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College Success: Economic and Moral Imperative

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U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan shifts focus to student outcomes in major speech at UMBC. U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan outlined a new vision for American higher education in a major policy speech at UMBC on July 27, 2015. Emphasizing educational outcomes, Sec. Duncan said the primary focus should be on students graduating in a timely manner with a meaningful degree that will set them up for a lifetime of success. Duncan delivered the speech before a standing-room-only crowd of students, faculty, staff, and higher education leaders from across the country in the Performing Arts and Humanities Building’s… Continue Reading College Success: Economic and Moral Imperative

Meyerhoff Scholars Program Featured in NSTA Reports

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The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) recently released its Summer 2015 edition of NSTA Reports, which included a feature on UMBC’s Meyerhoff Scholars Program (MSP). NSTA Reports is an organizational newspaper which covers national science education news. The article, titled “Creating Communities of STEM Scholars,” describes the different components of the Meyerhoff program and how it has inspired similar programs around the country. “The Meyerhoff program is a community of scholars, and students are working to support one another,” MSP director Keith Harmon told NSTA Reports. “What we try to convey is the idea that working together, you can do… Continue Reading Meyerhoff Scholars Program Featured in NSTA Reports

UMBC/HHMI Meyerhoff Video Wins Telly Award

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The inspiring video “Strength in Numbers: Inside the Meyerhoff Scholars Program” has won a 2015 Telly Award. The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) created this video for a feature article in The HHMI Bulletin focused on the supportive community at the heart of UMBC’s Meyerhoff Scholars Program. “Strength in Numbers” was filmed at the UMBC Meyerhoff Scholars retreat in the fall of 2013 and featured several scholars speaking about how the program has helped them. It is available to view through the HHMI website. Blossom Tewelde ’14, biochemistry and molecular biology, spoke to The HHMI Bulletin about the importance of diversity in the sciences.… Continue Reading UMBC/HHMI Meyerhoff Video Wins Telly Award

UMBC hosts White House College Opportunity Initiative workshop to improve STEM education nationwide

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“What is UMBC’’s special sauce?” ”That’s what Susan Singer, director of the National Science Foundation’’s Division of Undergraduate Education, pondered aloud when she took the stage on September 16, 2014, at an education workshop co-hosted by the White House and UMBC. How has UMBC so successfully supported students from all backgrounds, while many other universities struggle with lagging retention rates and achievement gaps, particularly in the sciences, technology, engineering and math (STEM)? Later that morning, Dean Bill LaCourse revealed the UMBC recipe. We’’ve succeeded, he shared, through a commitment to inclusion, community of support, stable leadership, recognition of the diverse… Continue Reading UMBC hosts White House College Opportunity Initiative workshop to improve STEM education nationwide

Say Something: Jesse Smith

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The Chronicle has just featured math major and Meyerhoff Scholar Jesse Smith in their Say Something audio series. Smith talks about his experience with the Meyerhoff program and how peer connections through the program have given him a sense of confidence and what is possible to achieve in his career. The article also links to the HHMI story about the Meyerhoff Replication Project.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Takes UMBC’s Meyerhoff Program On the Road

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Today, UMBC and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) announced the Meyerhoff Adaptation Project, a five-year partnership between the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), Penn State, UNC Chapel Hill and UMBC. This project will expand UMBC’s innovative Meyerhoff Scholars Program — which has seen dramatic results in successfully preparing minority students for STEM careers — to Penn State and UNC Chapel Hill. Since 1993, the Meyerhoff program has graduated more than 900 students in STEM disciplines; alumni have earned 144 PhD degrees, 39 MD/PhD degrees, 1 DVM/PhD degree, 239 Masters degrees, and 107 MD degrees. The program is built on… Continue Reading Howard Hughes Medical Institute Takes UMBC’s Meyerhoff Program On the Road

Future Meyerhoff Scholar Austin Murdock in Pasadena Patch

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Incoming freshman Austin Murdock was profiled in a short June 7 article for the Pasadena Patch. Murdock is participating in the “Summer Bridge” sub-program of the Meyerhoff Scholars Program, which the student is quoted in the article as “basically just… getting us ready for school.” The article also details his work with the Department of Defense (DOD) during his senior year, along with his academic achievements, including graduating in the top five percent of Chesapeake Senior High School, a Certificate of Merit and membership in both the National Honor Society and the World and Classical Languages Honor Society. Among his… Continue Reading Future Meyerhoff Scholar Austin Murdock in Pasadena Patch

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