FEMA Awards Over $2 Million to Wesleyan University for COVID Testing Costs

BOSTON – The Federal Emergency Management Agency will be sending more than $2 million to the State of Connecticut to reimburse Wesleyan University for the cost of testing students, faculty and staff during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The $2,015,467 FEMA Public Assistance grant will reimburse the private liberal arts university in Middletown for the cost of contracting for testing services and purchasing 100,605 COVID-19 antigen tests.

“FEMA is pleased to be able to assist Wesleyan University 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.”

FEMA’s Public Assistance program is an essential source of funding for states and communities recovering from a federally declared disaster or emergency.

So far, FEMA has provided more than $666 million in Public Assistance grants to Connecticut to reimburse the state for pandemic-related expenses.