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Georgetown University and Howard University have been awarded a $3 million grant to help fund the establishment of a center for medical humanities. year grant from the Mellon Foundation will go towards the Georgetown-Howard Center for Medical Humanities and Health Justice, which aims to reduce health disparities in D.C.

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I think the most important piece to this was we didnt ask for the planning grant, remembers Curry. We went directly for the project funding grant. Louden believes now, more than ever, that Comptons faith in humanity is one of its superpowers. Curry, however, was intentional about the request. We just wanted to help.

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Department of Defense University Affiliated Research Centers (UARC) in the nation, focusing on tactical autonomy, human-machine teaming, and artificial intelligence through its Research Institute for Tactical Autonomy. Palmer, chair and professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the university.

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These are last-dollar funds, which means it covers a student’s remaining costs for tuition and fees after all other aid—scholarships, grants, stipends and tuition waivers—has been awarded, and it does not cover the cost of housing, food, transportation, books or supplies. Students and their families don’t understand the inner workings.”

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million National Institutes of Health grant has been awarded to researchers at the University of Arizona Health Sciences and the Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública in Mexico to explore the link between infertility and long-term health issues among Hispanic women of Mexican heritage.

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million grant through the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Dr. Loury Floyd The grant is expected to fund eight scholarships annually over five years for Master of Arts in teaching students pursuing careers teaching STEM at the secondary level.

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million grant from the U.S. Jee Hang Lee For this FY 2022 Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Employment & Training (E&T) National Partnership Grant , Seattle Jobs Initiative (SJI) and American Public Human Services Association (APHSA) will assist as partners.

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MARCH 12, 2023

When Congress voted in December 2020 to restore Pell Grants for incarcerated Americans after a 26-year ban, advocates hailed the move as an opportunity for 760,000 people in prison to achieve a better life through education. Computer access is really atrocious,” said Appleman. I don’t want to be a naïve bleeding heart.

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She is also a professor in the Department of Health and Human Performance. I dont take for granted that Ive had so many mentors and people that have come before me who believed in me when I may not necessarily have believed in myself, she emphasizes.

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She had been waiting outside the door before the office opened, anxiously checking her phone for updates on whether her son was going to be granted a hearing date to commute his sentence. Colleges should be leading examples of what it means to recognize the humanity and experiences of these students.

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In graduate school, we began exchanging documents for awards, fellowships, grants, and other opportunities and we realized that while our research was separate, it was also complementary, allowing us to strengthen each others applications. You should come to this conference.

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Wayne State University has received $6 million to recruit and hire 30 new humanities faculty and create a Black studies center. and global histories, culture, social, economic, legal, and health systems. .

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JANUARY 11, 2024

Sloan Foundation has announced the recipients of 10 seed grants to launch its Sloan Centers for Systemic Change (SCSC) initiative to transform their doctoral education programs in STEM fields. in human development from The Pennsylvania State University. National Action Council For Minorities In Engineering The grants, totaling $2.5

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Dr. Darius Young Young is a history professor at the FAMU College of Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities. MacArthur Foundation granted a total $550,000 to support the center; each gifted FAMU $275,000. Young will serve as director of the new Center for African and African American Studies at Florida A&M University.

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The funding from this grant will enable students at these two universities to pursue an undergraduate education in food, agricultural, human sciences and related programs without the stress of tuition coverage,” saidLyon- Bennett, assistant dean for academics for the UAPB School of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Human Sciences.

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JANUARY 12, 2023

This granted me more time to spend connecting internationally and nationally, where I had not previously considered those networks,” said Moore, who teaches junior and senior undergraduates and first and second-year graduate students. The COVID-19 pandemic significantly slowed Moore’s research and her ability to train her students.

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Sloan Foundation has announced the recipients of 10 seed grants to launch its Sloan Centers for Systemic Change (SCSC) initiative to transform their doctoral education programs in STEM fields. in human development from The Pennsylvania State University. National Action Council For Minorities In Engineering The grants, totaling $2.5

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The Mellon Foundation, with its holistic approach to arts and humanities, is answering the call, providing us the essential opportunities not only to return to but thrive in society." The grant recipients are the Alliance for Higher Education in Prison; Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison, Inc.;

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Phillip Brian Harper In Spring 2022, the foundation had invited proposals from institutions – accredited, non-profit, four-year liberal arts degree-granting U.S. schools with more than 1,000 full-time degree-seeking undergrads and multiple humanities degree programs – on civic engagement and voting rights, race and racialization in the U.S.,

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Leon Burns III To underscore the importance of accessibility, consider this: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities recognizes accessibility as a human right. It goes beyond merely granting access; it invites individuals to feel valued, accepted, and embraced for who they are.

