University of California, Santa Cruz received a $1.2 million grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to establish a new training program in the biology of stem cells. The UCSC program will be part of a three-year, $12.5 million institutewide stem cell research program to train predoctoral, postdoctoral and clinical fellows at 16 institutions across the state. The UCSC grant will fund the training of three predoctoral fellows and three postdoctoral fellows each year.
University of Florida received a $750,000 grant from the Wachovia Foundation to allow the Florida Flagship Schools network to add five schools from south-central Florida. The network, a statewide school-improvement partnership between UF and high-poverty elementary schools, already works with at-risk schools in Jacksonville, Gainesville and Miami-Dade County to improve student learning and teacher retention.
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