STAT October 14, 2021
Saying bold steps are needed to improve racial, ethnic, and gender diversity in science, the influential Howard Hughes Medical Institute on Thursday announced a $2 billion plan to accelerate inclusion and equity efforts throughout the academic science pipeline, from supporting community college students to adding 200 biomedical science professors from underrepresented groups to the nation’s colleges and universities.
The new plan was years in the making but is being unveiled with a sense of urgency at a time of racial reckoning across the country and throughout science, where just a fraction of professors are Black, Hispanic, or Native American/Alaskan Native. The 10-year plan — called potentially transformational in its scope and approach by one leader in the effort to diversity...
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