Grants Roundup: Video Game Maker Gives $13 Million for Breast Cancer Research

The following are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Blizzard Entertainment

$12.7 million to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation for research and program support. The video-game maker had pledged to donate 100 percent of the proceeds of its game Overwatch during two weeks in May.

Robert J. DeArmond Trust

$10 million to the University of Oregon to hire new faculty and support research at the Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact, which is currently under construction.

St. David’s Foundation

$5.1 million to Lone Star Circle of Care for its integrated health programs.

Mack Molding

$5 million to Southwestern Vermont Health Care to expand and renovate the emergency department at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center.

New York Community Trust

$3.6 million to Teaching Matters to expand an early literacy program in 62 elementary schools in New York.

W.P. Carey Foundation

$3 million to the Gilman School to endow its college-counseling program.

Cullen Trust for Higher Education

$2.5 million to Houston Baptist University to create three new majors in cyberengineering, electrical engineering, and computer science, beginning this fall.

California Wellness Foundation

$1.5 million to the University of California at Los Angeles for a project at the Semel Institute’s Center for Culture, Trauma, and Mental Health Disparities to document best practices and innovations in preventing and treating HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections in black and Latina women.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

$1 million to Roosevelt University to enhance its diversity and inclusion efforts in science education.

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