North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University’s College of Arts and Sciences announced that the National Institutes of Health has awarded the Department of Biology a $3.8 million grant in support of the university’s Minority Biomedical Research Support (MBRS) Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement (RISE) program. The RISE program was established in the College of Arts and Sciences Department of Biology in 2007. The grant will support forty (40) undergraduate students at its maximum capacity and ten (10) annually at the master’s level for five (5) consecutive years.

The goal of the MBRS-RISE program is to increase the number of students in areas of biomedical and behavioral research. These students will be trained and mentored in state of the art research practices. They will also travel and present data at science conferences, participate in seminars, supplemental instruction, bridge programs, learning and living communities and prepare for admission and success in tier PhD Programs.