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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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This program involves students from 9th-12th grade in after school and summer science activities. Participating students are predominantly from under-represented groups in science, including many female, black, and Appalachian students. For four consecutive summers, students spend time on the West Virginia University School of Medicine (WVU), Marshall University, or West Virginia State College campus experiencing fun hands-on science and math projects led by middle and high school teachers trained by WVU faculty to integrate math and science curricula with leadership development, self empowerment, communication skills, study skills and multicultural sensitivity.
During the school year, students participate in local Science Clubs, through which they are matched with older health professions students and working health professionals and scientists who live in their own communities. WVU has been an HHMI grantee since 1994, and has been so successful that the state legislature in West Virginia now awards all program graduates free tuition at any public college or university in West Virginia.
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