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On Wednesday, October 26, 2022 the Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Multicultural Education (ODIME) inducted sixteen (16) WPI undergraduate students into the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) Scholar Program for the 2021-2022 academic year.

The Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) Scholar Program, named in honor of former congressman Louis Stokes, is a NSF funded program intended to support historically underrepresented students in the STEM fields. Enrollment in the program is reserved to a select and highly committed group of students with a declared major in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and pre-health professions.

As new inductees to the program, these 16 scholars join their peers at WPI [35 total] along with new colleagues at our sister schools in Northeast Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (NELSAMP). They will gain access to funding to enhance their education through professional development and research; professional and peer mentorship; training in developing a research agenda; participation in supervised research projects and initiatives; and preparation and guidance toward graduate school.

Led by Dr. Funmi Ayobami, Assistant Teaching Professor in Biomedical Engineering, Dr. Catherine Whittington, Assistant Professor in Biomedical Enginnering, Dr. Jeannine Coburn, Assistant Professor in Biomedical Engineering, and Arnold Lane, Jr., Director of Multicultural Education and Community Engagement with support from the Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Multicultural Education (ODIME) team we hope to enhance the lives of these scholars as they pursue their respective professional endeavors in STEM.

Please help us in congratulating our students and wish them well in their professional successes this year and beyond.

The 2022-2023 LSAMP Scholar Program experience is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF)Teradyne, and the Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Multicultural Education (ODIME).

WPI's LSAMP Scholar Support Team can be reached at gr-lsamp@wpi.edu.

 

 

2022-2023 LSAMP Scholar Program Inductees

Tatyana Barthold ‘23 - Biomedical Engineering with a minor in Mechanical Engineering

Cleo Caldwell ‘23 - Biomedical Engineering and Biology Minor

Othman Adel  Dan-Othman ‘26 - Aerospace Engineering

Paula Gibbons ‘26 - Biomedical Engineering

Tahje ‘TJ’ Joseph-Bryan ‘26 - Electrical and Computer Engineering

Leslie Kahugu ‘26 - Biomedical Engineering

Aseel Kambal ‘25 - Civil Engineering

Tom Kohen ‘26 - Physics

Sophia Lally ‘25 - Biomedical Engineering with a minor in Spanish

Zachary Manfredi ‘24 - Chemical Engineering

Pascale Michaud ‘26 - Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Philosophy and Religion

Evans Owusu ‘24 - Computer Science, Interactive Media Game Design

Ligia Portugal ‘25 - Robotics Engineering

Lyanna Remy ‘25 - Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Maceo Richards ‘23 - Data Science

Alexis Vilmenay ‘25 - Architectural Engineering with minors in Sustainability Engineering and Chinese Studies

The Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Multicultural Education (ODIME) promotes and oversees all student facing diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) learning experiences, programs, services, trainings, and initiatives for WPI.