Oregonian
October 23rd, 2014
Hundreds of promising young people in the Portland area and elsewhere will have the opportunity to get college scholarships, stipends, paid research gigs and mentoring by research professors, beginning next fall.
The National Institutes of Health selected Portland State University for a $24 million grant, the largest in PSU history, designed to help grow the number of biomedical and health researchers who are Latino, Pacific Islander, Alaska native, African-American, Native American, low-income, raised in foster care or have a disability.
The hope is that with researchers from diverse backgrounds with fresh ways of approaching problems will help create breakthroughs in preventative health promotion, bioscience and other critical health research, said Carlos Crespo, director of PSU's school of public health.