Over the past seven years, the Department of Macromolecular Science & Engineering has operated an outreach program into significantly challenged inner city high schools, as well as actively using its summer REU program to enhance minority participation in undergraduate research and graduate recruiting.  100% of the high school students who have completed the program have gone on to college (the first student is in her second year of a PhD program now) with 90% majoring in STEM fields.  The REU program, working closely with a group of historically black universities, had led the program from no African American PhD students 5 years ago to 12% participation as of fall 2014.  Successful strategies at both the high school and undergraduate levels will be discussed.

Diversifying the Department of Macromolecular Science & Engineering at Case Western Reserve University

248th National Meeting (2014)

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