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Federal Grants Enable
Powerful TAMIU Collaborations
Federal grants awarded to TAMIU this fall
may impact over 60,000 students throughout
SouthTexas.
Grants for the University’s Gaining Early
Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate
Programs (GEAR-UP IV); Serving Youth
in Science, Technology, Engineering and
Mathematics (SYSTEM) and a High School
Equivalency Program (HEP) total over $49.6
million.
Helping the University to successfully secure
funding was TAMIU alum (MBA ‘82), Henry Cuellar,
US Congressman.
“With the help of scholarships such like those
afforded to students through these programs, I was
able to earn my advanced degrees,” Cong. Cuellar
noted.
o learn more about other recently
funded or granted programs at TAMIU.
Killam Library Grows
TAMIU’s Sue and Radcliffe Killam Library benefited from
generous donations by famed Cuban poet José Kozer and the
Laredo Pan American RoundTable (PART).
The LaredoTable, the second oldest in the nation, bequeathed
an impressive archive of historic scrapbooks tracing its storied
history—from welcoming the late First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt,
dedicating the first Pan American Marker at International Bridge
I and helping young Laredoans with scholarships for study here.
The archive includes photos, newspaper clippings, official
correspondence and chapter records.
The Library also acquired more than 600 autographed books
written by important Latin American poets and authors from
Kozer’s personal library. The Kozer Collection will help serve
scholars and readers interested in Latin American poetry.
Kozer, born in Havana, Cuba, is a prolific writer of poems and
his books have been published in several countries and languages.
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