The Chronicle of Higher Education

15-17: UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION. “Institutionalizing Undergraduate Research,” institute, Council on Undergraduate Research, at California State University, in Northridge, Calif. Contact: CUR, 734 15th Street, N. W., Suite 550, Washington, D.C. 20005-1013; (202) 783-4810, fax (202) 783-4811, cur@cur. org, http://www.cur.org 15-19: COMMUNICATIONS. Annual convention, Western States Communication Association, in Denver, Colo. Contact: Sara Hayden, (406) 243-4333, sara. hayden@mso.umt.edu, http://www.west-comm.org 16-17: MA THEMATICS. Conference, American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges’ Georgia chapter, at Georgia Perimeter College, in Lawrenceville, Ga. Contact: Kouok Law, klaw@gpc.edu, http://www.amatyc.org 16-17: MATHEMATICS. Regional meeting, American Mathematical Association of

Two-Year Colleges’ Florida chapter and American Mathematical Association at Tallahassee Community College, in Tallahassee, Fla. Contact: Byron Dyce, byron. dyce@sfcc.edu, http://www.amatyc.org 16-19: TECHNOLOGY. “E-Learning 2008,” annual conference, Instructional Technology Council, at St. Petersburg College, in St. Petersburg, Fla. Contact: (202) 293-3132, http://itcnetwork.org 16-20: LAW. Annual Conference on Law and Higher Education, Stetson College of Law and National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, in Clearwater, Fla. Contact: cle@law.stetson.edu, http:// www.law.stetson.edu/excellence/high-ered/ events.asp 17-19: ACADEMIC ADVISING. Academic Advising Administrators’ Institute, National Academic Advising Association, in San Diego, Calif. Contact: Nacada, 2323 Anderson Avenue, Suite 225, Manhattan, Kan. 66502; (785) 532-5717, fax

PRIVATE GIVING

ALLEGHANY FOUNDATION 450 West Main Street, P.O. Box 1176 Covington, Va. 24426

SCIENCE. To buy instructional laboratory equipment and materials to study allied health and provide forensic-sci-ence training: $147,500 partial challenge grant to Dabney S. Lancaster Community College.

COMMUNI TY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN

333 West Fort Street, Suite 2010 Detroit, Mich. 48226 http://www.cfsem.org

ARTS AND CULTURE. To preserve, restore, catalog, and display 18 outdoor sculptures and 125 works of art: $124,500 to Wayne State U. (Mich.).

DEUTSCHE BANK AMERICAS FOUNDATION

60 Wall Street, Floor 21

New York, N. Y. 10005 http://www.db.com

TEACHER EDUCATION. To promote
teaching as a career path and provide
professional development and support
for teachers: $1-million to City U. of
New York and Schott Foundation for
Public Education (Cambridge, Mass.).

BILL & MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION

P.O. Box 23350

Seattle, Wash. 98102 http://www.gatesfoundation.org

MEDICAL RESEARCH. For research on trachoma, a bacterial eye infection that can cause blindness: $1-million to the Johns Hopkins U.

HEALTHCARE GEORGIA FOUNDATION

50 Hurt Plaza, Suite 1100

Atlanta, Ga. 30303 http://www.healthcaregeorgia.org

HEALTH. To strengthen the quality of home- and community-based health-care services by providing online training for professional health aides and family members who serve as caregivers in Georgia: $101,000 to U. of Georgia, Institute of Gerontology.

JAMES IRVINE FOUNDATION 575 Market Street, Suite 3400

San Francisco, Calif. 94105 http://www.irvine.org

ADMISSIONS. To promote effective col-lege-counseling practices among new high-school counselors in California to increase college-attendance rates among poor students: $680,000 over two years to the College Entrance Examination Board (New York, N.Y.).

EMMA ECCLES JONES FOUNDATION c/o Clark P. Giles

P.O. Box 45385

Salt Lake City, Utah 84145

FACILITIES. To build an education and research building and endow professorships in early-childhood education: $25-million to Utah State U., College of Education and Human Services.

LILLY ENDOWMENT

2801 North Meridian Street

P.O. Box 88068

Indianapolis, Ind. 46208 http://www.lillyendowment.org

FACILITIES. To construct and equip
a new building for the Jacobs School
of Music, and for a program to attract
professors and scholars to the School

of Law: $69-million to Indiana U. at Bloomington.

