Preparing minority scientists and engineers

Science

Volumn 311, Issue 5769, 2006, Pages 1870-1871

  Summers, Michael F ^a   Hrabowski III, Freeman A ^b  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; STUDENTS; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

MENTORSHIP; SCIENTISTS;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EDUCATION AND TRAINING; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; STUDENT;

APTITUDE; CAREER PLANNING; COLLEGE STUDENT; EDUCATION; EDUCATION PROGRAM; ENGINEERING; HIGH SCHOOL; MINORITY GROUP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; SCIENTIST; ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; SCIENCE; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; EDUCATION, GRADUATE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; ENGINEERING; FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS; HUMANS; MARYLAND; MINORITY GROUPS; SCIENCE; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 33645468190     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1125257     Document Type: Review

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21. We thank the Meyerhoff Foundation, NSF, NIH, HHMI, and a variety of other agencies, companies, foundations, and individual donors for financial support.