Are you thinking about majoring in science, technology, engineering, or math (known as STEM)? Would you like to meet other UCSC students doing the same? Then ACE is the Place for you!

We bring STEM students together in small discussion sections that accompany the large math and science lectures. We help you understand the lecture and text book through concept specific worksheets that you and your classmates work on as a team.

The CfAO Professional Development Program (PDP) is a flexible, multi-year program for scientists and engineers at the early stages of their careers, with a primary focus on graduate students. Participants attend workshops and have a practical teaching experience, usually at the college/undergraduate level. PDP participants leave the program as highly trained, innovative, and reflective scientist/engineer educators.

This program offers diversity-oriented fellowships to graduate students and awards to undergraduates interested in pursuing research projects in areas relevant to the human genome, including the ethical, legal, and social implications of genome research. Students participating in RMI receive mentoring from faculty advisors, other students, and the program coordinator. The program exposes students to the nature and rigors of a research environment, thus enhancing preparation for and success in graduate school and beyond.

The Center for the Mathematics Education of Latinos/as (CEMELA) is an interdisciplinary, multi-university consortium focused on research and practice that addresses mathematics learning and teaching with Latino/a students in the United States. CEMELA is a Center for Learning and Teaching supported by the National Science Foundation (grant number ESI-0424983). Consortium members are The University of Arizona, University of California, Santa Cruz, University of Illinois at Chicago, and The University of New Mexico. At UCSC, CEMELA offers Ph.D. and Post-Doctoral fellowships through the Education Department for students and researchers in mathematics education. Further information about CEMELA at UCSC can be found at http://cemela.ucsc.edu, about the UCSC PhD in Education Program can be found at http://education.ucsc.edu further information about CEMELA can be found at http://cemela.math.arizona.edu.

MentorNet's One-on-One Mentoring Programs focus on matching women and underrepresented minorities with female or male professionals from all sectors as mentors for one-on-one, email-based mentoring (e-mentoring) relationships. MentorNet proteges are in the engineering and science fields and are community college, undergraduate and graduate students, postdocs and untenured faculty. UC Santa Cruz partners with MentorNet to provide this service to UCSC students.

Since 1994 the UCSC-MIRT (Minority Biomedical Research Training Program at University of California, Santa Cruz) sponsored by the Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health has provided training to underrepresented minority students and women who aspire to professional research careers in the biomedical sciences.

AGEP is a program sponsored by the National Science Foundation whose goal it is to significantly increase the number of African American, Latino, Native American, and Pacific Islander students earning PhDs in the physical and life sciences, math, and engineering and to foster their interest in and commitment to an academic career. The UCSC AGEP program is designed to increase the number of graduate students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields while also providing special programs addressing the diverse and specific educational needs of incoming graduate students.