Grants Roundup: Brown Med School Gets $27 Million; $2 Million Backs Ill. Prairie Project

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by The Chronicle:

Warren Alpert Foundation

$27 million to Brown University’s Warren Alpert Medical School to endow programs to train M.D./Ph.D. students as well as a professorship.

K&L Gates

$10 million from the international law firm to create the K&L Gates Endowment for Ethics and Computational Technologies at Carnegie Mellon University, which will use the funds to study ethical and policy issues related to artificial intelligence.

Ball Brothers Foundation

$3.7 million to multiple nonprofits that serve the Muncie, Ind., area. Recipients include the Minnetrista Cultural Foundation, Cardinal Greenways, and the Delaware Advancement Corporation.

St. Baldrick’s Foundation

$2.1 million to multiple universities and hospitals studying childhood cancer.

Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation and Grand Victoria Foundation

$1-million challenge grants from each foundation to the Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie outside of Chicago to restore 1,800 acres of prairie to its natural state.

Sun Life Financial

$1 million to the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute Foundation to create the Sun Life Financial Diabetes College to promote diabetes prevention and management.

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