Many factors may have contributed to NAMSS's success in bringing in more minorities to STEM, but from Vergun's perspective, the most important ones have been the intensive science training and mentoring that undergraduate participants receive, the mentoring the students themselves provide to younger generations, and the cultural knowledge that the students share with those who mentor them.
But after years of ensemble dramas sprinkled with nonwhite supporting actors, the excitement surrounding the election of Barack Obama could help to open doors for more minorities in leading dramatic roles, executives from television production studios said.
More minority physics grads from schools like the University of Texas would be a boon to companies across sectors desperate to hire more of them.
Vice Media has confirmed it has secured a further $500m £303.8mm) in financing from two more minority investors, in part to fund "thousands of hours" of new video content for online, mobile and TV.
The Sims app now will let you travel around the Sims house; the Chelsea Kicker app will make a Chelsea football player appear in front of you for a selfie or to show you a trick with the ball; and (perhaps less exciting and more Minority Report) an AR app from the WSJ will let you visualise stock trends in midair.
But whom does holistic admissions help more — minority students, or affluent white applicants from private and suburban schools?
And to prevent a growing, educated, more liberal minority from becoming too influential, state-controlled television, the main source of information for the vast majority of Russians, portrays the era before Putin as one of pure collapse and chaos and homosexuals as a threat to "traditional Russian values".
That is, while minorities from more advantaged family backgrounds continued to apply and be admitted to UC campuses after Prop 209 (though the set of UC campuses where they were admitted may have changed), they were less likely to enroll at one of the campuses and less likely to graduate from one of them10.
Another possible reason is social, since minorities from more conservative cultures can relate to the traditional values of the GOP.
I could also point out that someone working in academia or industry who is embittered by knowing that their choice of career was made by seeking to placate an advisor could do more to discourage other women and minorities from entering scientific careers.
