This grant provides three years of partial, continued support to the Sloan University Center of Exemplary Mentoring (UCEM) at Duke University. The UCEM theory of change posits that through financial support, strong mentoring, supportive community, and institutional commitment, students in STEM can thrive and institutions can change graduate science and engineering education in ways that make it more welcoming, inclusive, and equitable for all. In addition to providing core support for the Duke UCEM, grant funds will enable the university to advance recruitment efforts and foster new partnerships with Minority Serving Institutions; strengthen student support with an emphasis on multi-level mentoring, student mental health and well-being, and the cultivation of new faculty champions; and identify resources and approaches to sustain and institutionalize the UCEM and its work beyond Sloan funding. Grant funds will be administered by the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, the Foundation’s administrative partner for the UCEM program.