Dear Colleagues:

I wanted to inform all Native American students interested in doing research that we have a wonderful research opportunity here on the Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center campus in Oklahoma City. The program is the Native American Research Center for Health (NARCH) summer program and it runs every summer for 12 weeks between late May and late July. Each student accepted into the program will receive $3,000 and apartment housing is provided for free to all participants. The website link that outlines this program is http://w3.ouhsc.edu/graduate/NARCH.htm; please follow this link to learn more about our program. We would like all interested students to consider applying for the 2007 NARCH summer research program. It is a great opportunity to learn about biomedical research and it also could lead to an opportunity to do research the following summer at the National Institutes of Health in the Washington D.C. area. The deadline to apply for this summer is March 12th, 2007. Also, please note that to apply you do not need to be a member of a specific Oklahoma tribe or have two full years of undergraduate study completed as indicated in the brochure. As long as a student is affiliated with a Native American tribe and they are currently enrolled in an undergraduate institution they are fully eligible to apply to this program. Please contact Dr. Darrin Akins (darrin-akins@ouhsc.edu), the Director of this program, if you have questions about applying.

Warmest Regards,

Darrin R. Akins, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Assistant Dean, Graduate College
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
940 Stanton L. Young Blvd., BMSB 1005
Oklahoma City, OK 73104

Tel: (405) 271-2133 ext. 46640
FAX: (405) 271-3117
e-mail: darrin-akins@ouhsc.edu