Carnegie Mellon University has joined Clemson University and five other university partners to launch the Institute for African-American Mentoring in Computing Science (iAAMCS), a U.S. resource for increasing African-American participation in computing.

The alliance is supported by a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation and is directed by Juan Gilbert, chairman of the Human-Centered Computing Division at Clemson, and Shaundra Daily, assistant professor in Clemson’s School of Computing. It will extend the work of current NSF alliances and demonstration projects that seek to increase the number of African-Americans pursuing careers in computer science.