NIH diversity programs doubled undergraduates’ odds of getting a Ph.D., 20-year study finds

The path to becoming a scientist is long and twisting, making it difficult to assess whether programs intended to help those careers along are successful. 

But on Wednesday, the results of one such study are being published after 20 years of research. The paper in the journal Science Advances found that two diversity-oriented programs supported by the National Institutes of Health doubled the odds that an undergraduate student would earn a Ph.D. 

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