Faculty at the University of California, Riverside, have received grants from the University of California-Hispanic Serving Institutions Doctoral Diversity Initiative, or UC-HSI DDI, to increase diversity in the sciences.

Khaleel Razak, a professor of psychology, has received funding of nearly $50,000 for a project titled “Increasing Faculty Diversity in Neuroscience.”

The grant will allow Razak to establish specific programs through the Neuroscience Graduate Program at UCR to actively recruit, engage and mentor students from Hispanic Serving Institutions, or HSIs, to open pathways to faculty positions in neuroscience.