As Federal Funding for Research Breaks Down, New Possibilities Emerge

Periods of disruption, however unsettling, often open us to new possibilities. The current effort to dismantle the federal support for research in the United States is as cynical as it is misguided; cynical because it uses research infrastructure as a…

Values-Enacted Leadership Institute 2025 Project Teams and Abstracts

The HuMetricsHSS team is excited to announce the teams attending the inaugural 2025 Values-Enacted Leadership Institute (VELI)! These teams represent exciting, transformational projects across a range of themes and institutions. Louisiana State University  Building a Framework for Change: Leveraging a…

Using HuMetrics for Leadership Development in Breaking the M.O.L.D

Bonnie Thornton Dill, Patricia Williams Dockery In 2022, six women academics from three different Maryland institutions –  (University of Maryland Baltimore County, Morgan State University and University of Maryland at College Park), at the request of their respective Presidents, designed…

Sustaining Public Engagement and Building Classroom Capacity through The Mesoamerican Clay-Figurine Project

The Mesoamerican Clay-Figurine Project arouse out of a need to contest trauma and violence in the classroom though self-reflective writing, storytelling, and clay-work. The work has grown into a collective effort between Indigenous educators, scholars, families, and community practitioners from…