The Plough Foundation has again boosted higher education in Memphis, this time with a $1.3 million grant to bolster University of Memphis' School of Public Health.
The gift follows a $4.5 million Plough grant to the University of Tennessee Health Science Center last week. That money will build a facility to make sterile vaccines inside the school's new $65 million College of Pharmacy building.
The funds for U of M will allow it to immediately fill six faculty positions in the new School of Public Health and fund them through 2012. The positions will help the school get accreditation from the national Council on Education for Public Health.
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