Grants and Gifts

• Historically black Delaware State University received a five-year, $350,000 grant from the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service to develop a conservation plan for sand tiger sharks in Delaware Bay. The shark is now listed by the federal government as a “species of concern.”

• Rider University in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, received a grant from the Nellie Mae Education Foundation for a program designed to bring more minority students into the field of accounting.

• Virginia State University, the historically black educational institution in Petersburg, received a $1 million gift from the charitable arm of Thomson Hospitality Inc. The parents of the founders of the company both earned degrees from Virginia State.

• The University of Tennessee College of Law in Knoxville received a $100,000 grant from the law firm Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis to establish the Diversity Endowed Scholarship program.

• Historically black North Carolina Central University in Durham received a $1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for research to develop drugs for treating type 2 diabetes. African Americans are significantly more likely to contract type 2 diabetes than whites.

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