LA-SiGMA and LA-EPSCoR hold All Hands Meeting, August 5, 2011
The Louisiana EPSCoR office and the LA-SiGMA leadership held an All Hands Meeting for the LA-SiGMA project on August 5, 2011 in Baton Rouge, LA. Project Director Dr. Michael Khonsari led the meeting, and LA-SiGMA faculty members, staff, postdocs, graduate students, and undergraduate students from all seven LA-SiGMA schools participated in the meeting.
Members of the project's External Review Board, Diversity Advisory Council, and the External Evaluation team participated in the meeting as well. Postdocs and students competed in a poster session, three winners were announced; they will receive travel awards to attend conferences so that they can present their LA-SiGMA sponsored research around the country.
Pictured above are the Poster Contest winners. Chinedu Ekuma, graduate student at Louisiana State University, won first place, and Fernando Soto, graduate student from Louisiana Tech University, won second place.