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.

Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, received a five-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for research in urinary tract symptoms in women. The grant program is under the direction of Leslie M Rickey, an associate professor of urology at the Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Rickey is a graduate of the University of North Carolina and holds a master of public health degree and a medical doctorate from Tulane University in New Orleans.

Three students at Smith College, the highly rated liberal arts educational institution for women in Northampton, Massachusetts, received a $100,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that will fund research into the development of a fingerprint authorization system that will allow merchants in India to accept non-cash payments from customers.

Dr. Epperson

Dr. Bale

The University of Pennsylvania received a $1.9 million grant from the Office of Research on Women’s Health of the National Institutes of Health. The grant will fund the establishment of the Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health program at the university. The center will work to include equity for women in health-related research studies. The grant program is under the direction of C. Neill Epperson, a professor of psychiatry and a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the university’s medical school and Tracy Bale, a professor of neuroscience at the university’s School of Veterinary Medicine and a professor of psychiatry at the medical school.