UC Davis Young Scholars Program
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     The UC Davis Young Scholars Program is a summer residential research program designed to expose 40, high achieving high school sophomores and juniors to the world of original research in the natural sciences with emphases on the biological, environmental and agricultural sciences. Participants in the 2008 UCD-YSP will work one-on-one with research faculty and research groups in state of the art laboratories for six weeks.  Each student will work on an idividual project and prepare a journal quality paper and symposium presentation about their work. In addition to scientific research, the UCD-YSP strives to introduce participants to the climate and culture of living and working on a university campus.  Staff make every effort to model the experiences that participants will have during their first years of college.

     For more information about the program, please visit the Program Description page.

Throughout the program, participants will attend a series of lectures and field trips focusing on recent developments in the biological and natural sciences.  Students will work full tme in their labs at least 3 days per week during the first two weeks of the program and 4-5 days per week for the remainder of the program. Field trips every weekend plus social and enrichment activities roundout the program.  

Students wishing to apply to the UCD-YSP should complete the UCD-YSP online application. In addition, each applicant should mail a copy of a graded writing sample completed during the current school year, two teacher recommendation forms an official transcript and a self-addressed stamped return notification postcard.  All  materials should be submitted no later than March 31, 2008 to:

J. Richard Pomeroy, Director
UC Davis- Young Scholars Program
School of Education, University of California
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616-8579

Should an applicant be unable to file an online application, please mail a self addressed, stamped envelope to the address above requesting application materials.