“I am happy to announce that Morehouse School of Medicine will provide a financial gift of $6,300 to assist each of our currently enrolled, degree-seeking students with additional academic, financial, and mental health support costs such as childcare, food, transportation, housing and healthcare needs,” the school’s president, Valerie Montgomery Rice, MD, wrote in an email to students, according to the report.
The school is planning to distribute the money to students by Dec. 15.
The funds come from relief aid provided to Morehouse School of Medicine by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act. The school received $56.4 million in aid, according to the report.
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