Grants and Gifts

• Florida A&M University, the historically black educational institution in Tallahassee, received a $2.3 million grant from the federal government to establish an environmental science center on campus.

• Hampton University, the historically black educational institution in Virginia, was awarded three grants totaling $3.2 million from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The grants will be used for a program aimed at increasing enrollment and retention among nursing students. One of the grants will fund a program to prepare doctoral students in nursing for national certification.

• Vanderbilt University received a $784,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education to increase the number of black and other minority students pursuing graduate study in physics and astronomy.

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