Undergraduate Experiences in Freshman Research Initiative Deliver Lasting Benefits

Each year, the American Junior Academy of Science invites the nation’s top pre-college researchers to tour a premiere university’s campus…

Undergraduate Experiences in Freshman Research Initiative Deliver Lasting Benefits

Each year, the American Junior Academy of Science invites the nation’s top pre-college researchers to tour a premiere university’s campus and meet with the people there who are doing cutting-edge research in scientific labs every day. This year, dozens of high-school scientists-in-training took their tours at The University of Texas at Austin, where they met researchers different from whom they might have expected.

Here, many of the pioneering researchers are only a year or two out of high school themselves.

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