Science Grants

Medical research. Grants of $1 million each from the Baxter Foundation, Los Angeles, to Harvard University for studies of skin cancer, herpes, and AIDS and to Northwestern University to support research in biomedical engineering and immunology Lyme Disease Center. $40,000 from Grumman Aerospace Corp. to the State University of New York, Stony Brook Geriatrics. Two grants from the Charles A. Dana Foundation, Greenwich, Conn.: $500,000 to the University of Washington for the integration of gero

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Medical research. Grants of $1 million each from the Baxter Foundation, Los Angeles, to Harvard University for studies of skin cancer, herpes, and AIDS and to Northwestern University to support research in biomedical engineering and immunology

Lyme Disease Center. $40,000 from Grumman Aerospace Corp. to the State University of New York, Stony Brook

Geriatrics. Two grants from the Charles A. Dana Foundation, Greenwich, Conn.: $500,000 to the University of Washington for the integration of gerontology and geriatric medicine in the medical school, and $206,000 over two years to the University of Connecticut to develop a center for training physicians in geriatrics

Instrumentation. $175,000 from Perkin-Elmer Corp. to the University of Connecticut for analytical instruments

Life sciences programs. $2.5 million from American Cyanamid Co. to Princeton University

Upgrade for subsonic wind tunnel. $500,000 from Boeing Co. to Purdue University Aerospace Sciences Laboratory

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