STATE UNIVERSITIES
Central Michigan receives grant for tuberculosis research
Benjamin Swarts, assistant professor of chemistry in Central Michigan University’s College of Science and Technology, has been awarded a $420,085 grant from the National Institutes of Health. Swarts will share the grant with Peter Woodruff, assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Southern Maine. The NIH grant will support research, led by Swarts, on Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the strain of bacteria that causes tuberculosis.
MSU receives $6.9 million for climate change education
Michigan State University Professor of Education Charles W. Anderson has received a grant of almost $7 million from the National Science Foundation. The grant will support Anderson’s model for teaching middle school and high school students about carbon cycling, the primary driver of climate change. This funding will help MSU and partners move towards wide-scale implementation of the model, and develop online courses for science teachers to learn core practices.
LSSU nursing and healthcare scholarship receives enhancement
Lake Superior State University is teaming up with the Sault Area Career & Technical Education Center (CTE) and Hospice of the Eastern Upper Peninsula (EUP) to revise an existing scholarship earmarked for LSSU nursing and health care students. Eligible LSSU-bound CTE graduates will now be able to apply for an existing scholarship award from the EUP that helps cover LSSU tuition and expenses.
PEER INSTITUTIONS
$20 million program to support UChicago students from Egypt
The University of Chicago is creating the Onsi Sawiris Scholars Program to provide funding for academically gifted students from schools in Egypt. The initiative is named to honor the father of UChicago trustee and alumnus Nassef Sawiris, who has given a gift of $20 million to establish the program. The program also continues funding of the Sawiris Scholars Exchange Program, which brings students to the university for one year.
UCLA Center for Jewish Studies receives $5 million
A $5 million gift from Alan Leve, an alumnus of the University of California, Los Angeles, will establish several endowments at UCLA’s Center for Jewish Studies. The endowments will include support for teaching and curricular innovation in Jewish studies. In recognition of the gift, the center will be renamed the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies.
