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 College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, received a $218,722 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to support women students who are majoring in physical sciences. The women will receive summer research internships after their junior year and scholarships covering tuition and fees for their senior year at Holy Cross.

The University of Montana received a grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to study the low participation of women in the university’s entrepreneurship programs and to encourage greater participation of women in these programs.

Perkins

Shields

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to fund a project examining the concept of home among women of the African diaspora. The funds will be used for an academic conference and a festival in the spring. The project is under the director of Kathy Perkins, professor of dramatic art and Tanya Shields, associate professor of women’s and gender studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.