Grants
President Biden on Wednesday awarded $8.5 billion in grants to Intel, a major investment to bolster the nation’s semiconductor production, during a tour of battleground states meant to sell his economic agenda. Speaking from the Intel campus in Chandler, Ariz., Mr. Biden said the award would support thousands of new manufacturing jobs, including ones that […]
Sophia George, Ph.D., a Sylvester molecular geneticist, and Matthew Schlumbrecht, M.D., M.P.H., a Sylvester researcher and oncologist who studies gynecologic cancer disparities, will lead . . .
By Paul Njie in Yaoundé & Danai Nesta Kupemba in London BBC News 22 minutes ago Image caption, Some of those arrested were subjected to torture, rights groups say Chad’s military-led government has issued an amnesty to security forces responsible for killing at least 50 opposition protestors. In 2022 people took to the streets to […]
New York, NY — Despite a gradual slowdown in investment opportunities for Black businesses, Daymond John is determined to rewrite the narrative through Black Entrepreneurs Day. John, CEO of FUBU and co-star of ABC’s “Shark Tank,” started Black Entrepreneurs Day in 2020 to celebrate innovation and enterprise in the Black community. Black Entrepreneurs Day, which […]
College of Staten Island – St. George Facilitators and attendees at the “Agents of Change” annual presentation and celebration of high school student research. Approximately 100 students attended the presentation of 30 student writing and research projects through programs and events sponsored by the Brown Chair in English Literacy via […]
October 12, 2023 SAN FRANCISCO – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the California Department of Public Health and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have been selected to receive a total of $1,576,636 in pollution prevention grants through President Biden’s Investing in America agenda. EPA has selected these two entities to receive […]
On September 30, the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on a 2-1 vote agreed with a request to temporarily block the Fearless Fund from considering applications for grants only from Black women-owned businesses. This was a victory for Edward Blum’s organization, the American Alliance for Equal Rights, in the effort to strike down […]
Four Princetonians have been awarded 2023 MacArthur Fellowships. Recipients Andrea Armstrong *01 and Diana Greene Foster *98 are graduate alumni of the School of Public and International Affairs. Lester Mackey, Class of 2007, earned his B.S.E. in computer science. Courtney Bryan was a postdoc in African American studies from 2014 to 2016. Each points back […]
Four Yale alumni — the legal scholar Tendayi Achiume ’05, ’08 J.D.; incarceration law scholar Andrea Armstrong ’07 J.D.; democracy advocate Ian Bassin ’06 J.D.; and the scholar and writer Imani Perry ’94 — are among 20 recipients of 2023 MacArthur Fellowships, a prestigious award known informally as the “genius grant.” Awarded annually by the […]
[1/2]Anti-affirmative action activist Edward Blum, founder of Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), speaks to reporters at the “Rally for the American Dream-Equal Education Rights for All,” ahead of the start of the trial in a lawsuit accusing Harvard University of discriminating against Asian-American Acquire . . .