JBHE: Latest News for 10/30/08

Grants

• Harris-Stowe State University, the historically black educational institution in St. Louis, Missouri, received a $15.7 million grant from the state’s Lewis and Clark Discovery Initiative for the establishment of an early child development center on its campus.

• Shaw University, the historically black educational institution in Raleigh, North Carolina, received a $2.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense for research in nanotechnology. The project will involve photovoltaic research to create flexible solar panels to power unmanned aerial vehicles for the Navy.

• Clark Atlanta University received a five-year, $7.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study prostate cancer among African-American men. The grant will allow the university to hire additional researchers and expand its Center for Cancer Research and Therapeutic Development.

• The Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University received a $200,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The grant will be used to fund a monthlong summer institute for 25 college and university professors. The seminar is entitled “Slaves, Soldiers, Rebels: Currents of Black Resistance in the Tropical Atlantic, 1760-1888.”

Leading the effort at Johns Hopkins is Ben Vinson, director of the Center for Africana Studies.

• Howard University received a five-year, $5 million grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for its Beltsville Center for Climate System Observation.

Principal investigator for the research is Everette Joseph, associate professor of physics and astronomy at Howard University.

• South Carolina State University, the historically black educational institution in Orangeburg, received a $153,782 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to establish new agriculture cooperatives and improve existing cooperatives used by small farmers in rural areas.

• Florida A&M University, the historically black educational institution in Tallahassee, received an $800,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The grant will fund a biosecurity research project and a program to genetically improve raspberries.

• Bowie State University, the historically black educational institution in Maryland, is participating in a five-year, $12.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The grant money will be used by Bowie and the other participating higher educational institutions to foster enhanced teaching of science, mathematics, engineering, and technology in the predominantly black Prince George’s County public schools.

Other participating institutions are the University of Maryland, the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, and Prince George’s Community College.