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This Center is uniquely tied to FAMU’s core original mission as a Land Grant institution.” The center – led by professors Dr. Kwasi Densu and Dr. Jennifer Taylor – is housed in the College of Agriculture and Food Sciences and the College of Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities.

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The Georgia State University College of Education & Human Development is expected to support the professional development of 270 metro Atlanta educators over three years. The program is made possible by funding from Georgia State, the four partner school districts, federal- and state-level TEACH Grants and The Goizueta Foundation.

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Dr. Matt Maschmann The five-year grant will allow the school to better prepare and equip students for these emerging fields. Because as these tools become more pervasive, the role of human beings is going to shift more toward the creative and cognitive processes.

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million in grants for projects to shape career pathways for students. The grant money will fund the project for one year, but it will continue afterwards due to additional funding from industry partners, including the BioCom California Institute. We have the human capital to prepare students [for] these roles.”

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Researchers from the University of Oregon (UO) have earned a $3 million grant from the federal government to help tackle global warming, while incorporating the insights of rural and Indigenous communities which are often left out of decisions about what happens around them.

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However, rural-serving institutions often do not have the same access to state funding, infrastructure, and human resources as other institutions to provide innovative and responsive programs and supports for rural learners. The lab will provide implementation grants of up to $50,000, funded by Ascendium Education Group.

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Matos Rodríguez The latest grant will allow CUNY to launch New York’s first dedicated graduate degree program in Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies. The project was created with support from the foundation to drive change across CUNY's 25 campuses and advance racial and social justice initiatives. Dr. Félix V. CUNY is grateful to the Andrew W.

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million grant from the Andrew W. Kimbrough , Interim Executive Director for BMRI, wants the symposium to dive deeply into mental health and how it affects Black men and their communities. Funded by a $1.4

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Rhodes College will receive an $800,000 grant to expand their research on racial equity, discrimination, and justice in the Memphis and Mid-South region. Rhodes College The three-year grant will provide funding for the research and documentation of Memphians stories who are often absent from the narratives about the city.

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Interim Provost Dr. Rani Roy says the school has already applied for two HSI grants and will find out in October whether they’ve been accepted. It’s incredible the way [The Mount] truly lives the mission of our authentic inclusivity and commitment to human dignity, our obligations to each other, and our common humanity,” says Burns.

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Collaborations between Virginia Tech and historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) or other minority-serving institutions (MSIs) have led to 15 research projects supported by grant funding. This effort is one of several seed investment programs by Virginia Tech’s Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science (ICTAS).to

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The five-year grant came through the U.S. Florida International University (FIU) has received $6 million to help improve access to mental health services for students in Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS). Department of Education (ED) via the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act and the Fiscal Year 2022 Omnibus Appropriations.

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The budding Black studies department at the University of Rochester will fast-track their hiring of faculty with the help of a $3 million grant from the Mellon Foundation. We could be talking about a certain kind of medical humanities that infiltrates Black studies," he said. Dr. Jeffrey Q. McCune, Jr. McCune, Jr.,

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Find your people, learn how to support them, and let them support you when you need it too.” Human interaction is at the center of Dr. Melva Treviño Peña’s work. Treviño Peña, an assistant professor in the department, describes herself as a human geographer, ethnographer, and social scientist.

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Ellen Pinderhughes, Tufts University; Angela Patton, Girls for a Change; and Eunique Jones Gibson, Because of Them, We Can Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “In the words of Wilma Rudolph, ‘never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit.

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Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth “We at MFRI are honored and humbled by this funding,” said Dr. Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth , MFRI director and distinguished professor in Purdue’s Department of Human Development and Family Science. The grant – $3.5 million in outright funding and $1.5

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One focus will be on trust of autonomous systems by humans. Another emphasis will be on how humans and machines can work together to take advantage of what each are best at. Howard had previously received a grant from the Department of Defense in 2020 of $7.5

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