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Meharry Medical College has received a $7.5 million grant from e-cigarette makerJUUL Labs. The college will use the new funds to open a Center for the Study of Social Determinants of Health and to conduct fully-independent research into the health conditions and issues related to tobacco and nicotine-delivery products.
Alabama State University has received a $75,000 grant from the Thurgood Marshall College Fund to implement Apple technology into the university's classrooms. The grant will also help build institutional expertise and capabilities, graduate students who are job-ready with industry-level certifications, and additionally share the expertise and training with Trenholm State Community College, the Montgomery Public School System, and the River Region community at-large.
The Florida A&M University Foundation has received $112,000 in gifts to create the Arthenia L. Joyner Endowed Scholarship. Joyner was the Florida Senate Minority Leader and a two-time alumna of FAMU. The new scholarship will be awarded annually to an African-American woman who is a FAMU Law student with a commitment to social justice and a history of community or public service.
Willie James Jennings, an associate professor of systematic theology and Africana studies at Yale Divinity School, has received a grant from the Issachar Fund to advance his research on the relationship between race, Christianity, and the built environment. The project centers around Jennings' book in progress, tentatively titled Reframing the World. Additionally, Jennings will use the new funds to organize a major conference at Yale on race and place.
Alcorn State University in Mississippi has received an over $1.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation for the School's "Be Brave, Teach STEM: Building a Diverse Teacher STEM Workforce in Mississippi"program. The program is designed to ensure that talented STEM majors become K-12 mathematics and science teachers. The grant will allow the university to serve as a STEM educator hub for rural southwest Mississippi.
The University of Arkansas Pine Bluff has received a $4 million grant from the National Science Foundation to support the Arkansas Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (ARK-LSAMP) for the implementation of a Louis Stokes Pathways Research Alliance Program. The program aims to help increase the pool and diversity of STEM graduates who will enter graduate school and the STEM workforce in Arkansas and beyond. ARK-LSAMP is a collaborative effort of eight institutions: UAPB (the lead institution), Arkansas State University, historically Black Philander Smith College, Phillips Community College of the University of Arkansas, Southeast Arkansas College, the University of Arkansas, the University of Arkansas Little Rock, and the University of Arkansas-Pulaski Technical College.
Alabama State University has received a $75,000 grant from the Thurgood Marshall College Fund to implement Apple technology into the university's classrooms. The grant will also help build institutional expertise and capabilities, graduate students who are job-ready with industry-level certifications, and additionally share the expertise and training with Trenholm State Community College, the Montgomery Public School System, and the River Region community at-large.
The Morehouse College Entrepreneurship Center will receive a $295,500 donation from JPMorgan to support the training of minority and women business owners in metro Atlanta. The new funds will allow the Center to develop an accelerator program for early-stage technology startups, provide management training and technical assistance for micro businesses, and offer one-on-one management consulting to help small midsize businesses secure contracts from large Georgia companies.
Elizabeth City State University in North Carolina has received a $176,828 grant from the National Science Foundation to purchase equipment for research and the education of students enrolled in STEM fields. The funds will go towards a new Differential Electrochemical Mass Spectrometry System. Additionally, the grant will also provide learning opportunities in technology for K-12 public school students in rural northeastern North Carolina, and support the development of a research facility at the university.
Atlanta University Center Consortium, a group of historically Black colleges and universities, has received a $8.25 million grant from the UnitedHealth Group to fund the launch of the AUCC Data Science Initiative. The new program will offer classes for students who want to specialize in data science or learn data analysis to give them a competitive edge in the job market.
Tennessee State University has received two grants totaling $650,000 from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Trojan Technologies of Canada, and California-based Aquafine Corporation. The funds will be used to conduct research into making food safer by eliminating harmful viruses and bacterial endospores in juices and other beverages.
North Carolina Central University has received a $100,000 gift from the Rehab Therapy Foundation Inc. to establish the H. Donell Lewis Graduate Fellowship in honor of Dr. H. Donell Lewis, a renowned speech pathologist and retired director of the university's communication disorders program. The fellowship will support graduate students enrolled in its communication disorders program.
Morris Brown College in Atlanta received one of 22 grants totaling $1.6 million from a National Trust for Historic Preservation program called the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund. The money for the grants was provided by the Andrew W Mellon Foundation. Morris Brown College was the only HBCU to receive a grant. The funds will be used to help restore Fountain Hall, a vacant and deteriorating structure which is the oldest surviving building associated with the Atlanta University Center. The building, constructed in 1882, contains the office where W.E.B. Du Bois wrote The Souls of Black Folks.
Columbia University Irving Medical Center has received a $2.8 million grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute to analyze diversity and inclusion practices at academic medical centers across the country. The majority of individuals who have contributed DNA to population biobanks for medical research are White. The project aims to increase minority participation in this research to create more representative results.
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| Publication: | Diverse Issues in Higher Education |
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| Date: | Jul 25, 2019 |
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