Morehouse College has received a $2.5 million grant to increase its efforts to diversify STEM fields.
The grant, to help educate the college’s math and science students, was announced this week and donated by Jim and Marilyn Simons, leaders of the Simons Foundation, which works to advance research in math and the basic sciences.
“Marilyn and I deeply appreciate the unique role that Morehouse plays in our country,” James Simons said in a statement. “We are fortunate to be able to support Morehouse in its efforts to provide top-quality math and science education to a cohort of future leaders in the STEM fields. It is our hope that Morehouse graduates will serve as role models and help attract new and diverse talent to the STEM professions.”
Morehouse was the top producer of black male undergraduate students in biological sciences, physics, math and statistics from 2004 to 2013, the most recent ten years of data available from the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics.
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