Grants

• The University of Florida College of Dentistry received a five-year, $5.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. The grant will fund a new research center aimed at reducing racial disparities in head and neck cancer survival rates among low-income men.

• Fort Valley State University, the historically black educational institution in Georgia, received a two-year, $946,918 grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The grant will be used to upgrade the infrastructure of the university’s Hunt Memorial Library and to increase collections of books, microfilm, periodicals, and other educational materials.

• Fisk University, the historically black educational institution in Nashville, Tennessee, received a two-year, $500,000 grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The grant will be used to support faculty and institutional development.

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