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Building a Dynamic University-Community College Partnership: The Second Decade of a Broad, Mutually Beneficial Materials Science Collaboration

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Collaborations between community colleges, non-research centered universities and research universities can enrich the flow of students into Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) majors and careers. The nation is beginning to understand the importance of such interaction especially with under-represented minorities and those with disabilities. For over fifteen years our group has developed new ways to integrate these students and their faculty to the research culture. This will lead to increased diversity and inform research university faculty of the great talent that is latent in these underserved pools.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, Howard University, Washington, DC, 20059, U.S.A.

    Joshua B. Halpern & Tito E. Huber

  2. Department of Natural Sciences and Engineering, Prince George’s Community College Largo, MD, 20774-2199, U.S.A.

    Scott A. Sinex & Scott D. Johnson

  3. Department of Science, Technology and Mathematics, Gallaudet University, Washington, DC, 20002, U.S.A.

    Paul Sabila & Christopher Mbochwa

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Halpern, J.B., Huber, T.E., Sinex, S.A. et al. Building a Dynamic University-Community College Partnership: The Second Decade of a Broad, Mutually Beneficial Materials Science Collaboration. MRS Advances 3, 637–642 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1557/adv.2018.203

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