Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) was awarded a $370,000 grant to better prepare students for STEM jobs. The award is a part of the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Enabling Partnerships to Increase Innovation Capacity (EPIIC) program, which announced an investment of nearly $19 million to 48 awardees at U.S. institutions of higher education, including historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), minority-serving institutions (MSIs), primarily undergraduate institutions (PUIs), and community and technical colleges.
WSSU’s project, led by Dr. Fenghai Guo, WSSU chemistry professor and grant principal investigator, will collaborate with North Arkansas College, Middle Georgia State University and St. Vincent College to increase innovation capacity at each institution by growing external and internal partnerships, establishing a more inclusive research/innovation ecosystem, and broadening the participation of a skilled, diverse workforce as part of the research enterprise nationally.
Read more at wssu.edu.