Released August 10, 2010
LAS CRUCES, N.M. – While many New Mexico State University students are just now getting ready to head back to class, one group got a 10-week head start – taking part in the Agricultural Science Summer Undergraduate Research, Education and Development (ASSURED) program, which helps students from migrant families learn how to conduct research and guides them toward careers in science.
The program, funded by the National Science Foundation and sponsored by NMSU’s Chile Pepper Institute, pairs 10 students with faculty mentors to work on research projects each summer. Students must be incoming freshmen, continuing freshmen or sophomores. They must also be from first- or second-generation migrant farm labor families and should be interested in learning about science, research, agriculture and chile peppers.
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