Grants and Gifts

• Central State University, the historically black educational institution in Wilberforce, Ohio, received a $50,000 grant from the KeyBank Foundation to help build a stock trading room learning library for the university’s College of Business and Industry.

• Alabama State University in Montgomery received a $62,389 grant from the Federal Highway Administration for a summer institute for ninth and tenth grade students from Alabama’s Black Belt counties. The goal is to introduce students from these areas to career possibilities in the transportation industry.

• Delaware State University, the historically black educational institution in Dover, received a five-year, $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to establish a Center for Advanced Algorithms on campus. The center will conduct research to develop technologies that will protect U.S. troops and its allies from deadly improvised explosive devices.

• North Carolina A&T State University received a $800,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for a project to promote economically friendly construction projects in low-income neighborhoods of Greensboro. The project is under the direction of Musibau A. Shofoluwe, a professor in the department of construction management and occupational safety and health.

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