Adams Named to National Fellowship Panel

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Paul Adams

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Paul Adams, an associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Arkansas, has accepted an appointment to review 2014 fellowship applications to the National GEM Consortium.

As a panelist on the 2014 GEM Judging Committee, Adams will review applications and attend the committee’s meeting in Alexandria, Va., later this month. Adams is in his seventh year on the faculty in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences and he has been recognized by a national organization for his work.

This past summer, Adams was selected for the 2013 Presidential Award for Excellence in STEM Research and Mentoring by the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE).

The mission of The National GEM Consortium is to enhance the value of the nation’s human capital by increasing the participation of underrepresented groups (African Americans, Native Americans, and Hispanic Americans) at the master’s and doctoral levels in engineering and science. The consortium has been recognized as the nation’s only graduate education program exemplary at “deepening and diversifying the nation's technical talent pool.”

The National GEM consortium’s fellowship programs span the entire recruitment, retention and professional-development spectrum. The group’s principal activity is the provision of graduate fellowships at the master’s and doctoral levels coupled with paid summer internships. GEM also offers programming on the importance of graduate school and tools for access and successful matriculation.