Grants and Gifts
• The University of Virginia received a $254,600 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to preserve and digitize films from the civil rights era that were produced by WSLS-TV in Roanoke. The 16-millimeter film archive contains nearly 12,500 news clips made from 1951 to 1971.
• The Odessa Chambliss Wellness Center on the campus of historically black Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida, received a $100,000 grant from the board of governors of the state university system of Florida. The grant will fund a program to train community health workers for anti-obesity efforts in three Florida counties.
• Virginia State University, the historically black educational institution in Petersburg, received a $449,956 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for programs to increase the number of minority students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines.
• The Missouri University of Science and Technology received a $115,000 grant from the Department of Defense and the National Security Agency to develop an undergraduate program in information assurance or cyber-security for students at the University of Arkansas Pine Bluff, a historically black educational institution.
• The United Negro College Fund received a $500,000 donation from the Lowe’s Charitable and Educational Foundation for a scholarship program aimed at seniors at the UNCF’s 39-member institutions.
• The Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta received a $13.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to establish the medical school’s database of genetic information to fight racial disparities in healthcare.
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