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2013, 10(5&6): 1539-1540. doi: 10.3934/mbe.2013.10.1539

Superstar of the Sloan Minority Ph.D. Program

Ted Greenwood 1,

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Senior Advisor, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, South Korea

Received  February 2013 Revised  February 2013 Published  August 2013

In AY 1994-95 the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation launched a program, later known as the Minority Ph.D. Program, to increase the number of underrepresented minority students earning Ph.D.s in natural sciences, engineering and mathematics (SEM). This program emerged from a recognition that African Americans, Hispanic Americans and American Indians were very underrepresented at all levels and in all aspects of SEM disciplines and that, although undergraduate education had received and continued to received much attention by universities, private funders and government agencies, there was still relatively little attention being paid to the graduate and especially the Ph.D. level. Because earning the Ph.D. is a necessary milestone along the pathway to a faculty position and the effort to diversify the graduates of SEM disciplines depends, in large part, on diversifying the faculty at American universities, this relative lack of attention to Ph.D. education was, in the opinion of the Sloan Foundation, a significant deficiency of national efforts. As a Program Director at the Sloan Foundation, I initiated this Minority Ph.D. Program and ran it until my retirement in June 2011.

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Keywords: Underrepresented minority(ies), Minority PhD Program, Mathematical and Theoretical Biology Institute (MTBI)., Sloan Foundation.
Citation: Ted Greenwood. Superstar of the Sloan Minority Ph.D. Program. Mathematical Biosciences & Engineering, 2013, 10 (5&6) : 1539-1540. doi: 10.3934/mbe.2013.10.1539
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