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Wittenberg’s commitment to students majoring in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine (STEM) and STEM education fields was strengthened in March when the Ohio Consortium for Bioinformatics received funding for scholarships from the Ohio General Assemblycreated Ohio Innovation Partnership (OIP).

Wittenberg is one of 13 universities and 13 partner institutions, including Wright Patterson Air Force Base, the Cleveland Clinic and Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC), involved in the Ohio Consortium for Bioinformatics, the field of science in which biology, computer science and information technology merge to form a single discipline. The consortium received $4.475 million in Choose Ohio First (COF) Scholarship Program funds to attract and graduate an estimated 345 STEM students from Ohio high schools over a five-year period.

Of that total, Wittenberg will have $338,400 to award in scholarships over the next five years.

“This award will provide a critical boost to collaborative efforts for education in biology and health sciences,” said Wittenberg’s Director of Computational Science Eric Stahlberg. “Problems in these areas are so challenging that they can only be solved with combined input from many different perspectives and skill sets.”

More than $22.7 million for student scholarships in STEM fields and STEM education were directed to 21 Ohio public and private colleges and universities statewide in the first round of COF funding. Wittenberg was one of just four private universities to gain funding.