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According to HSBSE President Charrise M. Barron '98, the organization's goal is to increase awareness in the Harvard community of the achievements black people have made in the fields of science and engineering throughout history...
...HSBSE printed up more than 1,000 table tents for the eight undergraduate houses that would accept them. Barron said Eliot, Kirkland, Quincy, Lowell and Annenberg did not accept bulletins of any sort on their dining hall tables...
Despite the relatively small black sciencepopulation, however, HSBSE has assisted inincreasing the visibility of black scienceconcentrators on campus...
Barron says HSBSE serves as an organization inwhich black science and engineering concentratorscan be visible and active. "The purpose of HSBSEis to help black students in the sciences atHarvard to succeed academically andprofessionally," she says. "The organizationallows students with similar interests to meeteach other, lend advice about classes and jobs andto serve as an influence to younger blackstudents...
...membership of HSBSE includes concentratorsin various science fields, ranging fromneurobiology to electrical engineering. Many ofthe students said that black role models in thesciences greatly influenced their decisions toconcentrate in a scientific field at college...