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

A scholarship fund supporting women students at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana, has been established through a $500,000 donation by Cindy Thomas Kalkomey and Kurt Kalkomey in honor of Ted Thomas, Cindy’s father who has a 1943 graduate of what is now the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Founded in 1874, the institute first admitted women in 1995.
Touro Law Center in Central Islip, New York, will receive a $475,000 federal grant to create a new Small Business Legal Clinic that will offer legal assistance to minority and women-owned small businesses. The free clinic will support the planning, development, and success of small businesses, creating a network of support and opportunities to help women and underrepresented communities. The grant will support the incubation, development, and success of minority and women-owned small businesses across Long Island through critical legal assistance, access to resources, networking building, and educational programing.


