Here is this week’s news of grants and gifts that may be of particular interest to women in higher education.
Agnes Scott College received a $1 million grant from the Delta Air Lines Foundation to support the women’s college’s Global Journeys program. The initiative is a component of the Summit undergraduate experience that provides every first-year student with a semester-long investigation of global themes that culminates in travel to a global destination.
A team of researchers at Florida State University and the University of Arizona received a $1.5 million grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to explore the link between proper fit of personal protective equipment and occupational cancer risk for women in the fire service. The researchers will compare gear fit of female firefighters with cancer biomarkers that provide results from pre-to-post live fire training burns at four structural fire departments across the United States. With their findings, the team aims to inform standard size improvements for increased firefighter health and safety.
Scientists from the University of Massachusetts Amherst were awarded a $13.1 million grant from the U.S. National Institutes of Health to lead new research efforts engineering therapeutic Salmonella to target critical gaps in treatment for drug-resistant triple-negative breast cancers. The five-year project, the first of its kind for bacteria cancer therapies awarded by the NIH, will support research to design nontoxic bacteria strains that can deliver three treatment options.