Grants and Gifts

• The University of Maryland Eastern Shore received a five-year, $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study water quality in coastal bays. The study will examine oxygen levels in the water and the growth of harmful algae and what effect they have on fish populations.

The project will be under the direction of Paulinus Chigbu, director of the historically black university’s Paul S. Sarbanes Coastal Ecology Center. Dr. Chigbu holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Benin and a Ph.D. in fisheries science from the University of Washington.

• Hampton University, the historically black educational institution in Virginia, received a $93,000 grant from the Lockheed Martin Corporation for a research project that will examine designs to allow aircraft to fly at higher speeds. The research will be under the direction of Morris H. Morgan III, professor of engineering at Hampton University.

• Historically black Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina received a $100,000 grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to fund a study of cardiovascular disease risk in low-income minority families.

• Morgan State University in Baltimore received a $365,000 grant from the Travelers Companies to continue support for the university’s actuarial science degree program. Morgan State is the only university in Maryland and the only historically black university nationwide to award degrees in actuarial science.

• The School of Nursing at North Carolina A&T State University, the historically black educational institution in Greensboro, received a $123,750 grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration. The grant will fund a part-time faculty position and a full-time administrator for the school’s Accelerated Option for Second Degree Students program.

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