The Atlanta Journal Constitution September 28, 2010 Atlanta colleges share $1.7 million grant By Laura Diamond<mailto:ldiamond@ajc.com> Four Atlanta colleges will share a $1.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to recruit and train people from diverse backgrounds to enter careers related to neuroscience. Georgia State University, Agnes Scott College, Emory University and Spelman College are partners in the project. The program will target racial and ethnic minorities, students with disabilities and educationally disadvantaged students who historically have been underrepresented in neuroscience fields. "When you bring different people from different backgrounds together to solve problems in science, you bring diverse ideas to the bench or clinic," said Kyle Frantz, associate professor of neuroscience at Georgia State. "This is likely to improve research outcomes, from testing hypotheses in basic research to creating applications for a variety of subgroups in the human population." The project will provide undergraduate students with a two-year neuroscience research immersion program with the goal of increasing entrance into neuroscience Ph.D. programs. SANDRA M. PHOENIX Program Director HBCU Library Alliance sphoenix@hbculibraries.org<mailto:sphoenix@hbculibraries.org> www.hbculibraries.org<http://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<http://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.