The Humanities’ Place in Research Spending

At one of the country’s top research institutions, not far from where scientists are working on discovering new treatments for disease, Donald S. Lopez Jr. is hard at work doing another kind of research: tracing the travels of Hyecho, an eighth-century Korean Buddhist monk.  His effort takes place at the Humanities Collaboratory, an ambitious project that the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor began three years ago to support interdisciplinary, intergenerational humanities research with appeal to multiple audiences.