The Michael & Laura Brader-Araje Foundation Gives $50,000 Grant to The Mariposa School Cary, N.C. Based School Provides One-On-One Instruction to Children With Autism Durham, N.C. - November 04, 2002 - The Michael & Laura Brader-Araje Foundation announced today that it has awarded its annual Spark Grant to the Mariposa School for Children with Autism. The Mariposa School, based in Cary, North Carolina, provides intensive, individualized instruction to children with autism, targeting the broad range of educational, behavioral, speech, social and motor dysfunctions that affect them. Click for the complete press release.     MLBAF grant supports NCCU women and mathematics.     The North Carolina Central University Women and Mathematics Program hosted its annual Marjorie Lee Browne Career Awareness Day on March 8, 2002. Eighth grade girls from Durham and Wake County public schools, along with professional women mentors, spent the day at the NCCU campus. Students had the opportunity to participate in a variety of math and science-related presentations, demonstrations, discussions, and a math competition. Topics included Population Super Sleuths: Epidemiologists and the Public’s Health, Thinking about Balance and Imbalance, Air Flow in the Virtual Mode, Hands-On Engineering, and How Do We Know What Babies Think? With support from the Michael & Laura Brader-Araje Foundation, this math and science career awareness program honors the late Marjorie Lee Browne, the distinguished NCCU faculty member and one of the first two African-American women to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics. Laura Brader-Araje is a mathematics educator and has been actively involved with the Women and Mathematics Program.