Elizabeth City State University News August 23, 2010 Rawat receives $60,000 grant from Thurgood Marshall College Fund By Kesha Williams Dr. Kuldeep Rawat, an associate professor of technology at ECSU, is the winner of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund Technology Award for Faculty Innovation in Education. According to the TMCF committee, Rawat’s proposal, “Enhancing Minority Exposure to the 21st Century Learning through Remote Computing Infrastructure,” presented an innovative approach to the geographic and demographic issues that are prevalent to his respective college campus and are aligned with the goals of the program. As a result, Dr. Rawat will receive a $60,000 grant for his project. The mission of the grant is to develop viable innovative methods to bring proven educational technology into classrooms in a way that will be embraced by faculty and can be maintained by the university’s information technology department. SANDRA M. PHOENIX Program Director HBCU Library Alliance sphoenix@hbculibraries.org www.hbculibraries.org 404.592.4820 1438 West Peachtree Street NW Suite 200 Atlanta, GA 30309 Toll Free: 1.800.999.8558 (Lyrasis) Fax: 404.892.7879 www.lyrasis.org Honor the ancestors, honor the children. Register now http://www.hbculibraries.org/html/meeting-form.html for the October 24-26, 2010 HBCU Library Alliance 4th Membership Meeting and the "Conference on Advocacy" pre-conference in Montgomery, AL. The Pre-Conference and Membership meeting are open to directors and other librarians.