Diversity Remains Elusive for Flagship NSF Program

摘要

LaTasha Taylor is the future of interdisciplinary graduate training, as the National Science Foundation (NSF) sees it. Since 1998, the U.S. agency has spent more than $300 million to train a new type of graduate student who can combine knowledge from many fields to pursue challenges as diverse as space exploration and sustainable development on Earth. One of the major goals of the Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program is to attract more minority students and women such as Taylor into science and engineering doctoral programs.