More than 150 JSU students attended a summer internship and job fair Tuesday at the College of Science, Engineering and Technology.
This is the fourth annual fair, said Joan Blanton, program manager of the Louis Stokes Mississippi Alliance for Minority Participation (LSMAMP), which organized the event.
It started out for LSMAMP participants, but has expanded to include all colleges, Blanton said.
The LSMAMP program is designed to prepare undergraduate underrepresented minority students who major in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) to be effective and proficient in their respective STEM field, and to be prepared for graduate school.
Some of those attending the fairs find internships, she said, some find positions that lead to jobs and some find graduate school possibilities.
Among the institutions and companies sending recruiters: Indiana University, University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC), University of Southern Mississippi, Vanderbilt University, Entergy, Nissan, Lockheed Martin, Chevron, C-Spire, Ohio State University, University of California at Santa Barbara, University of Florida, KPLAN
Review, Toyota, Northrup Grumman, Jabil Circuit (JABIL), Huntington Ingalls.
For more about LSMAMP, see: https://www.jsums.edu/csetsss/lsmamp/
