FEMA AWARDS OVER $4.2 MILLION TO BOWDOIN COLLEGE FOR COVID-19 TESTING
EXPENSES
[https://www.fema.gov/press-release/20230202/fema-awards-over-4-2-million-bowdoin-college-covid-19-testing-expenses]


Release Date: 
Février 1, 2023 

The Federal Emergency Management Agency will be sending more than $4.2
million to the State of Maine to reimburse Bowdoin College for the
cost of testing students, faculty and staff during the COVID-19
pandemic.

The $4,235,975 Public Assistance grant will reimburse the private
liberal arts college in Brunswick for 230,383 tests performed between
August 2020 and June 2022 for a student population that varied between
1,777 and 1,951 students, and 216 staff.

“FEMA is pleased to be able to assist Bowdoin College with these
costs,” said FEMA Region 1 Regional Administrator Lori Ehrlich.
“Providing resources for our institutions of higher education to
combat the COVID-19 pandemic is critical to their success, and to our
success as a nation.”

So far, FEMA has provided more than $195 million in Public Assistance
grants to Maine to reimburse the state for pandemic-related expenses.