Cutting HIV aid means undercutting US foreign and economic interests − Nigeria shows the human costs Withdrawing or reducing aid has immediate and often fatal effects − not only for the countries receiving aid but for people around the globe.

I'm thrilled to share my first published op-ed in The Conversation! In this piece, I draw on my fieldwork in Nigeria to demonstrate how cutting HIV aid undermines both US interests and two decades of life-saving progress. Thank you for sharing!

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Where did U.S. humanities grants go? To projects from a baseball film to AI research From AI research to historical preservation, programs funded by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities reach every corner of the U.S. Now the government has terminated those grants.

www.wglt.org/2025-04-10/w...

Opinion | Why DOGE Slashed the National Endowment for the Humanities (Gift Article) Eliminating federal funding for the humanities saves next to no money, but it will cost the American people something precious.

Now they have come for the NEH, and with it my beloved Humanities Tennessee and Chapter 16, where I spent 10 years of my professional life. The fact that it was inevitable in this Orwellian year of 2025 doesn’t make it any less heartbreaking. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/o...

“We are cut off”: Trump administration terminates outstanding grants to Colorado cultural groups Colorado organizations were awarded more than $9 million from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Biden administration. On Wednesday night, awardees received notice that all uncollecte...

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Any word on whether NEH’s the State and Impact of the Humanities program is going forward (proposals due in about a week)? Or are all 2025-2026 grants eliminated? The opportunity is located in the Office of Data and Evaluation (ODE). #NEH @nehgov.bsky.social @humanitiesall.bsky.social

DOGE Demands Deep Cuts at Humanities Endowment (Gift Article) The National Endowment for the Humanities, which supports museums, scholarship and historical sites, could see grants curtailed and staffing slashed by up to 80 percent.

Read more here: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/a...

In economic terms, taxpayers' cost for projects and initiatives like those my program supports is negligible, while the benefits to our struggling health system are far-reaching.

Please consider reaching out to your representatives and speak up about this vital resource—

In healthcare contexts, humanities provide tools for building empathy, processing difficult experiences, addressing burnout, and helping professionals maintain their sense of purpose and connection in a field that can be overwhelmingly technical, emotionally taxing, and structurally unjust.

When these cuts happen, there will be no one left to read this proposal, much less money to fund it or others worthy of this support. The humanities are essential for understanding ourselves, connecting across differences, preserving cultural knowledge, and finding meaning throughout our lives.

Next week, I'm submitting a grant proposal to the NEH for a project called "Humanities at Career Crossroads" -- studying how humanities engagement helps aging health professionals navigate retirement transitions, find meaning, and continue contributing their expertise the public. This work matters.

URGENT: Save the NEH I just took action to oppose the elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities! Join me and take action here.

I'm concerned about today's NYT story reporting that DOGE plans to gut the National Endowment for the Humanities. This isn't just devastating for researchers like me -- it impacts everyone, regardless of your political leaning.

Join @katierhine.bsky.social in-person for a free lunch and @reneeknicholson.bsky.social virtually via Zoom!

The Story of an Ethnographic Project: From Inspiration to Implementation
📅 February 20th
🕛 noon - 1pm
📍 Fulginiti Pavilion Art Gallery
💻 RSVP with the link below!
👉 bit.ly/4gLzAws

We are hosting a special edition Black History Month collaboration between CUSOM WhiteCoats4BlackLives and the Bioethics & Humanities Student Group.

📅 Monday, February 24th
🕛 12:00-1:00pm
📍 Fulginiti Pavilion Art Gallery
🖥️ RSVP using the link below or scanning the QR code
👉 bit.ly/4aZsiDT

The Health Humanities & Arts Research Collaborative is having their #February Lunch & Learn session. Join @katierhine.bsky.social and @reneeknicholson.bsky.social to explore how an ethnographic research idea transforms into a fully developed proposal.

