McNair Scholars Claudio Escalante and Tiago Correia attended the 2023 SACNAS The National Diversity in Stem Conference October 26-28 in Portland, OR. A national program, SACNAS was founded in 1973, a group meeting organized by Dr. Alonzo Atencio "that would address the paucity of Chicano and Native Americans in academia and government agencies. [...]to set up the mechanism to develop our future leaders to be at the table where decisions are made, and for students to be trained in the sciences". SACNAS' guiding theme has stayed steady, 'to put the cause above the individual'.
Tiago was awarded travel funding from the conference and presented his summer research "An Androgen-Dependent Mathematical Model of the Menstrual Cycle".
