LAGSES LAGSES The Latina/o Association of Graduate Students in Engineering and Science is a multicultural organization whose mission is to recruit and retain Latina and Latino graduate students at the University of Arizona. We provide academic and social activities for support and networking.
LAGSES members are committed to helping Latina/o students enter and graduate from UA graduate programs in engineering, science, and mathematics.
LAGSES also has chapters at UC Berkeley, Stanford, and Georgia Tech.
LAGSES launched a new speaker series during the spring 2008 semester whose purpose is to bring prominent scientists from around the country to interact with UA students and to discuss the important roles that science and technology can play in bringing about the realization of the ideals that Martin Luther King Jr. and Cesar Chavez worked to achieve.
With this speaker series we have been reaching out to the university community and providing opportunities for students to meet some of today's influential scientists.
We are happy to report the success of this speaker series, during which we welcomed:
We will continue this series next year, so stay tuned for the next round of major scientific innovators speaking at UA. Thank you everyone who attended and assisted in making the 2008 MLK/CC Speaker Series such a huge success!
May 2008
Congratulations to Nina Castro for receiving her B.S. in Molecular and Cellular Biology and moving on to work at the NIH in Montana.
March 2008
Congratulations to David Morales for receiving the Mentor/TA award in Mathematics for excellence in mentorship, teaching assistantship, and event organization.
November 2007
Congratulations to Timothy Melano for receiving the 2007 Hispanic Science Achievement Student Award of Excellence.
He was also featured in this
article for his innovative research.
