Meyerhoff Scholars Program

The program was founded at the UMBC in 1988 with a $500,000 grant from the Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Foundation, under the guidance of future UMBC President Freeman A. Hrabowski III. In the program's first year, it admitted only male African American students; female African American students were admitted in the program's second year. In 1997, the program opened to students of all races who were interested in supporting the advancement of minorities in academia,[2] following the 1995 U.S. Supreme Court decision ruling the Benjamin Banneker Scholarship Program, another UMBC scholarship which had been only open to African American students, unconstitutional.[3]

The Meyerhoff Scholars Program is noted for its success in increasing the representation of minority students in STEM.[4] In an attempt to determine whether this model can be replicated at large universities, two scholarships were founded at other universities in 2013: the Chancellor's Science Scholarship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the Millennium Scholars Program at Pennsylvania State University.[5][6]

• Jerome Adams: anesthesiologist and the 20th surgeon general of the United States
• Kizzmekia Corbett: viral immunologist at the NIAID (NIH) who helped develop one of the COVID-19 vaccines
• Kafui Dzirasa: psychiatrist and professor at Duke University
• Lola Eniola-Adefeso: Chemical Engineer and the University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor at the University of Michigan College of Engineering
• Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman: activist, writer, economist, and co-founder and former CEO of the Sadie Collective
• Crystal C. Watkins Johansson: neuroscientist, psychiatrist, and professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

• Beating the Odds: Raising Academically Successful African American Males (1998), Freeman A. Hrabowski, Geoffrey L. Greif, Kenneth I. Maton, Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Overcoming the Odds: Raising Academically Successful African American Young Women (2001), Freeman A. Hrabowski, Geoffrey L. Greif, Kenneth I. Maton, Monica L. Greene, Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Editorial: Why American College Students Hate Science (The New York Times, May 25, 2006)
• Paper: Preparing Minority Scientists and Engineers American Association for the Advancement of Science, Science 31 March 2006)
• Article: Fulfilling the Expectations of Excellence (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2005)
• Article: It's Cool to be Smart (Fast Company, 2002)

• Official site
• The Meyerhoff Scholars Program 30th Anniversary Celebration
• Chancellor's Science Scholarship
• Penn State Millennium Scholars Program