{"id":183676,"date":"2012-04-25T14:35:01","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T19:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=183676"},"modified":"2012-04-26T14:25:04","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T19:25:04","slug":"cornyn-announces-texas-college-to-receive-science-engineering-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=183676","title":{"rendered":"Cornyn Announces Texas College to Receive Science, Engineering Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=183677\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-183677\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/04\/thumb_texascollege-seal.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"thumb_texascollege-seal\" width=\"136\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-183677\" \/><\/a>WASHINGTON \u2014 Texas College will receive a $250,000 Department of Education grant to bolster improvement in science and engineering education programs, U.S. Senator John Cornyn announced Wednesday. The funding will be used to increase the number of underrepresented ethnic minorities, particular minority women, seeking science and engineering careers. The funding comes through the U.S. Department of Education\u2019s Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program. \u201cThis is an important investment in Texas College\u2019s efforts to expand minority access to science and engineering careers,\u201d Sen. Cornyn said. \u201cScientific discovery and training are essential to our Nation\u2019s continued economic competitiveness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program, administered by the Department of Education, supports projects and initiatives designed to assist accredited nonprofits, universities, and colleges expand access to minorities in science and technology fields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Texas College will receive a $250,000 Department of Education grant to bolster improvement in science and engineering education programs, U.S. Senator John Cornyn announced Wednesday. The funding will be used to increase the number of underrepresented ethnic minorities, particular minority women, seeking science and engineering careers. The funding comes through the U.S. Department &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=183676\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cornyn Announces Texas College to Receive Science, Engineering Grant<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-02 02:32:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183676"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184041,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183676\/revisions\/184041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}