Morehouse College, Verily Announces $575k Endowed Life Sciences Scholarship to Support STEM Careers
– Today, Verily announced a partnership with Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA, to establish an endowed award of $575,000 to fund a new Verily Scholars Program.
– The program will provide an annual scholarship to an exceptional Morehouse student majoring in STEM (Science, Technology, Mathematics, and Engineering) careers and will also fund up to three annual all-expenses paid summer internships at Verily. Verily looks forward to connecting Morehouse scholars to the biotech and life sciences industry, as well as engaging more broadly with the school as guest lecturers, career development advisors and advisory board members.
UpdatedWed, Feb 24, 2021 at 12:27 pm ET
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A $10 million grant from Bank of America will make Atlanta HBCUs home to an innovative collegiate program fostering Black business development. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)
ATLANTA Spelman College and Morehouse College will host the new Center for Black Entrepreneurship, the sibling colleges announced on Monday.
Thanks to a two-year, $10 million grant from Bank of America, the schools will launch the first-of-its-kind academic program to train and develop a generation of African American business owners and business leaders on the grounds of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). In cooperation with the Black Economic Alliance, the two colleges and Bank of America aim to remove barriers to opportunity and cultivate a pipeline to entrepreneurship by providing education, mentorship and access to capital.
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Porsche launches new scholarship and guest lecture series at Morehouse College
January 26, 2021 GMT
ATLANTA, Jan. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Porsche Cars North America, Inc. (PCNA) is teaming up with Morehouse College to launch a new scholarship for business majors and a guest lecture series that will expose students to the global automotive industry. In the first year of PCNA’s first-ever gift to a college, the Porsche Scholarship will benefit 10 sophomores, juniors or seniors who are majoring in Business Administration or Economics and have at least a 3.3 grade point average. The funds will assist students with tuition as well as room and board expenses.