RiPS Summer Research Program

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2019 Summer Research Program Final Poster Presentations

Posted on July 20, 2019July 20, 2019 by Brenee King

Students participating in the 2019 Research Immersion:Pathways to STEM (RiPS) program will be presenting their research on,

Wednesday, July 24, 2019
9:30 am
K-State Student Union Courtyard

The 8-week summer program provides early-career students the opportunity to conduct research with K-State faculty, postdoctoral researchers and graduate students. Each of the thirteen students will be presenting a poster summarizing the research they were involved with this summer.

The poster session is a come-and-go event with presentations starting at 9:30am and ending around 10:30am. We hope to see you there!

RiPS is coordinated by the Kansas Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (KS-LSAMP) program. The goal of KS-LSAMP is to increase the quality and quantity of underrepresented students majoring in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). The program is funded by the National Science Foundation.

Student participants and mentors include:

Manuel Aguero, Seward County Community College
Mentor: James Edgar, Department of Chemical Engineering

Gonzalo Alcantar, Kansas State University
Mentor: Matthew Kirk, Department of Geology

Camille Bradshaw, Dodge City Community College
Mentor: Matthew Kirk, Department of Geology

Carlos Espino-Mendez, Garden City Community College
Mentor: Melanie Derby, Department of Mechanical & Nuclear Engineering

Elijah Gardner, Kansas State University
Mentor: Jocelyn McDonald, Division of Biology

Ryan Harlan, Dodge City Community College
Mentor: Suprem Das, Department of Industrial & Manufacturing systems Engineering

Ana Herrera, Seward County Community College
Mentor: Heather Bailey, Department of Physiological Sciences

Maria Herrera, Seward County Community College
Mentor: Trisha Moore, Department of Biological & Agricultural Engineering

Jacquelyn Martinez, Dodge City Community College
Mentor: Walter Dodds, Division of Biology

Natalie Melendez-Velador, Seward County Community College
Mentor: Tom Platt, Division of Biology

Miguel Perez, Seward County Community College
Mentor: Landon Marston, Department of Civil Engineering

Marissa Shivers, Kansas State University
Mentor: William Hsu, Department of Computer Science

Daniel Ulichnie, Dodge City Community College
Mentor: David Thompson, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

To learn more about the RiPS program or KS-LSAMP you can contact Brenee King, Project Administrator at breneek@ksu.edu or visit: www.k-state.edu/lsamp

2019 KS-LSAMP Summer research program application now available

Posted on December 20, 2018December 20, 2018 by Brenee King

The application for the 2019 KS-LSAMP Research Immersion: Pathways to STEM (RiPS) program is now available for completion.The deadline to return the application to Dr. Brenee King is March 8, 2019.

The dates for the 2019 RiPS program are May 28, 2019 to July 24, 2019. You can find more information about the program, including the application, at the following website: http://www.k-state.edu/lsamp/summer_programs/index.html

Summer Research Students Present at National Conference

Posted on March 1, 2018April 6, 2018 by Brenee King

Seven students who completed projects this past summer as part of the KS-LSAMP Research Immersion: Pathways to STEM (RiPS) program attended the Emerging Researchers National (ERN) Conference in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) held in Washington DC on February 22-24, 2018. The ERN conference is hosted by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Education and Human Resources Programs (EHR) and the Nation Science Foundation Division of Human Resources Development (HRD). The conference is student-focused with an emphasis on college and university undergraduate and graduate students. One objective of the conference was to help students improve their communication skills. This year 950+ students from 250 institutions attended the conference.

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Community College Students Complete Summer Research Program

Posted on August 9, 2017August 9, 2017 by Brenee King

The Research Immersion: Pathway to STEM (RiPS) summer research program was conducted for its fourth year by the Kansas Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (KS-LSAMP) program from May 30, 2017 to July 26, 2017. This program paired undergraduate students with research faculty at Kansas State University (K-State). Students from the KS-LSAMP alliance institutions: Dodge City Community College (DCCC), Garden City Community College (GCCC), Seward Community College (SCCC) and K-State applied and were selected to be part of this most recent cohort of RiPS students. During the program, students worked in individual labs on research projects mentored by faculty members, graduate students, and others.

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KS-LSAMP students present research at national STEM conference

Posted on March 6, 2017April 6, 2018 by Brenee King

Four students who completed projects this past summer as part of the KS-LSAMP Research Immersion: Pathways to STEM (RiPS) program attended the Emerging Researchers National (ERN) Conference in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) held in Washington DC on March 2-4, 2017. The ERN conference is hosted by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Education and Human Resources Programs (EHR) and the Nation Science Foundation Division of Human Resources Development (HRD). The conference is student-focused with an emphasis on college and university undergraduate and graduate students. One objective of the conference was to help students improve their communication skills. This year 950+ students from 250 institutions attended the conference.

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KS-LSAMP students present research at national conference

Posted on March 3, 2016April 6, 2018 by Brenee King

Six students who completed projects this past summer as part of the KS-LSAMP Research Immersion: Pathways to STEM (RiPS) program attended the Emerging Researchers National (ERN) Conference in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) held in Washington DC on February 25-27, 2016. The ERN conference is hosted by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Education and Human Resources Programs (EHR) and the Nation Science Foundation Division of Human Resources Development (HRD). The conference is student-focused with an emphasis on college and university undergraduate and graduate students. One objective of the conference was to help students improve their communication skills. This was evident by the number of student presenters with about 600 undergraduate and graduate student abstracts for oral and poster presentations.