business briefs
• Grayson Subaru recently presented a check for $46,732 to Ijams Nature Center to continue its work to expand the Ijams Nature Playscape at Grayson Subaru Preserve and improve the Mead’s Quarry Lake swim area. The local retailer chose the nonprofit nature center as its hometown charity for Subaru of America, Inc.’s 2024 Subaru Share the Love event. From Nov. 15, 2024, to Jan. 2, 2025, Subaru and its retailers donated a minimum of $300 for every new Subaru vehicle purchased or leased at participating retailers nationwide to several national charities and a hometown charity chosen by each retailer.
• National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases recently awarded a two-year $423,500 grant to Colleen Jonsson, PhD, director of Regional Biocontainment Laboratory at University of Tennessee Health Science Center for a project that could lead to a novel treatment for a viral infection that spreads to both humans and animals.
