Indiana University Joins 9 Black Colleges For Science Initiative: Indiana University is joining with nine historically Black colleges and universities to boost the number of minorities seeking careers in science, starting with a summer program for promising students who will work at IU’s research laboratories.
IU President Adam Herbert, who announced The STEM Initiative during a Thursday news conference at IUPUI, said a $2 million endowment to fund a graduate student fellowship program is already in place to help get the effort off the ground.
He said the STEM program -- its name derives from science, technology, engineering and math -- aims to bring students from the mostly southern Black colleges to Indiana for educational opportunities. IU students and faculty will also be able to study or teach at the nine schools.
“This innovative undertaking unites several thousand students and faculty members across the nation around a common objective -- increasing the number of underrepresented minority graduate students, scholars and professionals in the STEM disciplines,” he said.
