Estrada Lab

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NIH R01 · 2024

Scaling Up Culturally Affirming Pathways to Biomedical Faculty Careers for Native Scholars

Project Abstract Strong demographic evidence shows that Native students are not integrating into STEM professional communities at the same rate as majority students. While Native people (Native American/Alaskan Native/Native Hawaiian) make up nearly 2% of the U.S. population according the most recent U.S. Census, they make up only about 0.01% of enrolled undergraduate students (NSF, 2014) and 3,014 (.5%) of the 601,883 enrolled graduate students in Science and Engineering (S&E) programs, with even smaller percentages persisting to faculty STEM careers (NSF, 2017). Why don't Native scholars with high interest in biomedical careers integrate into their STEM professional communities at rates…

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