NEWARK — Delaware officials are preparing to launch a pilot grant fund to entice students with STEM degrees to live and work in Delaware.

The STEM Talent Advancement and Retention (STAR) Fund was established last year through the Fiscal Year 2025 grant-in-aid bill to offer some tuition reimbursement for Delaware graduates that have a full-time job in the fields of environmental or computer science, advanced mathematics or finance, or engineering or medical device technology.

The Delaware Bioscience Association has long been a champion of the idea of a tuition reimbursement program, as the trade association joined with members of the Delaware Life Science Caucus to lobby to establish the fund. In the end, it was allocated $100,000 on a one-time basis to gauge the interest.

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