The Community College of Baltimore County is one of five institutions that will share a $2.9 million grant from the National Science Foundation to create a Regional Center of Excellence in Biomanufacturing. The grant, which runs for four years, enables CCBC and its partner institutions — New Hampshire Technical and Community College, Finger Lakes Community College in New York, Montgomery College in Pennsylvania, Rhode Island Community College and Minute Man Technical High School in Massachusetts — to train the next generation of technicians for the growing biotechnology and biomanufacturing industry.

Duke University (N.C.) received a $2 million gift from Christian Laettner and Brian Davis, members of Duke University’s first two national championship basketball teams, to support a men’s basketball scholarship and a planned new athletics facility. A scholarship will be endowed with $750,000 of the gift. The joint gift makes the pair the 27th partners of the Legacy Fund, an organization that endows scholarships and provides other support for the basketball program. Each Legacy Fund member has committed at least $1 million to the program. The remaining $1.25 million will support a new Duke basketball practice and training facility to be built behind Cameron Indoor Stadium.

The Howard University (Washington D.C.) School of Law received a $65,000 grant from the law firm of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP in a continuing effort to support diversity in the Washington, D.C., community. The contribution will go to support annual operations of the law school.
 
Huston-Tillotson University (Texas) received a $248,000 grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Office of Minority Health to support the Systems of Care and Wraparound Training Institute. The programs work with The Children’s Partnership to meet the social, behavioral, health and emotional needs of children and their families.