WiscAMP News Archive
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05/14/2013
Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) November 13-16, 2013, Nashville, Tennessee. Abstract submission deadline: September 6, 2013
ABRCMS Conference Website: http://www.abrcms.org/index.html
Emerging Researchers National Conference in STEM (ERN). Feb. 20-22, 2014, Washington, D.C.
Deadline for poster and oral abstract submissions is not yet posted. However, the deadline last year was November 5. We will update this notice when the formal deadline for submitting a poster or oral presentation is formally announced.
ERN Conference Website: http://www.emerging-researchers.org/
American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) National Conference October 31-November 2, Denver, Colorado. Deadline for submission: June 14, 2013
AISES Conference Website: http://www.aises.org/nationalconference
Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) Conference, October 3-6, 2013, San Antonio, Texas.
Summer submissions for research projects: May 20-July 3, 2013.
Travel Scholarships for summer program participants: May 20-June 14
SACNAS Conference Website: https://sacnas.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=60
Congratulations WiscAMP Class of 2013 Students!
05/14/2013
We congratulate all WiscAMP students who are completing their degrees this year and look forward to learning about your next steps.
We also recognize students who have distinguished themselves as WiscAMP Scholars this year: Latoya Allen (UW-Whitewater), DeAndre Jones (UW-Whitewater), Darian Slater (UW-Whitewater), Pear Frye-Joplin (UW-Whitewater), Devon Winfrey (UW-Whitewater), Giselle Varrientos (UW-Platteville), Brennan Waupoose (College of Menominee Nation), Antonio Garcia (UW-Madison), Dylan Jennings (UW-Madison), Nicole Enemuoh (UW-Madison), Stephanie Marquez (UW-Madison), and Linda Zhou (UW-Madison).
UW-Milwaukee WiscAMP Program Makes Headlines
02/13/2013
The UW-Milwaukee hosted their first winter break science bootcamp at the new Cozzens and Cudahy Research Center. The program made headlines in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Read the whole story here.
UW Platteville WiscAMP students win awards for research
01/25/2013
Congratulations to Brennan Waupoose and McKaylee Duquain! They have earned two awards for their research with Dr. Evan Larson (UW-Platteville) on the impact of invasive earthworm species in Great Lakes forests. Their first award was from the Society for the Advancement of Chicano and Native American Scientists (SACNAS) 2012 conference (Oct. 11-14) in Seattle, Washington. Their research also earned a 4th place award at the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) 2012 Conference in Anchorage, Alaska last November.
LSAMP Program Featured in Diverse Issues in Higher Education
WiscAMP is part of this national effort
08/16/2012
The current Diverse Issues in Higher Education credits the LSAMP program with supporting thousands of under-represented minority students who have achieved academic and career success in science, technology, engineering and math disciplines. The article discusses a recent publication that puts faces and names to over 5000 LSAMP students, including many WiscAMP students. A digital version of the publication will be provided to each WiscAMP member institution and will also be available on the WiscAMP website.
WiscAMP Excel Program Closing Reception
Thursday, July 26, 4:30 - 6:00 Mechanical Engeering Building
07/19/2012
WiscAMP Excel students, faculty and guests will celebrate the completion of the program on Thursday, July 26 with a reception and poster session. Students will be presenting their research projects for the summer and marking their accomplishments for the last 8 weeks.
Reducing Stereotype Threat
Joshua Aronson webinar presentation available on-line
09/26/2012
Stereotype threat has a widely documented and significant impact on the engagement and retention of under-represented minority groups in science, engineering, and math. Fortunately, there are some very easily implemented strategies to address the impact of stereotype threat on student performance on tests or in the classroom. Joshua Aronson presented a WEPAN webinar on this topic. The powerpoint presentation and recording are available at this link. Another excellent presentation by Valerie Purdie-Vaughns can be found here. You can read more about this research in Claude Steele's excellent book, Whistling Vivaldi.
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.
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 institutions will arrive on the UW-Madison campus to begin their summer experience. In addition our returning faculty in Math, (Luis Rodriguez and Oumar Kaba), Chemistry, (Andy Pham), and Academic Enrichment, (Dalelia Davis), three new instructors are joining the WiscAMP team. Angela Frey will teach biology, Amihan Huesman will teach physics, and George Johnson will teach writing and professional communication.
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 ever-increasing importance in the USA due to the growing importance of having a scientifically literate public in order to foster effective policies and a stronger economy. A summary of his presentation, a pdf file of his PowerPoint slides, and a video of his presentation can all be found here.
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