Founded in 1874, the University of Nevada, Reno was established as Nevada’s land-grant institution under the Morrill Act of 1862. While we cannot change the past, public and land-grant universities ...

To view a list of past Morrill award winners, click here. 1 The Morrill Act of 1862 came to be known as the Land Grant College Act. Introduced by Vermont congressman Justin Smith Morrill, the Morrill ...

Lincoln University, which was established under the Second Morrill Act of 1890 as a land grant institution, has received a full state match for its federal land-grant funding during the 2025-26 fiscal ...

In the midst of the bloodshed of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln made two large investments in the country’s future. With southern senators no longer able to block key pieces of ...

Abraham Lincoln is considered perhaps the most effective chief executive in the history of the United States. But one area ...

The U.S. Land Grant University system was established in 1862 with the signing of the Morrill Act. This provided all Americans with the opportunity to be educated in the scientific and technical ...

The University of Wyoming was established as the state’s Morrill Act land-grant university in 1886 and serves as Wyoming’s only university. UW offers over 80 undergraduate programs and 100 graduate ...

Air Force ROTC unofficially began with the passage of the Morrill Act (Land-Grant Act) in 1862, which established military training at land-grant colleges and universities. But the name "Reserve ...

Lincoln’s 1863 signing of the Morrill Act established a system of like-minded universities known as Land Grant schools and provided federally donated land to be used specifically for higher ...