Grad Orgs and Outreach

Colors of the Brain is a UC San Diego student organization that was founded in 2016 to diversify STEM graduate education by providing undergraduate students from historically underrepresented backgrounds with invested graduate student mentors who have gone through the transition into Ph.D. or M.D./Ph.D research programs.

Contact: 

Mentorship Coordinators: 

Sana Ali [s5ali@ucsd.edu]

Eena Kosik [ekosik@ucsd.edu]

Logistics Coordinator: 

Quirine van Engen [quvaneng@ucsd.edu]

Graduate Mentor:

Akshay Nagarajan [anagaraj@ucsd.edu]

Gradwic is dedicated to fostering diversity and inclusion in the Computer Science and general STEM fields at UCSD. Our goal is to ensure our colleagues have a strong support system and appropriate resources to pursue their endeavors. We are also committed to creating a comfortable environment and fun social group for our members. Work hard, play hard!

Contact: Srishti Palani [srpalani@ucsd.edu]

 oec@ucsd.edu

BUMMP is the Biology Undergraduate and Master's Mentorship Program at the University of California, San Diego. Time and time again we have seen that the most effective problem-solving will be executed by diverse thinkers. Our primary aim is to ensure that our undergraduate and Master's students, including, but not limited to, those who face obstacles (first generation, from a rural area, experience of homelessness, low-socioeconomic background) that have limited their ability to conduct research, are equipped with an awareness of their place in science and the strength to stand in that place and advance to higher heights.

Contact: Dillan Cerrier [dcellier@ucsd.edu]