On January 19, Lundquist College of Business academic advisor Tayah Butler received campus-wide recognition for her groundbreaking work promoting diversity. She was one of five UO employees honored with a 2012 Martin Luther King, Jr. Award. Butler--who is also a driving force behind the Diversity in the Workplace Symposium scheduled for this March--launched the Building Business Leaders project in September 2010. Building Business Leaders is a cohort-based program designed to attract and retain students from underrepresented minority groups--and to prepare them to compete for full-major status in their junior years. Already, the project has seen striking success, with the original cohort boasting a retention rate of 75 percent, and a second group of thirty undergraduates coming aboard this past fall. Even more telling than these statistics, however, are words from first-year student Alyssa Rodriguez: "This cohort has given me the strength and the desire to keep pushing through all of my worries and my homesickness in order to gain what we all are working towards: to get into the business school."