Sacramento Bee: Math & science program at UC Davis recruits underrepresented students

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For more than a decade, the Summer Math and Science Honors Academy has recruited low-income and minority high school students to participate in a five-week program of science and technology classes at some of the state’s top colleges. After its inaugural program at UC Berkeley in 2004, the academy expanded to Stanford University and UCLA – and recently launched a program at UC Davis.

Eli Kennedy, head of the Level Playing Field Institute, an Oakland-based nonprofit that supports the summer academy, commonly known as SMASH, said UC Davis was chosen because it has attracted many academy graduates, and the Sacramento region is a growing hub for companies that offer jobs in science, technology, engineering and math.

Read more here in the Sacramento Bee.