University of Pittsburgh Research Experience for Undergraduates in Physics

Some links pertaining to Social Diversity in Science

• Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship for Minorities
  $17,000 stipend for minority undergrad seniors or minority grad students in mathematical or scientific fields.
  
  
• Annual Undergraduate Scholarship for African-Americans in Physics.
  Sponsored by the National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP) and the University of California-Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL).
  
  
• Scholarships for Minority Undergraduate Students who Major in Physics.
  Offered by the American Physical Society's Committee On Minorities (COM).
  
  
• Bell Labs Graduate Research Fellowship
  For women and minority groups under-represented in the sciences. Primarily directed to college seniors.
  
  
• IBM Research Internship for Undergraduate Women.
  Paid internship at an IBM lab, to encourage women to pursue graduate studies in science and engineering. Co-sponsored by the American Physical Society (APS).
  
  
• "EDGE": Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education
  An NSF-funded summer program for women and minorities in Mathematics, who wish to advance to grad school. See a recent (2003) article for more info.
  
  
• Summer Math Program for Women Undergraduates
  An NSF REU hosted at Carleton College, Minnesota.
  
  
• Program for Women in Mathematics
  Sponsored by Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study. Two-week summer program for women at all university levels.
  
  
• Summer Program for Women in Mathematics at George Washington University.
  Sponsored by the National Security Administration. A five-week program designed for 16 undergraduates who have completed their junior year.
  
  
• Loreal For Women in Science Graduate Fellowship
  $20,000 fellowship offered by the Loreal Cosmetic Company, to third and fourth year graduate students and postdoctoral researchers who are pursuing studies and research in the Natural Sciences (biological and physical), Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics.
  
  
• Opportunities for Women in Mathematics
  A listing of several grants and scholarships, maintained by the University of Oregon Women in Mathematics Program.

• Data on Women and Minorities in Physics.
  By the American Institute of Physics.
  
  
• "Scholarship, Service, and Tenure: A Descriptive Analysis".
  A research paper describing tenure and the definition of scholarship, especially as it affects female and African-American professors. From National Social Science Journal, volume 15, #2 (2001), as found on the website of the National Social Science Association.
  
  
• Take Back the Campus
  A female post-feminist perspective on some potential 'myths' of campus victimhood. By the conservative-friendly She Thinks dot org.
  
  
• 'Girls Surging Past Boys'
  A story from Seattle Times (Sept. 20, 2003) about the academic gender change being affected.
  
  
• 'Men are from Earth, and so are Women'
  An article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, discussing gender myths that may be perpetuated in academia.
  
  
• African Americans in the Sciences.
  Descriptions of famous minority scientists, as well as an exploration of the disproportionately low minority representation in the sciences.