Professors at UmichPhysics have discarded the traditional playbook for graduate training in physics by removing barriers for students historically underrepresented in the field. TheMissingPhysicists
This story is part of a special package being published this week about the barriers Black physicists face and potential models for change.Roy Clarke missed the freewheeling atmosphere of the legendary Bell Telephone Laboratories after he left Bell to join the physics faculty at the University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, in 1979.
What Clarke and his successors have done, the study notes, is discard the traditional playbook for graduate training in physics “that had implicitly created barriers to access and inclusion for underrepresented students.” The new approach removes those barriers, Posselt explains, by “reconceptualizing the vision of the ideal student, empowering administrative staff to serve as cultural translators across racial and faculty-student boundaries, and creating a familylike climate.
It helped that four of the eight students in her class were Black, and that many had attended HBCUs. And Lewis says she was grateful to Clarke for setting up meetings that might lead to a lasting relationship. “‘You’re about to be best friends,’” Clarke told Lewis when he introduced her to Adrienne Stiff-Roberts, who entered the program a year later. “And he was right.”
The 11th of 17 children, Ojaruega was born in the United States and spent much of his childhood in Nigeria. But he attended high school in Washington, D.C., and enrolled at the University of the District of Columbia . “It was a very safe environment, and the professors were very supportive, but it gives you a narrow view of the world,” he says about UDC, an HBCU that focuses on undergraduate teaching and has a tiny research budget.
Ojaruega had met Sutton at a recruitment fair and the two became good friends. “Sometimes I would pick him up at the library at 3 a.m.,” Sutton recalls. And after Ojaruega failed his qualifying exams, Sutton spoke up for his friend. “Some of the professors there are really old-guard, and very resistant to teaching” in ways that recognize different learning styles, Ramson says. “My professors were not interested in my success; their focus was on the research.”
Failing her qualifying exams turned out to be the final straw for Nash. “There was a huge debate about what should happen to me,” she says. “I had never failed a course [at UM] and never been on academic probation. But I had to fight to [even] get my master’s degree.” She departed feeling “exhausted and demoralized.”
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