Saba Ali, Project HOPE Director and an Associate Professor in Counseling Psychology at the College of Education, received $10,000 in funding from the John Deere Foundation to support Project HOPE.

Project HOPE (Healthcare Occupations Preparation and Exploration) is a STEM-based curricular intervention that integrates academic and vocational opportunities designed to connect minority and low socioeconomic middle school students to the health science professions early in their education. HOPE addresses the critical national need to increase diversity in the American healthcare workforce.