GORDON AND BET T Y MOORE FOUNDATION

P.O. Box 29910

San Francisco, Calif. 94129 http://www.moore.org

ASTRONOMY. To develop and help build a nearly 100-foot telescope: $100- million each over nine years to the California Institute of Technology and U. of California system.

BURTON D. MORGAN FOUNDATION

22 Aurora Street

Hudson, Ohio 44236 http://www.bdmorganfdn.org

ECONOMICS. To support two Economics for Leaders programs and one Economic Forces in American History program at the College of Wooster: $125,000 to Foundation for Teaching Economics (Davis, Calif.).

NATION WIDE CORPORATION

1 Nationwide Plaza

Columbus, Ohio 43215 http://www.nationwide.com

BUSINESS. To support fellowships, research, and the curriculum in insurance risk management: $1.1-million to Ohio State U., Fisher College of Business.

POLK BROS. FOUNDATION

20 West Kinzie Street, Suite 1110 Chicago, Ill. 60610 http://www.polkbrosfdn.org

EDUCATION. To support professional development for 30 public-school principals in Chicago: $400,000 over two years to DePaul U., Center for Urban Education.

RADY FAMILY FOUNDATION 11455 El Camino Real, Suite 200

San Diego, Calif. 92130

BUSINESS. To support construction projects: $5-million to U. of California at San Diego, Rady School of Management.

TOYOTA USA FOUNDATION

9 West 57th Street, Suite 4900

New York, N. Y. 10019 http://www.toyota.com/foundation

SCIENCE. To develop a collaborative, interdisciplinary online master’s-degree program for elementary- and high-school science teachers: $540,345 over four years to U. of Nebraska at Lincoln.

GIF TS & BEQUESTS

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY AT FULLERTON. For the business school: $30-million from Steven Mihaylo.

CUMBERLAND COUNTY COLLEGE. To endow the Healthcare Career Pathways Program: $1-million from Paul Navone.

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY. To increase enrollment in the Latino-ministry program that is part of the master of arts in pastoral studies and to develop a doctoral concentration in the emerging field at the Graduate School of Religion and Religious Education: $100,000 over three years from an anonymous donor.

MORAVIAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY. For the strategic plan: $6.1-million bequest from Charles D. Couch.

UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII HONOLULU COMMUNITY COLLEGE. To endow three scholarship funds: more than $3.4-million from Norman W.H. Loui.

(785) 532-7732, nacada@ksu.edu, http://
www.nacada.ksu.edu
17-20: FOOD SERVICES. “Inspirational…
By Nature,” Pacific regional conference,
National Association of College and
University Food Services, in Vancouver,
B.C. Contact: Nacufs, 1405 South Har-
rison Road, Suite 305, Michigan State
University, East Lansing, Mich. 48824;
(517) 332-2494, fax (517) 332-8144;
http://www.nacufs.org
17-20: IN TERNATIONAL EDUCATION.
Annual conference, Association for In-
ternational Education Administrators, in
Washington, D.C. Contact: http://www.
aieaworld.org

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18-19: ADMISSIONS. “Critical Issues in

Transfer Credit: A Perspective for the Future,” annual conference, American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, in Washington, D. C. Contact: Janet Szamosszegi, (202) 293-9161, ext. 6806, janets@ aacrao.org, http://www.aacrao.org 18-20: COMMUNIT Y COLLEGES. “ Developing Global Partnerships,” conference, International Association of Community and Further Education Colleges, World Federation of Colleges and Polytechnics, and American Association of Community Colleges, in New York, N. Y. Contact: Allen Edwards, (865) 694-6616, aedwards@ pstcc.edu, http://www.iaoc.org 19: ENERGY. “Deploying a Wind Turbine for Your Campus,” online conference, Academic Impressions. Contact: Kevin Kientz, Academic Impressions, 4643 South Ulster Street, Suite 350, Denver, Colo.

80237; (720) 488-6800, fax (303) 741-0849,
kevin@academicimpressions.com, http://
www.academicimpressions.com
19-20: CULTURAL STUDIES. “Jazz History
and Culture: an Academic Conference in
Honor of Lionel Hampton’s 100th Birth-
day,” conference, University of Idaho,
in Moscow, Idaho. Contact: Katherine
Aiken, College of Letters, Arts & Social
Sciences, University of Idaho, P.O. Box
443154, Moscow, Idaho 83844-3154;
(208) 885-7885, kaiken@uidaho.edu,
http://www.uidaho.edu