GRANTS & AWARDS.

* Case Western Reserve University has been awarded a $4.4 million bequest from the estate of alumnus Sarah Cole Hirsh. Income from the endowment will be used to establish the Sarah Cole Hirsh Institute for Best Nursing Practices Based on Evidence, a $1.25 million professorship in Hirsh's name, and a $1.8 million scholarship and financial aid fund to benefit baccalaureate nursing students. The university has also received a $1.25 million endowment from Shirley Wormser Shapero to be used to establish the Shirley Wormser Professorship in Journalism and Media Writing; and a $1.9 million from the National Institutes of Health to support a four-year project headed by James Kazura, …