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"It's hard to sell yourself if you don't have a good reason for being there."

"I have always had an interest in trying to apply my mathematics to help mankind as best I could." --Abdul-Aziz Yakubu

"PharMosaic is different than most minority science career programs because of its industry career-targeting objective."

Although he faced the turbulence of political unrest as a young man, Ameer rose above those challenges and followed his dream.

The loss of these highly educated professionals from developing countries to developed nations has been termed "brain drain" or reverse transfer of technology.

The best solutions for brain drain are economic recovery and social development.

The JGH site is a valuable tool for aspiring minority scientists and their advocates because of its wealth of information and resources.

The SACNAS Web site serves as a communications hub for SACNAS members and beneficiaries.

MORE hopes to increase the number of underrepresented minority scientists by disseminating information about a variety of biomedical research training programs.

As a black man in South Africa, Philander had to cope with apartheid's brutal white-supremacist system on his path to becoming a scientist.

Despite their different backgrounds, these four GEM students have dealt with the same issues--moving to larger schools, cultural isolation, unexpected crises, and family considerations--that all students of color face when transitioning into graduate school.

Where are all the minority males? This article examines the data concerning the number of minority males in S&E.

--Dr. Willie Pearson, chair of Georgia Tech's School of History, Technology, and Society

Hayes has become the youngest professor at the University of California at Berkeley, earning tenure at 30, when most scientists are at still postdocs and many are graduate students.

She enjoyed being able to explain a physical situation with an equation and solve that equation for a tangible solution. In her words, she "had a knack for it."

[Bowen's] recent appointment to Brown is his second at the institution, after teaching biology there from 1983 to 1991, and it marks the beginning of another chapter in his lifelong pursuit of knowledge.

Gourdine, an African-American physicist and engineer, became an expert in electrogasdynamics and developed commercial uses for the technology.

Bustamante has traveled far and learned what it takes to become a scientist in the demanding world of biomedical research.