Diversity & Outreach

UC LEADS - Objectives

UC LEADS seeks to serve the following objectives:

• To increase diversity of graduate students in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) at the University of California.
• To identify, encourage, and train undergraduates of high potential, so as to increase their competitiveness for admission to University of California doctoral programs (i.e. Ph.D.).
• To achieve the foregoing aims through appropriate faculty mentoring, experiential learning in summer and academic-year research programs, involvement in professional and scientific societies, and exposure to the UC graduate environment.
• To prepare future leaders in industry, government public service, and academia whose demographics reflect the growing diversity of the state's population and to increase the diversity of contributors to science, engineering and mathematics disciplines.

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