SCORE Scholars
Project SCORE (Student Centered Outcomes Research Experience) uses a youth participatory action research approach to overcome the fact that existing education, prevention, and intervention efforts to improve health outcomes for Mississippi’s youth have been less than successful due to a lack of direct input from affected youth. Project SCORE brings together underrepresented high school and graduate health sciences students in a year–long informal public health education program and mentored research experience to develop relevant health behavior and promotion researchquestions, provide exposure to public health concepts, training in research methods, and facilitate the development of student–conducted research and health communication projects mentored by near–peer graduate health sciences students and faculty.
Summer Camp
Students complete their experience with a week–long campus immersion experience. In this summer campus experience, students engaged in hands on activities in Nutrition, Public Health, Chemistry, and Exercise Science labs, toured the School of Pharmacy, metwith admissions and financial aid, among other activities. The summer camp experience aimed to be informative as well as engaging.
