Grants and Gifts

• Hampton University, the historically black educational institution in Virginia, received a two-year, $6.3 million grant from NASA to continue its work on the Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere satellite mission through 2014. The project was previously funded through September 2012.

• Yale University’s Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies received a four-year, $9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education. Among the center’s five studies councils is a working group on Africa.

The University of Maryland Eastern Shore, the historically black educational institution in Princess Anne, received a $999,987 Conservation Innovation Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The university will conduct research on reducing soluble phosphorous losses from soil on poultry farms.