Missouri Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate

About the Program

People

• Primary Investigator
  • Dr. Brady Deaton
  • Chancellor
  • University of Missouri
  • 105 Jesse Hall Columbia, MO
  • Phone: 573-882-3387
  • Fax: 573-882-9907
  • deatonb@missouri.edu
• Program Coordinator/Director
  • Dr. Pamela Benoit
  • vice provost for advanced studies and dean of the Graduate School
  • University of Missouri
  • 210 Jesse Hall Columbia, MO
  • Phone: 573-884-1402
  • Fax: 573-884-5454
  • benoitp@missouri.edu
• Preferred day-to-day contact person
  • Norma Jackson
  • Coordinator, Graduate Student Recruitment
  • University of Missouri
  • 210 Jesse Hall Columbia, MO
  • Phone: 573-882-3292
  • Fax: 573-884-5454
  • jacksonnj@missouri.edu

Primary Partners

• University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC)
• University of Missouri-Rolla (UMR)

Secondary Partners

• Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico (PUPR)

Disciplines & Departments

• Biological & Life Sciences
• Engineering
• Physical Sciences
• Social Sciences

Impact

Missouri Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate program (MAGEP) has worked steadily to increase the number of under-represented minority students earning doctoral degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. Since 2000, 56 doctoral degrees have been awarded to under-represented minorities in the STEM disciplines.

MAGEP fellows have also participated in the Preparing Future Faculty Program (PFF). PFF has provided MU graduate students with direct exposure to the roles, responsibilities and cultures of different kinds of institutions to help them make informed decisions.

The Multicultural Teaching Scholars (MTS) program is designed to enhance the ability of departments to recruit members of under-represented groups for future employment at the University of Missouri (MU) and prepare graduate and undergraduate students for the future by introducing them to a faculty more representative of the diversity of our society. Selected Multicultural Teaching Scholars serve as full-time instructors teaching or co-teaching a course during one of the summer sessions and as ambassadors to the MU experience.

MU hosted the first annual “Access to Knowledge” Research Symposium in November 2004. There were a total of 83 under-represented students and 73 administrators in attendance for this event. The agenda for the conference included poster and paper presentation sessions, mentoring activities modeled after those of the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) and the Compact for Faculty Diversity, professional development workshops and keynote addresses by nationally recognized scientists, mentors or higher education leaders.

Furthermore, MAGEP works with the Louis Stokes Missouri Alliance for Minority Participation (LS-MoAMP), providing the Summer Research Internship program for under-represented students in the STEM fields. MAGEP also works closely with the McNair Scholars program.

Connecting with these successful programs has shown remarkable commitment and students’ increased interest to pursue advanced degrees. The alliance with the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico (PUPR) is a fine example of MAGEP mutually beneficial partnership where MU faculty trains PUPR faculty members toward the doctoral degree in civil, computer, electrical and nuclear engineering. A total of 10 PUPR faculty members have received or will complete their doctorates in engineering by May 2007.

Student Achievements

L.M. Vicente, K.C. Ho, and C. Kwan, “An improved partial adaptive narrow-band beamformer using concentric ring array,” in Proc. ICASSP06, Tolouse, France, vol. 4 pp.

D. Vale, A. Velez, T.K. Gosh, and S.K. Loyalka, “Production of Nanoparticles of Alumninum Oxide by Decomposition of Aerosols of Alumnium Nitrate Solution in a Flame,” in Proc. 2005 Annual Meeting of American Nuclear Society, San Diego, CA.

Lee DN, Tang-Martinez Z. 2005. The Effects of early social environment on the physical development of prairie voles. (ABSTRACT) Integrated and Comparative Biology, 45(6)1031.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 9817233.