San Jacinto College North in Houston, Texas, received a grant for $400,000 from the U.S. Department of Education under its program to strengthen Hispanic-serving institutions. The college will use the money to promote student persistence and develop additional student services.
Winston-Salem State University received a three-year, $355,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education to help physics instructors make their courses more interesting at six historically Black colleges and universities in North Carolina.
Yale University in New Haven, Conn., received a $100,000 grant from Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc. for its "Science, Technology and Research Scholars," or STARS, program to promote academic success in the sciences among women, minorities and people with disabilities.
Dillard University in New Orleans received an $84,700 gift from National Basketball Association player Grant Hill of the Detroit Pistons to create an endowed scholarship in memory of his grandfather, Malcolm McDonald, a long-time New Orleans businessman.
— Compiled by Scott W. Wright
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