Grants and Gifts

• Fayetteville State University, the historically black educational institution in North Carolina, received a four-year, $1.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for a program to increase the number of underrepresented minority students pursuing graduate degrees in biomedical and behavioral sciences.

The program is under the director of James E. Raynor Jr., a faculty member in the biology department at FSU.

• Emory University in Atlanta received a five-year, $4.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the genetics of Crohn’s disease in African Americans. A half million American suffer from the disease and the incidence of Crohn’s disease has been increasing among African Americans.

• Historically black University of Maryland Eastern Shore received a five-year, $462,906 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for research on bio-energy products.

• Jackson State University, the historically black educational institution in Mississippi, received a $450,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to develop innovative techniques for strengthening levees to withstand the forces of hurricanes.

• Wayne State University in Detroit received a three-year, $1,078,000 grant from the National Cancer Institute to study pain in African-American cancer patients. Research has shown that African-American cancer patients experience higher levels of pain than other cancer patients.

• Historically black Spelman College in Atlanta received a two-year, $500,000 grant from The Atlantic Philanthropies to establish a Social Justice Fellows program. The funds will be used for student fellowships, summer internship positions, and social justice curriculum development.

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