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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Invests $6.9M to Replicate Meyerhoff Scholars Program at UC Berkeley, UC San Diego

by Tiffany Pennamon | April 9, 2019 Due to a newly announced $6.9 million investment from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), the Read more

Stony Brook Receives NSF Grant to Support Alliance to Mentor, Recruit Minority Ph.D. STEM Faculty

by Monica Levitan | March 21, 2019
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has given a $1.7 million grant to the Stony Brook Univers [...] Read more

New Volume Adds Nuance to Research on Undergraduate Women in STEM

by Tiffany Pennamon | March 11, 2019
A new volume about the “complexity of inquiry” around undergraduate women in the fields of [...] Read more

Success Comes At A Price

by Tyler Hallmark | March 7, 2019
While the number of low-socioeconomic status (SES) and first-generation students attending gra [...] Read more

Tufts University Names Dr. Ellise LaMotte Director of the Center for STEM Diversity

by Monica Levitan | February 26, 2019
Tufts University has named Dr. Ellise LaMotte as the new director of the Center for STEM divers [...] Read more

12 Universites Awarded AAU Mini-Grants to Support STEM Education

by Monica Levitan | February 21, 2019
The Association of American Universities (AAU) has awarded “mini-grants” to 12 AAU member i [...] Read more

MBDA Awards Almost $2M to Four HBCUs

by Monica Levitan | December 5, 2018
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) has awarded alm [...] Read more

Joint M.D./MBA Program Prepares Students for the Business of Medicine

by Tiffany Pennamon | November 7, 2018
An innovative partnership between Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) and Georgia Institute of T [...] Read more

Creating an Inclusion Imperative: Advancing Diversity in Medical Education

by Garth Graham | September 28, 2018
It is no secret there are incredible gaps in our health care system today. In many major cities [...] Read more

Family Creates Endowed Scholarship for Claflin Biology Majors

by Tiffany Pennamon | September 7, 2018
Claflin University has established the Spencer and Rev. Minnie Anderson Endowed Scholarship Fun [...] Read more

NSF Awards Grant to Address ‘Transfer Shock’ in Community College STEM Students

by Tiffany Pennamon |
Gaston College recently received a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant totaling $972,598 to [...] Read more

UMass Amherst Graduate School to Launch STEM Fellowship Program Geared to Historically Underrepresented Students

by Monica Levitan | September 5, 2018
The University of Massachusetts Amherst Graduate School will begin a fellowship program startin [...] Read more

Online Platform Helps Students with Hiring Process in STEM Field

by Sarah Wood | August 10, 2018
During his time as a technology consultant at Deloitte and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Duke U [...] Read more

Federally Funded Programs Are Not Enough to Diversify the STEM Workforce

by Quintana M. Clark & Levon T. Esters | July 24, 2018
Despite billions of dollars being invested on hundreds of programs that are created to increase [...] Read more

Boeing Helps Diversify STEM Fields

by Jamaal Abdul-Alim | August 9, 2017
A longstanding partnership between The Boeing Company and Washington University in St. Louis is [...] Read more

Diversity in Graduate Education: Looking at — and Beyond — Admissions

Does Testing Serve a Purpose in Holistic Application Review?

Supporting Noncognitive Factors: Connecting Students with Resources, from Theory to Practice