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Task force recommends US$50-million fund to bring African Americans into physics and astronomy

The American Institute of Physics aims to double the number of black undergraduates in the field.
  1. Virginia Gewin

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Sweeping changes are needed to combat systemic issues that exclude African Americans from US physics and astronomy programmes, says a report. Its authors call for at least a doubling of the number of undergraduate degrees awarded to black students in these fields by 2030.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00286-z

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  • Correction 07 February 2020: An earlier version of this story implied that the American Physical Society had already convened a national network of physics departments.

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  1. Ford, H. L., Brick, C., Azmitia, M., Blaufuss, K. & Dekens, P. Nature 576, 32–35 (2019).

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