JBHE: Latest News for 12/23/10

Grants and Gifts

• North Carolina A&T State University, the historically black educational institution in Greensboro, received a $395,000 grant from the University of North Carolina System to purchase equipment for its chemistry department.

The David A. Clarke School of Law at the historically black University of the District of Columbia received a six-year, $675,000 grant from the law firm Crowell and Moring to fund the Took Crowell Institute for At-Risk Youth. The institute will provide youth in the community with more than 10,000 hours of legal representation by attorney-supervised law students.

The Center for Health Disparities Research at the University of Nevada Las Vegas received a five-year, $2.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for a pregnancy prevention program for African-American teenage girls.

The law school at historically black North Carolina Central University in Durham received a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to fund an eight-week paid internship program at EPA offices and a two-week workshop at the environmental law program at the Vermont Law School for five NCCU students.

Historically black Hinds Community College in Raymond, Mississippi, received a five-year, $1.75 million grant from the National Science Foundation to increase the number of students studying the sciences and mathematics.

Virginia State University, the historically black educational institution in Petersburg, received a grant from the Susan G. Komen Foundation to fund a yearlong series of breast cancer awareness and prevention programs for the campus community and the citizens of Petersburg.