anna chavez is a phd student at uc berkeley. one requirement is to teach to under graduates she gets a variety of responses when she enters a room for the first time. >> one is an audible gasp. they're expecting a man, they're expecting an international student. >> not a young la tina. in california, 52% of the public school students look like chavez very few make it to her level. >> we don't have anything like that percentage of those students as under graduates in our institutions. >> four universities have come together to change that. in 2011, of the 753 degrees awarded in science, technology and math, only 59 went to under represented minority students. they believe diversity can only benefit these institutions. >> people bring different experiences and aprechs to problems. and there is showing there are more solutions. >> national science foundation has given them a $2.2 million grant. other goal to help more research or become faculty members at any of the four universities. >> so that power of four paying attention at on