McNabb Received College of Science Diversity Award for 2009

   

Anne McNabb, professor of biological sciences (http://www.biol.vt.edu/) and associate dean of the graduate school (http://www.grads.vt.edu/) , has been named this year’s Diversity Award winner in the College of Science (http://www.science.vt.edu). McNabb has promoted diversity through a number of projects and initiatives. She led the development of a rigorous graduate student recruitment system in the department and was founder and first chair of the department’s and college’s diversity committees. She has been an advocate for women and has been a mentor for dozens of women and minority faculty members. In addition, McNabb is co-principal investigator for a National Institutes of Health-funded grant call Initiatives for Maximizing Student Diversity (IMSD) that supports an initiative to recruit minority and first-generation college students for doctoral studies in science fields.

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