Education for Underrepresented Groups
Ted Greenwood, Program Director
Special Projects for the Advancement of Minorities and Women in Mathematics, Science and Engineering
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation occasionally supports especially promising projects with a national focus that promote the advancement of women or underrepresented minorities in mathematics, science and engineering and that are unrelated to our Minority PhD and American Indian Graduate Programs.
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation does NOT make grants to individual minority or women students to support their education except through our Minority Ph.D. Program.
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation does NOT make grants to support projects at the pre-college level to advance women or minorities in science and engineering.
In the following table, * indicates program supported by an Officer Grant.
# indicates Alfred P. Sloan Foundation support for the program is complete.
Institution |
Purpose |
Contact Person |
GATHERING IMPORTANT INFORMATION |
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To assemble and analyze data pertaining to the status of underrepresented minorities in academic career paths in mathematics, science and engineering |
Dr. Lisa Frehill |
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To support a survey of the demographics of faculty in university science and engineering departments, with an emphasis on the representation of women and underrepresented minorities, and to disseminate the results |
Dr. Donna Nelson |
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OTHER PROJECTS |
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To help Keystone Symposia increase the participation of underrepresented minority scientists within symposia leadership and attendees |
Dr. Andrew Robertson |
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To increase the participation of underrepresented minority faculty, postdocs and graduate students in Gordon Research Conferences |
Ms. Gerri Miceli |
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To establish a Center for Advancing Science and Engineering Capacity at the American Association for the Advancement of Science to help colleges and universities increase the participation of American students, especially underrepresented minorities and women |
Dr. Shirley Malcom |
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To enable the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education to develop a strategy for increasing the number of Hispanic professors in science, engineering, and mathematics at top American universities |
Dr. Louis Olivas |
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To partially support a conference on increasing recruitment and retention of Native Americans in STEM fields |
Dr. Herb Schroeder |
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To provide partial support for a Roundtable on how university-based programs to increase the representation of groups underrepresented in science and engineering can continue to be effective within the restrictions imposed by the legal doctrine of “strict scrutiny” |
Dr. Daryl Chubin |
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University of Washington * |
To launch an effort to develop the next generation of social science researchers who work on issues of minority representation in mathematics, science and engineering |
Dr. Angela Ginorio |
To help launch a pilot summer research program intended to encourage and prepare minority and women students to enter Ph.D. programs in applied mathematics |
Dr. Steven Strogatz |
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