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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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Benjamin Cuker, Professor of Marine and Environmental Science, Hampton University, is the driving force instrumental in creating a very vibrant, diverse community of students and scholar in aquatic science since joining Hampton University, historically black college. Cuker's initiatives over the 17 years have resulted in minority students graduating or expected to graduate with more than 400 bachelor's degrees, 140 master's degrees, and 30 doctorates in marine science or related fields.
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Bruce Rittmann, a professor and director of the Center for Environmental Biotechnology at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute is working to convert sewage and other organic matter on earth to electricity. Other scientists are also working on microbial fuel cell technology, the biological batteries which use bacteria to extract electrons form an organic fuel such as carbohydrates, proteins or raw-sewage and then deliver them to an electrical circuit.
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