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Upcoming Events
WiscAMP Annual Meeting
10/19/2012
SAVE THE DATE! The WiscAMP Annual Meeting is scheduled for Friday, October 19, 2012 at the Madison Concourse Hotel in downtown Madison. The meeting is a great opportunity for WiscAMP students to connect with each other, present their research and attend workshops to build success in their STEM majors. WiscAMP campus liaisons, governing board members, and Small Grant PIs will have many opportunities to share strategies for success and build collaborative relationships for future WiscAMP projects. See you there!
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News
Are you a WiscAMP student who will be graduating this year?
Keep in touch!
05/14/2012
Send us an e-mail and let us know about your plans. We want to keep in touch so that you don’t miss out on any research or graduate school opportunities that you qualify for as a graduate from an LSAMP institution. Contact Gail Coover: gcoover@engr.wisc.edu or 608-263-1138.
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WiscAMP Excel 2012
What's in a name?
05/04/2012
The WiscAMP office is busy preparing for the 4th implementation of the 8-week summer program we now call WiscAMP Excel. When the program was first offered, it was called WiscAMP Academic Enrichment Program (AEP). The next year, the name was changed to the Academic Advancement Program (AAP) to more accurately reflect the goal of the program to move students closer to their academic and career goals. The WiscAMP AAP name was changed again the following summer to WiscAMP Excel. Why? So that it would be a unique program name that describes the focus on students' excellence and acceleration within their STEM majors.
On June 4, seventeen WiscAMP students from six alliance institution... read more ...
A Scientific Approach to Improving STEM Learning in College Courses
Transforming how science, technology, engineering and math are taught on college campuses
04/05/2012
Carl Wieman, Associate Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), Science Division, visited the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery for a public lecture on how to apply research-based knowledge about how learning works to improving learning in college STEM courses. The topic relates to his larger education goal, which is to change STEM courses so that they result in more students who learn to think like scientists. He noted that this issue is of ... read more ...
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WiscAMP Student Spotlight
Kevin Patterson is a senior ecology major at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. He is an aspiring Marine Biologist. Kevin plans to earn his doctorate in Marine Biology. His career interests include working as a shark biologist and coral reef conservation. Kevin spent a semester abroad in Fiji studying coral reef ecology and management and fish biology at the University of the South Pacific.
2009 WiscAMP Pilot AEP students
UW-Milwaukee Sophomore Research Experience students
UW Green Bay student Shane Santiago
2011 WiscAMP Excel students
College of Menominee Nation campus vist to UW Madison
WiscAMP Excel teambuilding
UW Green Bay student Melissa Bruegl
2008 UW Milwaukee Sophomore Research Experience
UW Milwaukee/MATC Undergrad Research Collaboration
UW Green Bay student Cedric Mbida
