CAMP Statewide Home Page

CAMP is a program for under-represented students supported by the National Science Foundation. Through peer mentoring and tutoring and faculty mentored research opportunities, CAMP supports student development and completion of the B.S. degree in science, engineering, and mathematics. Features include academic and careeer counseling, graduate school preparation, study skills workshops and small group study. CAMP facilitates laboratory research and fosters a statewide community of scholars at the University of California. Click here for a look at International Activities.

Chancellor Michael V. Drake, M.D., CAMP Statewide Principal Investigator, spoke to the students, faculty and program staff of the 2007 CAMP Statewide Undergraduate Research Symposium. He stressed the importance of values, of being trustworthy, and having a passion for your discipline.

CAMP Leadership Key to Student Success

California LSAMP key partners are 8 UC campuses, whose representatives are shown here in a group shot following their fall meeting at the Berkeley campus, October 2, 2007. Best Practices were shared as well as student development opportunities such as fall research conferences.

..UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA CAMPERS FINDING SUCCESS

UC Davis CAMP-er Enters
Graduate Program at MIT

As an undergraduate, Edgar Sanchez, center, distinguished himself by conducting challenging research on brain cancer treatment. Among other awards, he won a Special Merit in Research at the CAMP Statewide Symposium. At the June 2007 Commencement Ceremony, Edgar received the first annual Ronald and Lydia Baskin Undergraduate Research Award. Edgar completed a B.S. degree in biomedical engineering with a 3.915 grade point average. He completed research projects at both UC Davis and UC Irvine, and his efforts will contribute to the development and understanding of optical methods to diagnose and treat brain cancers known as gilomas. Sanchez has entered the Ph.D. program in biomedical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

UC Davis Bridge to the Doctorate Fellows Win Top Awards
Raquel Orozco, left, and Cecilia Osorio have brought home the gold! Racquel, second year BD graduate student in chemical engineering, is the HENNAC/ Duke Energy Foundation Scholarship & Top Graduate Recipient. Cecilia, second year BD graduate student in plant biology, has been awarded a SACNAS Genome Scholars Fellowship, with $25,000 funding for graduate research. Read more about these two winners.

Success Attributed to Substantial California LSAMP Representation at SACNAS 2007
Read about the UC/CAMP student groups that attended this major national conference--who presented and took home accolades for outstanding research.

Click here to see the Fall Newsletter with more details of what's been happening. (pdf)

2/15/08