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Program Supports Incoming Bio Majors from Minority, Low-income Backgrounds

Last Updated: July 15, 2010

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"The Biology Scholars Program is about helping these students keep their eye on the prize in terms of going on to graduate or medical school," said the director of advising. The program also seeks to diversify the sciences by retaining talented individuals with varied backgrounds and experiences who are uniquely positioned to analyze and solve health issues that face minority communities.

Released July 13, 2010

ITHACA, N.Y. - Students from low-income or minority backgrounds are underrepresented in biology programs across the country, but Cornell's Biology Scholars Program (BSP) -- which just graduated its first class of students -- is helping to buck that trend.

The program, which is designed to support students majoring in biological sciences who come from economic, gender, geographic, ethnic or cultural groups historically underrepresented in the biological sciences, offers study groups for math, chemistry, biology and physics courses over the first three years; exposure to careers in research, medicine and biological sciences; tours of research labs; opportunities to network with faculty members, alumni and others; academic advising; and a community where students may feel included from the start.


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