Approximately 50 students from colleges and universities around the nation are scheduled to attend the Howard University/University of Texas at El Paso (HUTEP) Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) Graduate Visitation Program from November 15-17, 2007 on the Howard University campus. The HUTEP initiative is funded by the National Science Foundation.

The Howard/UTEP Alliance is designed to increase the number of underrepresented minorities who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents completing the Ph.D. in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) and the SBES (Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences) disciplines. It also seeks to increase the number of individuals in these areas who wish to pursue careers in the professoriate.

During the visitation, students will tour the Howard campus, visit laboratories, interact with faculty and graduate students and experience a sampling of life at Howard and in Washington DC. All expenses for travel, lodging, food and social events are paid by the HUTEP/AGEP Alliance. For more information on the HUTEP AGEP Alliance program, call 202-806-6800 or visit www.gs.howard.edu/agep or www.gs.howard.edu/sbe.