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National LSAMP Summary

A suite of opportunities specially designed for minority undergraduate students interested in a career in the natural history sciences.

The National Science Foundation's Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary, undergraduate program designed to increase substantially the quantity and quality of students, especially African American, Hispanic, and Native American students, pursuing degrees and careers in science, mathematics, engineering and technology (SMET).

For three years (1998 - 2001) the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History Research Training Program partnered with NSF and LSAMP to share its expertise of, and excitement for natural history with students participating in the LSAMP program.

The LSAMP at the Smithsonian partnership was part of a larger initiative of the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) to participate in the training of the next generation of scientists in collections-based research and natural history studies including the biological, geological, and anthropological sciences.

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