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At UC San Diego, retired professors are mentoring first-generation college students

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imageA mentoring program can provide crucial support to students.JD Lasica, CC BY-NC

My mother cried when I told her I was changing my major from engineering to chemistry. Her fear was that I would never earn a living as a chemist.

When she heard a few years later that I planned to go for a PhD in chemistry, her only comment was,

So why don’t you at...

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