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Print Edition StoriesWednesday, June 24, 2009
NIH funds UMass outreach for minorities’ biomed doctorates
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Three University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty members have won $754,000 from the National Institutes of Health to encourage underrepresented minorities with recent bachelor’s degrees to pursue doctorate degrees in disciplines related to biomedicine.
The grants will fund a UMass chapter of the Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP). Under PREP, participants will work for a year as interns in UMass research laboratories and will take part in professional development and educational activities.
The program will be overseen by professor of chemical engineering Surita Bhatia, professor of chemistry Lynmarie Thompson, and Sandra Petersen, professor of biology and associate dean of UMass’ graduate school.
The faculty members plan to host ten students per year in a two-year pilot phase of the program. After the pilot, the school can apply for eight more years of funding.
The program will serve 10 PREP students annually during the two-year pilot phase of the project. After two years, UMass Amherst can apply for eight more years of funding, said Petersen.
PREP will be run out of the UMass graduate school and coordinated with the activities of the Northeast Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate, a National Science Foundation-funded, UMass-led alliance of 10 universities aimed at increasing the number of underrepresented minorities obtaining doctorates in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, as well as the number going on to postdoctoral and faculty positions.
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