Philanthropy

Spring 2007

Scholarship Supports SPH Student’s Injury Prevention Work
At 20-something, Quintin Williams has held more jobs than he can remember. But there’s one job he’ll never forget: the industrial battery factory in Chicago where he suffered serious burns in an explosion of molten lead. Now, with support from a William Randolph Hearst Foundation scholarship, Williams is pursuing a doctoral degree in occupational injury prevention in the School of Public Health that will make him an expert on safe working conditions.

3M Supports Infectious Disease Prevention
Minnesota-based 3M Company and 3M Foundation have together pledged $1.2 million to advance the work of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP).