July, 2017— Morgan State University has announced the award of a three-year, $750,000 grant from Intel Corporation to support the University’s continued efforts to educate students in the engineering disciplines and prepare graduates to make immediate contributions to science-, technology-, engineering- and math- (STEM-) related fields. The Intel HBCU Grant Program, a component of the company’s Diversity in Technology … Continue reading
(July, 2017) – Spelman College alumna and professor, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Ph.D., has established the Dr. Levi Watkins Jr. Scholars Program as well as a companion lecture series at Spelman that will explore contemporary issues of race, gender and sexuality, beginning in 2018. The scholars program and lecture series were launched with a pledge of $100,000 in … Continue reading
July (2017)—West Virginia State University (WVSU) will receive grant funds totaling more than $894,000 from the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) for research projects addressing food security. The grants fund two proposed research projects that use genetic techniques to improve the health benefits of certain fruits and … Continue reading
July (2017)— Southern University Baton Rouge (SUBR) has been awarded a Louisiana Board of Regents (BOR) eLearning Innovation Grant for a project entitled, “Enabling Educational Quality and College Affordability through a System-Wide Implementation of Zero-Textbook-Cost Courses and Degrees.” Moustapha Diack, SU chair of the doctoral program in SMED, College of Science and Engineering (CSE) and … Continue reading
July (2017)— On Tuesday, July 11, 2017, Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) President and Dean Valerie Montgomery Rice, M.D., was named to the board of directors for the new Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine. The school is scheduled to open in 2019 in Pasadena, California. Of the 13 newly named board members, Dr. Montgomery Rice is the … Continue reading
July (2017)— Shaping a more diverse technology industry requires rethinking our sources of talent and broadening our recruiting pipeline to access available diverse talent. As part of its commitment to expanding its talent pipeline, Intel has announced that Tuskegee University is to receive a three-year, $450,000 grant as part of the Intel HBCU Grant Program … Continue reading
