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Researcher-Mentor Challenges Students to Pursue Purpose

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Shana Stoddard, who is being commended for that passion through the 2023 Council on Undergraduate Research’s Silvia Ronco Innovative Mentor Award. Stoddard is the founding director of Rhodes' STEM Cohort Mentoring Program, a demonstration of her dedication to mentoring and teaching. She holds a Ph.D.

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Taking Physics to the People - Dr. Christina Love

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physics, Temple University Career mentors: Dr. A.J. 2022-2025, received funding of $541,879 from the National Science Foundation over three years. Love is active in STEM mentoring and enrichment programs that target students, especially girls, in high school and the lower grades. physics education, West Chester University; M.A.,

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

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In 2022-23, over 350 students were awarded close to $772,000 in Graduate Initiative Grants. in 2022-23. San Francisco State University From 2010 to 2022, Latinx-identifying undergraduate enrollment at San Francisco State University (SFSU) increased from 19% to 39%. In academic year 2021-22, 45.1% That number increased to 47.8%

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The Dr. Melvin C. Terrell Educational (MCT) Foundation, Inc. Names 2022 MCT Scholars

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has announced the 2022 cohort of MCT Scholars, recognizing 10 first-year graduate students in higher education or student affairs students at six institutions. Sean Robinson, faculty mentor) Delnita Evans ( Dr. C. Burt, faculty mentor) . The Dr. Melvin C. Terrell (MCT) Educational Foundation, Inc.

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Engineering Ph.D. Candidate Relishes His Role as a Mentor

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In addition to his other responsibilities, Childs said he has taken on the role of mentor for five undergraduate students, a responsibility that he takes seriously, but also views as enjoyable. “I So, you get to do research at the same time as mentoring. It’s fun and it’s a challenge too.”

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A Scholar’s Fight for Community Power - Dr. Jonathan D. Gomez

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sociology, emphasis in Black studies, University of California, Santa Barbara Career mentors: Christine Rodriguez, J.D., His 2022 essay, Wheres the Gig at? sociology, emphasis in community studies, University of California, Santa Cruz; Ph.D.,

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Advancing Black Males in STEM is My Passion — Here’s How I Got There

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To provide a backdrop, in 2022, 798,534 students were enrolled in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduate programs in the United States (National Science Foundation, 2022). Of those, 2% (16,111) were Black males. In the same year, Black males in engineering earned 1.8%