by Associated Press Published: November 6,2011
Tags: aerospace, contracts, courts, defense, education, federal contracts, federal government, federal grants, grant, grants, higher education, sentencing, wire fraud
GULFPORT — A researcher at the University of California at Los Angeles has been sentenced in Gulfport to probation and restitution in a wire-fraud case. Prosecutors said Michael D. Pottenger of Santa Monica, Calif., accepted a grant of nearly $100,000 that he wasn’t eligible to receive. The Sun Herald reports Pottenger received three years’ probation [...] [...]
The new Eat Healthy Mississippi initiative, which will connect local growers to restaurants and promote healthy eating, is underway. The Mississippi Hospitality and Restaurant Association (MHRA) recently learned it had received a grant of more than $83,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. With the help of the Mississippi Department of Agriculture, MHRA has already [...] [...]
JACKSON — The Attorney General’s Office has received a $200,000 grant to continue investigations into trafficking in counterfeit merchandise. The grant will be available in 2012 for the attorney general’s “Operation Knock Out Knock-Offs” program, a multi-tiered effort combining education, investigative work and agency partnerships to discourage and combat intellectual property crime. The grant from [...] [...]
TUPELO — Officials say the loss of a $200,000 state grant likely will mean less national attention for Northeast Mississippi’s furniture industry. V.M. Cleveland, chairman of the Tupelo Furniture Market, tells the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal the loss means less national marketing of area furniture manufacturers and of the twice-yearly market. The grant had been [...] [...]
PERKINSTON — Due to the growing need for a trained workforce in the energy industry, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College is using funding from a U.S. Department of Energy Workforce Development grant to design curriculum and purchase equipment for energy-related programs. Working closely with renewable-energy industry partners, Gulf Coast is planning new classes and revising [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: July 31,2011
Tags: disaster, disaster recovery, education, energy, environment, grant, higher education, offshore drilling, oil and gas, oil spill, university
GULF OF MEXICO — A competitive funding grant from the Gulf Research Initiative is helping Mississippi State University scientists collect important data about the status of salt marshes impacted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The nearly $81,000 stop-gap award will underwrite the project for three months until the consortium’s larger grants reach researchers this [...] [...]
MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST — A new regional tourism partnership created to help administer a $16-million grant from BP may soon replace individual tourism bureaus all along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The Mississippi Coast Regional Partnership was created earlier this year after the state and BP agreed to award Mississippi $16 million for tourism. The partnership [...] [...]
LORMAN — Alcorn State University announced the United States Department of Education recently notified the university of the availability of $4.2 million from the maturity of two $500,000 endowments made through its Title III Endowment Challenge Grant Program by the school’s 15th president, Dr. Walter Washington in 1986. Today, the endowments have matured to $2.125 [...] [...]
MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST — Gov. Haley Barbour announced BP has agreed to provide $16 million in funds to help the recovery of the Mississippi Gulf Coast tourism and hospitality industries from economic damage caused by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The governor indicated a written agreement is pending. BP gave state and local entities [...] [...]
Part of museum to open this weekend BILOXI – The Ohr-O’Keefe Museum in Biloxi has received $3 million grant by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, according to the Sun Herald. The grant will be used to complete the gallery that will display the work of George Ohr. The grant supplies the final [...] [...]
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