Grants

• Spelman College, the historically black educational institution for women in Atlanta, received a five-year, $4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to fund a new Center for Health Disparities Research and Education. Beverly Daniel Tatum, president of Spelman College, is the principal investigator of the project.

• Virginia State University, the historically black educational institution in Petersburg, received a five-year, $4 million grant from the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities of the National Institutes of Health. The grant, the largest in the university’s history, will be used to increase educational opportunities for students in the biomedical sciences.

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