Diversity

The Department of Biological Sciences is an academic community that reflects and embraces the cultural and intellectual diversity of the real world.

Our goals are:

• to foster a climate of respect and appreciation for the value of a culturally and ethnically rich environment, and


• to prepare students for careers in a globally connected economy and to promote their personal growth, maturity and responsibility

MINORITY PROGRAMS:

Undergraduate:

• McNair Scholars Program
• Multicultural Academic Opportunities Program (MAOP)
• Mid-Eastern Alliance for Minority Participation (MEAMP)
• National Science Foundation - Research Experience for Undergraduate

Graduate:

• McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program
• The National GEM Consortium
• SREB -State Doctoral Scholars Program
• VT-PREP
• University Multicultural Programs

 

2007 - 2008 Diversity Committee Members:

• F.M. Anne McNabb, Professor and Committee Chair
• Dija Banerjee, Assistant Professor
• Robert H. Jones, Professor and Department Head
• Jonathan Moore, Graduate Student
• John B. Phillips, Professor
• Florian D. Schubot, Assistant Professor
• Michael Surace, Graduate Student
• Dorothea Tholl, Assistant Professor