Agilent Launches Partnership with Delaware State University to Advance Diversity in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Fields
29 Setembro 2022 - 2:01PM
Business Wire
Agilent will fund STEM students from
underrepresented groups, and provide lab instrumentation and
mentorship to support postgraduate research in the life
sciences
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) is launching a partnership
with Delaware State University (DSU), a leading historically Black
university, to increase the share of underrepresented students
entering STEM fields, a central mission of the company’s
philanthropic work through the Agilent Foundation.
Agilent will donate $1 million in addition to new lab
instrumentation to help DSU expand educational opportunities and
advance research in applied chemistry, biological sciences, food
science, molecular and cellular neuroscience, and related
disciplines. Agilent’s support will also contribute to building
research capacity of a consortium of historically Black colleges
and universities (HBCUs) in the mid-Atlantic region led by Delaware
State.
“DSU has a tremendous pool of talented STEM students,” said
Agilent President and CEO Mike McMullen. “This partnership will
help us provide direct support to these students and encourage more
scholars at HBCUs across the mid-Atlantic to consider opportunities
at Agilent and within the broader life sciences sector.”
Agilent’s donation comes as DSU breaks ground on a new
24,000-square-foot building for its College of Agriculture Science
and Technology (CAST), which includes space for new labs.
“Many believe that this is a renaissance moment for HBCUs. It’s
not,” said DSU President Dr. Tony Allen. “We’ve been doing the work
for 175 years—building the most useful pipeline for African
Americans to the American middle class and breaking new ground in
every field of human endeavor. Great companies like Agilent
understand the work and are connecting with our system for the long
term, a system still producing 25% of all the Black STEM graduates
in our country. Our partnership with Agilent is about making the
HBCU difference today, tomorrow, and for generations to come.”
The donation will fully fund 21 graduate and undergraduate
students pursuing STEM degrees. Agilent is also providing
analytical lab instrumentation, supplies, services, and other
infrastructure to equip CAST’s new lab space.
“DSU is making important contributions to the STEM fields, and
this donation will help ensure this historically underinvested and
underrepresented community is getting the resources needed to have
an even greater impact,” said Gregory MacKenney, the vice president
of Agilent's instrument supplies business, and an alumnus of Morgan
State University and co-founder of Agilent’s networking group for
Black employees.
Agilent will also provide mentorship opportunities for DSU
students with Agilent scientists, engineers, and researchers and
will help fund DSU’s summer internship program for STEM
students.
To further support the partnership, Agilent is double-matching
employee donations to HBCUs through the end of the year. The
investment in HBCUs is part of Agilent’s broader philanthropic
work, which focuses on increasing the pipeline of early-career
professionals entering the life-sciences sector and addressing
climate change and other environmental issues. It also advances the
goals of Agilent’s diversity and inclusion programs.
About Agilent Technologies
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