Grants

• Kansas State University received a three-year grant from the National Institutes of Health for a program to increase the number of black and other minority students pursuing degrees in the biomedical sciences. The program seeks to identify promising minority students at community colleges in Kansas and to encourage them to transfer to Kansas State to pursue a curriculum in the biomedical sciences.

• The University of South Florida College of Nursing received a $450,838 grant from the Florida Department of Education for a program to increase the number of black and other minority students pursuing doctoral degrees in nursing. Under the program, five nursing instructors from Bethune-Cookman College, the historically black educational institution in Daytona Beach, Florida, have enrolled in the doctoral program at the University of South Florida.

• Howard University, the historically black educational institution in the nation’s capital, received a $1 million grant from the Amgen Foundation for a program to increase the number of students seeking degrees in the biomedical sciences. For the next four summers, 21 undergraduate students from colleges and universities across the United States will participate in a career development program at Howard University.

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