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Dr. Thorna Humphries and Dr. Mona Rizvi recently received a $70,000 grant (2007-2009), which is part of a $2 million NSF grant for Broadening Participation in Computing awarded to the Advancing Robotics Technology for Societal Impact (ARTSI) Alliance. The ARTSI Alliance is a collaborative education and research project that focuses on robotics for healthcare, the arts, and entrepreneurship. The Alliance includes eight HBCUs and seven Research I (R1) institutions: Florida A&M University, the University of the District of Columbia, Hampton University, Morgan State University, Norfolk State University, Winston-Salem State University, the University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff, Carnegie Mellon University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Brown University, Duke University, the University of Alabama, the University of Washington, and the University of Pittsburgh.
We recently attended the ARTSI kickoff event at NSF on January 14, 2008, where an NSU computer science graduate student, Mr. Glenn Nickens, gave a demo of a robot he built at CMU last summer.
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