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The SOARS ProgramSummer 2015 Update
Rebecca HaackerSOARS Director
[email protected], soars.ucar.edu
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The SOARS ProgramHolistic mentoring, an inclusive community, and research experiences support students in entering and succeed in graduate school & STEM careers.
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85% of participants entered graduate school or the STEM workforce
40% of all PhDs in ATMOS earned by students from diverse background came through SOARS
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Degrees earned by SOARS students 1996-2015
Results from SOARS
Degrees completed:BS: 144, MS: 97, PhD: 32
Degrees in progress:BS: 13, MS: 11, PhD: 18
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Results from SOARS cont.
SOARS protégés contribute to the science by sharing their summer research at national conferences.
To date, protégés have given 382 poster presentations and 132 talks at national conferences.
SOARS protégés have published 24 peer-reviewed papers based on SOARS-related research.
Aggregate Papers
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Dr. Deanna HenceAssistant Professor in Atmospheric ScienceUniversity of Illinois
2012-14 Postdoc at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center2011 PhD, University of Washington2003-2004 SOARS protégé
As of April 2015, ten SOARS alumni have moved into faculty positions
SOARS alumni become faculty
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University of Michigan, Environmental/Civil engineering
2015 Research: The Air Up There: A Study on Rural Ghanian Culture, Quality of Health and Sources of Air Pollution in Navrongo, Ghana
Mentor: Christine Wiedinmyer ACD
Jenine McKoy
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Graduate student University of Alaska-Fairbanks Department of Atmospheric Sciences
Mentors: Sebastian Schmidt, Katja Friedrich, Nicole Moelders“Precise, Spatial and Temporal Determination of Alaska Funnel Cloud Sightings from Doppler Radar”
Stanley Edwin
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Meteorologist at MESO, Inc.
MS in atmospheric sciences, Plymouth State. May 2015BS in meteorology, Valparaiso University. May 2013
Sarah Al-Momar