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Date:2/26/2009

WESLACO, TXThe United States, respected as a world leader in scientific research, has a shortage of trained scientists. The labor gap is being filled by foreign guest workers, but recent regulations limiting foreign researchers' ability to work in the U. S. have created a need for a new pool of domestic scientists.

According to Eliezer Louzada and his colleagues at Texas A&M UniversityKingsville, the University of Texas at Brownsville (UTB), and the University of Texas Pan-American (UTPA), Hispanic Americans and other minority groups are an untapped resource of talent who could fill the labor gap if given access to funds for education and training. "By examining the current situation of the Hispanic community as it relates to education, participation in science careers, social economic factors, and the lack of science role models, we concluded that Hispanics would greatly benefit from hands-on internships at all grade levels", observed Louzada.

A model internship program was created at Texas A&M UniversityKingsville Citrus Center (TAMUKCC), an off-campus research facility located 110 miles from the main campus and 10 miles from the Mexican border in an area where the population is more than 90% Hispanic. The driving distance from the main campus to the research facility created a distinct barrier to recruiting graduate students.

To address the access problem, local universities collaborated to create an undergraduate research program designed to channel undergraduate students to graduate school at TAMUKCC. The study, published in the American Society for Horticultural Science journal HortTechnology, discusses the results obtained during 6 years of the undergraduate internship program.

The internship project was funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Hispanic-Serving Institutions Education Grants Program (USDA-HSI) in 2000 and initiated in Summer 2001. Eighteen undergraduate tudents from UTB and 33 from UTPA par
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Contact: Michael W. Neff
mwneff@ashs.org
703-836-4606
American Society for Horticultural Science
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