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The GEM Consortium,  and industry to help underrepresented students earn master’s and doctoral degrees in STEM fields, received the .

���ϲ����� has been a member of the GEM Consortium for almost 30 years. In the past five years, GEM Fellowships have been awarded to graduate students in the School of Architecture, College of Arts and Sciences, College of Engineering and Computer Science and School of Information Studies. The number of GEM Fellowship applications from ���ϲ����� students is now in the top 10 among GEM member universities. Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor is the current ���ϲ����� representative on the GEM Consortium.

“The award recognizes the contributions of the GEM Consortium in providing a scalable path to STEM careers in academia and industry for underrepresented students,” says Negussey.

“I’m grateful for all of Professor Negussey’s efforts to grow our graduate education pipeline for underrepresented graduate students at ���ϲ�����,” says , dean of the Graduate School. “To go from relatively little activity with the GEM Consortium to being a top 10 contributor of GEM applicants is a clear marker of our commitment to increasing the diversity of our graduate student population.”

Over the past 45 years, more than 4,000 GEM Fellows have earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in STEM fields. At present, the GEM consortium membership consists of 129 private and public national universities and 61 major corporations and research laboratories.