Tag Archive for "Faculty awarded grant"

Visual Culture Expert Stephanie Takaragawa Awarded a $100,000 California Civil Liberties Grant

September 19, 2023 by Allison DeVries | Wilkinson College

When Miyoko Takaragawa (1922-2015) died, her family found two photo albums among her possessions that included over 100 photographs taken at Heart Mountain Relocation Center, a World War II Japanese American confinement site. Miyoko and her husband, Yutaka Takaragawa, were incarcerated at Heart Mountain from 1942 to 1945, where their son Tetsuro Ronald Takaragawa was

Studying Threats Targeting Public Officials Dr. Pete Simi Awarded an Additional $211,074 to Continue Research

September 19, 2023 by Allison DeVries | News

For his research on extremism and white supremacy, Dr. Pete Simi (Sociology) was awarded a $211,074 one-year grant from the University of Nebraska Omaha’s National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education Center (NCITE), the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Center of Excellence. Simi has received four NCITE grants totaling over $811,000 to support two large-scale multi-year