Grants and Gifts

• The University of Kentucky’s College of Public Health received a five-year, $2,860,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to study HIV/AIDS in the African-American male population. The grant will be used to develop and test a clinic-based safe-sex program for young black males.

• Parsons The New School for Design in New York City received an $186,000 grant from the New York Community Trust to help minority students in high school and college develop their design portfolios.

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