New $10M NSF grant goals to spice up analysis at HBCUs

Within the 14 years Michael Curry labored as a chemistry and supplies science professor at Tuskegee College, he and his colleagues obtained analysis funding from the Nationwide Science Basis, the Nationwide Institutes of Well being and different federal companies. However the grants awarded to Tuskegee—a non-public traditionally Black college in Alabama that, like most HBCUs,…

Schuler Scholar Program abruptly cancels $10M in support

A Chicago-area philanthropist has backed out of a pledge to offer $10 million in scholarships to 1,250 low-income and first-generation school college students weeks earlier than the beginning of the autumn semester. Former Abbott Laboratories govt Jack Schuler introduced final month that the Schuler Schooling Basis was suspending its two-decades-old Schuler Scholar Program, which gave every…