Dr. Ambika Mathur, dean of Wayne State University’s graduate school and Co-Principal Investigator of the NIH ReBUILDetroit grant, will lead the newly created Office of Scientific Training, Workforce Development and Diversity (STWD).
Dr. Ambika Mathur
The STWD will coordinate and lead efforts to secure external funding and establish and administer programs to enhance research training, student development and career development activities that will span research training at the undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral levels through early-stage faculty levels for transition to independence.
Mathur is committed to the advancement of training for high school, undergraduate, medical, master’s, doctoral and postdoctoral trainees.
“Ambika is the ideal person to lead this new position,” says Wayne State University President M. Roy Wilson. “She deeply cares about the success of students and has been extremely successful in securing federal funding to support training, having brought in about $23 million from the National Institutes of Health [NIH] BEST and BUILD grants in the last three years.”
“I am honored and humbled with the confidence placed in me by the president and provost,” says Mathur. “The overall goal is to make sure Wayne State becomes the hub for training programs, especially to enhance broadening participation in the workforce. The idea is to have a training continuum model. That is how we can drive the pipeline from the undergraduate through — and to — faculty or other careers.”
Congratulations, Dr. Mathur!
Read Wayne State University’s Press Release.