Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation

LSAMP Mentoring and Diversity Workshop

The Purdue campus LSAMP Program sponsored a Mentoring and Diversity Workshop for potential, current and future LSAMP Faculty Mentors. The Diversity Resource Office facilitated the workshop including a panel of faculty mentors and their mentees. The purpose of the workshop was to (1) raise awareness about mentoring and diversity issues and their potential impact on mentoring relationship; (2) explore the implications of being underrepresented in a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) field and (3) gain effective strategies to develop a successful mentoring relationship.

LSAMP Professional Development Course

LSAMP - Purdue is committed to providing our students with all available resources to ensure not only success in the research program but success in their STEM major as well. Beginning Spring 2011 undergraduate participants are required to enroll in the one-credit, pass/no-pass seminar course, GS 49000.  The LSAMP Professional Development Seminar will enhance students’ research experience by providing professional growth topics, including but not limited to reflective journals, group discussions, and career exploration. Invited guest speakers (faculty, staff, graduate students, and alumni) engage students in topics including but not limited to, developing a research abstract, creating a research poster, and PowerPoint, successfully navigating through the academy as a STEM student as well as other relevant topics.

LSAMP- Purdue Summer Research Collaboration with IvyTech- Lafayette (LINK)

Leveraging Institutional Networking and Knowledge (LINK) is a new initiative meant to connect STEM Associate’s degree students with 4-year universities.  By participating in LINK, qualifying STEM students earning their Associate’s degree at Ivy Tech will be invited to conduct research in the summer.
LINK Summer Research activities include:

• Research with Faculty and Graduate Teams
• STEM Transition Workshops
• Community Service Project
• STEM Laboratory Tour
• Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professorate (AGEP) Workshops and Presentations
• SROP's Research Poster Symposium and Reception