Dr. Julie R. Posselt has done unique, pioneering, and critically important work on questions of diversity and access to higher education. Although research in this area has increased significantly over the past decade, most of it has focused on the undergraduate level. Dr. Posselt is one of a small group of researchers turning their attention to access in graduate education and the factors that serve to increase or inhibit diversity at that level. Her contributions are already making an impact in the field. Her productivity and trajectory are particularly noteworthy because she received her doctorate only about four years ago and went straight from doctoral study to the academy.