STEM Summer Scholars Institute 2010 Overview

HIGHLIGHTS

The IU-HBCU STEM Summer Scholars Institute began the fourth summer program at the Indiana University Bradford Woods outdoor recreation facilities. Twenty-seven students from eight HBCU institutions attended orientation activities designed to bond students together for their summer of research. Students arrived on Friday, June 4, and spent the weekend with the Bradford Woods staff on increasing levels of activities from team building to canoeing to hiking to high-wire challenges. On Sunday, June 7, six students went to the IUPUI campus and 21 students went to the Bloomington campus to settle in campus apartments and prepare for introductions to their faculty mentors and lab environments. Three members of the 2010 Institute returned for a second year.

The Summer Scholars represented the following institutions (the number from each in parenthesis): Alabama A&M University (1), IU Bloomington (2), Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis (1), Jackson State University (7), Morehouse College (1), and Xavier University of Louisiana (1). There were also students from Elizabeth City State University (6), North Carolina A & T (4), Prairieview A & M (3), and Shaw University who participated in many of the support activities for the STEM Summer Scholars. Former Summer Scholar Institute participants, Byron Gipson, who also enrolled in the PhD program at Indiana University Bloomington, and Crystal Boston, who is enrolled in the PhD program at IUPUI, served as ambassadors for the institute.

During the course of the summer, Scholars had access to the library facilities, student recreation facilities, computing systems, research labs, campus bus service and dining facilities. Students had numerous opportunities to gather as a group at:

• GRE seminars
• Wednesday lunch research seminars
• Poster presentation skills training
• French Lick historical restoration trip
• CIC SROP Summer Research Conference

Participants of the IU-HBCU Summer Scholars Institute completed their summer program on July 30 at a poster presentation and closing luncheon at the Indiana Memorial Union in Bloomington.

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