Tag: Fellowships & Grants: Page 53

Health

UW-Madison gets $41M grant to take health research to the public

MADISON Wis. The University of Wisconsin-Madison will receive $41 million in the next five years to help it move medical discoveries from research labs to public practice.

September 18, 2007

Home

Federal foundation give UH grant for conference

HONOLULU The National Science Foundation is giving the University of Hawaii $430,000 to hold a convention.

September 18, 2007

Health

$31 million federal research grant to Morehouse, others

ATLANTA A $31 million federal grant has been awarded to a group of Atlanta-area universities and medical organizations. It is one of a dozen such grants announced Tuesday, designed to better translate lab discoveries into patient treatments.

September 17, 2007

Students

Harkin says bill will ease student loan debt crunch

Sen. Tom Harkin went to Grand View College on Monday to praise a bill aimed at making college more accessible to low-income students and helping graduates with heavy loan debt.

September 17, 2007

Students

UH-Hilo offering financial aid to older students

HILO Hawaii Imagine going back to college in your late 20s or even your 30s or 40s to finish an undergraduate degree. There would be homework, tests and rubbing shoulders with much younger students.

September 16, 2007

Faculty & Staff

UND surpasses goal for research money

GRAND FORKS N.D. University of North Dakota researchers received more than $100 million in grants, contracts and other funding in fiscal 2007, surpassing the school’s goal.

September 16, 2007

Latinx

How MSIs Fared in the Budget Agreement

House and Senate negotiators have finalized a higher education investment package with a significant Pell grant increase along with an additional $500 million for minority-serving institutions such as Black colleges and Hispanic-serving universities.

September 6, 2007

Students

Ambitious Agenda, Ticking Clock

Interest groups, students have lengthy wish list, but Congress may not tackle everything this fall.

September 5, 2007

African-American

Grants & Gifts

Bowling Green State University (Ohio) has received a three-year, $1 million grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development to support the Civic Education Partnership Initiative in Lebanon and Morocco. BGSU’s International Democratic Education Institute will conduct the initiative, which will bring educators from both countries to BGSU for an intensive curriculum-development seminar, among other […]

September 5, 2007

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Grants & Gifts

The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation has awarded a $1 million grant to Brown University (R.I.), Rhode Island public schools and community organizations to support a nationwide initiative to increase college enrollment and graduation among low-income high school and community college students. The City College of New York and the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center have received […]

August 22, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Tulane gets almost $11 million for kidney, blood pressure work

NEW ORLEANS The National Institutes of Health has given Tulane University $11 million to continue research on kidney function and high blood pressure a major problem in Louisiana, and the principal cause of kidney failure.

August 14, 2007

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WVU center gets federal grant to study injury prevention

CHARLESTON W.Va. A West Virginia University center known for its work on all-terrain vehicle fatalities will be tackling the subjects of injuries to the elderly and domestic violence prevention.

August 13, 2007