{"id":8194,"date":"2021-10-06T11:50:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/?p=8194"},"modified":"2023-06-23T11:51:30","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T15:51:30","slug":"lsamp-summer-program-goes-virtual-for-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/sans-news-releases\/lsamp-summer-program-goes-virtual-for-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"LSAMP summer program goes virtual for 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Getting creative was the name of the game for educational summer programs during the COVID-19 pandemic.  The University of Maryland Eastern Shore\u2019s Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Program<\/a> rose to the challenge by engaging 15 undergraduate scholars from various STEM fields in an intriguing virtual program.  Students took part in co-curricular activities, career development stations, webinars, a literature review and virtual tours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cParticipants were paired for the eight-week program with a graduate student or faculty mentor who helped them maintain accountability and offered guidance,\u201d said Dr. Tracy Bell, an associate professor of biology and LSAMP summer  program coordinator.  \u201cWe even had two UMES alumni and former LSAMP program scholars, Habilou Ouro-Koura (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, RPI) and Ayobami Ogunmolasuyi (Dartmouth College) lend their assistance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The summer scholars led weekly dialogue sessions with partner schools, University of Maryland Baltimore County and University of Maryland College Park, where they discussed hot topics such as the pandemic, racial unrest and STEM identity.  Professional and career development virtual sessions were also held weekly and were conducted by Bell and LSAMP graduate assistant Sherene Black.  Sessions included GRE Prep, resume and personal statement writing and an \u201celevator pitch\u201d competition where they had to record themselves presenting their research for a potential internship opportunity, Bell said.  In addition, the National Institute of Health sponsored webinars related to graduate and professional school preparation, career development and science skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

STEM graduate students and faculty members spoke to participants about their career and how they got to where they are during virtual seminars.  UMES presenters were:  Feyisanmi Ojo, Dr. Salina Parveen and Dr. Sadanand Dhekney.  Drs. Jan Williams of the University of Mississippi Medical Center and Dexter Lee of Howard University School of Medicine also led seminars. Dr. Victoria Volkis, associate professor of chemistry at UMES, arranged a virtual tour of the United States Environmental Protection Agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The literature review curriculum, based on Georgia State University\u2019s \u201cGoing the Distance Program,\u201d involved participants reviewing articles with the support of their mentor based on a topic they pre-selected from within their discipline, Bell said.  \u201cStudents were able to \u201cwork through the processes of analyzing the logic of a journal article, understanding and writing an annotated bibliography and completing a synthesis matrix.\u201d  The scholars gave 15-minute PowerPoint presentations of their findings during the final week of the program to wrap up their experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mentors from UMES\u2019 toxicology doctoral program were Ijeoma Ngoka, Azah Mohamed and Eguono Omagamre.  Other UMES graduate students who mentored the participants were Reuel Danquah from the toxicology master\u2019s program and Feyisanmi Ojo from the agriculture, food and resource sciences master\u2019s program.  UMES faculty that served as mentors were Drs. Bernice Bediako, Department of Natural Sciences<\/a>; Tiara Cornelius, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science<\/a>; and Sadanand Dhekney and Behnam Khatabi, both of the Department of Agriculture, Food and Resource Sciences<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The LSAMP program was initiated in 1991 by the National Science Foundation<\/a> to help the nation meet its science, technology, engineering and mathematics workforce needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to LSAMP, \u201cThe program is designed to increase substantially the quantity and quality of minority students receiving baccalaureate degrees in STEM disciplines and, subsequently, to increase the number of minority students entering graduate school who obtain doctoral degrees in STEM fields.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Participants in the summer research program, Bell said, must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident who is pursuing a bachelor\u2019s degree in an eligible STEM discipline at UMES with a GPA of at least 3.0.\u00a0 Transfer students from community colleges are especially\u00a0encouraged to apply, she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information, contact Bell at tdbell@umes.edu<\/a>, Dr. Deborah Sauder at dgsauder@umes.edu<\/a> or Sherene Black at ssblack@umes.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Getting creative was the name of the game for educational summer programs during the COVID-19 pandemic.  The University of Maryland Eastern Shore\u2019s Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Program rose to the challenge by engaging 15 undergraduate scholars from various STEM fields in an intriguing virtual program.  Students took part in co-curricular activities, career development stations, webinars,…Read more LSAMP summer program goes virtual for 2020<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","wds_primary_category":18,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-8194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sans-news-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8194"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=8194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}