Awarded through Amazon Future Engineer, the online retailer’s computer science education program, the funding will support initiatives designed to increase students’ awareness of academic and career pathways in computer science and prepare them for success in college-level CS courses and beyond, with a focus on students from underrepresented groups….

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The gift from David M. Rubenstein, the largest in the 240-year history of the institution, will support efforts to strengthen and advance democracy and justice in the United States….

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The gift from alumni Lois (’85) and Darryl Goss (’83) will establish the Austin and Arutha Goss Presidential Chair in African American and African Studies, which is named for Darryl Goss’s parents, whom the couple credit with teaching them the value of education and lifelong learning….

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Part of a $150 million commitment to advance diversity, inclusion, and health equity announced by the company in August, the grants were awarded in support of efforts to boost diversity among clinical researchers, improve access to high-quality care, and increase disease awareness and education in racially diverse and medically underserved communities….

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The gift will create the Marriott-Sorenson Center for Hospitality Leadership in honor of Marriott International president and CEO Arne Sorenson, who passed away earlier this month after battling pancreatic cancer….

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The five-year commitment includes support for efforts to advance economic mobility, educational opportunity, health and well-being, and diversity and inclusion….

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The gift from the Drs. Bruce and Lee Foundation will support a new medical education consortium focused on increasing the number of third- and fourth-year medical school students who come to the Pee Dee region to complete their education….

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The new signatories include Bongjin Kim and Bomi Sul, Ben and Divya Silbermann, and Byron and Tina Trott….

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The gift will establish the Susan and Richard Kiphart Center for Global Health and Social Development and support global health and development research and initiatives….

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Launched in 2016, the strategy addresses the top four priorities of North Flint residents — youth, public safety, economic opportunity, and neighborhoods….

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An update to a 2004 report, the research review commissioned by the Wallace Foundation draws on more than two hundred studies over twenty years and argues that school leaders are even more important to student success than previously believed and that investments in successful strategies to better prepare and support them often lead to large payoffs….

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A hundred and twenty-eight early-career scientists and scholars in eight disciplines — chemistry, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, computer science, earth systems science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, and physics — will each receive a grant of $75,000 over two years….

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Twenty-one early-career scientists will receive up to $1.4 million over eight years to pursue research into some of the greatest challenges in the life sciences….

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The center, to be renamed the Shevet Glaubach Center for Career Strategy and Professional Development, offers programs in career development as well as mentorship, internships, and job search assistance….

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Based on dozens of interviews, the report from the Open Society Foundations found that civil society leaders in Yemen agree that the transitional justice process must be focused on the concerns and needs of victims and include mechanisms for truth telling, redress, and mental health support….

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