Program

The ASBIGAP program

The ASBIGAP program has two components: academic year enrichment and mentoring, which incorporates reciprocal campus visits during the academic year for students and faculty, and summer research exchanges between students from one institution and faculty of the other institution.

The academic year program will build intellectual community between students and faculty of the two institutions and to initiate research connections that will come to fruition in the summer.

reciprocal faculty visits between Howard University and UC Davis: from Davis to Howard in fall 2014 and 2016, and from Howard to Davis in 2015
monthly videoconference meetings between ASBIGAP scholars and their mentors from both campuses
for the future: courses taught collaboratively via distance methods by Howard and UC Davis faculty

ASBIGAP Summer research for Howard University undergraduates involves

7-8 weeks of summer research at UC Davis
a GRE review course
a workshop in professional development, with focus on the graduate school application process
an undergraduate research symposium featuring students from HBCUs

ASBIGAP Summer research for UC Davis undergraduates involves research at Howard University 's NOAA Center for Atmospheric Science from mid June through the end of July and one week in Davis.

A summer research exchange lies at the heart of the ASBIGAP program.

UC Davis professor Paul Ullrich uses multiresolution regional climate models (top) to produce regional climate projections that incorporate dynamic global phenomena (bottom).

ASBIGAP scholars at both sites will receive a summer stipend of $4200, with housing, meals, and expenses of round trip travel covered by the ASBIGAP program.

Everette Joseph and Vernon Morris, faculty at Howard University, collaborated with researchers at the University of Maryland and the National Center for Atmospheric Research to develop modifications of the regional climate model WRF that improve the representation of physical processes and external forcings.