MGR Honorable Mention: Eva Charfauros

这一特殊奖项将给予研究生Eva Charfauros在社会学领域进行研究生学习和研究的额外灵活性。拟议中的研究将对两所专为“第三世界和少数民族学生”设计的大学项目（一个在布朗大学，另一个在加州大学圣地亚哥分校）进行比较研究。通过实地考察、非正式访谈和档案材料检索的结合，该PI将研究这些项目的组织和管理与它们的创始目标的相对实现之间的关系——提高少数民族接受高等教育的机会和他们在大学的学术成就。这是一个及时的话题，与基金会对科学和工程领域越来越多的少数民族招聘的长期关注密切相关。这个奖项产生于一个特殊的董事会级别的项目，旨在加强以前获得荣誉奖的少数族裔奖学金项目申请人的研究生教育。该奖项将加强少数民族参与社会学研究的力度。

This special award will give graduate student Eva Charfauros additional flexibility in pursuing her graduate studies and research initiation in sociology. The proposed research will undertake a comparative study of two university programs designed for 'third world and minority students' (one at Brown, the other at the University of California at San Diego). Through a combination of site visits, informal interviews and retrieval of archival materials, this PI will study the relationship between the organization and administration of these programs and the relative achievement of their founding goals -- to enhance the access of minorities to higher education and their academic success in college. This is a timely topic closely related to the Foundation's abiding concern for the increased recruitment of minorities in science and engineering. This award grows out of a special directorate level program to enhance the graduate education of previous applicants of minority fellowship programs receiving honorable mention ratings. This award should strengthen minority research participation in sociology.