CONFERENCE AT UH OPENS DOORS FOR NEW SCIENTISTS,
ENGINEERS
A new generation of scientists, engineers and mathematicians will
converge on campus as the University of Houston hosts the Fourth
Annual Houston-Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation
Conference
October 1-3.
As part of a national NSF-sponsored program to help more minorities
earn degrees in science, technology, mathematics and engineering
(STEM) disciplines, as well as prepare them for graduate study,
the Houston-area consortium, also known as H-LSAMP, is led by UH
and includes seven other academic institutions of higher education.
A national program, LSAMP seeks to build productive capacity and
output within institutions with significant enrollments of minority
populations of Hispanic, African-American, Native American and Pacific
Islander descent underrepresented within STEM professions.
Others in the H-LSAMP consortium include Texas Southern University,
UH-Downtown, UH-Victoria, Rice University, Texas State University,
Houston Community College System and San Jacinto College District.
The group also enjoys a good partnership with Houston Independent
School District, heavily recruiting eligible students to attend
institutions in the alliance.
Put on by H-LSAMP, the conference is open to anyone who wants to
register and attend, including LSAMP members from around the nation.
There will be workshops for various graduate and undergraduate programs,
GRE classes, exhibitors recruiting students and poster and oral
presentations for prizes.
Student presenters at this year’s conference will include
past H-LSAMP scholars who have gone on to become medical students,
practicing engineers, high school science teachers, computer programmers
and middle school counselors, as well as those embarking on the
pursuit of graduate degrees that range from applied mathematics
to political social work.
Conference speakers are Jaime Borras, vice president and technology
director for Motorola’s iDEN Subscriber Group; Guadalupe Quintanilla,
president of the Cross-Cultural Communication Center of Houston
and associate professor in the UH modern and classical languages
department; and Richard A. Tapia, the Noah Harding Professor of
Computational and Applied Mathematics at Rice University.
Borras has made significant contributions in science, engineering
and technology by leading the development of new breakthrough products
and technologies that ultimately became the key elements of success
for Motorola. Quintanilla’s cross-cultural communication program
developed for officers has been selected by the Department of Defense
and Department of Justice as the best of its type in the country.
Tapia, an internationally known researcher in computational and
mathematical sciences, led Rice to national prominence for its educational
outreach programs and leadership in producing women and underrepresented
minority doctoral recipients in mathematical sciences.
WHAT: |
Fourth Annual Houston-Louis Stokes Alliance for
Minority Participation Conference |
WHEN: |
8 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., Friday, Oct. 1
7 a.m. to 7 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 2
8:30 a.m. breakfast, Sunday, Oct. 3 |
WHERE: |
University of Houston
UH Hilton Hotel
4800 Calhoun Road, Entrance 1 |
For more information about H-LSAMP, visit www.hlsamp.uh.edu.
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