Empowering Underrepresented Students in Science
Johnson-Anderson, Sonji (Director, UMass Amherst STEM Ambassadors Program, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA) / Lingutla, Ranjana (Medical Student, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA) / Riley, Margaret (Professor, Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States)
Empowering Underrepresented Students in Science: STEM Students Speak chronicles the best practices of a STEM retention program for underrepresented minority students (URM) at a public university. Written mostly as an engaging series of vignettes, this story invites its audience to examine the "underbelly¿ of this successful program. It reveals to readers what lies at the heart of creating and sustaining a STEM retention program that is as invi...