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"Ultimately, the MAS site is successful in providing a simple, community-oriented site for underrepresented minorities interested in aquatic sciences."

"PharMosaic is different than most minority science career programs because of its industry career-targeting objective."

The JGH site is a valuable tool for aspiring minority scientists and their advocates because of its wealth of information and resources.

"The Faces of Science brings humanity to the scientific achievements of African Americans."

The SACNAS Web site serves as a communications hub for SACNAS members and beneficiaries.

"The court reasoned that race can be a determinant in school admissions, but it cannot be a predominant factor in a school's admissions procedure."

Cuker felt he was meant to help minority students become aquatic scientists, which is why he created the ASLO Minorities Program in 1989.

Are minority students better served by an undergraduate education at one of the historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) or have these institutions outlived their usefulness?

MORE hopes to increase the number of underrepresented minority scientists by disseminating information about a variety of biomedical research training programs.

She enjoyed being able to explain a physical situation with an equation and solve that equation for a tangible solution. In her words, she "had a knack for it."

"The proposition would have banned colleges and universities in the state from collecting and using most racial and ethnic information. "

Although Proposition 54 was soundly defeated, Connerly plans to reintroduce the racial privacy initiative after reworking the language to ensure it would protect health care.

She received a grant allowing her to develop the AI Toolkit, an educational software package designed to teach her student interns about fuzzy logic, neural networks, and genetic algorithms.

"While mathematics is the foundation for his study into the nature of the universe, he credits his family and upbringing for providing him with the foundation for success."

"The board recommends creating partnerships between businesses and educational institutions to prepare students, primarily trained for academia, for entrance into the private sector."

For more than 20 years, Hubert Germain-Robin has overseen the resurrection of his family legacy as the co-founder of Alambic Inc.

Although he faced the turbulence of political unrest as a young man, Ameer rose above those challenges and followed his dream.

Time and again, he has changed his professional outlook to satisfy an intellectual question.

"I have always had an interest in trying to apply my mathematics to help mankind as best I could." --Abdul-Aziz Yakubu

"I wanted to become a person of scientific authority so that I could say this is a real problem that needs to be addressed, because nobody else was addressing it." --Sophia Cleland