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Diversity

The leaky pipeline for Black academic chemists

Many Black students leave chemistry after undergraduate education

by Andrea Widener
June 3, 2020 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 98, Issue 22
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The recent protests following the death of George Floyd while in police custody in Minneapolis have resurfaced many of the ways Black people are systemically denied access to opportunity and subjected to discrimination. In the world of chemistry, Black chemists have long been in low numbers, especially in the academic pipeline, and they still routinely fall out of that pipeline at every level. Here are the latest data.

A graphic pipeline that shows the drop off in Blacks at different levels of chemistry education.
Credit: Yang H. Ku/C&EN

Source: National Science Foundation’s National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics and Open Chemistry Collaborative in Diversity Equity (OXIDE)
Note: Data collected 2015-18.

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