Clark Atlanta University has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the David and Lucille Packard Foundation to support the establishment of a Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Institute.

The City University of New York Graduate School's Center for the Study of Philanthropy has been awarded a $12,000 Nonprofit Management and Leadership Opportunity Program grant. The funding is to be used by the Center in support of tuition costs, spread over three years, for a qualified minority student doing research at the graduate school on the nonprofit sector. The program is supported by the Kellogg Foundation.

The Fashion Institute of Technology in New York has received a major donation of computer systems from Lectral Systems Inc., the world's leading supplier of CAD/CAM systems to the sewn products industry. The value of the donation to FIT is $7.25 million.

North Carolina Central University has been awarded a $2 million grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to establish an alcohol research center. The Center's mission is to strengthen the alcohol research capacity at minority-serving institutions by developing collaborations with experienced researchers at research institutions.

Tuskegee University has been awarded $3.9 million from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to allow the historically Black institution to begin the initial phase of construction for the Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care. The university also has been awarded a five-year, $2.$ million grant from the National

Aeronautics and Space Administration to fund its Partnership Award for the Integration of Research into undergraduate math, science, engineering, and technology programs.

Winston-Salem State University's biomedical research unit, Project Strengthen, has received a grant of $689,660 from the National Institutes of Health to enhance the university's biomedical research infrastructure.

THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION IS AWARDING EIGHT UNIVERSITIES NEARLY $2.5 MILLION EACH TO SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASE THE NUMBER OF AFRICAN AMERICAN, HISPANIC, AND NATIVE AMERICAN STUDENTS RECEIVING DOCTORAL DEGREES IN THE SCIENCES, MATHEMATICS, AND ENGINEERING. THE INSTITUTIONS LISTED BELOW REPRESENT THE FIRST GROUP TO PARTICIPATE IN FIVE-YEAR COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS WITH NSF AND ITS NEWLY ESTABLISHED MINORITY GRADUATE EDUCATION PROGRAM. EACH INSTITUTION WILL RECEIVE AWARDS UP TO $500,000 PER YEAR DEPENDING ON NUMBERS OF STUDENTS SERVED AND FACTORS RELATED TO PROJECT DESIGN. RECIPIENTS WERE AS FOLLOWS: