Toyota Invests $1.7 Million in STEM Diversification
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Toyota is investing $1.7 million and teaming up with three Kentucky colleges to create a new scholarship program that will increase engineering opportunities for underrepresented students.
The scholarship will provide female and minority students full rides to the University of Kentucky, University of Louisville, and Bluegrass Community & Technical College. A total of 35 students will be selected for the scholarships over the course of five years, starting this fall.
That number 35 is also the number of years that Toyota has operated out of Kentucky. “Toyota has been a long-time partner of UK since locating in Kentucky nearly 35 years ago,” said Rudolph Buchheit, dean of UK College of Engineering. “This is another example of Toyota seeing a need and stepping up to do something about it. It’s imperative to increase gender and ethnic diversity among our faculty, staff and
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