GRANTS & AWARDS

Black Issues in Higher Education, Dec 9, 1999

* Morehouse College in Atlanta received a five-year, $21 million grant from the National Science Foundation to create a center for behavioral neuroscience.

* National Aeronautics and Space Administration will provide Mississippi State University with an additional $15 million over three years, increasing NASA's investment in remote sensing research at the school to $25 million. Last year, NASA committed $10 million to a new Remote Sensing Technologies Center at the university.

* Xavier University in New Orleans received a $5 million grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to study, along with Tulane University, the effects of environmental compounds on the human body.

* Howard University in Washington, D.C., received nearly $4.4 million in awards: $99,000 from the Institutional Partnerships in Higher Education for International Development for collaborations between American and African graduate schools; $1.4 million from Eli Lilly and Co. to further increase the number of minorities in the health professions and to provide the university with sophisticated research equipment for faculty and students; and $2.9 from the National Science Foundation to help it double its production of bachelor's recipients in the sciences, engineering and mathematics over the next five years.

* Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colo., received a $3.2 million gift from Lectra Systems that will provide state-of-the-art computer software for the school's design and merchandizing department.

* Hampton University in Hampton, Va., received two grants totaling $2.9 million to enhance all academic disciplines in its school of science.

* St. John's University in Jamaica, N.Y., received grants totaling more than $2 million to help low-income and first-generation college students succeed in higher education.

* The Southern Regional Education Board in Atlanta received a three-year, $785,277 grant for its distance learning policy laboratory to help states solve problems that could slow or derail their distance learning programs.

* Kentucky State University received a four-year, $600,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to establish a college credit training program for infant and toddler teachers employed in Early Head Start programs.

* Norfolk State University in Virginia received a $466,665 grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to help revitalize distressed neighborhoods near the campus.