Rockefeller Foundation Funds UAMS Summer Science Program for Youth

JAN. 3, 2002 | The Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation of Little Rock has awarded $372,000 to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) to sponsor educational programs for at-risk youth during the next four summers.

The UAMS Summer Science Discovery Program will promote careers in the health sciences to elementary-age children in Pulaski County.

Billy Thomas, M.D., assistant dean of minority affairs in the UAMS College of Medicine, will direct the program with assistance from Raymond André Watson, director of the science program and community outreach coordinator for the college. Classroom teachers and the Arkansas Museum of Discovery will design the lesson plans for the one-day programs, to take place at the museum in Little Rock.

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The university proposed the project to the foundation as a way to address the small proportion of minority students in its five colleges and graduate school. Less than ten percent of the university’s students are minorities. The summer program will encourage students to study the sciences in high school and pursue careers in health sciences.

UAMS will contact county elementary schools and other children’s programs to invite applications. For more information, contact Raymond André Watson (501-526-6334).

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Billy Thomas: http://www.uams.edu/today/030901/thomas.htm
Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation: http://www.wrockefellerfoundation.org/
Arkansas Museum: http://www.amod.org/
Andre Watson: WatsonRAndre@uams.edu

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