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Our Goal
The Northeast Alliance Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recruits, supports and mentors underrepresented minority graduate students interested in academic careers so they may pursue Ph.D's in science, mathematics or engineering disciplines at leading institutions of higher learning throughout the northeast.
Alliance Institutions
The NSF has designated the University of Massachusetts Amherst the lead university in the Northeast Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate. Member campuses are:
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University of Massachusetts
Boston University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Pennsylvania State University
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
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University of Connecticut
University of Maine
University of New Hampshire
University of Rhode Island
University of Vermont
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Partner Institutions
Alliance Institutions work actively with five minority-serving Partner Institutions to increase the number of underrepresented minority students who receive doctoral degrees in STEM disciplines. Partner Institutions are:
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Bennett College, NC
Jackson State University, MS
Lincoln University, PA
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Medgar Evers College, CUNY, NY
University of Puerto Rico, Mayaquez, PR
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