Grants and Gifts

• The Julius L. Chambers Biomedical/Biotechnology Research Institute at historically black North Carolina Central University in Durham received a five-year, $7 million grant from the National Cancer Institute. This is the largest sponsored research grant in the university’s history.

• Fort Valley State University, the historically black educational institution in Georgia, received a $240,000 grant from the federal Office of HIV/AIDS Policy for prevention and intervention programs to combat HIV/AIDS.

• Historically black Florida A&M University in Tallahassee received a three-year, $497,663 grant from the Gulf of Mexico Program to promote public awareness of the value of the Gulf and to work to restore and preserve the Gulf ecosystem.

• The University of South Carolina received a $100,000 grant from the James E. Clyburn Research and Scholarship Foundation. The money will be used to fund scholarships for students in a five-year, dual degree program at historically black Claflin University and the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina.

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