What is the ACS Bridge Program?
The ACS-BP mission is to strengthen the chemical sciences in the United States by increasing the number of underrepresented students who receive doctoral degrees in chemical sciences.
The American Chemical Society Bridge Program (ACS-BP) is an effort to increase the number of chemical science PhDs awarded to underrepresented (UR) students defined by the project as primarily Black, Latinx, and Indigenous students. As part of a national effort, the Inclusive Graduate Education Network (IGEN), ACS-BP is doing this by creating sustainable transition (bridge) programs and a national network of doctoral-granting institutions that provide substantial mentoring for students to successfully complete PhD programs. The ACS-BP is modeled after the successful American Physical Society (APS) Bridge Program.
The ACS Bridge project incorporates practices from programs that have strong evidence of success in supporting UR students. The ACS-BP will also establish links between doctoral-granting and equity-focused institutions through research activities, collaboration, and personal contacts. Since today’s doctoral students will become tomorrow’s academic, industrial, and government leaders, empowering more UR PhDs will lead to a multiplicative effect in inspiring students at all stages of our educational ecosystem and addressing persistent disparities.
Participating Departments
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ACS Bridge Sites
- Arizona State University
Chemistry and Biochemistry - Cornell University
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering - Florida State University
Chemistry and Biochemistry - Georgia Tech (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Chemical Engineering - Georgia Tech (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Chemistry and Biochemistry - Indiana University, Bloomington
Chemistry - The Ohio State University
Chemistry and Biochemistry - University of California, San Diego
Chemistry and Biochemistry - University of Houston
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering - University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Chemistry - University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Biochemistry & Organic Chemistry - University of Wisconsin, Madison
Chemistry
- Arizona State University
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ACS Bridge Partners
- Brown University
Chemistry - California State University, Fresno
Chemistry - Columbia University
Chemistry - Columbia University
Chemical Engineering - CUNY
Chemistry - Florida Agricultural Mechanical University
Chemical Engineering - Florida International University
Chemistry and Biochemistry - Lehigh University
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering - Michigan Technological University
Chemistry - North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
Chemistry - Northeastern University
Chemistry and Chemical Biology - South Dakota State University
Chemistry and Biochemistry - Stony Brook University
Chemistry - The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Chemistry and Biochemistry - Tufts University
Chemistry - University at Buffalo
Chemistry - University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Chemical Engineering - University of California, Berkeley
Chemistry - University of California, Irvine
Chemistry - University of Illinois, Chicago
Pharmaceutical Sciences Department - University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Chemical, Biochemical, and Environmental Engineering - University of Maryland, College Park
Chemistry and Biochemistry - University of Maryland, College Park
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Chemistry - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chemistry - University of Northern Colorado
Chemistry and Biochemistry - University of Oregon
Chemistry and Biochemistry - University of Rochester
Chemistry - University of Virginia
Chemistry - University of Washington
Chemistry - Villanova University
Chemistry - Yale University
Chemistry
- Brown University
The ACS Bridge Project is generously supported by the US National Science Foundation through grant NSF-1834545 and by the Genentech Foundation. The ACS Bridge Project is in collaboration with the Inclusive Graduate Education Network. Bridge Travel Awards are partially supported by PPG Industries Foundation.
