Edison State Community College received a $2 million job training grant from the U.S. Department of Labor.
The grant will be used to develop a new regional training network for advanced manufacturing training for current and dislocated workers in western Ohio.
Edison, located in Piqua, was one of 72 community colleges in 34 states awarded [...]

Northeastern University College of Business Administration (CBA) today announced that Professor Rosanna Garcia has received a research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a large-scale software development project to help analysts craft greenhouse gas reduction policies in the transportation industry. Under the $1.9 million NSF grant, Professor Garcia will collaborate with the University [...]

The U.S. Department of Labor is awarding the College of Eastern Utah’s San Juan campus $1.2 million for nursing education.
The grant will mean that instead of enrolling the typical 60 licensed practical-nurse and certified nurse-assistant students over the next three years, the school will enroll 495 students in both nursing [...]

A $15,000 grant to a Macon State College program will be used to promote safer driving among college students.
The grant, from the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety, was awarded to the Macon State Student Life Wellness Program and will focus on the importance of wearing a seat belt and driving sober, according to a news [...]

The organizers of Massachusetts College Goal Sunday, a free-to-the-public, charitable effort to bring families of college-bound students together with financial aid professionals from colleges and universities across Massachusetts, today released statistics based on more than 500 responses from the 2006 program attendees. The responses indicate there is still a significant gap to close in [...]

Luzerne County Community College President Patricia Donohue posed for more than a minute Tuesday as she accepted a $50,000 novelty check. It’s the first of three such checks the school will get annually to help LCCC hire more nursing school teachers and to help alleviate a state shortage of nurses.
“You nurses think you have to [...]

As an undergraduate student at Smith College, Catherine Dignam got her first taste of the thrill of conducting scientific research.
She participated in two projects, including one in which she helped study samples of the varnish covering an African mask and determined that the wax was original.
“I really [...]

Students in the Ogden School District will get a boost on their road to college, courtesy of a $1.1 million federal grant.
Weber State University teamed up with the district to gain the Federal TRIO Grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
The grant will fund a program called Talent Search, which is designed to motivate and [...]

The YMCA of the USA has received a grant of $518,720 to initiate a YMCA Collegiate Achievers pilot program to improve college success rates for minority, low-income and first-generation college students by cultivating student leadership and strengthening connections among families, colleges and community-based organizations.
The grant was awarded by Lumina Foundation for Education, an Indianapolis- based, [...]

J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Foundation has awarded Albertson College of Idaho in Caldwell a $5 million per year Evergreen grant, plus an additional one-time $5 million grant to launch a $17 million fundraising campaign to renovate the school’s science facility.
The goal of both grants, according to university spokeswoman Beth Zborowski, is to support initiatives to [...]