LSAMP Goes to Congress
The Louis Stokes Alliance Project Directors from across the country were invited to the display the collected research from both the Undergraduate and Bridge to the Doctorate Programs on the July 22, 2010 in the Foyer of the Rayburn House Congressional Office Building. This offer was facilitated by Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson and was a response to a new policy which the National Science Foundation proposed to subsume the collective programs of the NSF Human Resource Directorate, (LSAMP, HBCU-UP, and Tribal Colleges) and Hispanic-serving Institutions with less funding. The presentations of Research of approximately 25 Alliances at both the undergraduate and graduate level obviously had a significant impact on the collective body of the HOUSE and Senate following a vote to suspend the approach that NSF had taken. The new proposal will include the input and frameworks created by the National LSAMP Community. In the photographs below, the Philadelphia Alliance and its representatives met with Congressman Chaka Fattah’s Chief of Staff, Michelle Anderson; Project Director, Stephen R. Cox; Project Coordinator, Veniece Keene; Dr. Yolanda William-Bey; Ph.D. Candidate, Virginia Kocieda; and Ph.D. Candidate, David Delaine. Also included in the photographs is a group shot of the 25 Alliances students who were presenting in the Foyer of the Rayburn House.
