The Center for History and New Media at George Mason University is 
pleased to announce the availability of a number of $1000 grants to fund 
current research projects involving the online collection of the recent 
history of science, technology, and industry. The grants are offered 
through /ECHO: Exploring and Collecting History Online/.

With support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, ECHO offers consulting 
services to institutions and individuals with online projects or ideas. 
We tailor our advice to your project’s scope, focus, and budget to help 
you implement and build your digital history collection. We can help 
with strategic project planning, technology, website design, and 
outreach. In the past we have worked with the National Institutes of 
Health, NASA, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, and 
many individual researchers.

Examples of projects that employ ECHO’s methods and technologies to 
collect and present historical materials on the Web can be found at the 
ECHO collecting center and include the September 11 Digital Archive, a 
collection of over 200,000 stories, images, email, and documents from 
the attacks and their aftermath; the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank: 
Collecting and Preserving the Stories of Katrina and Rita; A Thin Blue 
Line: The History of the Pregnancy Test Kit, a joint project by ECHO and 
the National Institute of Health; and Remembering Columbia STS-107, an 
online exhibit by NASA.

Please submit a proposal of no more than 500 words and a C.V. to 
[log in to unmask] by 15 November 2006.