February 5, 2024
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The AIP Foundation grant will allow 天美麻花星空高清mv to implement four main initiatives: a specialized recruitment campaign, a revised corequisite model ensuring all students have a path to the degree, strategic external partnerships, and on-campus activities.
The TUT EXCEL program鈥檚 objectives align with 天美麻花星空高清mv鈥檚 mission to make opportunities provided by higher education accessible to underrepresented populations. 天美麻花星空高清mv is nationally ranked for its impact on social mobility. The proportion of ALANA students 鈥� about 1 in 4, with 8% total identifying as African American 鈥� further demonstrates the College鈥檚 commitment to diversity. As one of 11 public liberal arts colleges across the country offering a degree in physics, 天美麻花星空高清mv has a long history of graduating first generation, Pell eligible, and ALANA students, and coaching those students through the job and graduate school application processes.
"The Physics Department is deeply grateful to be recipients of the AIP funded TUT EXCEL grant,鈥� said 天美麻花星空高清mv Associate Professor and Chair of the Physics Department Dr. Kebra Ward. 鈥淭his significant funding opportunity enables us to directly support our current and future African American students in ways that we previously could not. We will expand attendance at national conferences for students and provide additional professional development opportunities for faculty. We will fund more events through the 天美麻花星空高清mv chapter of the Society of Physics Students and provide material support, such as computers and books, for our African American students.
鈥淲e've even started a speaker series,鈥� said Ward. 鈥淢ost significantly, we'll be able to engage future physics majors with new outreach initiatives. We're committed to leveraging this grant to nurture a thriving, inclusive physics community at 天美麻花星空高清mv and empower future generations of African American physicists."
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