1. The SOARS Program Summer 2015 Update Rebecca Haacker SOARS Director rhaacker@ucar.edu, soars.ucar.edu SOARS Center for Undergraduate Research NCAR UCAR air planet people

2. The SOARS Program H olistic mentoring, an inclusive community, and research experiences support students in entering and succeed in graduate school & STEM careers. air planet people NCAR UCAR SOARS Center for Undergraduate Research

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4. 85% of participants entered graduate school or the STEM workforce 40% of all PhDs in ATMOS earned by students from diverse background came through SOARS air planet people NCAR UCAR SOARS Center for Undergraduate Research Degrees earned by SOARS students 1996-2015 Results from SOARS Degrees completed: BS: 144, MS: 97, PhD: 32 Degrees in progress: BS: 13, MS: 11, PhD: 18

5. air planet people NCAR UCAR SOARS Center for Undergraduate Research Results from SOARS cont. SOARS protégés contribute to the science by sharing their summer research at national conferences. To date, protégés have given 382 poster presentations and 132 talks at national conferences. SOARS protégés have published 24 peer-reviewed papers based on SOARS-related research. Aggregate Papers

6. air planet people NCAR UCAR SOARS Center for Undergraduate Research Dr. Deanna Hence Assistant Professor in Atmospheric Science University of Illinois 2012-14 Postdoc at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center 2011 PhD, University of Washington 2003-2004 SOARS protégé As of April 2015, ten SOARS alumni have moved into faculty positions SOARS alumni become faculty

7. air planet people NCAR UCAR SOARS Center for Undergraduate Research University of Michigan, Environmental/Civil engineering 2015 Research: The Air Up There: A Study on Rural Ghanian Culture, Quality of Health and Sources of Air Pollution in Navrongo, Ghana Mentor: Christine Wiedinmyer ACD Jenine McKoy

8. air planet people NCAR UCAR SOARS Center for Undergraduate Research Graduate student University of Alaska-Fairbanks Department of Atmospheric Sciences Mentors: Sebastian Schmidt, Katja Friedrich, Nicole Moelders “Precise, Spatial and Temporal Determination of Alaska Funnel Cloud Sightings from Doppler Radar” Stanley Edwin

9. air planet people NCAR UCAR SOARS Center for Undergraduate Research Meteorologist at MESO, Inc. MS in atmospheric sciences, Plymouth State. May 2015 BS in meteorology, Valparaiso University. May 2013 Sarah Al-Momar