Howard Hughes Medical Institute to Award More than $1 Billion to Promote Equity in Research Nonsense

Is this not a violation of the original donor's intent? Howard Hughes is probably spinning in his grave!

This obsession with race, diversity, and ethnic background in science is extremely annoying and disturbing!

"The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has announced a nearly $1.3 billion program for early-career scientists in an effort to increase diversity in the scientific workforce.

“For academic science to thrive in an increasingly diverse world, we need to attract and support scientists from a wide variety of racial and ethnic backgrounds,” says HHMI president Erin O’Shea ..."

HHMI to Award More than $1 Billion to Promote Equity in Research | The Scientist Magazine®