The ARISE Alliance is a collaboration between biomedical engineering and allied departments at Brown University, Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University, and Yale University. It is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through its Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) which centers on activities and research that advance historically underrepresented populations in STEM. You can read more about the AGEP program on its website.
In keeping with the mission of NSF’s AGEP program, the ARISE Alliance seeks to support the professional success of Black and/or African American, Latine and/or Hispanic American, Native American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Native Pacific Islander who are STEM graduate students, post-doctoral scholars, and/or junior faculty. It aligns with this mission through two goals:
- To offer discipline-relevant, inclusive, and intersectional sponsorship to cohorts of ARISE scholars drawn from the Alliance institutions.
- To advance systemic changes at partner institutions that improve the inclusive hiring practices for both post-doctoral and faculty-level positions.