Grants

• Claflin University in Orangeburg, South Carolina, received a $250,000 grant from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundation. The money will be used to construct a new chapel on campus.

• Oklahoma State University received a three-year, $499,372 grant from the National Science Foundation for a program to increase the number of women and minority students in the fields of agriculture, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

• Delaware State University, the historically black educational institution in Dover, received a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to enhance its doctoral program in neuroscience.

• The Amistad Research Center at Tulane University received a $250,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to process and catalog nine collections of papers from individuals who were major participants in the civil rights struggle.

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