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- Spring 2003
Minorities
in Research
Two Barry MARC/MBRS
alumni, Dr. Karen Phillips, Ph.D. Organic Chemistry, Columbia University
and Dania Alarcon-Vargas, Ph.D. candidate, Biomedical Science, Mt. Sinai
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, described some of the hurdles
minorities face in research and how they can better prepare themselves
to overcome them.
Dania Alarcon-Vargas encouraged
students to overcome any self-limitations they might have to overcome
diversity. Students should become knowledgeable about opportunities, and
be aggressive in their pursuit.
Dr. Phillips discussed the
initial hurdles she had to overcome including her immigrant status, lack
of financial resources, lack of scholarship resources, lack of knowledge
about “the system”, lack of family role models in higher education,
and lack of knowledge of what it meant to be a minority. She reminded
students to be aware of how important their achievements can be in inspiring
other minority students. Dr. Phillips said that perhaps the biggest hurdle
for many minorities is the lack of role models that they can truly identify
with.
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