Bowie State University (Md.) has been awarded a $65,000 grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s Center for Substance Abuse Prevention. The grant will be administered by the university’s Alcohol, Tobacco and Drug Prevention Center to fund “Spread the Word Not the Virus,” an HIV/AIDS awareness program. BSU hopes to reach 1,000 students through the program.
Calhoun Community College (Ala.) has been awarded a grant of nearly $2.5 million from the U.S. Department of Labor to fund the Alternate Health Education Asynchronous Delivery project, which will improve and expand training programs targeting careers in nursing, surgical technology, radiography and clinical laboratory technology.
Creighton University (Neb.) School of Law has received a two-year, $750,000 grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development to create a model to establish a bi-lateral U.S.-Cuba property claims tribunal. The model is expected to help both countries work together to ease Cuba’s transition to democracy in a post-Castro environment.
The family of Preston Robert Tisch has donated $10 million to Duke University (N.C.) Medical Center’s Brain Tumor Center and the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center. Tisch, chairman of Loews Corp. and co-owner of the New York Giants NFL franchise, was a patient at the center before dying of inoperable brain cancer. Five million will be used for research on cancer-fighting drugs. The other half will be used to create a fund for neuro-oncology research and to hire new faculty members.
George Mason University (Va.) has received a $10 million gift from Ernst Volgenau and his wife, Sara, to support the college’s School of Information Technology and Engineering. The gift will be used to create a new bioengineering department and hire new professors. GMU is renaming the school for the couple.
The Metropolitan College of New York has received a $75,000 grant from the George I. Alden Trust to fund five “smart” classrooms. The rooms, in the college’s business school, will be equipped with state-of-the-art Internet and multimedia technology.
Oklahoma State University received a $14.8 million gift from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation to fund an expansion of the university’s school of architecture. The gift is the largest the university has ever received from a private foundation and ranks among the top five largest single donations in the history of OSU.