Join us for a celebration of Recovering Secrets: The Art of Jeffrey Kent
📅 Thursday, February 13th
🕟 4:30 - 6:30pm
📍 Fulginiti Pavilion Art Gallery and Lobby
🖥️ RSVP using the QR on the flyer, or visit the link below
👉 bit.ly/40bu4gl
🔍 For more information on the exhibit:
👉 bit.ly/48qTxWy

Another month, another list of #events to add to your #calendar 🗓️
Starting #February off with all the events hosted or co-sponsored by us at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities!
Looking to RSVP? Visit bit.ly/3MsPoaE

#psychedelics #art #clinical #bioethics #grandrounds #community #antisemestism

World-renowned soprano Renée Fleming is a leading advocate for the study of the powerful connections between the arts and health. 🎭🎼🧠⚕️
RSVP for Music and Mind / Arts in Health 👉 bit.ly/40voo1Z

#event #presentation #discussion #panel #music #mind #art #health

Our Friends at General Internal Medicine will be hosting the film screening of "Just Us: The Longing and Hope of LGBTQ People"

RSVP👉 bit.ly/4awxJtZ

#event #RSVP #film #research #LGBTQ #community

Music and the Mind / Arts in Health
Presentation & Panel Discussion w/ Renée Fleming

📅 30 January
🕛 Noon - 1:00pm
📍 Education 2 South Auditorium, CU Anschutz
🖥️ RSVP using the QR or the link below!
👉 bit.ly/40voo1Z

#event #january #presentation #lecture #discussion #panel #music #mind #art #health

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Make a Gift 🎁

For #COGivesDay2024, the Center of Bioethics & Humanities is asking for the gift of a donation to any of our various programs or funds. Please make a gift by visiting the link 👉 bit.ly/4g0WDnl

#donate #arts #humanites #research #clinical #ethics #education #community #makeagift

Aurora STEM students watching a presentation on Henrietta Lacks and Jeffrey Kent.

Aurora STEM students making art out of Petrie dishes

Two Aurora STEM students showing off their Petrie dish paintings.

A wall of Petrie dishes at Aurora STEM Middle School

Last week, @cobioethics.bsky.social brought the stories of Henrietta Lacks, artist Jeffrey Kent, and our Science in Suspension project to 150 Aurora STEM Middle School 6th graders. Go owls!

And “Science in Suspension” is up in the windows of the Fulginiti Pavilion at #CUAnschutz! I love how the sun cuts through the Petrie dishes—like stained glass. Today, students came to make art and discuss The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, as part of the One Book One Campus program.

Check out this call for art work from @docswithdisability.bsky.social

Delighted to share photos from our “Science in Suspension” art project from last week’s opening! We are now shaping them into clusters to hang in our windows. Looking forward to bringing this project on the road to Aurora STEM Middle School’s 6th graders after Thanksgiving! @cobioethics.bsky.social

Need a break, #CUAnschutz? Take 10 minutes for art at the Fulginiti Pavilion on 11/21 — all day! See the opening of Jeffrey Kent’s Recovering Secrets in the gallery and make your own acrylic art in a Petri dish! @cobioethics.bsky.social @cuanschutz.bsky.social

Jeffrey Kent N Word, 2010 From Hypocrisy in Hypocrisy series Acrylic, metallic confetti, cement, and oil crayon on canvas 66 x 90 inches

Jeffrey Kent Unequal Justice, 2021 From Hidden Secrets series Acrylic, diamond dust, Colombian glitter, baking soda, gel medium 50 x 72 inches

Jeffrey Kent HeLa v COVID-19, 2023 Acrylic, oil bar, and gel medium with exposed wood 83 x 64 inches

Jeffrey Kent Progression HeLa No. 34, 2011 From Surface from Under the Microscope series Acrylic on canvas 84 x 50 inches

And the Jeffrey Kent exhibition is nearly up and running…

“Recovering Secrets”
📅 opens November 21st
📍 The Art Gallery, Fulginiti Pavilion, CU Anschutz
🔎 For more info, visit our website
👉 bit.ly/48qTxWy

This artwork is an irregularly shaped pentagon featuring an abstract design with vivid, fiery red tones dominating the composition.

Jeffrey Kent
HeLa No. 249, 2018

Here, Kent uncovers the complex patterns of cellular division. Each layer of paint suggests both scientific process & historical erasure. The abstracted forms speak to how HeLa cells, like Lacks’ story, resist containment-breaking boundaries both biological & social

If you had to read one book on global health... If there is 1 book that you would like all global health students to read, it would be.....? Here is an impressive list of over 420 books generated by this question on Twitter!

I've updated this list of over 420 wonderful books on global health!

New entries include books by @cmyeaton.bsky.social @farhanasultana.com Kenhinde Andrews, Ellen Gabriel, Tanya Talaga, Marshall Ganz & Ta-Nehisi Coates

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At #CUAnschutz we are inspired by dreamers like Da Vinci. Just like this historical visionary, our team is also powered by a sense of imagination and discovery.

Thomas Flaig, MD, highlights our commitment to improving #healtheducation, #research and care on a recent Rocky Mountain PBS commercial.