The Research Apprenticeship Program provides each of 20 students with an opportunity to pursue a research project in one of ten basic or clinical science laboratories consisting of approximately 300 formal contact hours of hands-on research under the supervision of faculty mentors. 131 promising rising high school minority students from North Carolina have done research over the last eighteen years as research apprentices in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine. The centerpiece of each student's experience is an eight hour per day engagement in a designed research project that is a part of a laboratory in basic and clinical sciences, under the supervision of a senior faculty mentor. Each student is expected to fulfill the basic requirement of completing a research paper to the satisfaction of her or his senior faculty mentor. Introducing highly motivated minority students to cutting edge research is one way of exposing young scholars to careers in Biomedical Science.

Quickfacts Area Served: state-wide (dorm housing is provided) Open to: 11th graders Dates: June 13 - August 1 Requirements: 3.0 GPA in science and underrepresented minority and/or disadvantaged status Other info: stipend is provided to students Contact: Marion Phillips, D.Mn. UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine Campus Box 7530 Chapel Hill, N.C. 27599-7530 919/843-9213 Marion_Phillips@med.unc.edu Links: UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine

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