LSU and Tulane are getting $22 million to lead group effort to save the Mississippi River Delta

LSU and Tulane University are receiving a $22 million award from the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine to lead a consortium seeking ways to save the ecologically fragile Lower Mississippi River Delta. The two university's announced the award Wednesday morning. Six historically Black colleges and universities are also part of the consortium. They are Southern University, Xavier University of New Orleans, Jackson State, Grambling State, Dillard and Alcorn State. Also part of the group are University of Southern Mississippi, the University of Central Florida, the University of Louisiana-Lafayette, the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, the Water Institute of the Gulf and the College of William & Mary in Virginia.