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Undergraduate Research at the Timbuktu Academy and LS-LAMP at Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge (SUBR)

Diola Bagayoko

Ella L. Kelley

LaShounda Franklin

Infusing Undergraduate Research into Historically Black Colleges and Universities Curricula

ISBN: 978-1-78560-159-0, eISBN: 978-1-78560-158-3

Publication date: 31 October 2015

Abstract

The purpose of this chapter is to describe the climate and practice of undergraduate research in selected Science and Engineering departments at Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge (SUBR), Louisiana, from 1994 to 2014. We briefly recall the long tradition of undergraduate research participation and the accompanying mentoring at SUBR. The establishment of the Timbuktu Academy in 1990–1991, with funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), followed two years of review of the literature in teaching, mentoring, and learning. The paradigm and Ten Strand Systemic Mentoring model of the Academy, with a major funding by the Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research (ONR), have sustained a research-based and practice-verified creation of a highly supportive and challenging research eco-system for selected science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) undergraduate scholars, one that integrates seamlessly education and research.

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Acknowledgments

The Timbuktu Academy was funded by the National Science Foundation RCMS program (1990–1993), the Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research (ONR, 1993–2005, Grant Nos. N00014-93-1-1368, N00014-98-1-0748, N00014-4-1-0587, and N00014-05-1-0830), NASA (1992–2004, Undergraduate Student Awards for Research (USAR)), the US Department of Education, Title III Program for Strengthening HBCU’s (for furniture, a significant number of various pieces of equipment, materials & supplies, and personnel), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST, Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF)), NASA, through the Louisiana Space Consortium (LaSPACE) (2010-present), the Siemens Foundation (2008–2009), ExxonMobil Foundation through the Bernard Harris Foundation (2007–2011, Award No. 6346883), and Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge (SUBR). The Louis Stokes Louisiana Alliance for Minority Participation (LS-LAMP) has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Louisiana Board of Regents (1995-present, NSF Award Nos. HRD 9550765, HRD 0000272, HRD 0503362, HRD-1002541, and HRD-1503226), with a significant leveraging of resources of partner institutions. The federal, industrial, and university laboratories and research centers that have hosted LS-LAMP or Timbuktu Academy summer undergraduate research interns have funded entirely the participation of our scholars; some of them are listed in Table 1 while all of them are recognized at our web sites. This work was funded in part by the US Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA, Award Nos. DE-NA0001861 and DE-NA0002630).

Citation

Bagayoko, D., Kelley, E.L. and Franklin, L. (2015), "Undergraduate Research at the Timbuktu Academy and LS-LAMP at Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge (SUBR)", Infusing Undergraduate Research into Historically Black Colleges and Universities Curricula (Diversity in Higher Education, Vol. 17), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 87-114. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-364420150000017005

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited