(AP) — Tulane University in New Orleans says one of its departments has been accepted in a national program to increase diversity among graduate students in the earth sciences.
Tulane’s Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences has been accepted into the AGU Bridge Program.
The university said in a news release Thursday that the program is designed to recruit and train students from under-represented groups in geoscience graduate schools.
African American, Hispanic, American Indian, Pacific Islander, Alaskan Native and Native Hawaiian students who join the Bridge Program can take advantage of a free common graduate school application that will be shared with multiple partner institutions.