With a $6.9 million, five-year commitment from Facebook Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg and pediatrician Priscilla Chan, two University of California campuses will try to replicate the success of an East Coast program in guiding minority and women students through coursework into STEM careers.
The project, called the STEM Scholars Program, is designed to recruit high school students "underrepresented" in science, technology, engineering and mathematics to UC Berkeley and UC San Diego, keep cohorts of students…
