UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Seminar

Marcel Agüeros, Columbia University

“Columbia’s Bridge to the Ph.D. Program: A Research-Intensive Path to Graduate School for Underrepresented Minorities”

The Bridge to the Ph.D. Program in the Natural Sciences, now in its tenth year, is designed to increase the participation of underrepresented minorities in STEM graduate programs. In this talk, I will outline the Program structure, focusing in particular on admissions and participant performance evaluation, discuss some of the outcomes for its participants, volunteer some lessons learned, and describe our plans for its next half decade.