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Overview

Overview

±«Óãtv is one of only eight institutions (MIT, Cornell, Georgia Tech, Duke, U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Penn State, UC-San Diego, and ±«Óãtv) awarded a prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Foundation University Center of Exemplary Mentoring (UCEM) for its national leadership in minority graduate education. Since 2005, the Sloan Foundation has supported 149 underrepresented (African-American/Black and Hispanic/Latino doctoral students in the ±«Óãtv College of Engineering, College of Marine Science, and affiliated STEM departments. 

GOAL

The goal of the Sloan UCEM at ±«Óãtv is to institutionalize best practices in minority graduate student success at ±«Óãtv while also expanding diversity in academia, industry, government, and all other sectors of the nation’s STEM workforce.

±«Óãtv SLOAN (PRE-UCEM AND UCEM) BY THE NUMBERS

• 149 Scholars
• 95 Mentors

PH.D. STUDENT OUTCOMES

85 percent Ph.D. Completion Rate 
87 Ph.D. Alumni

• 43% – Academia
• 34% – Industry
• 13% – Government
• 10% – Other

RESEARCH

• 487 journals, Conference Proceedings, Patents, and Technical Reports produced by scholars and alumni
• 21 countries scholars have participated in extended research training: Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago, Costa Rica, Belize, Mexico, New Zealand, Israel, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Japan, Singapore, China, Taiwan, New Zealand, Antarctica
• 13 national labs and research centers scholars have engaged in research: Argonne, AFRL-Eglin, AFRL-Kirtland, Brookhaven, Idaho National, PNNL, MIT Lincoln Lab, NASA Glenn, NASA Goddard, NASA Ames, Naval Research Lab

POINTS OF PRIDE

• NOAA ranked ±«Óãtv 1st in graduating minority graduate students (MS/Ph.D.) in Oceanography
• Diverse Issues in Higher Education ranked ±«Óãtv in the top 5 for conferring engineering doctorates to both African American and Hispanic students (2013)   
• 100+ Student Fellowship Awards (Fulbright, NSF, NASA, AAUW, National Research Council, Microsoft, AAAS, Ford, GEM, McKnight, and others)