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Attorney Donates Personal Law Library to Texas Southern, Valued at $3 Million

April 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Texas Southern University yesterday announced the donation of a expansive law library from attorney Joe Jamail to the school’s Thurgood Marshall School of Law. The library, comprised of more than 1000 volumes, is valued at more than $3 million.

Nicknamed the “King of Torts,” Jamail became famous for winning a $500,000 award for an electrician who lost his hands due to a faulty electrical box in the 1970s.

“Our Thurgood Marshall School of Law has long been recognized as the country’s most diverse law school, and as such, this gift will go far in helping to expand the diversity of the legal profession in Texas and the nation,” TSU President Dr. John Rudley said in a prepared statement. (MyFoxHouston)

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Fort Valley State to Host Cooperative Development Energy Career Day Awards

February 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Corporate giants from the oil and gas industry, utility companies and top governmental agencies will meet on Fort Valley State University’s campus to deliver full-ride scholarships to 14 students and a generous $1.3 million in financial contributions to a signature mentoring program. To date, they’ve contributed $30 million. A two-day conference to highlight the Cooperative Developmental Energy Program begins with the industry awards dinner on Sunday evening. The twenty-ninth annual CDEP Energy Career Day Awards Luncheon will be held at 11:15 a.m., Monday, Feb. 27 in the C.W. Pettigrew Center. A 10 a.m. news conference in the Pettigrew Center lobby will enable reporters to interview executives from ExxonMobil, ConocoPhilips and Shell.

“The purpose of this weekend is to recruit new students into the program, and to have an annual meeting with corporations and federal agencies who support us,” said Dr. Isaac Crumbly, founder of the CDEP. “I wish to thank the hundreds of individuals from corporations and federal agencies who have supported CDEP over 29 years.”

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ExxonMobil and major oil giants to award scholarships at annual energy luncheon

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Alabama A&M on Pace to Raise $2 Million in Donor Support

February 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment

The Hunstville Times yesterday reported that Alabama A&M is on a pace to raise $2 million this fiscal year.

In a presentation to the research, development and technology committee of the school’s board of trustees last week, Vice President Wendy Kobler said the school has raised more than $804,000 since Oct. 1.

That puts Alabama A&M on track to reach the goal set by President Andrew Hugine to raise $2 million by the end of the fiscal year Sept. 30.

“Those individuals who support Alabama A&M University have translated their love into dollars,” Hugine said. (The Hunstville Times)

Officials say that ticket sales for the university’s annual black tie gala and sale of AAMU vanity license plates have generated more than $400,000 alone, nearly half total donations to the university since October 2011.

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Delaware State to Upgrade Science Facilities with $400K Grant

January 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Delaware State University has received great assistance in its work to strengthen its already strong emphasis on its Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines with the award of a $400,000 grant from the Welfare Foundation.

The generous Welfare Foundation grant will go toward an $826,000 project to renovate the DSU STEM laboratories in the Mishoe Science Center.

The original portion of the Mishoe Science Center (north side) was built in 1964, and a south addition was completed in 1995. The building annually serves 350 STEM-related majors as well hundreds of students in other majors who take classes there every year to fulfill their science requirements.

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DSU Receives $400,000 Welfare Foundation Grant to Upgrade Science Labs | DSU

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