NO LONGER A DREAM DEFERRED: Greater Minority STEM Participation Through Academic Opportunity and Institutional Change

Boston UniversityMITPenn State UniversityRutgers UniversityUniversity of ConnecticutUniversity of MaineUniversity of New HampshireUniversity of Rhode IslandUniversity of Vermont

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Bennett CollegeJackson State UniversityLincoln UniversityMedgar Evers CollegeUniversity of Puerto Rico Mayaguez

Northeast Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate

(NEAGEP)

GOAL: Substantially increase the number of underrepresented U.S.

minority students who obtain Ph.D. degrees in STEM disciplines and enter the professoriate

Underrepresented minorities:

28.3% of the U.S. population in 2000

8.0% of the total science and engineering labor force

5.9% of doctoral degrees in STEM

Minority STEM Ph.D. Students Enrolled in NEAGEP Institutions

Summer Program for Undergraduate Research (SPUR)

NEAGEP Internships

NEAGEP Graduate Support Program

Transportation costs covered

www.neagep.org/spur.asp

Eight-week program of mentored research

Stipend, free room and board

SPUR

NEAGEP Internship Program

Accept recent graduates into SPUR

If students want to stay and their faculty mentors recommend them, they become Interns

Paid graduate-level stipend, take graduate courses and work in a laboratory for a yearApply to graduate school and enter in fall if accepted

NEAGEP Graduate Student Support Program

Monthly Social Events

Near-Peer Mentoring

Creative Solutions

First and Fifth-Year Fellowships

Professional Development Events

Travel to Professional Meetings

Partner Visiting Scientist Program

Junior faculty from Partner Institutions spend all or part of the summer at UMass Amherst

Receive stipend

Learn new techniques

Develop collaborative projects

URM Enrollment in All STEM Ph.D. Programs at UMA

Earned Doctoral Degrees(STEM URM)

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24 Excellent graduate programs

Community of scholars through NEAGEP and beyond

Committed faculty mentors

Welcoming community

Vicente Gomez: Microbiology

Kathy Nieves Puigdoller: Fisheries and Wildlife, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

Almaris Alonso: Microbiology

Ibis Benito: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Jorge Trabal: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Lisandra Garay Vega: Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Jeniffer Concepcion: Microbiology

Enid Arcelay: Veterinary Medicine and Animal SciencesErick Roman Perez: Molecular and Cell BiologyMara Isel Guerrero: Veterinary Medicine and Animal Sciences

Nestor Chevere: Chemisty

German Colon: Physics

Daniella Gonzalez: Chemistry

Zuleika Medina: Chemistry

Defended her dissertation on September 13, 2007!!

Edgardo Ortiz: Physics

Theresa Ortiz: Molecular and Cell Biology

Elih Velazquez: Chemistry

Kirsten Granados: Kinesiology

Luis Rosado: Kinesiology

http://www.neagep.org

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