Alabama State University received a $10,000 grant from math and science department chair Dr. Wallace Maryland Jr. and his wife, Naomi, to endow the Wallace and Naomi Maryland Scholarship in the ASU Trust for Educational Excellence. The scholarship is designated for students studying math or science.
Albright College (Pa.) received a $4.75 million grant from Margaret K. Schumo to establish the Schumo Center for Fitness and Well-Being at Albright. This is the largest gift in the college’s history. The gift will expand the college’s planned 10,000-square-foot fitness center renovation into a two-story, 22,000 square-foot facility.
The City College of New York Biomedical Engineering Department received a $750,000 grant from the National Cancer Institute to conduct cancer research and training activities in partnership with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. The grant will fund two pilot projects: one to understand the role of permeability of blood vessels in the metastasis of cancers and develop possible strategies for preventing metastases; the other to determine whether electrical stimulation of tumors can help chemotherapy drugs target malignant cells.
Daemen College (N.Y.) received a $69,455 grant from the Peter and Elizabeth C. Tower Foundation to support Fresh Start, an early literacy project with the goal of improving the literacy of children residing in the East Side of Buffalo, N.Y. The project includes early literacy training and instruction to the teachers employed by St. John Christian Academy and seven Head Start programs.
The Goldman Sachs Foundation has awarded a $2.3 million grant to be divided among Georgetown University (Washington, D.C.); Harvard University (Mass.); London School of Economics and Political Science (England); Princeton University (N.J.); Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland); the University of Chicago; and the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa) for the University Access Program: Creating Opportunities for Talent. The program helps academically talented students from disadvantaged backgrounds succeed at these institutions.
The Hispanic Scholarship Fund received a $1 million grant from the Goldman Sachs Foundation for support of the HSF Scholar Chapters and for a collaborative effort to ready 2,500 Hispanic middle-school students for admission to top universities and colleges.
Moraine Valley Community College (Ill.) received a $10,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The “Challenge America: Reaching Every Community” grant will help underwrite artist expenses for this year’s Chicago Artist Series.
