Despite many well-intentioned efforts, underrepresentation of minority groups persists in the academic fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Most of these programs have been too small to effect systemic change, though that is what we need to preserve the socioeconomic progress of the past several decades. We designed a new web-based tool to connect postdoctoral researchers and lecture organizers, enabling them to find each-other for talks, and, in the process, break barriers and level the playing field.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Dracoulis, Gregory Philip
• Feng, Shaoming
• Ciliotta Bezada, Giuseppe

Subject

• Computing
• Community

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-050511-164809

Keyword

• Application software--Development
• Minorities--Education

Advisor

• Vidali, Luis
• Golding, Dominic

Year

• 2011

Date created

• 2011-05-05

Location

• Worcester

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright