New Initiatives

The Research Education Program in La Jolla, California, now in its 18th year, receives some four applications from local high school students for every position available. This year's program hosted 21 students and two teachers from 17 San Diego high schools.

Marisela Chevez, who directs the program, is excited about this year's initiatives. "For the first time, we coordinated our applications with the Burnham and Salk institutes as well as Biocom's Life Sciences Summer Institute," she said. "We also provided a tri-institutional 'boot camp' at the Southern California Biotechnology Center at Miramar College, where interns spent a week learning basic lab procedures and other skills."

This year's Scripps California interns included (clockwise from top left): Sherry Chen; Philippe Tran; and Laika Roy, Adella Fejeran, Nailah Spruill, and Theresa Tran (left to right), pictured here with graduate students Gira Bhabha (back) and Dena Marrinucci (right).