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As scientists, we have yet to close the racial disparities’

from The New York Times

As scientists, we have yet to close the racial disparities’ The New York Times In 2010, Esther Ngumbi, then a young graduate student in entomology, appeared on the cover of a report on women and minorities in science, technology, mathematics and engineering that asked: Why So Few? Since then, the situation hasn’t changed, particularly for black scientists. Only 9% of bachelor’s degrees in science and engineering go to black students, according to the National Science Foundation’s latest tally, a figure that has not shifted for two decades. READ MORE

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