Summer on the Edge provides twenty high school students per summer an opportunity to work full-time for six weeks in a laboratory at the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center. The program is designed to attract high school students, especially minorities and girls, to the biomedical sciences and to get them thinking about a career in the field. Students will choose labs they find most interesting and will be assigned a mentor for the six-week program. They will receive an overview of the Duke Medical Center and the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center, learn about laboratory equipment and basic procedures, and work independently on research projects designed specifically for them by their mentor. The program will expose students to real, hands-on experiences in basic and clinical cancer research, patient care and treatment, and psychosocial aspects of this devastating disease.

Quickfacts Program dates: Six-weeks in summer Open to: 20 high school students, especially minorities and girls interested in the biomedical sciences Format: Full-time laboratory work Other info: Students choose labs they find most interesting and are assigned a mentor who designs research projects for them Contacts: Harrison Daniels Student Internship Coordinator Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center Box 3843, DUMC Durham, NC 27710 Phone: 919/684-3560 Fax: 919/684-5653 Email: danie065@mc.duke.edu Links: Duke Cancer Center

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