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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.
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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.
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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.