The GAELA is a program for increasing diversity in graduate education and the professorate in Louisiana. The goals of the program are to recruit minority students into STEM doctoral programs at Tulane and Louisiana State Universities; and affect significant change in cultural of graduate education at two of the State of Louisiana's top research universities in order to significantly increase minority STEM doctoral degree production. These goals will be accomplished by:

• Early identification and nurturing of promising students
• Recruiting doctoral fellows from participants in other pre-graduate training programs
• Fostering good faculty-student mentoring relationships
• Providing activities that focus on retention of minority students who are already enrolled in STEM doctoral degree programs

For more information on GAELA click the links below:

• General Information
  
  
• Activities
  
  
• Staff and STEM Departments
   
• National Conferences and Recruitment Opportunities