“These students are grooming to potentially be our next wave of summer interns,” said Zhi Liao, the NIF&PS workforce manager involved with the HBCU consortium. The Lab tour group was sponsored by the Consortium for Research and Education in Materials Science and Photonics Engineering. The consortium wants to increase the number of talented students, particularly those from historically marginalized groups in STEM areas relevant to LLNL at the undergraduate and graduate levels. MSIPP currently supports 24 consortium-based teams of participants from select institutions. It also works to bring a heightened awareness of National Nuclear Security Administration facilities and laboratories to institutions with a common interest STEM research fields. MSIPP is designed to build a pipeline between Department of Energy sites and laboratories and minority serving institutions in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) disciplines.
The students came to LLNL as part of the Minority Serving Institution Partnership Program (MSIPP), a partnership between the National Ignition Facility & Photon Science Directorate (NIF&PS) and the three HBCUs represented on the tour. “The students were very excited to learn about science at the Lab and had many questions about choosing a career track that would help them secure a position at the Lab in the future.” “The tour was a great opportunity for the students to see how the Lab broadly recruits students coming out of STEM programs and how ideas and people come together to enable cutting-edge innovations,” Umanath said. LLNL research scientists and Norfolk State alums Vanessa Peters and Thejaswi Tumkur Umanath accompanied the group.
Joining them were two faculty members from Norfolk State University (NSU) in Norfolk, Virginia. Judging from the group’s reaction and feedback, the inaugural week-long HBCU tour was a clear success and made a positive impression on the students - all of whom said they would apply for an LLNL internship.įour undergraduate students - two from Virginia State University (VSU) in Ettrick, Virginia, and two from Elizabeth City State University (ECSU) in Elizabeth City, North Carolina - visited the Laboratory from June 6-10.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) hosted a group of students and faculty from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) for a week in June to promote internships, job opportunities and career paths at LLNL.
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