Eastern Washington University has received a $500,000 challenge grant from the Kresge Foundation to help equip the university’s new Computing and Engineering Building. Half of the funds will be used to purchase scientific equipment, while the other half will go towards an endowment to replace and maintain current equipment.

Holy Names University (Calif.) has received a $30,000 grant from the San Francisco Foundation to help fund the school’s nursing programs. The one-year grant will be used to provide scholarships to nursing students from underrepresented populations.

The Howard University (D.C.) Center for Accounting Education has received the second installment of a $60,000 grant from the National Association of Black Accountants. The grant will be used to help increase the number of Howard students who enter the accounting profession. The university also received a $992,004 grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to establish a Center for Foreign Language Study. The center will work to promote foreign language study, particularly Arabic, Chinese, Korean and Japanese, among students from elementary school to college.

The Independent Colleges of Indiana Inc. has received a $20,000 SBC Excelerator Technology Grant to fund the construction and implementation of the Instructional Support Network. The network will foster collaboration and improve instructional technologies for the state’s 31 independent colleges and universities.

Loyola University Chicago has received a combined $20 million gift from the MacNeal Health Foundation and William J. Hank and his wife, Joan. The gift is the largest ever received by the university. The $10 million contributed by the MacNeal Health Foundation will support programs in the schools of education and nursing. The other half of the gift will fund other university priorities.