Roosevelt University is proud to announce that it has received a nearly $5 million grant to expand STEM education access to minority students. With these funds, the University will continue to expand educational and research opportunities to its diverse class of graduate students. Awarded by the U.S. Department of Education and given to only nine institutions nationwide, the grant is part of a national effort to assist historically underserved student populations pursue a career in STEM fields and improve graduation rates. Roosevelt is one of only three Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) in the country out of over 500 to receive one of these very competitive grants, and the only one located in the Midwest. The University will use this grant to support PRIME (Producing Research and Innovation through a Mentoring Ecosystem), an initiative to make Roosevelt a Research 2 (high research activity) level institution and create more direct pathways for undergraduates to earn a doctorate degree. The funds will create doctoral programs for integrated biomedical sciences and information technology, and graduate programs for data science, information technology and biomedical sciences.