15 Year Book - Flipbook - Page 206
D-RISE
D-RISE provides summer internships to high school students through a
partnership between the University of Michigan Department of Chemistry
and Cass Tech High School in Detroit. During the internships, students
perform full-time research for seven weeks in a chemistry laboratory, all
while living on campus as U-M students would. The goal is to increase
underrepresented minority participation in the sciences by motivating
participating students to attend college and pursue careers in science,
technology, engineering and math fields.
From 2014 - 2022, 34 students participated in D-Rise
31 students applied for admission to the University of Michigan
26 students were admitted
21 students attend(ed) the University of Michigan (~80% of admitted students)
In 2023, every D-Rise participant was accepted to U-M
In 2024, D-RISE hosted 6 students
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
