Martha Carothers, professor of art at the University of Delaware, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to the Fulbright Hong Kong General Education Project during the 2011-2012 academic year. Carothers will assist colleagues in Hong Kong universities to strengthen general education in the final year of preparation for the four-year curriculum transition.
The New York Council for the Humanities awarded a $3,000 grant to Historic Saranac Lake, to help facilitate the design of a new exhibit on Saranac Lake history.
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The PNC Foundation awarded a $103,000 grant to the Delaware Museum of Natural History to support continued teacher training in science education by the museum’s experts at nine Head Start centers.
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The National Museum of African American History and Culture announced October 25, that it had received a $5 million gift from the Walmart company. The gift will go into the construction fund for the museum, which is expected to break ground in 2012 and open to the public in 2015.
A Community Development Block Grant worth $126,500 was awarded to the Historic Lansdowne Theater Corporation last week to fund restoration work on the building’s trademark marquee. Opened in 1927, the theater showed movies and hosted live performances until it was closed in 1987 after an electrical fire. The grant provides funds to have new signage manufactured that replicate the original lettering and neon lights that adorned the heart of Lansdowne’s business district for almost 60 years.
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