HBCU Digest.com August 3, 2010 HBCU Students, Alums Enrich Princeton Summer Research Program Students and alumni of historically black colleges and universities are taking part in the Princeton University Summer Undergraduate Research Experience<http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S28/05/14M25/index.xml?section=featured>, a program designed to provide working experience and knowledge for undergraduate students interested in future doctoral work. This year's eight-week program, with its emphasis on opportunities for underrepresented minorities, boasts participants and mentors from Spelman College and Howard University. From the Princeton News Desk<http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S28/05/14M25/index.xml?section=featured>: Brittany Rhodes, a rising senior at Spelman College, is working this summer in the laboratory of Steven Bernasek, a Princeton professor of chemistry, alongside Joshua Wnuk, a postdoctoral researcher at the University. Rhodes is focusing on making nanotubes of titanium oxide for use in developing lower-cost solar cells. "This is brand-new to me, and I find it very interesting," she said. "One of the reasons I was interested in this program is that I wanted to do something outside of my current research, which is drug design, and I have really enjoyed it..." Ashley Crump, a Howard University alumna who is now a doctoral student in Princeton's Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, is serving as a graduate mentor for all of the PSURE students along with Monica Trujillo, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology. "Mentorship has played a critical role in the progress of my academic career," Crump said. "I have experienced firsthand how the involvement of a mentor can pave the way for success. Becoming a mentor with the PSURE program is a way for me to impact students' lives in the same way others have done for me." SANDRA M. PHOENIX Program Director HBCU Library Alliance sphoenix@hbculibraries.org<mailto:sphoenix@hbculibraries.org> www.hbculibraries.org<http://www.hbculibraries.org/> 404.592.4820 1438 West Peachtree Street NW Suite 200 Atlanta, GA 30309 Toll Free: 1.800.999.8558 (Lyrasis) Fax: 404.892.7879 www.lyrasis.org<http://www.lyrasis.org/> Honor the ancestors, honor the children. Register now http://www.hbculibraries.org/html/meeting-form.html for the October 24-26, 2010 HBCU Library Alliance 4th Membership Meeting and the "Conference on Advocacy" pre-conference in Montgomery, AL. The Pre-Conference and Membership meeting are open to directors and other librarians.