Grants or Gifts Relating to Women in Higher Education

Here is this week’s news of grants and gifts that may be of particular interest to women in higher education.

The University of Wyoming received a five-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for research aimed at reducing a nationwide epidemic of maternal obesity. Maternal obesity not only is a health risk for women during pregnancy but can impact their unborn children.

Dr. Lindsay-Davis

Dr. Cummings

Paine College in Augusta, Georgia, received a three-year $342,899 grant for a program for a research project to determine the cause of the low participation rate of African American women in STEM fields.

The grant project is under the direction of LaShawnda Lindsay-Dennis an assistant professor of education and Lawanda Cummings, an assistant professor of psychology at the college.