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Equity for women and underrepresented minorities in STEM: Graduate experiences and career plans in chemistry
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Equity for women and underrepresented minorities in STEM: Graduate experiences and career plans in chemistry

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Equity for women and underrepresented minorities in STEM: Graduate experiences and career plans in chemistry

By Understanding Interventions | Admin|2021-09-23T19:53:44-04:00September 23rd, 2021|News|

Recent events prompted scientists in the United States and throughout the world to consider how systematic racism affects the scientific enterprise. This paper provides evidence of inequities related to race–ethnicity and gender in graduate school experiences and career plans of PhD students in the top 100 ranked departments in one science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) discipline, chemistry.

RIT awarded nearly $2 million for NSF Research Traineeship Program, AWARE-AI
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RIT awarded nearly $2 million for NSF Research Traineeship Program, AWARE-AI

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RIT awarded nearly $2 million for NSF Research Traineeship Program, AWARE-AI

By Understanding Interventions | Admin|2021-10-06T13:01:05-04:00September 23rd, 2021|News|

Program will prioritize women, deaf and hard-of-hearing, and AALANA graduate students RIT was awarded a nearly $2 million grant by the NSF to create a new research traineeship program for Ph.D. and MS students, AWAREness for Sensing Humans Responsibly with AI (AWARE-AI). The National Science Foundation (NSF) reports that in 2019, only 22.9 percent of [...]

Your Student Can Get Valuable Feedback on Their Research
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Your Student Can Get Valuable Feedback on Their Research

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Your Student Can Get Valuable Feedback on Their Research

By Understanding Interventions | Admin|2021-08-25T13:15:02-04:00August 25th, 2021|News|

The Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) is one of the largest communities of underrepresented minorities in STEM fields – and abstract submission is now open! Your students may present their research in one of 12 scientific disciplines and get valuable feedback from experts in the field. Deadline to submit an abstract for an ePoster presentation or [...]

The Missing Black Professors

By Understanding Interventions | Admin|2017-08-23T16:31:57-04:00August 23rd, 2017|News|

Efforts to diversify the faculty may not be focusing enough on key areas, namely math-based fields -- especially when it comes to black faculty members. (read more)

Researchers Seek Key to Success of STEM Students at HBCUs

By Understanding Interventions | Admin|2017-08-23T16:33:14-04:00August 23rd, 2017|News|

Research being conducted by The Center for the Advancement of STEM Leadership (CASL) may show that “leading with soul” is directly connected to the success of STEM students at historically Black colleges and universities.(read more)