NCCU Awarded $1.1M NSF Grant to Lead Earth Mapping Project
By Quiana Shepard North Carolina Central University has been awarded $1.1 million to lead other historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), some minority-serving institutions and local communities in a three-year project fostering Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and open-data-science support for faculty and student researchers. The award to NCCU is being supported by the National Science Foundation Directorate for Education and Human Resources and the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, and will enable NCCU to have an increased presence in the burgeoning field of GIS, a computer system for capturing, storing, checking and displaying data related to positions on Earth’s surface. GIS can show different