Dr. Chellu S. Chetty, Professor of Biology, Promoted as Executive Director, Office of Sponsored Research

 
Dr. Kenneth Sajwan, Professor of Environmental Science, Selected by Minority Access, Inc. to Receive 2006 National Role Model Award

 
Dr. Elissa T. Purnell, Assistant Professor of Biology, addresses 2006-07 Academic Scholarship Recipients at annual Scholarship Pinning Ceremony on August 27, 2006

A decade or more after earning their degree, about half of all S&E bachelor's degree recipients (51 percent) had earned no additional degrees (figure 1). The other half had earned a wide variety of additional degrees. About one in eight S&E bachelor's degree recipients (13 percent) had received an advanced degree in the same broad field of study as their first bachelor's degree, including 4 percent who had earned a doctorate in the same broad field.

The proportion of S&E bachelor's degree recipients who earned advanced degrees in the same field ranged from 9 percent in the social sciences to 21 percent in the physical sciences (table 1). A much larger proportion, 29 percent, went on to earn advanced degrees in non-S&E fields than continued on in any S&E field (20 percent).

Additional-degree award patterns differ by broad field of initial bachelor's degree. Engineering (42 percent) and mathematics and computer sciences (39 percent) produced the lowest percentages of individuals earning additional degrees. About half or more of those who received bachelor's degrees in other S&E fields went on to earn additional degrees, ranging from 60 percent for those in the physical sciences to 49 percent for those in the social sciences. The proportion of S&E bachelor's degree recipients who earned non-S&E degrees ranged from 38 percent in the life sciences to about 17 percent in both engineering and mathematics and computer sciences. Although some percentage of the recipients of bachelor's degrees in every broad S&E field went on to earn medical and law degrees, a larger proportion of those with social science degrees earned law degrees (9 percent) than did those with degrees in other S&E fields (1 to 2 percent). Medical degrees were earned by 19 percent of those with life sciences bachelor's degrees and by 9 percent of those with a bachelor's in the physical sciences, but by only 1 to 2 percent of those in other S&E fields.

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SSU received a $3 million GEAR UP (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs) grant award from the US Department of Education.

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