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.

Lisa Goodman, a professor of counseling psychology in the Lynch School of Education at Boston College is the leader of a grant project funded by the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence. The initiative will develop an online support network for scholars conducting community-based participatory research relating to domestic violence. Professor Goodman has taught at Boston College since 1999. She is a graduate of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, and holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from Boston University.

Bryn Mawr College, the highly rated liberal arts educational institution for women in Pennsylvania, received an anonymous gift of $25 million. The donation is the largest in the college’s history and is believed to match the largest gift ever from an individual woman to a women’s college. The funds will be used to renovate the Park Science Center at the college and to support study abroad programs.

Wichita State University in Kansas received a five-year, $8.6 million grant from the National Institute on Aging for research on women’s fertility. The research aims to develop a test for clinicians to use to diagnose age-related infertility based on changes in the level of follicle-stimulating hormones.

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