During dinner, Dr. Duane Larick, Assistant Dean for the Graduate School at NC State and Director of the Minority Graduate Education Program gave a presentation on what it takes to go to graduate school. He highlighted that a strong candidate for entrance into any graduate school if one is majoring in the sciences is to have a good grade point average, student research experience, perform well on standardized tests such as the GRE, and to remember the intangibles! Dr. Larick told us that graduate school is an excellent opportunity to open doors for a person whether it is for a promotion on a job, or a higher salary due to advanced education.

Carl Seward, ONR Researcher

The main focus of the program was to stress the fact that minorities are underrepresented at the graduate school level. The majority of those in attendance were minorities who came from colleges ranging from Florida to Maryland. These institutions included Florida A&M University, Voorhees College, Benedict College, Savannah State University, Morris Brown College, Spelman, Bennett College, North Carolina Central, Johnson C. Smith, Howard University, NC A&T, University of Maryland, College Park, University of South Carolina-Columbia, Georgia Southern University, Virginia Union, University of New Orleans, UNC-Wilmington, and NC State.

Danielle Graves, ONR Researcher