: September 23, 2021
Purdue University is part of Humanities Without Walls, and as a special benefit, we are invited to compete in the limited submission competition for humanities research Grand Challenge grants.
Humanities Without Walls invites applications for interdisciplinary, collaborative, research-based projects in the humanities and arts that build a clearly communicated commitment to methodologies of reciprocity and redistribution into their project design and proposal narratives, regardless of the research topic or theme they focus on.
PI Eligibility: Tenure-line faculty in humanities or humanistic social sciences
Award amount: Up to $150,000
Project Period: January 1st, 2022–December 31st, 2024
Application Deadline: November 15th, 2021, Midnight, Central Time
How to Submit: Proposals should be emailed as a single PDF to HWWDirectorOps@illinois.edu.
In anticipation of the final proposal, the CLA Office of Research can support preparatory work through a local grant. The deadline is April 23, and should be submitted according to the outlined instructions.
If you have questions, please contact our office at cla-adr@purdue.edu or contact Jason Mierek, HWW Director of Operations, at the email address listed above. Thank you, and good luck!
HWW Link
Last Update: March 5, 2021
Purdue University is excited to announce the Early User Program (EUP) for Anvil, an NSF Category I large-capacity computational research platform. Anvil will provide a seamless and comprehensive ecosystem of software, access interfaces, programming environments, and composable services to support a broad range of science and engineering applications.
Anvil will integrate new technologies for interactive usage, scalable HPC, machine learning and big data applications; prioritize researcher productivity and ease of use; and provide an extensible architecture for interoperation with complementary data-intensive projects, campus resources, and commercial cloud.

Please find more information about the Anvil EUP in the attached PDF document, and join the Anvil team for an informative webinar to learn more about the system, how you can apply it to your research, and join the Early User Program. The webinar will take place via Microsoft Teams starting at 2pm on Monday, March 29, 2021. It is scheduled for 90 minutes.
Join the Anvil EUP Webinar HERE.