NSF GRANT AIMS TO PROMOTE ROBOTICS AT HBCUS: Money will go toward boosting number of blacks in the field.
(eurweb.com)
Today, the National Science Foundation is scheduled to announce a partnership between seven research universities and eight historically black colleges to encourage African Americans to pursue research and scholarship in robotics, reports Chronicle of Higher Education’s Andrea L. Foster.
Out of about two million computer and information scientists in the United States only 4.8 percent of them are African American, according to the science foundation.
The alliance, called the Advancing Robotics Technology for Societal Impact (ARTSI), will, among other things, offer: research activities at historically black colleges, internships for minority students in university laboratories, national outreach through a Web portal, and an annual student research conference and workshop. (more…)
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