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Hunter Morera receives Alfred P. Sloan scholarship
May 20, 2020
CSE graduate student Hunter Morera received a scholarship from the Alfred P. Sloan
Foundation’s Minority Ph.D. (MPHD) program. This scholarship was put in place as means
to “diversify the U.S. Ph.D. degree-holding workforce by increasing the recruitment,
retention, and graduation of underrepresented minority doctoral students in science,
technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).” Morera was nominated for this award
by the director and faculty of University of South Florida's University Center of
Exemplary Mentoring (UCEM).
The scholarship allowed Morera to attend the Institute on Teaching and Mentoring in
Atlanta Georgia in October of 2019. “This was a great opportunity to meet other minority
PhD students from around the country,” Morera said. “I attended talks on a variety
of subjects from publishing papers to pursuing careers in academia. My first experience
with research was as an undergraduate student and was the main reason I decided to
pursue my PhD.”
Morera said he is “looking forward to continuing with [his] research and [is] very
appreciative to the Sloan Foundation for supporting [him] in this pursuit.”