Morehouse College April 9, 2015 Students Gather from Across the Nation for Two-Day Scholars Conference Morehouse College students will be among approximately 500 Stamps Leadership Scholars who will convene at the Georgia Institute of Technology for the third Stamps Scholars National Convention. Students will come from 41 colleges and universities to attend the national convention on April 10-12. The Stamps Leadership Scholars Program at Morehouse College benefits exemplary students with at least a 3.7 grade-point-average. In 2012, the foundation gave a $2.6 million gift to fund a total of 24 students over four years. The scholarship is structured so that two students from each academic division will receive full-ride scholarships as well as access to an enrichment fund of $10,000, per student, to support study abroad trips, undergraduate research trips, unpaid internships and academic or co-curricular conferences. Georgia native Roe Stamps and his wife, Penny Stamps, started the Stamps Scholars program to support students in their academic pursuit and have since forged a national network of scholars through the program. The Scholars will gather in Atlanta to discuss current challenges in various academic fields as they visit CNN, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Carter Center, and the Center for Civil and Human Rights. Scholars with similar academic interests will work together in professionally focused threads, see the work that other students are doing at a Stamps Scholars exposition, and enjoy speeches given by selected scholars. The convention will feature speeches from Scholarship founders Roe and Penny Stamps, Harvard Business School professor Bill George, public speaker and educator Bill Curry, and CNN journalist Tom Foreman, who is the father of a Stamps Scholar alumna. In 2006, Penny and Roe Stamps formed the Stamps Scholars Program at their alma maters: the University of Michigan and the Georgia Institute of Technology, respectively. Since then, the scholarship has grown to over 700 current and graduated Scholars and is one of the nation's largest merit-based national scholarship programs. Four Stamps Scholars have won Rhodes Scholarships, three have received Fulbright Fellowships, and two have been named as Barry Goldwater Scholars. SANDRA M. PHOENIX Executive Director HBCU Library Alliance sphoenix@hbculibraries.org<mailto:sphoenix@hbculibraries.org> www.hbculibraries.org<http://www.hbculibraries.org/> 800-999-8558, ext. 4820 404-702-5854 Skype: sandra.phoenix1 1438 West Peachtree 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.