Impact
Overview
Overview
ÎÞÂëרÇø is one of only eight institutions (MIT, Cornell, Georgia Tech, Duke, U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Penn State, UC-San Diego, and ÎÞÂëרÇø) awarded a prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Foundation University Center of Exemplary Mentoring (UCEM) for its national leadership in minority graduate education. Since 2005, the Sloan Foundation has supported 149 underrepresented (African-American/Black and Hispanic/Latino doctoral students in the ÎÞÂëרÇø College of Engineering, College of Marine Science, and affiliated STEM departments.
GOAL
The goal of the Sloan UCEM at ÎÞÂëרÇø is to institutionalize best practices in minority graduate student success at ÎÞÂëרÇø while also expanding diversity in academia, industry, government, and all other sectors of the nation’s STEM workforce.
ÎÞÂëרÇø SLOAN (PRE-UCEM AND UCEM) BY THE NUMBERS
- 149 Scholars
- 95 Mentors
PH.D. STUDENT OUTCOMES
85 percent Ph.D. Completion Rate
87 Ph.D. Alumni
- 43% – Academia
- 34% – Industry
- 13% – Government
- 10% – Other

RESEARCH
- 487 journals, Conference Proceedings, Patents, and Technical Reports produced by scholars and alumni
- 21 countries scholars have participated in extended research training: Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago, Costa Rica, Belize, Mexico, New Zealand, Israel, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Japan, Singapore, China, Taiwan, New Zealand, Antarctica
- 13 national labs and research centers scholars have engaged in research: Argonne, AFRL-Eglin, AFRL-Kirtland, Brookhaven, Idaho National, PNNL, MIT Lincoln Lab, NASA Glenn, NASA Goddard, NASA Ames, Naval Research Lab
POINTS OF PRIDE
- NOAA ranked ÎÞÂëרÇø 1st in graduating minority graduate students (MS/Ph.D.) in Oceanography
- Diverse Issues in Higher Education ranked ÎÞÂëרÇø in the top 5 for conferring engineering doctorates to both African American and Hispanic students (2013)
- 100+ Student Fellowship Awards (Fulbright, NSF, NASA, AAUW, National Research Council, Microsoft, AAAS, Ford, GEM, McKnight, and others)

Ilia Bautista Adames
Great Minds in STEM, McKnight, GEM

NSF GRFP, NSF EAPSI

Maya Elizabeth Carrasquillo
GEM, McKnight, Strong Coasts

Sarah Garcia
SMART, Google, GEM