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Oklahoma University's Associate Professor of Chemistry, Donna J. Nelson's training as a chemist led her to insist on filling out every space in her table for identifying the gender and ethnicity of each person in the top 50 departments nationwide for 14 academic disciplines. Her visual ways of perceiving patterns and understanding the world brought some key information to light, proving that women and minorities are dramatically underrepresented on the science faculties of some of the most prestigious schools in the country.
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The Meyerhoff Scholars Program was launched jointly by Michael Summers, an HIV researcher and Howard Hughes Medical Institute researcher and UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski in 1989. The Meyerhoff, like many diversity-focused programs, offers full scholarships to high-achieving minority high school graduates with an interest in science and since the program's inception, 86% of the program's 508 graduates have earned science and engineering bachelor's degrees and 87% of that group have gone to get their master's and/or PhDs.
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The idea of addressing shared challenges with shared successful strategies was discussed during an October 2004 conference on undergraduate science education at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). A group of scientists resolved to disseminate information about current strategies that have successfully educated a diverse array of undergraduates who later pursued PhDs.
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