Grants

• Bethune-Cookman University, the historically black educational institution in Daytona Beach, Florida, received a $333,000 grant from the federal government to renovate a 37,000-square-foot building which houses the university’s nursing school.

• Xavier University, the historically black educational institution in New Orleans which was devastated by floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina in 2005, received a $1.3 million grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for a project to apply waterproofing protection to the exterior walls of campus buildings.

• Harvard University received a $400,000 grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation for a survey of minority students on predominantly white college campuses. The study will seek to document factors that make these campuses welcoming or unwelcoming to black and other minority students.

Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research at Harvard, is the principal investigator.

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