Humanities Education for Anti-racism Literacy (HEAL) in the Sciences and Medicine

The UW-Madison Libraries are collaborators on the Humanities Education for Anti-racism Literacy (HEAL) in the Sciences and Medicine project, which received a $5M grant from the Mellon Foundation’s Just Future Initiative.

This initiative brings together a “cross-racial and interdisciplinary team that seeks to improve equitable access to higher education by drawing on humanities research to advance anti-racist practices and pedagogy in science, technology, mathematics and medicine (STEMM).”

This project will “build more accurate narratives about histories of racism in STEMM to better understand persistent underrepresentation and to develop educational tools for building a more equitable university and society”. New models of knowledge creation and sharing will also be explored in order to “record and make available the team's work, so that it may be accessible, usable, and helpful to the communities the team is working for, to better understand our past, present and future.”



Strategic Directions