The Greater Alabama Black Belt Region Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (GABBR LSAMP)
GABBR LSAMP ALLIANCE INFORMATIONAL FLIER
SUMMER 2024 TRANSFER BRIDGE INFORMATION
SUMMER 2024 RESEARCH EXPERIENCE FOR UNDERGRADUATES (REU) INFORMATION
2025-26 GABBR LSAMP PROGRAM APPLICATION*
*2025-26 GABBR LSAMP scholarships are subject to availability of funding.
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The Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program is an alliance-based program of the National Science Foundation (NSF). The overall goal of the program is to assist universities and colleges in diversifying the nation's science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) workforce by increasing the number of STEM baccalaureate and graduate degrees awarded to populations historically underrepresented in these disciplines: African Americans, Hispanic Americans, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Native Pacific Islanders.
The GABBR Alliance has been selected for funding by the NSF and will begin in the Fall 2017 semester. The goals of the GABBR Alliance are to (1) increase the quantity and quality of underrepresented minority (URM) STEM degrees, (2) increase the quantity and quality of underrepresented minority undergraduates (URMs) entering graduate school, and (3) investigate and disseminate the GABBR LSAMP model’s impact on recruitment, retention, success and graduation of target students from a social science research perspective.
Participating students will receive benefits such as scholarships, peer mentoring, free tutoring, research internships, travel to research conferences, summer bridge, summer and Saturday academies, study abroad programs, mathematics enrichment initiatives, and several academic workshops.
The GABBR Alliance is made up of eight institutions from the Greater Alabama Black Belt Region:
- Auburn University
- Auburn University Montgomery
- Alabama State University
- Enterprise State Community College
- Southern Union State Community College
- Troy University
- Tuskegee University
- University of West Alabama
GABBR encompasses eighteen counties in the Alabama Black Belt (Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Choctaw, Crenshaw, Dallas, Greene, Hale, Lowndes, Macon, Marengo, Montgomery, Perry, Pickens, Pike, Russell, Sumter, Wilcox) and surrounding counties.
GABBR LSAMP Advisory Board
Dr. Quenton Bonds
Engineer
NASA SBIR/STTR Program Management Office
Dr. Carolyn Braswell
Assistant Vice President
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Dr. Louis Dale
Emeritus Professor of Mathematics
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Chair
Brittany Denton
Program Quality Engineer
Lockheed Martin
Dr. Kristi Garrett
Assistant Provost and Executive Director; Owner
Morris Brown College; Itsirk Solutions, LLC
James Goosby
Director
Southern Company
Dr. Michael Grady
Research Engineer
Georgia Tech Research Institute
Dr. Sharniece N. Holland
Lecturer
Washington University in St. Louis
Adam Mastin
Software Development Consultant / Commodities Trader
Mastin Enterprises, LLC
Dr. Erika Nelums
Medical Physicist
Palo Verde Cancer Specialists
Dr. Melanie Eddins Spencer
Professor of Mathematics
Prairie State College
Kelly Young
Manager
Tennessee Valley Authority
Dr. Ansley Abraham
Director
SREB State Doctoral Scholars Program
Dr. Curtis Cain
Director of Broadening Participation in Computing Initiatives
Computing Research Association (CRA)
Dr. Patsy Parker
Education Consultant; Retired
Southern Union State Community College
GABBR LSAMP Executive Committee
Vickie Adkins
Mathematics Department Chair
Southern Union State Community College
Dr. Anna Head
Dean of Instruction
Enterprise State Community College
Dr. Overtoun Jenda
Assistant Provost
Auburn University
Dr. Govind Menon
School Director and Department Chair
Troy University
Dr. Carl Pettis
Provost and VP for Academic Affairs
Alabama State University
Dr. Mohammed Qazi
Associate Dean
Tuskegee University
Dr. Matthew Ragland
Associate Provost
Auburn University at Montgomery
Dr. Frank Rogers
Associate Professor
Mathematics Department, University of West Alabama
For more information, please direct inquiries to lsamp@auburn.edu.
