Grants and Gifts

• Bucknell University, Dickinson College, and Lafayette College, are sharing a $300,000 grant from the Teagle Foundation. The grant will fund a cooperative effort between the schools to enhance diversity and diversity education.

• Fayetteville State University in North Carolina received a four-year, $1.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to fund its RISE program. The effort aims to increase the number of underrepresented students in the biomedical and behavioral sciences.

• The city of Atlanta received a $250,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to develop a plan to revitalize the neighborhood surrounding the Atlanta University Center, home to five historically black colleges and universities.

• The University of California at San Francisco received a $238,000 grant from the Aetna Foundation for a research study to explore the underlying factors for the higher rate of cesarean delivery among African-American women in California.

• Historically black Jackson State University in Mississippi received a three-year, $517,062 grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to build a simulator to test unmanned aircraft. The simulator will allow tests of the autopilot system of micro aerial vehicles (MAVs).

• Historically black Morgan State University in Baltimore received a $28.5 million grant from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, to study atmospheric chemistry and climate change. The grant is the largest in the university’s history.

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