Here is this week’s news of grants and gifts that may be of particular interest to women in higher education.
Hollins University, a women’s undergraduate and co-ed graduate institution in Roanoke, Virginia, received a $10 million gift from alumna Jane Parke Batten to fund the Hollins Opportunity for Promise through Education (HOPE) Scholarship program. The HOPE Scholarship covers tuition, on-campus housing, meals, and required fees for students with demonstrated financial need. Batten’s gift will support HOPE Scholars through the Class of 2032.
The Women and Children’s Health Research Institute at the University of Alberta in Canada received a $93.5 million, 10-year commitment from the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation and the Alberta Women’s Health Foundation. The donation, which is the largest gift in the university’s history, will allow the institute to continue advancing research on women’s, children’s, and perinatal health.
University of Michigan Medicine recently received a gift from the Stanley and Judith Frankel Family Foundation to launch a new program to expand opportunities for women’s health research across the university. The donation will establish a professorship in the department of obsterics and gynecology as well as a new program designed to revolutionize research, ideas, and practices in women’s health throughout Michigan and beyond.