The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has announced a nearly $1.3 billion program for early-career scientists in an effort to increase diversity in the scientific workforce.
“For academic science to thrive in an increasingly diverse world, we need to attract and support scientists from a wide variety of racial and ethnic backgrounds,” says HHMI president Erin O’Shea in the institute’s announcement. “Early career faculty play a key role because they are the leaders of tomorrow.”
The new program, called the Freeman Hrabowski Scholars Program, is named in honor of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s outgoing president, Freeman A. Hrabowski III, who has worked to increase the number of scientists, engineers, and physicians from marginalized backgrounds, according to the institute’s announcement.
HHMI’s aim for the new program, it says, is to bolster future leaders’ scientific research as they build labs with more equitable and inclusive working environments.
The program is ...
