From the Office of Academic Affairs
The Ohio State University is one of ten U.S. universities awarded grants totaling $2.5 million from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to advance equity in doctoral STEM programs.
Selected through a competitive nationwide search, each award recipient received a two-year, $250,000 seed grant to develop plans and begin implementation of evidence-based policies and practices to improve the recruitment, retention and graduation of a diverse community of students in physical science and engineering doctoral programs. Upon conclusion of the seed grant, pilot programs will be eligible to apply for four-year, $1.4 million implementation grants from Sloan, which include scholarship funds for students in participating departments.
Project co-directors and co-principal investigators are Wendy Smooth, senior vice provost for inclusive excellence; Ange-Marie Hancock, executive director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and ENGIE-Axium Endowed Professor of Political Science; Ayanna Howard, dean of the College of Engineering and Monte Ahuja Endowed Dean’s Chair; La’Tonia Stiner-Jones, associate dean of graduate programs in the College of Engineering; Susan Olesik, dean of natural and mathematical sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences and Distinguished University Professor; and Stephen Quaye, associate dean for excellence in graduate and postdoctoral training in the Graduate School. The SCSC at Ohio State will be administrated jointly by the Graduate School and the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity.
Read more about the award and additional partners on the Office of Academic Affairs website.