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Morgan State Wins $1.25M STEM Education Grant
The $1.25 million grant from the National Science Foundation to Morgan State will support a program for first-year STEM students.
BALTIMORE, MD — Morgan State University announced Wednesday that it received a $1.25 million grant from the National Science Foundation to increase the number of graduates with degrees in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) and related fields.
The funds will go to the university's School of Computer, Mathematical and Natural Sciences to support the PERSIST Program, an effort to support first-year students.
In a statement, the university describes the PERSIST program as "a multilayered independent project designed to address student retention by creating pathways for greater success among STEM majors at Morgan."
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Lisa Brown, an associate professor, will oversee the program.
“The PERSIST program will greatly improve [each] student’s ability to think critically and persist towards completion of the freshman year and beyond to graduation,” said Hongtao Yu, dean of the School of Computer, Mathematical and Natural Sciences, in the statement.
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