Here is this week’s news of grants and gifts that may be of particular interest to women in higher education.
Salem College, a women’s liberal arts educational institution in North Carolina, received a $198,000 grant from the Reynolds American Foundation to support the Winston-Salem TEACH program, an inter-institutional partnership that aims to recruit and prepare aspiring educators to teach in high-need Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools. The two-year grant will support partial stipend scholarships for participants who complete a master’s degree at one of the three partnering institutions: Salem College, Wake Forest University, and Winston-Salem State University.
A team of researchers at Iowa State University received grants from the American Heart Association and the National Institutes of Health to launch the BRAVA (Brain & Vascular Aging) study. The project will examine whether the menopause transition may quietly accelerate brain and blood-vessel aging, potentially helping explain why women face higher risks of stroke and Alzheimer’s disease later in life.
Professor Nara Milanich of Barnard College, a women’s liberal arts college in New York City, received a $75,000 grant from the Incite Institute at Columbia University to lead a new research project that aims to provide a better understanding how justice is implemented in the immigration court system. As part of the project, Barnard students will have the opportunity to sit inside immigration courtrooms and observe how justice is interpreted, negotiated, and enacted in court proceedings. Along with recording ethnographic data, the research team will develop training and educational materials to prepare students to enter local immigration courts as ethnographic observers.