Merck announced that it will renew its support of the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) over the next five years with a grant of $13 million. The funding will continue to support efforts to expand the pool of black scientists in the United States.
The 37 recipients, known as the UNCF-Merck Fellows, are black students pursuing careers in scientific research. A total of 371 awards total have been given to accomplished young biomedical-research scientists.
The UNCF-Merck Science Initiative was first announced in July 1995, with a 10-year, $20-million grant from The Merck Company Foundation and Merck Research Laboratories to UNCF. Over 10 years, scholarships and fellowships have been provided to science students at the undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral levels, with financial support, hands-on training, close mentoring relationships and institutional support.
On each level, the competition is open to black students at all four-year colleges and universities in the United States.
Each fellow is paired with a mentor Merck scientist to gain valuable research assistance, guidance and other types of support.
Merck is No. 24 on The DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity list.
Ford Motor Co. Fund—the philanthropic arm of Ford Motor Co.—awarded more than $200,000 over two years to The University of Texas at San Antonio to implement a rigorous, standards-based high-school program.
This new partnership of the Ford Partnership for Advanced Studies (Ford PAS) program and the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) is intended to increase high-school students interest in college studies in the areas of science, technology, engineering and math and—as college graduates armed with technical degrees—improve students' marketability and career potential.
The Ford PAS pilot program in San Antonio will begin this summer at the UTSA campus. Pre-freshman Engineering Program (PREP) alumni and students from three San Antonio Independent School Districts will participate in the 2005 summer program.
Ford Motor Co. is No. 11 on The DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity list.
Sodexho USA announced a $50,000 grant to the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education's (NAFEO) Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) Best Practices Institute project.
The Best Practices Institute project will examine what combination of demographic, academic, environmental, economic/financial, social, civic, administrative and other factors lead to the success of HBCUs in retaining and graduating black students, particularly in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) areas.
HBCUs represent only 3 percent of all colleges and universities, yet they enroll 16 percent of all blacks in four-year degree-granting institutions, according to NAFEO.
NAFEO and the Educational Testing Service (ETS) will conduct a number of case studies for retaining and graduating HBCU students. NAFEO will work with its members, historically and predominately black colleges and universities, to replicate the promising and best practices.
Sodexho is No. 10 on The DiversityInc Top 10 Companies for Supplier Diversity and also one of DiversityInc's 25 Noteworthy Companies.
Chrysler Financial is auctioning off a one-of-a-kind 2005 Jeep Wrangler X entitled "Freedom Jeep" on eBay. All proceeds will be donated to the United Service Organizations (USO).
The jeep was autographed by several public officials who attended the "DaimlerChrysler Impact on America" event earlier this month. They included Michigan Gov. Dem. Jennifer Granholm, Sen. Debbie Stabenow,D-Mich., and Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., as well as Reps. Knollenberg, R-Mich., John Dingell, D-Mich., John Conyers, D-Mich., and Mike Rogers, R-Mich., Republican Ohio Gov. Robert Taft and Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio.
The bidding continues through July 4, opening up at $25,000.
DaimlerChrysler is No. 3 on The DiversityInc Top 10 Companies for Supplier Diversity list and also one of DiversityInc's 25 Noteworthy Companies.
McDonald's announced its "LoMcXimo de la Musica" concert series at a news conference in Los Angeles.
The concert series will feature all Latino music acts, varying from regional Mexican to salsa genres to support the educational aspirations of Latino youth through the RMHC/HACER Scholarship Program. This marks the 20th anniversary of the scholarship program.
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