Welcome to our website. This page is dedicated to the formerly known as Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Community of Scholars program at Vanderbilt University. Now known as just the Summer Research Program at Vanderbilt. This program brings together aspiring scientists of all levels of expertise, from recently graduated high school seniors to seniors in college all the way to post docs. This program is designed to provide Vanderbilt Students with an introduction to hands-on laboratory science at an early point on their academic career so that these select students can gain broad experience in genetic, biochemical, and molecular approaches in a variety of experimental systems (bacteria, tissue culture, and yeast). Thus, students considering a career in biomedical sciences are encouraged to apply. Many participants in the Community of Scholars will continue their research for academic credit during the school year. Those experienced undergraduate researchers will be invited to join the Community of Scholars in subsequent summers as research mentors. This summer research program is administered through the Department of Biological Sciences at Vanderbilt University.


For more information, contact Drs. Ellen Fanning (615-343-5677) or Kathy Friedman (615-322-5143). Information about the research in participating laboratories is available here, or for the laboratory websites, click on the following links: http://www.cas.vanderbilt.edu/fanninglab/index.html and http://www.molbio.vanderbilt.edu/mbdept/faculty/friedman.html. For more detail about undergraduate education initiatives supported by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, see http://www.hhmi.org/news/091802.html.

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