UW News
Kelly Stevens
August 14, 2023
UW bioengineering researchers help create a roadmap to diversify faculty hiring
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A team of biomedical researchers has developed a new method for hiring engineering professors. The primary goal is to actively recruit a more diverse group of applicants and improve the rate that doctoral students from historically excluded groups go on to become faculty members.