Graduate Student Engagement and Community (GSEC) Program

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Cientifico Latino’s Graduate School Engagement and Community (GSEC) is a yearlong program that seeks to support diverse graduate students as they navigate their first year in graduate school. This program provides access to small mentorship groups, professional development workshops, and community events. We have had over 250 graduate students enrolled in our program over two years. This year, GSEC is open to the public!

We are also seeking mentors for GSEC! If you are an advanced graduate student or postdoc, and you are passionate about mentorship and retention of underrepresented STEM trainees in grad school, please consider applying to be a GSEC mentor.

To join the waitlist as

a mentor, scholar, or team member

for GSEC 2025, please fill out this short survey.
For any questions, please contact: gsec@cientificolatino.com

Thank you to our partners!

This work is supported by the Richard Lounsbery Foundation.

gsec scholarship

In 2024, we are launching a GSEC 2024 scholarship to cover 1st year graduate school expenses for thirty-four GSEC 2024 scholars. This GSEC 2024 scholarship has been made possible due to a grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.

Purpose: To provide thirty-four GSEC 2024 scholars with a scholarship of $1250 per student that can cover 1st year graduate school expenses. The funds can be used for general educational expenses, such as tuition, room and board, application fees and related

expenses, transcript fees, examination costs and preparational material/courses, academic conference registration, and school supplies. Only thirty-four GSEC scholars will be selected for this scholarship, the recipients will be selected based on academic merit, need-based, and contributions to the scientific community. Please note, we define academic merit broadly, this can include from publishing a research paper, presenting a poster at a research conference, working on scientific outreach work or pursuing college/graduate studies while navigating unique circumstances.

Eligibility: You must be enrolled in graduate school in a Master's or PhD program this Fall 2024 and must be a GSEC 2024 scholar. This scholarship application is open to all GSEC 2024 scholars, however only thirty-four will be selected this year.

Timeline: The application will close on October, 11, 2024. We will interview thirty-four candidates mid-October and publish our list of thirty-four GSEC scholarship recipients at the end of October. We expect awards to be distributed in November.

You can access the questions here, the application survey will only be made available to GSEC 2024 scholars. If you have any questions, please email contact@cientificolatino.com.