East Stroudsburg University is one of four universities in Pennsylvania\u2019s State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) to receive a $3,448,451 grant from the National Science Foundation to increase recruitment and graduation of students from underrepresented groups in STEM. The five-year grant, NSF\u2019s Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation program (LSAMP) is a joint effort of ESU, Millersville, Slippery Rocky, and West Chester.<\/p>\n
The goal of the Keystone LSAMP program is to increase the number of students graduating with a STEM bachelor\u2019s degree by 40 students per year across the four institutions. These areas of study include biology, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, and physics.<\/p>\n
The LSAMP program will provide stipends, travel support, and opportunities for student involvement.<\/p>\n
With this grant, ESU will offer a $750 stipend during a student\u2019s first year in the program. The program will also provide mentorship and research opportunities for students, and the grant will help cover $500 in laboratory equipment in support of their work and a stipend to cover a four-week summer research experience after they have successfully completed their first year as an ESU LSAMP scholar. The total direct funding for participants, including the summer research support, is $5,250 per student.<\/p>\n
To learn more about becoming a STEM scholar at ESU visit www.esu.edu\/lsamp<\/a> or contact Dr. John Elwood and Dr. Jerry Ross, program coordinators, at lsamp@esu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ESU is one of four universities in Pennsylvania\u2019s State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) to receive a $3,448,451 grant from the National Science Foundation to increase recruitment and graduation of students from underrepresented groups in STEM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[143,42,220],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-news-release","category-points-of-pride-academic"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23066"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23069,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23066\/revisions\/23069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}