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UVA biologist Alison Criss mentored Bennett College student Princess Bush, who conducted research in her lab during the summer program.<\/p><\/div>\n

F<\/span>or students in the VA-NC Alliance for Minority Participation, a summer research program at the University of Virginia showed them career paths in STEM fields they hadn\u2019t considered before and gave them potentially life-changing experiences.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis program has opened my eyes to the environmental side of engineering,\u201d said Sophia Keniston, a second-year student at Piedmont Virginia Community College, who said she might transfer to UVA.<\/p>\n

Her first research experience \u201crearranged my entire perspective of research,\u201d said Princess Bush, a rising third-year student at Bennett College in Greensboro, North Carolina.<\/p>\n

Read more in UVAToday, 8\/15\/19<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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