PROGRAM OVERVIEW

The Arizona Biology Network program is designed to help under-represented minority students realize their goal of a career in the biomedical and behavioral sciences:

• funded by the National Institutes of Health

• provides a paid 10 week summer research experience in biomedical or behavioral research at the University of Arizona

• students and faculty are chosen from all 20 Arizona community colleges and San Juan College in New Mexico

• introduction to biology research, biology 187 is available on video as an overview of research before the program begins

• housing provided for out-of-town students and faculty

For Students

• receive research course credit in biology 295 while being paid to work in biomedical or behavioral research at the University of Arizona

• students in the first year of the program work in teams with support from a community college team leader in a selected lab

• eligible students in subsequent years may work individually in a University of Arizona laboratory

• students will have the opportunity to become paid tutors for up to 15 hours a week for 30 weeks when they resume their course work in the fall and spring semesters after their summer research

• students will have regular meetings with mentors at their community college and when they transfer, with mentors at their university

• provides a bridge from the community college to the successful completion of a bachelor's degree in the biomedical and behavioral sciences

 

Eligible Students

• minority students under-represented in the sciences, including African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans and natives of the United States Pacific islands

• students must be enrolled in an Arizona community college or San Juan College in New Mexico during the spring semester of the year prior to the summer program 

• must have completed, or in-progress, a college-level biology, chemistry and math course

• minimum 3.0 GPA on a 4.0 scale is required in the math and sciences

• students must plan to complete a bachelor's degree in the biological or behavioral sciences

 

For Faculty

opportunities in two areas: serve as paid team leaders to a team of four students for 10 weeks or do  paid independent research for 10 weeks in a University of Arizona laboratory

Eligible Faculty

current faculty members of any of the 20 Arizona community colleges or San Juan College in New Mexico