The Henry Luce Foundation in New York City has announced grants totaling $22 million to sixty organizations reflecting its longstanding commitment to innovative scholarship, informed leadership, and cross-cultural understanding.

The grants will support programs in the areas of American art, Asian studies, religion, higher education, and public policy. Recipients include the American Council of Learned Societies, which was awarded $2.4 million over five years in continued support for the Luce/ACLS American Art Dissertation Fellowship Program; the Association for Asian Studies in Ann Arbor, Michigan, which will receive $300,000 over four years for a summer workshop on emerging fields in Asian studies; American University in Washington, D.C., which will receive $425,000 over two years for a project that investigates cross-regional perspectives on the intersection of religion and climate change; and Higher Education Resource Services in Denver, which was awarded $450,000 over three years to support women in STEM fields pursuing leadership roles in higher education.

Through its Clare Boothe Luce program, which seeks to encourage women to enter STEM fields by supporting student research and junior professorships, the foundation also awarded $196,440 to Barnard College in New York City; $218,722 to the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts; and $500,000 to Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.