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KU prof wins $10.4 million grant
Gunda Georg, a medicinal chemistry professor at the University of Kansas, received a $10.4 million federal grant to support research in the battle against cancer. The Center of Biomedical Research Excellence program, a division of the National Institutes of Health, awarded the five-year grant to Georg. COBRE awarded a similar grant, which ended this past summer, of $10 million to the university for cancer research in 2000. The most recent grant will help establish a National Cancer Institute Designated Cancer Center at the University of Kansas.

Southern U. will reopen in spring
Southern University in New Orleans will reopen next semester to students. But due to the damage the campus suffered from Hurricane Katrina, classes will take place in temporary buildings provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Southern University officials have located 2,000 of the institution’s 3,600 enrolled students. However, they will not know until after registration in early January how many students will return. With a total of $350 million in hurricane-related damages, Southern University suffered the most destruction when compared to other institutions in the Gulf Coast region.
—Emily Begnaud

 
 
 


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