Several state universities have received grants from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center for the advancement of bioscience education. Averaging $157,000 each, grants from the Center's Historically Minority University Biotechnology Program Initiate were given to five institutions: Elizabeth City State, Fayetteville State University, North Carolina Central University, UNC-Pembroke, and Winston-Salem State University. The program has doubled enrollment in biosciences classes at the state's six historically minority universities in the last seven years. In addition to issuing the minority grants, N.C. Biotech also awarded $80,000 in institutional development grants to NC State University and $220,000 in grants to UNC-Chapel Hill.
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