A small stipend is provided and some students subsequently may obtain employment in a research lab. Preference is given to students who have completed AP science or mathematics courses. The Bioscience Program joined efforts with the Health Sciences Center and the Combined Graduate Program in Molecular Biology and Biological Chemistry to offer the Summer Undergraduate Research Program for Minority Students . This program provides opportunities for qualified minority students, primarily enrolled at other institutions in the Intermountain West, to do research. The second week of the nine-week program is spent in an intensive laboratory techniques course that is specifically designed to prepare students to carry out research projects.
Students spend the following seven weeks working on individual research projects.