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Faculty Grants Awarded
Gates Hoping to Inspire Love of STEM Through Genealogy
WASHINGTON (AP) — Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. hopes to trigger a love for science, technology and math among American students by turning them on to searching for their family roots.
Gates, the Harvard University scholar and host of a genealogy show on PBS, and fellow researchers from Spelman College and Pennsylvania State University recently received a $355,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to create a genealogy and genetics summer camp for middle school children, as well as a $304,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for college-level courses.....
Spelman biologist receives $335,846 AREA grant from the National Institutes of Health
Dr. Yonas Tekle, Assistant Professor of Biology has been awarded a three-year Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) from the National Institute Of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). His project, titled “Unraveling the Mechanism of Cryptic Sexual Cycle in Amoeba, Cochliopodium, using Comparative Transcriptome and Immunocytochemistry” aims to unravel the cytological and genetic underlying of the cryptic sexual life cycle of an amoeboid lineage, Cochliopodium.....