Latinos Take to the Sea; Thrive in Marine Science at Western Washington

From: The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education | Date: September 22, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Shawn M. Arellano was attending the University of Kansas. She had just decided to change her graduate school plans from pharmacy to biology.

"I wasn't sure about marine science and had only been curious about it before," she recalls. "I am from Kansas, after all." Then a fellow student raved about MIMSUP, the Minorities in Marine Science Undergraduate Program that she had attended the year before at Western Washington University's Shannon Point Marine Center.

That was three years ago.

Today, Arellano is in the Ph.D. program at the University of Oregon's Institute of Marine Biology, doing ...

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