The Texas Engineering Extension Service in College Station has received a grant of $86,744 from the Economic Development Administration (EDA), U.S. Sen. John Cornyn announced Monday. The grant will be used to make operations more efficient. It comes through the U.S. Department of Commerce.
“This is good news for the future of economic development in College [...]
John Morgridge choked up Tuesday as he spoke about the older brother who helped pave his way to college.
He was a metaphorical genie, Morgridge said, granting his wish to attend school away from their Wauwatosa home.
Now Morgridge hopes to grant such wishes many times over.
The California philanthropist and his wife, Tashia, on Tuesday formally unveiled [...]
A $2 million Department of Labor grant is expected to help ease the nursing shortage in Southwest Virginia.
The money is going to expand nursing and other health-related programs at four community colleges across the region. Mountain Empire Community College, Southwest Virginia Community College, Virginia Highlands Community College, and Wytheville Community College will each benefit from [...]
Wilson College was recently awarded $313,275 in grant funds from the National Science Foundation’s Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics program.
The grant will be used to provide scholarships of up to $10,000 a year for full-time female students majoring in biology or chemistry.
The scholarships will be available beginning with the fall 2008 semester, according [...]
Agricultural biotech giant Monsanto is lending a hand to Madison Area Technical College (MATC) students with a $10,000 grant.
The money will help pay for some state-of-the-art equipment that students will use to learn biotechnology techniques that they may soon see in the workplace, officials said.
Just like every other high-profile college football prospect, Terry Grant felt a little pressure coming out of high school.
But Grant wasn’t just feeling pressure from the teams that were recruiting him. The Lumberton, Miss. native was also feeling it from the community.
“People would call me all the time saying ‘you need to got to MSU’, [...]
A new federal grant awarded to LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City will help provide increased educational services to veterans.
Recently, the college’s Veterans Program was awarded a $250,000 a year grant for the next five years from the U.S. Department of Education’s Veterans Upward Bound program.
For Samuel Farrell, [...]
The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College has been awarded a multi-million dollar grant to help more students become teachers.
The U.S. Department of Education awarded the university’s School of Education a $2.2 million five-year “Transition to Teaching†grant.
The grant is designed to implement a fast-track alternative teaching certificate program for recent college [...]
Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College has been awarded a $238,000 grant designed to broaden the employee pool for manufacturers in Western North Carolina. The money comes from Duke Energy Carolinas’ Community College Grant Program.
The Resurgent Manufacturing Initiative grant will be used to purchase a computer numerical control machine for machining technology, a coordinate measuring machine [...]
A $5 million grant will go toward creating a state-of-the-art learning facility on the Hyde Park campus of the Culinary Institute of America.
Thanks to a pledge from the J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation, the new Marriott Pavilion will feature interactive audience response technologies and video-conferencing capabilities. It will house a large auditorium, a [...]