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Close to 100 students enrolled in area institutions from Amherst to Wellesley attended the symposium. Ike Colbert, PhD, Dean of Graduate Students at MIT and GEM's VP of Strategy & Policy-University, seized the opportunity to bring GRAD Lab East as soon as he learned GEM was formulating the new program for introduction at this year's annual conference.
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Boston GRAD Lab In the News... Underrepresented Students Get Primer on Grad School - Michael G. Seele, Boston University College of Engineering GEM Gets Minorities Involved - Michelle Romano, The Daily Free Press The Massachusetts members of The National GEM Consortium have formed an alliance, MC-STEMP, to provide information to under-represented students on programs to assist their efforts to pursue graduate degrees in engineering and science. As a result of this formal alliance, they are bringing GEM’s GRAD Lab to Boston on Saturday September 30, 2006! View the Boston GRAD Lab Agenda.
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GRAD Lab traveled from Chicago to Boston! The 
"The Greater Boston area, with its many colleges and universities, is rich with an amazing diversity of students from around the nation. Still, relatively few are given a coherent and persuasive picture of what graduate school is about, why they need to go, and how they can finance the venture. While all students need this information, those from under-represented groups are especially in need of it. Moreover, those who have interests and talents to excel in STEM fields cannot be left to their own devices to find this information and get this encouragement on their own. In response, a number of universities came together as the Massachusetts Consortium of STEM Programs to develop an ideal forum to bring students together and excite them about their potential futures as leaders in these areas of critical national need. That forum is GRAD Lab," Colbert said.
