Downtown Brooklyn's City Tech Awarded Almost $5 Million in Grants
Brooklyn, NY 11201
United States of America
According to a press release from City Tech, the school received a grant from NASA, two grants from the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) and three grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
NASA awarded City Tech with $442,000 to expand its science, technology, engineering and mathematics program (STEM). The DOE is giving City Tech over $3 million to expand its Center for the Study of the Brooklyn Waterfront and to implement an international nursing education partnership.
NSF grants totaling $1,030,581 will be used to build a robotics technology center, create a STEM course, and fund string theory research.
Sources
http://www.citytech.cuny.edu/aboutus/newsevents/2010fa/fed_grants/index.shtml http://www.citytech.cuny.edu/aboutus/newsevents/2010fa/cholewka/index.shtml
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