The Connecticut Historical Society has received a $10,000 grant from the Ensworth Charitable Foundation to help fund American Sign Language interpretation and other accessibility services during its “Language, Culture, Communities: 200 Years of Impact by the American School for the Deaf” exhibit and programs.• • •Our Piece of the Pie will receive $1.1 million from […]
The Connecticut Historical Society has received a $10,000 grant from the Ensworth Charitable Foundation to help fund American Sign Language interpretation and other accessibility services during its “Language, Culture, Communities: 200 Years of Impact by the American School for the Deaf” exhibit and programs.
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Our Piece of the Pie will receive $1.1 million from a U.S. Department of Labor Reentry Project grant to help imprisoned youth in the North Hartford Promise Zone successfully re-enter their communities through professional development and job placement support.
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The Maximilian E. & Marion O. Hoffman Foundation in West Hartford has awarded the Quinnipiac University School of Medicine $500,000 to create the Maximilian E. and Marion O. Hoffman Primary Care Fellowship, which will provide scholarships to qualified students who seek careers as primary care physicians. Quinnipiac is matching the award to create a $1 million endowed scholarship.
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The U.S. Small Business Administration has awarded Connecticut Innovations $125,000 to support technology-driven small businesses.
The grant provided by the Federal and State Technology (FAST) Partnership Program is one of 16 for up to $125,000 each awarded to back innovation in various states throughout the country. The FAST award project and budget periods are for 12 months, beginning Sept. 30, 2017.
FAST grants are intended to stimulate economic development with outreach and technical assistance to science and technology-driven small businesses, with emphasis on fostering participation from women-owned and socially and economically disadvantaged firms and helping them to compete in other federal small business programs.
To qualify for the grants, award winners had to demonstrate how they would use the funds for such work as small business research and development assistance and technology transfer from universities to small businesses.
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Researchers at the Jackson Laboratory (JAX) in Farmington have just received more than $6 million in federal, five-year grants to fund three studies, the lab announced.
Researchers at the independent nonprofit biomedical research institution received $2.3 million from the National Institute of General Medical Studies (NIGMS) to analyze what causes the immune system to decline with age; $1.8 million from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke involving potential treatments for multiple sclerosis; and $2 million from NIGMS to study the role of RNA structure used in the diagnosis of cancer and other diseases.
The researchers, respectively, are: JAX assistant professor Duygu Ucar, JAX research scientist Yanjiao Zhou and JAX assistant professor Zhengqing Ouyang.
In addition to the genomic medicine facility in Farmington, JAX has a mammalian genetics headquarters in Bar Harbor, Maine and a facility in Sacramento, Calif.
