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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.

Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. has received a $300,000, 24-month grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to support the university’s Women, Peace, and Security Conflict Tracker. The first-of-its-kind initiative uses real-time data to assess risks and opportunities for protecting women from violence in 25 countries.

Cedar Crest College, a liberal arts institution for women in Allentown, Pennsylvania, has been awarded a $608,000 grant from the United States Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance to create an Eye Witness Training Center and Crime Scene Lab. The initiative will increase the college’s capacity to train students interested in careers in forensic science, law enforcement, and first-response. The new facility will also host monthly trainings and workshops for working law enforcement professionals

Temilola Salami, associate professor of psychology at Prairie View A&M University in Texas, has received two grants to mitigate violence against women at the university and throughout the state of Texas. The first grant, a $500,000 award from the United States Department of Justices’s Office on Violence Against Women, will allow Dr. Salami and her team to develop programs aimed at preventing domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking on the PVAMU campus. The second grant, a $185,000 award from the Criminal Justice Division of the Texas Office of the Governor, will be used to enhance Human Trafficking 101 training for law enforcement professionals in Texas.

Arizona State University has received a seven-figure donation from Jackie Vasquez-Lapan and David Lapan to renovate a facility for the women’s softball team. In 2008, Vasquez-Lapan was an outfielder on the university’s national championship-winning team. Thanks to her and her husband’s donation, the Jackie Vasquez Softball Center will provide the softball team with their own lounge, an expanded and updated locker room, coaches’ offices, and the Lapan Sunshine Devil Deck – a rooftop entertainment area.

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