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    <Title>UMBC&#8217;s Meyerhoff Scholars model heads to UC Berkeley and UCSD through a $6.9M investment from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative</Title>
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          <div class="html-content">“It is truly thrilling to think about the national and global impact the Meyerhoff Scholars Program will have through partnerships like this,” says UMBC's Michael Summers. “By working together we can help shape the future of our national Ph.D. pipeline, with inclusive excellence as a core shared value of our work."</div>
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    <Summary>“It is truly thrilling to think about the national and global impact the Meyerhoff Scholars Program will have through partnerships like this,” says UMBC's Michael Summers. “By working together we...</Summary>
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    <PostedAt>Tue, 09 Apr 2019 18:05:54 -0400</PostedAt>
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  <Title>Times Higher Ed spotlights UMBC as a model in supporting student achievement</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">This week, Times Higher Education shined a spotlight on UMBC’s advancements in graduating more low-income and minority students in the sciences—what it calls the “holy grail of academia.” “Everybody wants to understand our model,” UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski told reporter Paul Basken. As Hrabowski explained, lessons learned in one area can inform another, and UMBC’s work to support underrepresented students in STEM fields has led to investments in support programs for students of all backgrounds across UMBC.</div>
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  <Summary>This week, Times Higher Education shined a spotlight on UMBC’s advancements in graduating more low-income and minority students in the sciences—what it calls the “holy grail of academia.”...</Summary>
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  <PostedAt>Fri, 04 Jan 2019 16:24:12 -0500</PostedAt>
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    <Title>Boston Globe profiles UMBC as a model of excellence in higher ed</Title>
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          <div class="html-content">Last Sunday's Boston Globe greeted readers with a front-page story about lessons to be learned from a top research university, but it wasn't about local powerhouses Harvard or MIT. It was a profile of UMBC, where “nothing is more important...than brainpower and grit.”</div>
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    <Summary>Last Sunday's Boston Globe greeted readers with a front-page story about lessons to be learned from a top research university, but it wasn't about local powerhouses Harvard or MIT. It was a...</Summary>
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