Here is this week’s news of grants or gifts to historically Black colleges and universities or for programs of particular interest to African Americans in higher education.
Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee, has received a $600,000 donation from TriStar Health to provide tuition support to graduate students enrolled in the School of Applied Computational Sciences. Over the next four years, the new funds will support paid internships and scholarships for students pursuing a master’s degree or Ph.D. in data science.
Historically Black Morgan State University has received two grants totaling $710,000 from the Mellon Foundation. The funds will be used to digitize the James E. Lewis Museum of Art collection, recommission a sculpture of Mel Edwards to be displayed on campus, and support the instillation of public exhibitions for research, art, and design projects focused on the local Baltimore community.
A joint project at Rutgers University and Michigan State University has received a $3.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Aging to research the persisting racial inequities in accelerated aging in Black communities. The project will examine social and demographic differences between Black and White communities, residents’ experiences with discrimination, and biological and social risk factors.
A project led by historicallly Black Central State University in Ohio has received $3 million from the National Science Foundation to enhance semiconductor research and workforce development at seven historically Black colleges and universities. The other participating institutions include North Carolina A&T State University, Fayetteville State University, Hampton University, Alabama A&M University, Meharry Medical College, and Coppin State University.
The United Negro College Fund has been awarded a $1 million grant from FanDuel Group to support students at 11 HBCUs across the state of North Carolina. The donation will go towards UNCF’s Emergency Student Aid program, which supports students in need of housing, food security, tuition, and other education-related financial support.
Alabama A&M University has received a $8.1 million Competitive Low-No Emissions Program Federal Assistance Grant to support the HBCU’s goal to achieve a zero-emissions transit system by 2031. The funding will support the institution’s Bulldog Transit System by supplying new battery-electric buses and charging stations, as well as expanding its solar power microgrid system.
Delaware State University has been awarded a $750,000 grant from the National Institute of Health to support their “Identifying Needs and Building Research Capacity at a Historically Black University” project. The grant funding will be used to develop a plan to assess the HBCU’s research capabilities, including their facilities, technology, faculty support systems, administration, and business processes.
The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development has awarded $5 million to historically Black Winston-Salem State University and Tennessee State University to establish Centers of Excellence that facilitate research on America’s housing industry. The centers’ will focus their research on housing, community development, and environmental challenges in underserved communities.
