High-school posters aim at CURE

Brief
September 18, 2003

A group of high-school students conducted research in center labs this summer as part of the Continuing Umbrella Research Experience (CURE) program. CURE is a National Institutes of Health initiative designed to increase training of underrepresented minority students and their academic mentors at the high-school and undergraduate level.

Dr. Barry Stoddard of the Basic Sciences Division serves as director of the program at the center.

Besides the high-school internship program, the CURE grant provides stipends and travel for up to four minority students for the center's existing undergraduate internship program and supports a 10-week summer research sabbatical position at the center for faculty members from undergraduate institutions that historically train a large percentage of minority students.

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