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Program Director:
Dr. Ann Chester
Assistant Vice President for Health Sciences for Social Justice
Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center of West Virginia University
Vice President's Office
Health Sciences Center, Box 9026
Morgantown, WV 26506
3042931651
achester@hsc.wvu.edu
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The Health Sciences and Technology Academy (HSTA) was initiated a $175,000 award from HHMI in 1994. HSTA reaches out to 9th-12th grade under-represented students and follows them to college and towards professional school to help them prepare for math, science and health care careers. The goal is to nurture the ambitions of talented students who, for economic or other reasons, might not ordinarily achieve these career goals. HSTA is a partnership among the numerous units of West Virginia University and many Appalachian communities. The program brings minority and disadvantaged students and their teachers to campus each summer for clinic, laboratory, and classroom training and enrichment activities, then provides the infrastructure and support for community-based science projects mentored by teachers, scientists, health professions students and volunteer community leaders during the school year. The HSTA students matriculate through their pre-college years to West Virginia University's college and professional school support system through West Virginia Rural Health Education Partnerships and the Central Appalachian Health Careers Opportunity Network. HSTA aims to share the resources and talent of the University, to increase the college-going rate among under-represented students in the Appalachian region, to improve science and math education, to empower communities through leadership development of their youth, and, ultimately, to increase the number of health care providers in West Virginia's currently under-served rural communities. The currently proposed HHMI grant will permit expansion of HSTA into two additional West Virginia counties bringing the number to 22 of West Virginia's 55 counties served.
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