5 years ago
Alum Michael Johnson: Crowdsourcing virtual summer research opportunities to support minorities in microbiology
Summer research programmes are renowned for encouraging underrepresented minorities (URMs) to pursue STEM careers, but COVID-19 left many students in the United States unable to participate. We created the National Summer Undergraduate Research Project (NSURP) to matchmake students with mentors, enabling 250 URM students to do summer research.