Margaret Law, head tutor for physics, reported a similar situation.
"There are large numbers of Asians, but not very many African-Americans or Hispanics," she says.
Law was unable to provide undergraduate statistics for this year's senior class, but she says only 2 out of 120 graduate students in her department are non-Asian minorities.
The chemistry and physics departments are no exceptions to the rule--while the proportion of Asian-American students in most science and math concentrations exceeds 17 percent, the proportions of blacks and Latinos tend to lag behind their respective College-wide figures.
Solution in Sight?
Davis says he tries to make extra help available for all students in the chemistry department to "make it as user-friendly as a physical science can be" so as not to discourage potential concentrators in general.
He did not, however, mention any efforts specifically targeted towards minority students.
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