The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is one of three institutions awarded a grant by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's expanded Minority Ph.D. Program to support underrepresented minority postdoctoral students in science, technology, engineering and math fields. The competitive three-year, $3 million Sloan Foundation initiative, announced March 24, asks each institution to create a Center of Exemplary Mentoring, a campuswide center that would provide scholarships to minority doctoral students in the physical and mathematical sciences, and engineering.