Grants

• Florida A&M University, the historically black educational institution in Tallahassee, received a three-year, $600,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The grant will fund the information assurance program at the university which includes research on privacy, information protection, and national security.

• The University of Tennessee received a $350,000 grant from the PepsiCo Foundation to support diversity efforts at the university’s College of Business Administration. The funds will be used for scholarships, career fairs, tutoring, peer mentoring, and leadership development for minority students.

• Delaware State University, the historically black educational institution in Dover, received a $355,573 grant from the National Science Foundation. The grant will be used to enhance the high-performance computing and high-bandwidth research network in the College of Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Technology.

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