The Ford Foundation has awarded a $461,700 grant to Brandeis University (Mass.) to support a partnership between the university and Al-Quds University in East Jerusalem. The foundation has also provided $250,000 to the Center for Arab Women for Training and Research to evaluate gender-focused programs in the Middle East and North Africa.

Burlington County College (N.J.) has received a $60,000 grant from the Commission on Science and Technology to purchase scientific equipment and information technology infrastructure for the college’s New Science Incubator. The facility will house labs and start-up scientific companies.

Cleveland State University’s Career Services Center has received a $82,829 grant from the Cleveland Foundation to fund the “BioHealth Care: A Cooperative Education Initiative.” The program is intended to educate students on career opportunities in the biomedical field.

The College of Mexico has received a $467,525 grant from the Ford Foundation to fund a study by the college’s Interdisciplinary Women’s Studies Program. The study will explore barriers to including sexuality research and teaching in universities in five countries.

The Congressional Black Caucus has received a three-year, $1 million grant from Wal-Mart Stores to help provide scholarships for two college access programs. The Summer Congressional Internship Program and the Congressional Black Caucus Spouses’ Educational Scholarship will each receive $500,000 over three years.

The James Beard Foundation has donated $30,000 to the Gulf Coast Renaissance Fund, a program established by the University of Mississippi’s Southern Foodways Alliance. The alliance is an institute that documents the culinary diversity of the American South.