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In 1994 HHMI awarded the university $375,000 to combine two existing programs: the Minority High School Student Research Apprentice Program, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the BioTeach Program. The NIH Research Apprentice Program provides research apprenticeship opportunities to minority high school students and high school teachers. BioTeach provides the basic knowledge and laboratory skills necessary to bring the fundamentals of biotechnology and cellular and molecular biology into the classroom. Combined, these programs provide (1) substantive research experiences to well-qualified minority high school students who demonstrate interest in and aptitude for biological science, (2) an intensive summer training program in cellular and molecular biology for high school teachers who instruct large numbers of minority students, and (3) equipment, supplies, and the curriculum support required for these teachers to upgrade their lectures and bring hands-on biological experiments to the classroom. BioTeach will be made available to teachers from outside the Birmingham area.
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