Grants and Gifts
• Winston-Salem State University, the historically black educational institution in North Carolina, received a $500,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to increase the number of minority students in the biomedical and behavioral sciences.
• Historically black Stillman College in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, received a three-year grant from the Motown Alumni Association. Under the grant program, students at Stillman College will write, produce, and perform with various Motown artists on a 28-song double CD. The services rendered by Motown artists is valued at $10 million.
• Bowie State University, the historically black educational institution in Maryland, received a five-year, $753,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education to provide scholarships for students in the university’s doctoral program in applied computer science.
• The University of Akron in Ohio received a $425,000 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation for efforts to increase the recruitment, retention, and graduation rates of black male students.
• Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida, received a $250,000 grant from the Jessie Ball Dupont Fund. The historically black university will use the money for library acquisitions to support its master’s degree program in integrated environmental science.
• The historically black Howard University School of Law received a gift of $100,000 from Google Inc. to support research in antitrust law.
• Historically black Alabama A&M University received a $399,885 grant from the National Science Foundation for a program to help students in bioengineering and life sciences to address ethical issues.
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