{"id":4176,"date":"2017-12-14T12:31:52","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T18:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/for-wisconsin\/?post_type=campus_story&p=4176"},"modified":"2018-02-26T16:34:53","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T22:34:53","slug":"full-stem-ahead-uw-la-crosse-mcnair-scholars-program-continues-with-1-1-million-grant","status":"publish","type":"campus_story","link":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/story\/full-stem-ahead-uw-la-crosse-mcnair-scholars-program-continues-with-1-1-million-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Full STEM Ahead: UW-La Crosse McNair Scholars program continues with $1.1 million grant"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The U.S. Department of Education has awarded the UW-La Crosse Ronald E. McNair Scholars Program just over $1.1 million, extending funding through September 2022. UWL\u2019s program, which began in 2010, has a proven track record \u2014 78 percent of alumni have enrolled in graduate study.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The successful UW-La Crosse program that prepares first generation, low income and underrepresented students for graduate school will continue.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Department of Education has awarded the university\u2019s Ronald E.\u00a0McNair Scholars Program<\/a>\u00a0just over $1.1 million to continue the program for five more academic years, with funding through September 2022. The program will receive $231,729 each year to fund student research and more to help them be accepted into graduate school. Funding for the program from the previous grant was set to run out in September 2018.<\/p>\n

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UWL Biology Professor Roger Haro directs the McNair Scholars Program at UWL. \u201cThe program definitely changes peoples\u2019 lives,\u201d he says.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The award is welcome news and allows the program to successfully impact targeted students, says Roger Haro, director of the program. The program serves 28 students annually, with at least 50 percent of students who have declared majors in Science, Engineering, Technology and Mathematics (STEM) fields.<\/p>\n

UWL\u2019s program, which began in 2010, has a proven track record \u2014 78 percent of alumni have enrolled in graduate study. Some of those students have earned full-ride scholarships. In its first seven years, 29 alumni have earned master\u2019s degrees and one student has earned a doctorate.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe program definitely changes peoples\u2019 lives,\u201d says Haro. \u201cIt prepares them on multiple fronts to be competitive and provides an opportunity to move beyond a four-year degree to earn a master\u2019s or Ph.D. \u2014 something they often can\u2019t even imagine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Along with funding from the Department of Education, the program is supported by the\u00a0Provost Office<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0College of Science and Health<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The successful UW-La Crosse program that prepares first generation, low income and underrepresented students for graduate school will continue. The U.S. Department of Education has awarded the university\u2019s Ronald E.\u00a0McNair Scholars Program\u00a0just over $1.1 million to continue the program for five more academic years, with funding through September 2022. The program will receive $231,729 each […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":4178,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","institution":[104],"story_category":[],"class_list":["post-4176","campus_story","type-campus_story","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","institution-uw-la-crosse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/campus_story\/4176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/campus_story"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/campus_story"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"institution","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/institution?post=4176"},{"taxonomy":"story_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story_category?post=4176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}