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Individual Award
Steven Thomas is a program manager at the Graduate School and manages diversity recruitment activities and promotes student success, particularly through two programs focused on minority students: the Summer Research Opportunities Program and the Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate, or AGEP.
Thomas facilitates the collaboration between MSU and minority-serving institutions to develop joint Bachelor of Science and Master of Science programs and recruitment strategies. He is involved in additional undergraduate support programs locally and nationally, including the McNair Scholars Program, Maximizing Access to Research Careers, Gates Millennium Scholars and Meyerhoff Scholars, which allow him to build connections between graduate programs and a diverse community of prospective students. He does work recruiting students from underrepresented populations to graduate programs through recruitment efforts at conferences and fairs across the nation alongside AGEP.
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