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Andronicos feels a tremendous amount of responsibility to help other minority students persevere and succeed in their studies.

The purpose of MS PHD'S is to increase the participation of underrepresented minorities in earth-system sciences.

“Our goal is to begin to influence the new crop of African academics that can then engage with colleagues here to develop long-lived collaborative relationships.”—Michael Adewumi

The first step to realizing this vision, says Ridgway, is for students to take a basic geology class and find out what geologists actually do.

In her work with Native communities, Hiza Redsteer engages with Native youth, modeling a powerful way they can contribute to their communities: by becoming scientists.