By Emily Wolfe, News Editor September 19, 2019 It’s not news that minority groups are underrepresented in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math. White men make up about one third of the United States population, but account for about half of the country’s science and engineering jobs, and the National Academy of Sciences said the number of racially and ethnically underrepresented students in STEM fields would need to triple to match their percentage of the population.That’s why the National Science Foundation awarded Pitt a $10 million grant to develop programming that will boost STEM enrollment for underrepresented students.Over the course of five years, a Pitt research team will work with the STEM Learning Ecosystem Community of Practice, a national system of STEM programming, to create what the NSF calls the STEM PUSH Network — Pathways for Underrepresented Students to HigherEd. The team’s end goal is to address enrollment gaps on multiple levels by getting more underrepresented students to enroll in pre-college programs, study STEM areas in college and get related jobs after graduation.The NSF granted the award to Pitt’s Broadening Equity in STEM Center, or BE STEM, which launched earlier this year. The team, co-directed by the biology… Read full this story
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