Building a Community for Science and Engineering Success

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The chapter emphasizes the importance of fostering a supportive and collaborative environment in science and engineering education, focusing on excellence and inclusivity. It discusses preparing students from a young age for success in higher education, highlighting the impact on their future achievements. The program's success in promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in academic settings is acknowledged, along with efforts to replicate this model at other institutions with philanthropic support.

Growing up in Alabama in the 1960s, mathematician Freeman Hrabowski was moved to join the civil rights moment after hearing Martin Luther King Jr speak. Even as a child, he saw the desperate need to make change. He would go on to do just that — at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, where he co-founded the Meyerhoff Scholars Program, one of the leading pathways to success for Black students in STEM subjects in the United States.

Freeman is the subject of the first in a new series of Q&As in Nature celebrating ‘Changemakers’ in science — individuals who fight racism and champion inclusion. He spoke to us about his about his life, work and legacy.

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