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LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA — Lincoln University has been awarded a grant from the 2012 Dwight David Eisenhower HBCU Fellowship program for its Center of Excellence in Business and Entrepreneurial Studies. The fellowship, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration’s Technology Partnership Programs (TPP), provided a grant of $17,500 to three Lincoln University Business and Entrepreneurial Studies students. The objective of TPP is to “attract qualified students to the field of transportation and research, and advance transportation workforce development.”
The recipients and awards are:
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Brittany Beverly |
Accounting & Finance |
$7,500 |
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Brittney Waters |
Accounting & Entrepreneurship |
$5,000 |
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Carmelo Thomas |
Accounting & Entrepreneurship |
$5,000 |
As a condition for the receipt of this funding, the three students were required to write an abstract and a collaborative report on Promoting Bicycle Usage as a Beneficial Mode of Transportation.
The three Business & Entrepreneurial Studies students will be provided a one-time expenditure for travel to Washington, DC to attend the Transportation Research Board (TRB) annual conference in January, 2012. Professor Robert A. Allen will accompany the students.
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Lincoln University – founded in 1854 as the nation’s first Historically Black University – combines the best elements of a liberal arts and sciences-based undergraduate core curriculum and selected graduate programs to meet the needs of those living in a highly technological and global society. The University enrolls approximately 2,500 undergraduate and graduate students.
Internationally recognized for preparing learners and producing world-class leaders in their fields, Lincoln has created five academic Centers of Excellence-programs of distinction. They are: Business and Entrepreneurial Studies, Lincoln/Barnes Visual Arts, Mass Communications, Grand Research Educational Awareness, Training (GREAT) for Minority Health, Teacher Education and Urban Pedagogy.